Robbie,Beatrix
Case Reference: C/JO/3036
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/JO/3036 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Beatrix Robbie |
| Case Start Date | 5/4/1597 |
| Case Date | 24/4/1597 |
| Common Name | Robbie,Beatrix |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | ✓ | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Accused of having caused the death of a woman by giving her some mutton that Robbie and her mother (Margaret Og) had bewitched. Also accused of having carried out a special ritual (?protective) with her mother. They threw a knife 3 times over a cow while it was at the bull ?to ensure a fertile union.
Ritual Objects
- Meal
- Knife
Harm
| Human Illness | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Human Death | ✓ |
| Animal Illness | — |
| Animal Death | — |
| Female Infertility | — |
| Male Impotence | — |
Methods
| Aggravating Disease | — |
|---|---|
| Transferring Disease | — |
| Laying On | — |
| Quarreling | — |
| Cursing | — |
| Poisoning | — |
Healing / Other
| Removal of Bewitchment | — |
|---|---|
| Recognised Healer | — |
| Healing Humans | — |
| Healing Animals | — |
| Midwifery | — |
| Property Damage | — |
| Weather Modification | — |
Disease Notes: Accused of having aider her mother bewitch and cause the death of Lady Auchinhuiff by giving her some mutton that was bewitched,
White Magic
- Protective
- Halloween
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Irving | Chancellor | ||
| Thomas Leslie | Mr | ||
| John Leslie | of Balquhan | Sheriff-depute | |
| Alexander Rutherford | Prosecutor |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol I, pp. 152-3, 155-6. |