Watsonne,Issobell

Devil Present	No
Communal Sex	No
Devil Worship	No
Food and Drink	Yes
Dancing	No
Singing	No

Notes: The meetings were with the 'fair folk' and attended by herself and several others including Richie Graham. There is a lot about food.

Meeting Places

Place	Location	Inversion
	between mill and park	No
Hilltop	above Kincardine	No

She confes ed to meeting the fair folk, then the devil appeared as an angel but also in the form of a human male, who she named. She confessed that the 'fair folk' and the angel offered to protect her if she served them.

Type	Text
Servant
Devil's Mark	on head
Devil's Mark	on left middle finger
Anti-baptism	asked to renounce god

Devil Appearances

Type	Text
Spirit	as angel
Male	as Thomas Murray

Notes: Claimed to have used rowan tree and a piece of a dead person's finger to cure the worm. Fairies offered her food but she refused it. Her husband took ill, then her baby was replaced with a changeling. She refused to feed it and threw it in the fire. She then promised to serve the 'fair folk' in return for her child. Said the saw Richie Graham at meetings with the 'fair folk' as well as several other people. While in prison she was visited by a man and asked to identify who had stolen his cow's milk. The man and the woman that Watsonne identified were questioned by the presbytery.

Elf/Fairy Elements

• Group of fairies
• Changeling

Ritual Objects

• Rowan tree
• Hand (dead)
• Fire

Religious Motifs

• Angels

Disease Notes: Accused and confessed to healing a man of the worm using rowan tree.

White Magic

• Finding lost goods

Source	Reference	Notes
Stirling Presbytery records	CH2/722/2.	No pagination.