Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/2195 Isabell Smith

name of accused: Isabell Smith
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/2137
Case date start: 23/7/1607
Given case date: no information
Case commission: no information
case complaint: no information
case correspondence: no information
case chronicle: no information
other details: no information

characterisation

folk healing (secondary characteristic)
maleficium (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: None

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
no additional persons recorded

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Isabell Smith	Local Court	T/JO/1263	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: None

no information

Demonic pacts

no information

witches meetings

Notes: None

Meeting places

no information

musical instruments

no information

Folk culture

Specific ritual acts

Notes: None

Counter strategies

no information

white magic

no information

Elf/fairy elements

no information

Shape-changing

no information

Ritual objects

no information

Religious motif

no information

Calendar customs

no information

Diseases or illness

Human death
Laying on
Healing humans

Notes: Appears to have diagnosed if a person was sick or not, but later accused of having bewitched another woman, who later died.

Cause of witch's malice

no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

no information

weather modification

no information

Notes: None

Other charges

no information

Notes: None

Plea

Claimed bewitched: no
Claimed possessed: no
Admitted lesser charges: no
No defence: no
Claimed natural causes: no
Notes: None
Case Notes: None

references
name	notes
Aberdeen Presbytery records CH2/1/1.	See also Henderson 'The History of banchory-Devenick' pp. 216-217. Presbytery records not paginated, use dates.