(Q112969730)
Statements
After a quarrel about Beatrix storing a pock in the house of William Young and Agnes his wife, they tried to appease her with ale. She drank but wouldn't speak. Later Beatrix ,as an apparition cat, attacked him, and their children were hurt in the coal pit. She said that after meeting the devil she was frequently carried in her sleep to the company of many brave souls. She practised definite rituals in midwifery. She stuck a baro knife between the bed and the straw and sprinkled salt and saying words. (English)
Her charges seem to have stemmed from disputes about her pock with her neighbours. She also had disputes about the death of her cat, and she seemed to have been a midwife, but it was the disputes that seem to be the crux. In her confession she was interrogated about her midwife practices, but she said there was no ill in them. She was delated by Issobel FergussonSomeone testified that they saw a strange cat standing on its hind legs (implying that it was Beatrix).Quarrelled and cursed, harm followed. The two wifes that suffered harm had also killed Beatrix's cat. The coal pit collapsed The deaths were in revenge for killing her cat. Tried to heal her cow by rubbing a sick woman's shirt on it.Burned down a houseShe was accused of causing death through the collapse of the coal pit. She must have lived near the pit and been a part of the pit community? (English)
Devil type: Male, Described as "a half long lad" (English)
Devil type: Animal Devil, Described as "meikle brown dog" (English)