“As I sat in the pantry last night counting my spoons,” says the butler, in the Comedy of the Drummer, “the candle, methought, burnt blue, and the spay’d bitch look’d as if she saw something.” Footnote 43: The Friend, a series of Essays, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq. vol. I, page 248. Footnote 44: “There is a species to whom, in the Highlands, is ascribed the guardianship or superintendence of a particular clan, or family of distinction. Thus the family of Gurlinbeg was haunted by a spirit called Garlen Bodachar; that of the Baron of Kilcharden by Sandear or Red Hand, a spectre, one of whose hands is as red as blood; that of Tullochgorum by May Moulach, a female figure, whose left hand and arm were covered with hair, who is also mentioned as a familiar attendant upon the clan Grant.” _Sir_ WALTER SCOTT’S BORDER MINSTRELSY. Footnote 45: In the year 1646 two hundred persons were tried, condemned, and executed for witchcraft, at the Suffolk and Essex assizes; and in 1699 five persons were tried by special commission, at Paisley, in Scotland, condemned and burnt alive, for the same imaginary crime.— (See HOWELL’S _Letters_.) Footnote 46: It is rather an unfortunate circumstance that all the books, (and there were several,) which treated of the arts of conjuration, as they were practised among the ancients, not one is now extant, and all that we know upon that subject has been collected from isolated facts which have been incidentally mentioned in other writings. From these, however, it would appear, that many of the deceptions which still continue to excite astonishment, were then generally known. Footnote 47: Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. Footnote 48: Glanvil was chaplain to his Majesty, and a fellow of the Royal Society, and author of the work in question, entitled “SADUCESMUS TRIUMPHATUS, or a full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions,” in two parts, “proving partly by holy Scripture, and partly by a choice collection of modern relations, the real existence of apparitions, spirits, and witches.” Printed 1700. Footnote 49: Webster, another divine, wrote “Criticisms and interpretations of Scripture,” against the existence of witches, &c. Footnote 50: