race, and it bids us give our upward-soaring spirits freedom, and not fetter them with the gross beliefs of yore that should long ere this have been relegated to limbo. INDEX Acts of Parliament, 57, 61, 66, 67 Antrim man bewitched in England, 101 Apparitions, at Castleconnell, 94; at Loughill, 95; at Portadown, 95; in co. Tipperary, 150; to insurgents, 101 Bed-clothes pulled off, 201, 205-6; made up like a corpse, 205-6 Blackamoor executed, 60 Blair, Rev. Robert, 88 ff. Burning alive, 39, 40, 48, 50 "Burying the sheaf," 246 Butter stolen, 236, 242 Butters, Mary, 224 ff. Carnmoney, 156, 159, 160, 225, 227 Carrigfergus, 143, 174, 213, 224 Cattle bewitched, 68, 225, 240; cured by charms, 227, 232, 240 Charmed lives, 97 Charms, ingredients used in making of, 28, 29, 37, 227, 232 Chest opens mysteriously, 104 Child bewitched in co. Antrim, 195; in co. Cork, 171 Clergy incriminated, 35, 78 Colville, Rev. Alex., 82 ff. De Ledrede, Bishop, 26 ff., 47, 48 Demons, sacrifice to, 27, 29, 48 Desmond, fourth Earl of, 53; sixteenth Earl of, 69 ff., 95; rides round Lough Gur, 72; appears as a black horse, 75 Devil, the, method of raising, 81; cheated in bargains, 84, 133; incites to homicide, 90; appears as a huntsman, 135; as a raven, 173; in various shapes, 156 Dunbar, Miss Mary, 207 ff. Evil spirit appears as a boy, 202 ff. Exorcism practised in Ulster, 93 Eye-biters, 68 Fairies, 3, 237; annoy a butler, 163 ff; king of, 86 Familiar spirit, a: Huthart, 55-6; Robin, son of Art, 27, 29, 38, 40; appears to a witch, 183; appears as an old man, 108; appears as a greyhound, 118, 120 Fits, people seized with strange, 161, 179, 187 ff., 195, 208, 209, 214 ff. Greatrakes, Valentine, 118, 122, 127, 165, 167 Ghost, a, 136 ff., 144 ff., 164, 168; hand of in a law-court, 143; vanishes to sound of music, 141, 147; brings medicine, 165; appears as a goat, 198 Girdle, devil's, 39 Glover, Mrs., 179 ff. Haltridge family, 201 ff. Hand of Glory, 232 Haunted house in Dublin, 148 Healing powers, 244 Heresy, 47, 48, 50 Hutchinson, Francis, 11, 222 Images of rags, 182 Irish language spoken in Boston, 182, 186 Irish prophetess in Scotland, 54 Island Magee, 201 ff. J.P.'s Commission, clause in, 248 Judges: Sir Wm. Aston, 112, 130; Sir F. Brady, 239; John Lindon, 170; Jas. Macartney, 170, 213, 220; Anthony Upton, 213, 220 Kiss, bewitched by a, 108, 111, 117, 123, 126 Knots mysteriously tied, 208, 215, 216 Kyteler, Dame Alice, 25 ff.; her husbands, 26; her confederates, 35 Literature, absence of, in Ireland, 10, 11 Longdon, Mary, 107 ff. Lord's Prayer, used as a test, 115, 125, 184; said by supposed witches, 220 Mather, Rev. Cotton, 178 ff.; Rev. Increase, 129, 177