Midwife bewitches people, 160 Money turns to leaves, 75 Newton, Florence, 105 ff. Nobleman accused of sorcery, 57 Orrery, Lord, 163 Over-looking, 117, 120 Petronilla of Meath, 18, 35, 38, 39 Pillory, the, 64, 221 Pins stuck in a girl's arm, 110; in a straw body, 247 Pishogues, 236, 240 Pope John XXII, 44 Portents at Limerick, 100; on entry of James II, 194 Presbyterian clergyman bewitched, 156 Prophecies of Mr. Peden, 174 Quakers, the, 155, 172 Red cap worn, 233 Red pigs, their sale forbidden, 67 Relic cures spells, 80 Riding on a staff, 39, 234 Scot, Michael, 52 Scotch girl delated, 199 Scotland, 19, 54, 81, 85, 90, 147 Sorcery and witchcraft, difference, 21 Sorrel-leaf causes witchcraft, 195 Stones thrown, 109, 157, 158, 201, 204 Storm attributed to witches, 99 Strange knowledge of deaf and dumb man, 87 Stroking of images, 182; of a stone, 186 Swimming a witch suggested, 122; the process, 107 Tate, Rev. Dr., 98 Taverner, Francis, 136 ff. Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, 140, 144 Torture, not judicially used, 18; rough-and-ready application of, 38; employed on Continent, 20 Transference of disease, 245 Treasure-seeking at Cashel and Mellifont, 78; made penal, 64 Ulster colonists, their influence, 14 Usher, Archbishop, 93, 102 Vomiting of strange substances, 80, 109, 113, 195, 218 Wafer with devil's name, 39 Williams, Rev. Daniel, 148 Witch examined, 59; curious tests of guilt of, 118, 119, 121; tries to disembowel a boy, 185; rescued by the Devil, 148; murdered by a mob, 198; supposed, murdered by a lunatic, 237 Witch-burning (so called) near Clonmel, 237 Witchcraft still a legal offence, 248 Witches executed, 60, 68, 69, 148, 186, 196; placed in pillory, 221; appear as cats, 156; suck cows under form of hares, 241 Youghal, suspected witches at, 117, 122 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. at Paul's Work, Edinburgh FOOTNOTES: [1] In his _History of Witchcraft in England_. [2] Notestein, _op. cit._ [3] Français, _L'église et la Sorcellerie_. [4] Français, _op. cit._ [5] Elsewhere given as Basilia. [6] Magical girdles were used for various purposes. Bosc in his _Glossaire_ will have them to be the origin of the magnetic belts, &c. that are so freely advertised at the present day. [7] Français, _op. cit._ [8] Carrigan, _History of the Diocese of Ossory_, i. p. 48. [9] Stokes, _Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church_, p. 374. [10] Theiner, _Vet. Mon._, p. 269. [11] Westropp, _Wars of Turlough_ (Proc. R.I.A.), p. 161; Seymour, _Pre-Ref. Archbishops of Cashel_, 47. [12] _Dict. Nat. Biog._, Seymour, _op. cit._, p. 18. [13] O'Daly, _History of the Geraldines_. [14] Sharpe, _History of Witchcraft in Scotland_, p. 30. [15] Ed. H. F. Berry, D.Litt. [16] Carrigan, _op. cit._, iii. p. 18.