Irish Witchcraft and DemonologySeymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
Demonology; Witchcraft -- Ireland
"Nicholas Stout was next produced by Mr. Attorney-General, who being
sworn and examined, saith, That he had often tried her, having heard
say that Witches could not say the Lord's Prayer, whether she could or
no, and she could not. Whereupon she said she could say it, and had
often said it, and the Court being desired by her to hear her say it,
gave her leave; and four times together after these words, _Give us
this day our daily bread_, she continually said, _As we forgive them_,
leaving out altogether the words, _And forgive us our trespasses_,
upon which the Court appointed one near her to teach her the words she
left out. But she either could not, or would not, say them, using only
these or the like words when these were repeated, _Ay, ay, trespasses,
that's the word_. And being often pressed to utter the words as they
were repeated to her, she did not. And being asked the reason, she
said she was old and had a bad memory; and being asked how her memory
served her so well for other parts of the Prayer, and only failed her
for that, she said she knew not, neither could she help it.
"John Pyne being likewise sworn and examined, saith, That about
January last [1661] the said Mary Longdon, being his Servant, was much
troubled with small stones that were thrown at her [&c., as in the
Deponent's statement, other items of which he also corroborated]. That
sometimes the Maid would be reading in a Bible, and on a sudden he
hath seen the Bible struck out of her Hand into the middle of the
Room, and she immediately cast into a violent Fit. That in the Fits he
hath seen two Bibles laid on her Breast, and in the twinkling of an
eye they would be cast betwixt the two Beds the Maid lay upon,
sometimes thrown into the middle of the Room, and that Nicholas Pyne
held the Bible in the Maid's hand so fast, that it being suddenly
snatch'd away, two of the leaves were torn.
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