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
"Edward Perry being likewise sworn, deposeth, That he, Mr. Greatrix,
and Mr. Blackwall went to the Maid, and Mr. Greatrix and he had read
of a way to discover a Witch, which he would practise. And so they
sent for the Witch, and set her on a Stool, and a Shoemaker with a
strong Awl endeavoured to stick it into the Stool, but could not till
the third time. And then they bade her come off the Stool, but she
said she was very weary and could not stir. Then two of them pulled
her off, and the Man went to pull out his Awl, and it dropped into his
hand with half an Inch broke off the blade of it, and they all looked
to have found where it had been stuck, but could find no place where
any entry had been made by it. Then they took another Awl, and put it
into the Maid's hand, and one of them took the Maid's hand, and ran
violently at the Witch's hand with it, but could not enter it, though
the Awl was so bent that none of them could put it straight again.
Then Mr. Blackwall took a Launce, and launc'd one of her hands an Inch
and a half long, and a quarter of an Inch deep, but it bled not at
all. Then he launc'd the other hand, and then they bled.
"He further saith, That after she was in Prison he went with Roger
Hawkins and others to discourse with the Witch about the Maid, and
they asked what it was she spoke to the day before, and after some
denial she said it was a Greyhound which was her Familiar, and went
out at the Window; and then she said, _If I have done the Maid hurt I
am sorry for it_. And being asked whether she had done her any hurt
she said she never did _bewitch_ her, but confess'd she had
_overlooked_ her, at that time she kiss'd her, but that she could not
now help her, for none could help her that did the mishap, but others.
Further the Deponent saith, That meeting after the Assizes at Cashel
with one William Lap [who suggested the test of the tile, &c.].
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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