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
"However to make all clear the Court appointed five or six Physicians
to examine her very strictly, whether she were no way craz'd in her
Intellectuals. Divers Hours did they spend with her, and in all that
while no Discourse came from her but what was agreeable; particularly
when they ask'd her what she thought would become of her Soul, she
reply'd, _You ask me a very solemn Question, and I cannot tell what to
say to it_. She profest herself a Roman Catholick, and could recite
her Paternoster in Latin very readily, but there was one Clause or two
always too hard for her, whereof she said, _She could not repeat it,
if she might have all the world_.[50] In the Upshot the Doctors
returned her Compos Mentis, and Sentence of Death was past upon her.
"Divers Days past between her being arraign'd and condemn'd; and in
this time one Hughes testify'd, that her Neighbour (called Howen), who
was cruelly bewitch'd unto Death about six years before, laid her
Death to the charge of this Woman [she had seen Glover sometimes come
down her chimney], and bid her, the said Hughes, to remember this;
for within six years there would be occasion to mention it. [This
Hughes now preparing her testimony, immediately one of her children, a
fine boy well grown towards youth] was presently taken ill in the same
woful manner that Goodwin's were; and particularly the Boy in the
Night cry'd out, that a Black Person with a Blue Cap in the Room
tortur'd him, and that they try'd with their Hand in the Bed for to
pull out his Bowels. The Mother of the Boy went unto Glover on the day
following, and asked her, _Why she tortured her poor Lad at such a
rate?_ Glover answered, _Because of the Wrong she had receiv'd from
her_; and boasted _That she had come at him as a Black Person with a
Blue Cap, and with her Hand in the Bed would have pulled his Bowels
out, but could not_. Hughes denied that she had wronged her; and
Glover then desiring to see the Boy, wished him well; upon which he
had no more of his Indisposition.
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