Lancashire Folk-lore: Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County PalatineHarland, John
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Lancashire Folk-lore: Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine
Harland, John
Folklore -- England -- Lancashire; Lancashire (England) -- Social life and customs
with him, and they fought so together till this informer had his
ears made very bloody by fighting; and looking down, he saw the boy
had a cloven foot, at which sight he was afraid, and ran away from
him to seek the kine. And in the way he saw a light like a lantern,
towards which he made haste, supposing it to be carried by some of
Mr. Robinson's people; but when he came to the place he only found a
woman standing on a bridge, whom, when he saw her, he knew to be
Loynd wife, and knowing her he turned back again, and immediately he
met with the aforesaid boy, from whom he offered to run; which boy
gave him a blow on the back, which caused him to cry. And he further
saith, that when he was in the barn, he saw three women take three
pictures from off the beam, in the which pictures many thorns, or
such like things, sticked; and that Loynd wife took one of the said
pictures down; but the other two women that took the other two
pictures down he knoweth not. And being further asked what persons
were at the meeting aforesaid, he nominated these persons hereafter
mentioned; viz., Dickonson wife, Henry Priestly wife and her son,
Alice Hargreaves, widow, Jennet Davies, William Davies, the wife of
Henry Jacks and her son John, James Hargreaves of Marsden, Miles
wife of Dicks, James wife, Saunders as he believes, Lawrence wife of
Saunders, Loynd wife, Boys wife of Barrowford, one Holgate and his
wife as he believes, Little Robin wife of Leonards of the West
Close.
"Edmund Robinson of Pendle, father of the said Edmund Robinson, the
aforesaid informer, upon oath saith, that upon All Saints' Day he
sent his son, the aforesaid informer, to fetch home two kine to
seal, and saith that he thought his son stayed longer than he
should have done, and went to seek him; and in seeking him heard
him cry very pitifully, and found him so afraid and distracted,
that he neither knew his father, nor did know where he was, and so
continued very near a quarter of an hour before he came to himself;
and he told this informer his father all the particular passages
that are before declared in the said Edmund Robinson his son's
information."
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