While this hideous record of blood and murder, in the name of the law, was being recorded in England, during the seventeenth century, a similar record was being written, in the criminal courts of Spain, Italy, Scotland and Germany. Thousands of innocent people lost their lives under this charge in these countries, during this century. As an illustration of this mad carnival of death, in Würzburg, alone in the two years following 1627, one hundred and fifty-seven people were burned, in twenty-nine burnings, averaging from five to six people at a burning. The wealthy and the paupers, old and young, the ungainly and the comely, all alike suffered in this unholy crusade. Of the list there were three play-actors; four innkeepers; three councilmen; fourteen vicars; the burgomaster’s lady; an apothecary’s wife and daughter, the wife, sons and daughter of the councillor Stolzenberg and Gobel Babelin, “the prettiest girl in the town,” thirty-two vagrants and a large number of little innocent children, who were guilty of no offense or crime other than that of living in a period when their innocence was considered a crime. (Hauber’s “_Acta et Scripta Magica_.”) [35] II. Mackay’s “Memoirs of Delusions,” p. 258. [36] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft, in Outline”; Nevin’s “Witchcraft in Salem Village.” [37] Upham’s “Witchcraft in Outline,” p. 6. [38] Upham’s “Witchcraft in Outline,” 6. [39] The trial of Mary Dyer, Quaker, is presented in “Two Letters of William Dyer,” 1659-1660. [40] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft”; Nevin’s “Witchcraft in Salem”; Moore’s “History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts.” [41] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft,” pp. 25, 26. [42] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft,” pp. 44, 45; Nevin’s “Witchcraft in Salem,” 46, 69. [43] Upham’s “Witchcraft in Outline,” 61. [44] _Ante idem._, p. 69. [45] Rose Terry Cooke, in her, “Death of Goody Nurse,” thus describes the death of this good woman: “They hanged this weary woman there, Like any felon stout; Her white hairs on the cruel rope Were scattered all about.” [46] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft,” p. 87. [47] Upham’s “Salem Witchcraft,” pp. 142, 143; Nevin’s “Witchcraft in Salem,” pp. 70, 253. [48] See article on “Demonology,” in Foreign Quarterly Review, London, 1840. [49] Paradise Lost, book ii, Line 666. [50] II. Mackay’s “Memoirs of Delusions,” p. 178. [51] Many of the ignorant Canadian-French still believe in the delusions of the loup-garou, or man wolf, and in the southern portion of Nigeria, as recently shown by P. Amaury Talbot, superstition and witchcraft lurk in all the forests and lakes of the country. Describing these superstitions, in a recent article in the London Telegraph, Mr. Talbot says: