[106] An Account of what Happened in the Kingdom of Sweden,
in the Years 1669, 1670 and Upwards, translated from the
German by Anthony Horneck, and included in Glanvill’s
Saducismus Triumphatus, ed. 1682 (ed. 1726, pp. 474 ff.).
Horneck’s version is from a tract entitled, Translation ...
Der Königl. Herren Commissarien gehaltenes Protocol uber
die entdeckte Zauberey in dem Dorff Mohra und umbliegenden
Orten, the Hague, 1670. Cf. Thomas Wright, Narratives of
Sorcery and Magic, II, 244 ff.; Soldan, ed. Heppe, II,
175 ff.; Vilhelm Bang, Hexevæsen og Hexeforfølgelser især
i Danmark, Copenhagen, 1896, pp. 48 ff. This is what Mr.
Upham calls Cotton Mather’s “favorite Swedish case” (Salem
Witchcraft and Cotton Mather, Morrisania, 1869, p. 20). It
was, in a manner, “Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s
Hero” toward the end of the seventeenth century, since
it was one of the most recent instances of witchcraft on
a large scale. The good angel in white who is one of the
features of the Mohra case appears much earlier in England:
see Potts, Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, 1613, Chetham
Society reprint, sig. L (a reference which may serve as a
note to Mr. Upham’s essay, just cited, p. 34).
[107] Frans Volk, Hexen in der Landvogtei Ortenau und
Reichsstadt Offenburg, Lahr, 1882, pp. 24-25, 58 ff.
[108] Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584, p. 543; F.
Hutchinson, Historical Essay, 2d ed., p. 38; W. W., A True
and Just Recorde, of the Information [etc.] of all the
Witches, taken at S. Oses (London, 1582). For extracts from
W. W.’s book I am indebted to Mr. Wallace Notestein, of
Yale University.
[109] F. Legge, The Scottish Review, XVIII, 261 ff.
[110] Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in
the Countie of Lancaster (London, 1613), reprinted by the
Chetham Society, 1845; Thomas Wright, Narratives of Sorcery
and Magic, Chap. xxiii.
[111] Whalley Lancashire, by Whitaker, pp. 213 ff.; Chetham
Society reprint of Potts, as above, pp. lix ff.; Wright,
as above. Chap. xxiii; Heywood and Brome’s play, The
Late Lancashire Witches, 1634; Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic Series, 1634-1635, pp. 77-79, 98, 129-130, 141,
152; Historical Manuscripts Commission, 10th Report,
Appendix, Part IV, p. 433; 12th Report, Appendix, Part II,
p. 53, cf. p. 77; Notes and Queries, 3d Series, V, 259, 385.
[112] Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of
Leicester, II, 471.
[113] See pp. 7 and 58.
[114] Whitelocke’s Memorials, Dec. 13, 1649, ed. 1732, p.
434; Brand, Popular Antiquities, ed. Hazlitt, III, 80;
Ralph Gardner, England’s Grievance Discovered, in Relation
to the Coal-Trade, 1655 (reprinted, North Shields, 1849,
Chap. 53, pp. 168 ff.).
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