[131] Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, II, 284.
[132] Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, New Series,
V, 267.
[133] F. Legge, Witchcraft in Scotland, in The Scottish
Review, October, 1891, XVIII, 263.
[134] On modern savages as devil worshippers, see, for
example, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, 1668, I, 404 ff.
(Dialogue iii, sections 15-16).
[135] Magnalia, book i, chap. i, §2, ed. 1853, I. 42; book
vi, chap. vi, §3, III, 436; Jesuit Relations, ed. Thwaites,
I, 286; II, 76; VIII, 124, 126. See also Thomas Morton,
New English Canaan, 1637, chap. ix, ed. Adams, (Prince
Society), p. 150, with the references in Mr. Adams’s note.
Cf. Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, chap. vi, ed.
1795, I, 419 ff.; Diary of Ezra Stiles, June 13, 1773, ed.
Dexter, I, 385-386.
[136] Mayhew’s letter of Oct. 22, 1652, in Eliot and
Mayhew’s Tears of Repentance, 1653 (Mass. Hist. Soc.
Collections, 3d Series, IV, 203-206); Gookin, Historical
Collections of the Indians in New England (Mass. Hist.
Soc. Collections, I, 154). See the references in Mr.
Adams’s note to Morton’s New English Canaan, Prince
Society edition, p. 152, and compare the following places
in the Eliot Tracts (as reprinted in the Mass. Hist. Soc.
Collections, 3d Series, IV),--pp. 17, 19-20, 39, 50-51,
55-57, 77, 82, 113-116, 133-134, 156, 186-187. See, for
the impression that Indian ceremonies made on a devout man
in 1745, David Brainerd’s Journal, Mirabilia Dei inter
Indicos, Philadelphia, [1746,] pp. 49-57:--“I sat,” writes
Brainerd, “at a small Distance, not more than Thirty Feet
from them, (tho’ undiscover’d) with my Bible in my Hand,
resolving if possible to spoil their Sport, and prevent
their receiving any Answers from the _infernal_ world” (p.
50).
[137] Gookin, Historical Collections (Mass. Hist. Soc.
Collections, I, 154); Mass. Records, ed. Shurtleff, II,
177; III, 98.
[138] The Most Strange and Admirable Discoverie of the
Three Witches of Warboys, 1593, sig. B2 rᵒ. P vᵒ.
[139] Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches,
1613 (Chetham Society reprint, sig. S); The Arraignment and
Triall of Iennet Preston, of Gisborne in Craven, in the
Countie of York, London, 1612 (in same reprint, sig. Y 2).
[140] Mary Smith’s case, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of
Witchcraft, 1616, pp. 52, 56, 57; the Husband’s Bosworth
case, Letter of Alderman Robert Heyrick, of Leicester, July
18, 1616, printed in Nichols, History and Antiquities of
the County of Leicester, II, 471*.
[141] Edward Fairfax, Dæmonologia, 1621 (first edited by W.
Grainge, Harrogate, 1882).
[142] Chetham Society Publications, V, lxiv.
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