R. Calef, the opponent of Cotton Mather, quotes an instance of this kind. One Margaret Rule, having been seized with fits, “... some of the neighbours were forward enough to suspect the rise of the mischief in a house hard by, where lived a Miserable Woman who had been formerly imprisoned on the suspicion of witchcraft, who had frequently cured very painful hurts by muttering over them certain charms which I [? C. M.] shall not endanger the Poysoning of my Reader by repeating.”—_More Wonders of the Invisible World_, p. 3. Boston, 1700. Footnote 580: See O. M. Hueffer, _The Book of Witches_. London, 1908. Footnote 581: See action of Richard III. Footnote 582: The full indictment against Lord Hungerford, who was beheaded on Tower Hill along with Thomas Cromwell, by Henry VIII. Footnote 583: P. de l’Ancre, _Seconde Considération_. As to the kind of offences “qui se trouvent enveloppés dans le sortilège,” _Tableau de l’inconstance des Mauvais Anges_. Paris, 1612. Footnote 584: J. Bodin, _Démonologie_, p. 60. Paris, 1580. Footnote 585: Shamanism, etc. See, for instance, Elie Reclus, _Primitive Folk_, pp. 68, 70. London, 1889. Footnote 586: The most tainted or prejudiced evidence was received in these kinds of cases. See _Concilium Biterrense_ of A.D. 1246, c. 12. Labbé, tom. xxiii. p. 718. Footnote 587: Scot, _Discoverie_, bk. i. chap. iii. Footnote 588: Mostly poor, miserable old women, Glanvil admits.—_Saducismus_, p. 29. Footnote 589: “None ever talked to themselves who were not witches,” asserted one of the common prickers.—Mackay, _Delusions_, p. 147. Footnote 590: Especially as they often pretended, or really believed in, powers and curses, and, being quite helpless on the material side, invoked the aid of supernatural terrors to get assistance and be looked upon with fear. Footnote 591: Various persons accused of witchcraft, says Boguet, “ont confessé qu’ils faisoient la gresle en Sabbat afin de gaster les fruicts de la terre.”—_Discours des sorciers_, p. 144. Storms were supposed to be occasioned by the devils. “Telle est l’origine de l’habitude de sonner les cloches pendant les orages.”—L. F. A. Maury, _La Magie_, p. 102. Paris, 1860. Footnote 592: Bodin, _Démonologie_, p. 171. Footnote 593: Scot, _Discoverie_, p. 17. And this was also practised on a prisoner accused of sorcery before James I.—Lecky, _History of Rationalism_, p. 114. Footnote 594: One of the early inquirers as to the witch trials took a friend in with him to witness a torturing. As an experiment, he asked the prisoner if his companion, an entire stranger, had not been one of her accomplices, and the poor creature moaned out that he had. Footnote 595: “Le diable est si bon maistre que nous n’en pouvons envoyer si grand nombre au feu, que de leurs cendres il n’en renaisse de nouveau d’autres.”—Florimonde de Raemond, _Antichrist_, p. 103. Lyons, 1597.