Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
[9] ‘The Dæmon of Burton; or, A True Relation of Strange Witchcrafts, or
Incantations, lately practised at Burton, in the Parish of Weobley, in
Herefordshire. Certified in a Letter from a Person of Credit in Hereford.’
London, 1671.
[10] Herefordshire.
[11] Ewell.
[12] ‘Strange and Wonderful News from Yowel in Surry, giving a True and
Just Account of One Elizabeth Burgiss, who was most strangely Bewitched,’
etc. London, 1681.
[13] ‘Discours des Sorciers,’ by Henry Boguet (Lyon, 1608), p. 417.
[14] Whooping.
[15] Shriek.
[16] A sheaf or bundle.
[17] Table.
[18] Hiccoughing.
[19] Or bannocks, oat cakes.
[20] A hump.
[21] A hedgehog.
[22] Sleight, cunning.
[23] These extracts are from an English translation of Olaus Magnus, 1658.
[24] A Finn is even now reckoned to be a very uncanny person on board
ship, and to be able to control the weather.
[25] The same selling of winds used to be done both in the Isle of Man and
the Orkneys.
[26] ‘Demonologie,’ lib. ii., cap. v.
[27] ‘The Discouerie of Witchcraft,’ lib. i., cap. iii.
[28] _The Spectator_, No. cxvii.
[29] Lib. iii., cap. i.
[30] A bat.
[31] Lib. i., cap. iv.
[32] ‘A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts,’ by George Giffard.
London, 1603.
[33] ‘The Discovery of Witches,’ etc., by Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder.
London, 1647.
[34] Bairns, or children.
[35] Warts.
[36] Gyves or fetters.
[37] Torture.
[38] _Notes and Queries_, Series IV., vol. viii., p. 44.
[39] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1759, p. 93.
[40] Ed. 1730, p. 187.
[41] A dove or wood-pigeon.
[42] ‘A Rehearsall both Straung and true, of hainous and horrible acts
committed by Elizabeth Stile, alias Rockingham, Mother Dutten, Mother
Deuell, Mother Margaret, Fower notorious Witches, apprehended at Winsore
in the Countie of Barks, and at Abbington arraigned, condemned and
executed on the 26 daye of Februarie last, Anno 1579.’
[43] ‘A true and iust Recorde of the Information, Examination and
confession of all the Witches, taken at S. Oses in the Countie of Essex:
whereof some were executed, and other some entreated according to the
determination of lawe,’ etc. London, 1582.
[44] A mole.
[45] ‘The Wonderful Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch, late of
Edmonton,’ etc. London, 1621.
[46] ‘A Treatise of Witchcraft,’ etc., by Alex. Roberts, B.D. London,
1616.
[47] Ay.
[48] ‘The full Tryals, Examination, and Condemnation of four Notorious
Witches at the Assizes held at Worcester on Tuseday the 4th day of March,’
etc. London, 1647.
[49] ‘A Collection of Modern Relations of Matter of Fact concerning
Witches and Witchcraft upon the Persons of People,’ etc. London, 1693.
[50] ‘Doctor Lamb revived; or, Witchcraft condemned in Anne Bodenham.’
London, 1653.
[51] ‘The History of Witches and Wizards,’ etc., by W. P. London, 1700
(?).
[52] ‘The History of Witches and Wizards,’ etc., by W. P. London, 1700
(?).
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