The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in AnthropologyMurray, Margaret Alice
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The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
Murray, Margaret Alice
Ethnology; Witchcraft -- Great Britain
'Eftir thay had drukkin togidder a certane space, thay, in thair
devillische maner, tuik ane katt, and drew the samyn nyne tymes throw
the said Beigis cruik; and thaireftir come with all thair speed to
Seaton-thorne, be-north the ʒet.... And thay thaireftir past
altogidder, with the Devill, to the irne ʒet [iron gate] of Seatoun,
quhair of new thay tuik ane cat, and drew the samyn nyne tymes throw
the said Irne-ʒett: And immediatlie thaireftir, came to the barne,
foiranent George Feudaris dur, quhair thai christened the said catt,
and callit hir _Margaret_: And thaireftir come all bak agane to the
Deane-fute, quhair first thai convenit, and cuist the kat to the
Devill.'[663]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 465: Danaeus, ch. iv.]
[Footnote 466: Boguet, pp. 131-9.]
[Footnote 467: _Pleasant Treatise_, pp. 5-7.]
[Footnote 468: Lea, iii, p. 501.]
[Footnote 469: Remigius, pt. i, pp. 89, 91.]
[Footnote 470: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 137, 139, 163, 164.]
[Footnote 471: W. G. Stewart, p. 175.]
[Footnote 472: Danaeus, ch. ii.]
[Footnote 473: Cooper, p. 90.]
[Footnote 474: Rymer, i, p. 956.]
[Footnote 475: Chartier, iii, p. 45.]
[Footnote 476: From a trial in the Guernsey Greffe.]
[Footnote 477: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 123.]
[Footnote 478: Bodin, p. 187.]
[Footnote 479: Melville, p. 396; _see also_ Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp.
210-12, 239, 246.]
[Footnote 480: F. Hutchinson, p. 43.]
[Footnote 481: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp. 121, 125.]
[Footnote 482: Boguet, p. 411.]
[Footnote 483: Cannaert, p. 46.]
[Footnote 484: Id., p. 50.]
[Footnote 485: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 131.]
[Footnote 486: Michaelis, _Historie_, pp. 334-5.]
[Footnote 487: Pitcairn, iii, p. 613.]
[Footnote 488: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 68, 126, 128.]
[Footnote 489: Id. ib., p. 148.]
[Footnote 490: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 171.]
[Footnote 491: Boguet, p. 131.]
[Footnote 492: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 72, 131.]
[Footnote 493: Doughty, _Travels in Arabia Deserta_, i, 89.]
[Footnote 494: Moret, _Mystères Égyptiens_, pp. 247 seq.]
[Footnote 495: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp. 97-8. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 496: Ib., i, p. 144. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 497: Ib., p. 149.]
[Footnote 498: Ib., p. 153. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 499: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 123.]
[Footnote 500: F. Hutchinson, _Historical Essay_, p. 43.]
[Footnote 501: Compare the account of the Forfar witch-dance. Kinloch, p.
120.]
[Footnote 502: Boguet, pp. 131-2.]
[Footnote 503: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 210.]
[Footnote 504: Compare the dittay against Bessie Thom, who danced round the
Fish Cross of Aberdeen with other witches 'in the lyknes of kattis and
haris'. _Spalding Club Misc._, i, 167.]
[Footnote 505: Boguet, p. 127.]
[Footnote 506: Horneck, pt. ii, p. 316.]
[Footnote 507: More, p. 232.]
[Footnote 508: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 245-6. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 509: Id., iii, p. 606. Spelling modernized.]
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