[Footnote 570: Id., i, pt. ii, p. 210.] [Footnote 571: F. Hutchinson, _Hist. Essay_, p. 42.] [Footnote 572: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 172.] [Footnote 573: Boguet, p. 131.] [Footnote 574: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 68, 401.] [Footnote 575: Id., _L'Incredulité_, p. 805.] [Footnote 576: Davenport, p. 2.] [Footnote 577: Van Elven, _La Tradition_, v (1891), p. 215.] [Footnote 578: Sinclair, p. 163. The account given by Barton's wife of the position of the candle on the Devil's person is paralleled by the peculiarly coarse description of the Light-bearers at the witch-sabbaths at Münster. Humborg, p. 120.] [Footnote 579: Kinloch, p. 120.] [Footnote 580: Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 139.] [Footnote 581: Chambers, iii, p. 298.] [Footnote 582: Stewart, p. 175.] [Footnote 583: Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 294.] [Footnote 584: Holinshed, _Ireland_, p. 58.] [Footnote 585: Boguet, p. 141.] [Footnote 586: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 401-2.] [Footnote 587: Michaelis, _Hist._, p. 337. The use of this phrase suggests that the sprinkling was a fertility rite.] [Footnote 588: Fountainhall, i, pp. 14, 15.] [Footnote 589: Law, p. 145.] [Footnote 590: Fountainhall, i, p. 14.] [Footnote 591: Ravaisson, 1679-81, p. 336.] [Footnote 592: Id., p. 333.] [Footnote 593: Id., p. 335.] [Footnote 594: Ravaisson, p. 335.] [Footnote 595: Cotton Mather, pp. 120, 131, 158.] [Footnote 596: J. Hutchinson, _Hist. of Massachusetts Bay_, ii, p. 55.] [Footnote 597: Burr, p. 417.] [Footnote 598: Increase Mather, p. 210.] [Footnote 599: Cotton Mather, p. 81.] [Footnote 600: Cooper, p. 91.] [Footnote 601: _Chelmsford Witches_, pp. 24, 26, 29, 30. Philobiblon Society, viii.] [Footnote 602: _Examination of John Walsh._] [Footnote 603: Cannaert, p. 48.] [Footnote 604: Whitaker, p. 216.] [Footnote 605: Stearne, p. 29.] [Footnote 606: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 617.] [Footnote 607: Cotta, p. 114.] [Footnote 608: Danaeus, ch. iv.] [Footnote 609: R. Scot, Bk. III, p. 44.] [Footnote 610: Holinshed, _Ireland_, p. 58.] [Footnote 611: Philobiblon Society, viii, _Chelmsford Witches_, pp. 29, 30.] [Footnote 612: Id. ib., viii, p. 34.] [Footnote 613: _Examination of John Walsh._] [Footnote 614: Remigius, pt. i, p. 54.] [Footnote 615: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 120; Burton, i, p. 252.] [Footnote 616: Pitcairn, ii, pp. 542-3.] [Footnote 617: From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh. The meaning of the word _laif_ is not clear. The Oxford dictionary gives _lop-eared_, the Scotch dictionary gives _loaf_. By analogy with the other accounts one would expect here a word meaning a hen.] [Footnote 618: _Highland Papers_, iii, p. 18.] [Footnote 619: Lemoine, vi, p. 109.] [Footnote 620: Reg. Scot, Bk. III, p. 41.] [Footnote 621: Id., Bk. II, p. 32.] [Footnote 622: Boguet, p. 205.] [Footnote 623: Ravaisson, p. 334, 335.] [Footnote 624: Sharpe, p. 147.] [Footnote 625: Chambers, iii, p. 450.] [Footnote 626: Scot, Bk. III, p. 42.]