[Footnote 627: Sinistrari de Ameno, p. 27.] [Footnote 628: See, amongst others, the account of Mary Johnson (Essex, 1645), who was accused of poisoning two children; the symptoms suggest belladonna. Howell, iv, 844, 846.] [Footnote 629: Scot, Bk. III, p. 41.] [Footnote 630: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 128.] [Footnote 631: Kinloch, p. 121.] [Footnote 632: Bodin, _Fléau_, pp. 187-8.] [Footnote 633: Boguet, p. 141.] [Footnote 634: Cannaert, p. 50.] [Footnote 635: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 133.] [Footnote 636: _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215. Neither name nor place are given.] [Footnote 637: Bourignon, _Parole_, p. 87.] [Footnote 638: _Scot. Hist. Soc._, xxv, p. 348. _See also_ Ross, _Aberdour and Inchcolme_, p. 339.] [Footnote 639: _Prod. and Trag. History_, p. 7.] [Footnote 640: _Tryall of Ann Foster_, p. 8.] [Footnote 641: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 211, 235, 238.] [Footnote 642: De Lancre, _L'Incredulité_, p. 772.] [Footnote 643: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp. 120, 124.] [Footnote 644: From the record of the trial in the Justiciary Court of Edinburgh.] [Footnote 645: Sharpe, p. 132.] [Footnote 646: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 137, 164.] [Footnote 647: Horneck, pt. ii, p. 316.] [Footnote 648: From the record of the trial in the Guernsey Greffe.] [Footnote 649: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 123, 400.] [Footnote 650: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 604, 608.] [Footnote 651: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 139, 141. I have pointed out that the cry of 'A Boy' is possibly the Christian recorder's method of expressing the Bacchic shout 'Evoe'. See _Jour. Man. Or. Soc._, 1916-17, p. 65.] [Footnote 652: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 401, 461, 462, 464.] [Footnote 653: Bodin, p. 190.] [Footnote 654: The names of the smaller islands are often compounded with the name of this deity, e.g. Li-hou, Brecq-hou, &c.] [Footnote 655: Law, p. 27 note.] [Footnote 656: From a trial in the Guernsey Greffe.] [Footnote 657: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 607-8, 611.] [Footnote 658: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 137, 139, 148, 149.] [Footnote 659: Pitcairn, iii, p. 612. Sych = sighing, lamentation.] [Footnote 660: Id., i, pt. ii, p. 212.] [Footnote 661: _Newes from Scotland_, see Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 218.] [Footnote 662: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 237.] [Footnote 663: Id., ii, p. 542.] VI. THE RITES (_continued_) WITCHES' RAIN-MAKING AND FERTILITY RITES 1. _General_