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
[Footnote 668: Pitcairn, iii, p. 603. 'Toads did draw the plough as oxen,
couch-grass was the harness and trace-chains, a gelded animal's horn was
the coulter, and a piece of a gelded animal's horn was the sock.']
[Footnote 669: Ravaisson, 1679-81, p. 336.]
[Footnote 670: Burns Begg, p. 224.]
[Footnote 671: Reg. Scot, Bk. III, p. 60.]
[Footnote 672: Id., Bk. III, p. 60.]
[Footnote 673: More, p. 168.]
[Footnote 674: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 93.]
[Footnote 675: Boguet, p. 211.]
[Footnote 676: R. Scot, p. 77.]
[Footnote 677: Bodin, pp. 125-7.]
[Footnote 678: Bourignon, _Vie_, pp. 222-3; Hale, pp. 37-8.]
[Footnote 679: Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 301.]
[Footnote 680: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 206.]
[Footnote 681: Bodin, p. 465.]
[Footnote 682: Id., p. 465. The trial was in 1545, Magdalene being then
forty-two. See also _Pleasant Treatise_, p. 6.]
[Footnote 683: Id., p. 227.]
[Footnote 684: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 183.]
[Footnote 685: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 145, 398.]
[Footnote 686: Kinloch, p. 124.]
[Footnote 687: Arnot, p. 360.]
[Footnote 688: Boguet, p. 68.]
[Footnote 689: Cooper, p. 92.]
[Footnote 690: More, p. 241.]
[Footnote 691: 'The Deuill your maister, beand in liknes of ane beist, haid
carnall [deal] with ilk ane of you.'—_Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 149.]
[Footnote 692: Petrie, pp. 7-9; Capart, p. 223.]
[Footnote 693: Plutarch, _De Iside et Osiride_, xviii, 5.]
[Footnote 694: On the other hand, the female generative organs were also
adored, and presumably by men. This suggestion is borne out by the figures
of women with the pudenda exposed and often exaggerated in size. Such
figures are found in Egypt, where they were called Baubo, and a legend was
invented to account for the attitude; and similar figures were actually
known in ancient Christian churches (Payne Knight, _Discourse on the
Worship of Priapus_).]
[Footnote 695: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 132, 404.]
[Footnote 696: Remigius, pt. i, p. 19.]
[Footnote 697: Boguet, pp. 68-9.]
[Footnote 698: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 68, 224-6.]
[Footnote 699: Id., _L'Incredulité_, p. 808.]
[Footnote 700: Pitcairn, iii, p. 610.]
[Footnote 701: F. Hutchinson, _Historical Essays_, p. 42.]
[Footnote 702: Boguet, p. 69.]
[Footnote 703: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132.]
[Footnote 704: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 219.]
[Footnote 705: Id. ib., p. 404.]
[Footnote 706: Stearne, p. 29.]
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