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 882: J. Hutchinson, ii, p. 31; Howell, vi, 659.]
[Footnote 883: 'Nos sorciers tiennent la plus-part de ces Demons pour leurs
Dieux,' De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 23.]
[Footnote 884: Moret, pp. 247 seq.]
[Footnote 885: Camden Soc., _Dame Alice Kyteler_, p. 3]
[Footnote 886: Boguet, pp. 69, 132.]
[Footnote 887: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 67, 197.]
[Footnote 888: _Wonderfull Discoverie of Margaret and Phillip Flower_, E
3.]
[Footnote 889: Whitaker, p. 216.]
[Footnote 890: Gerish, _The Divel's Delusions_, p. 12.]
[Footnote 891: Pitcairn notes: 'Issobell, as usual, appears to have been
stopped short here by her interrogators, when she touched on such matters',
i.e. the fairies.]
[Footnote 892: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 606, 614.]
[Footnote 893: Taylor, p. 81.]
[Footnote 894: _Volsunga Saga_, Bks. I, II; Wm. Morris, _Collected Works_,
xii, pp. 32. 77.]
[Footnote 895: Pausanias, viii, 2, 3, 6, ed. Frazer. Cp. also the animal
names applied to priests and priestesses, e.g. the King-bees of Ephesus;
the Bee-priestesses of Demeter, of Delphi, of Proserpine, and of the Great
Mother; the Doves of Dodona; the Bears in the sacred dance of Artemis; the
Bulls at the feast of Poseidon at Ephesus; the Wolves at the Lupercalia,
&c.]
[Footnote 896: Remigius, pt. i, pp. 65, 67.]
[Footnote 897: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 245-6.]
[Footnote 898: Boguet, pp. 120, 132-3.]
[Footnote 899: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 129.]
[Footnote 900: Fournier, p. 16.]
[Footnote 901: Monoyer, p. 30.]
[Footnote 902: Van Elven, v, p. 215.]
[Footnote 903: Boguet, p. 132.]
[Footnote 904: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp. 97, 114-15, 165; Bessie Thom,
p. 167. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 905: Goldsmid, p. 10.]
[Footnote 906: _Scottish Antiquary_, ix, pp. 50-2.]
[Footnote 907: Sharpe, pp. 132, 134.]
[Footnote 908: _Surtees Soc._, xl, pp. 191, 193, 194.]
[Footnote 909: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 607, 608, 611. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 910: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 128.]
[Footnote 911: _Surtees Soc._, xl, pp. 192, 194, 197.]
[Footnote 912: Kinloch, p. 129. Spelling modernized.]
[Footnote 913: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 129, 130.]
[Footnote 914: Kinloch, p. 123.]
APPENDIX I
FAIRIES AND WITCHES
The dwarf race which at one time inhabited Europe has left few concrete
remains, but it has survived in innumerable stories of fairies and elves.
Nothing, however, is known of the religious beliefs and cults of these
early peoples, except the fact that every seven years they made a human
sacrifice to their god—'And aye at every seven years they pay the teind to
hell'—and that like the Khonds they stole children from the neighbouring
races and brought them up to be the victims.
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