Witchcraft -- England; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- Scotland
[62] Scots' Magazine.
[63] Sinclair's 'Invisible World.'
[64] Sinclair.
[65] Hibbert's 'Shetland Islands.'
[66] Hibbert and Sinclair.
[67] Fountainhall.
[68] Hibbert.
[69] Chambers.
[70] Watson's Tract, printed 1698. Chambers, Dickie, and various other
sources.
[71] Chambers.
[72] Chambers.
[73] Chambers; Sinclair; and an anonymous tract.
[74] Chambers.
[75] Hibbert.
[76] Law's 'Memorials;' and Chambers.
[77] A crazy old Illuminatus, who had a "call," and wrote the Tinkler's
Testament.
[78] Scott. Dickie. Chambers, &c.
[79] Dickie's 'Philosophy of Magic.'
[80] 'Select Cases of Conscience.'
[81] 'Discoverie of Witchcraft.'
[82] 'Discoverie of Witchcraft,' 1584.
[83] 'Dialogue concerning Witches,' 1603.
[84] 'Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcraft,' 1646.
[85] 'Advertisement to the Jurymen of England,' 1653.
[86] 'A Candle in the Dark,' 1656.
[87] 'Question of Witchcraft debated,' 1669. "Wagstaffe was a little
crooked man, of a despicable presence. He was laughed at by the boys of
Oxford because they said he himself looked like a wizard."
[88] 'Displaying of Witchcraft,' 1677.
[89] 'Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft,' 1720.
[90] Introduction to Potts's 'Discovery of Witches,' edited by James
Crossley, Esq. Chetham Society. 1845.
[91] Conjuration or invocation of any evil spirit was felony without
benefit of clergy; so also to consult, covenant with, entertain, feed, or
reward any evil spirit, or to take up any dead body for charms or spells;
to use or practise witchcrafts, enchantment, charm, or sorcery, so that
any one was lamed, killed, or pined, was felony without benefit of clergy,
to be followed up by burning. Then 'The Country Justice' goes on to give
the legal signs of a witch, and those on which a magistrate might safely
act, as legal "discoveries." She was to be found and proved by insensible
marks; by teats; by imps in various shapes, such as toads, mice, flies,
spiders, cats, dogs, &c.; by pictures of wax or clay; by the accusations
of the afflicted; by her apparition seen by the afflicted as coming to
torment them; by her own sudden or frequent inquiries at the house of the
sick; by common report; by the accusations of the dying; and the bleeding
of the corpse at her touch; by the testimony of children; by the afflicted
vomiting pins, needles, straw, &c.; in short, by all the foolery, gravely
formularized, to be found in the lies and deceptions hereafter related.
[92] Thomas Wright's 'Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.' Southey's Ballad.
[93] Thomas Wright's 'Narrative of Sorcery and Magic,' and 'Trial of Dame
Alice Kyteler.'
[94] Idem.
[95] 'Introduction to the Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice
Kyteler.' By Thomas Wright. 1843.
[96] Wright's 'Narrative of Sorcery and Magic.' 1851.
[97] Reginald Scot.
[98] Reginald Scot. Dr. Hutchinson.
[99] Stow.
[100] Scot, quoting a little pamphlet, without a title, which I cannot
find.
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