Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands: Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction — John Shaqi
Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands: Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical IntroductionPitts, John Linwood
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Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands: Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction
Confessed that the Devil had charged her to call, as she passed, for
_Isabel le Moygne_: when she came to the Sabbath, which she had done
several times. On leaving the Sabbath the Devil incited her to commit
various evil deeds: and to that effect he gave her certain black
powders, which he ordered her to throw upon such persons and cattle as
she wished; with this powder she perpetrated several wicked acts which
she did not remember: among others she threw some upon _Mr Dolbell_,
parish minister: and was the occasion of his death by these means.
With this same powder she bewitched the wife of _Jean Maugues_: but
denied that the woman's death was caused by it: she also touched on
the side, and threw some of this powder over the deceased wife of _Mr
Perchard_, the minister who succeeded the said _Dolbell_ in the
parish, she being _enceinte_ at the time, and so caused the death of
her and her infant--she did not know that the deceased woman had given
her any cause for doing so.
Upon the refusal of the wife of _Collas Tottevin_ to give her some
milk: she caused her cow to dry up, by throwing upon it some of this
powder: which cow she afterwards cured again by making it eat some
bran, and some terrestrial herb that the Devil gave her.
CONFESSION DE MARIE BECQUET.
_Marie_, femme de _Pierre Massy_, appres sentence de mort prononcee a
l'encontre d'elle, ayant este mise a la question, a confesse qu'elle
est Sorciere; et qu'a la persuation du Diable, quj s'aparut a elle en
forme de chien: elle se donna a luy: que lors que se donna a luy ill
la print de sa patte par la main: qu'elle s'est oint du mesme onguent
que sa mere s'oignoit: et a este au Sabath sur la banque pres du
Chateau de Rocquaine, avec luy, ou n'y avoit que le Diable et elle, se
luy sembloit: en la susdite forme en laquelle elle la veu plusieurs
fois. A ete aussi au Sabath une fois entre autres en la rue, _Collas
Tottevin_; que toutes les fois qu'elle alloit au Sabath le Diable la
venant querir luy sembloit qu'il la transformait en chienne; dit que
sur le rivage, pres du dit Rocquaine: le Diable, en forme de chien,
ayant eu copulation avec elle, luy donnoit du pain et du vin, qu'elle
mangeoit et beuvoit.
Que le Diable luy bailloit certaines pouldres: lesquelles pouldres ill
luy mettoit dans la main, pour ietter sur ceux qu'il luy commanderoit:
qu'elle en a iette par son commandement sur des personnes et bestes:
notament sur l'enfant _Pierre Brehaut_. Item, sur la femme _Jean
Bourgaize_ lors qu'estoit enciente. Item, sur l'enfant _Leonard le
Messurier_.
CONFESSION OF MARIE BECQUET.
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