Why should we accept the scientist more than his grandmother, the witch?
Why should we accept the scientist more than his grandmother, the witch?
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Be it remembered, too, that even the witch has her grievance against the learned numbskulls who have undone her
Be it remembered, too, that even the witch has her grievance against the learned numbskulls who have undone her
Read record →Resent year a police-court case was heard at Witham, an Essex town not fifty miles from London, in which the…
resent year a police-court case was heard at Witham, an Essex town not fifty miles from London, in which the defendant stood accused of assaulting another man because his wife had bewitched him
Read record →Those same flying-machines provide yet another argument in the witch's favour
Those same flying-machines provide yet another argument in the witch's favour
Read record →In all the long list of witch-attainments there is not one that would gain more than a passing newspaper…
In all the long list of witch-attainments there is not one that would gain more than a passing newspaper paragraph in the silly season were it performed in the London of to-day
Read record →D out as an argument for implicit belief in the Biblical legend of the Deluge that its universality among all…
d out as an argument for implicit belief in the Biblical legend of the Deluge that its universality among all races of mankind from China to Peru can only be accounted for by accepting Noah and his Ark
Read record →The witch lives by herself in a dingle, a hundred yards beyond the last cottage of the hamlet
The witch lives by herself in a dingle, a hundred yards beyond the last cottage of the hamlet
Read record →It is the size of a fox, black and hairy, shapeless and with many feet
It is the size of a fox, black and hairy, shapeless and with many feet
Read record →The black cat, with its sleeping charge, hastens back towards the dingle
The black cat, with its sleeping charge, hastens back towards the dingle
Read record →At last, when she is quite tormented with anxiety lest she have unwittingly angered her master, comes a…
At last, when she is quite tormented with anxiety lest she have unwittingly angered her master, comes a stealthy clattering of wings upon the thatch, and down through the hole that serves for chimney rustles a black raven with fiery eyes
Read record →The witch takes a broken eggshell and smears it also with the ointment
The witch takes a broken eggshell and smears it also with the ointment
Read record →The witch must steer across it, for the Sabbath-General, as the corvine messenger has told her, is to be held…
The witch must steer across it, for the Sabbath-General, as the corvine messenger has told her, is to be held on a lonely peak of the Cevennes, in mid-France
Read record →So for a time--a little time, for Devil's messengers fly fast--the witch drives onward in mid-air
So for a time--a little time, for Devil's messengers fly fast--the witch drives onward in mid-air
Read record →It stands a little removed from the centre of a great mountain amphitheatre, and just below the summit is a…
It stands a little removed from the centre of a great mountain amphitheatre, and just below the summit is a mountain tarn, crystal-pure and casting back the starlight as peacefully as though there were no such things as witch or warlock beneath God's Heaven
Read record →It is true that woman, by reason of the frailty of her nature, seeks more often to pry into forbidden things,…
It is true that woman, by reason of the frailty of her nature, seeks more often to pry into forbidden things, to her own destruction, and thus there are many more witches than warlocks or magicians
Read record →Tick, takes her place beside one Luckie, a gossip of former Sabbaths, ill-favoured as herself, who comes from…
tick, takes her place beside one Luckie, a gossip of former Sabbaths, ill-favoured as herself, who comes from the kingdom of Fife, where she is much feared for the sudden tempests she raises when the fishing-fleets are sailing homeward with full catches
Read record →At first, seen in the dim light of the waning moon, it is shapeless, inchoate
At first, seen in the dim light of the waning moon, it is shapeless, inchoate
Read record →Those who have done well Satan fondles and caresses, promising them great reward, but the others he hands over…
Those who have done well Satan fondles and caresses, promising them great reward, but the others he hands over to his imps for present punishment
Read record →Hen his eyes blaze brighter and his voice grows fierce and menacing, and he leads them to the side of the…
hen his eyes blaze brighter and his voice grows fierce and menacing, and he leads them to the side of the mountain and shows them, far below, a dreadful chasm with fierce flames leaping about it and grim fire-monsters lifting up their open jaws from its centre
Read record →A few words of greeting and inquiry, and it makes its exit by the road it came, flying off heavily across the…
A few words of greeting and inquiry, and it makes its exit by the road it came, flying off heavily across the fields, regardless of the daylight, for who, seeing a raven fly towards the sea, would think of sorcery or witchcraft?
Read record →The witch, in the broader sense of the word, may be said to have existed ever since mankind first evolved an…
The witch, in the broader sense of the word, may be said to have existed ever since mankind first evolved an imagination, and may be expected to expire only with the death of the last woman
Read record →Consider the other woman--the ancestress of the witch, in the opprobrious sense
Consider the other woman--the ancestress of the witch, in the opprobrious sense
Read record →Just as the priestess was the mother of the priest, so the wizard is born of the witch
Just as the priestess was the mother of the priest, so the wizard is born of the witch
Read record →With the first introduction of civil government the witch and the priestess finally part company, to range…
With the first introduction of civil government the witch and the priestess finally part company, to range themselves henceforward upon opposite sides
Read record →Faced by such forcible arguments for conversion, the Pagan witch was not long in adopting the Christian Devil…
Faced by such forcible arguments for conversion, the Pagan witch was not long in adopting the Christian Devil as a more potent protector than the old, easy-going gods who had formerly peopled the supernatural world
Read record →It was, perhaps, the popular sense of victorious ability against her spells which protected the witch, per se,…
It was, perhaps, the popular sense of victorious ability against her spells which protected the witch, per se, against over-severe persecution until towards the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Read record →The increasing tendency towards dabbling in things forbidden brought about greater severity in its repression,…
The increasing tendency towards dabbling in things forbidden brought about greater severity in its repression, but it was not until the days of Innocent VIII., when witchcraft was officially identified with heresy, that the period of cruel persecution may be s
Read record →From the fourteenth century onwards the type of recognised witch varies only in detail
From the fourteenth century onwards the type of recognised witch varies only in detail
Read record →Having decided, very early in his earthly career, to acknowledge a supernatural world, Man promptly set to work…
Having decided, very early in his earthly career, to acknowledge a supernatural world, Man promptly set to work to people it after his own image
Read record →Conforming to the general rule, the witch is but one dweller in a half-way world that is thickly populated and…
Conforming to the general rule, the witch is but one dweller in a half-way world that is thickly populated and in itself forms one of an intricate star-group
Read record →Even if we agree to confine the witch to the narrowest limits, to regard her, that is to say, as primarily a…
Even if we agree to confine the witch to the narrowest limits, to regard her, that is to say, as primarily a human being and only incidentally possessed of superhuman powers and attributes, there still remain many difficulties in the way of exact classificatio
Read record →It is true that certain arbitrary lines may be drawn to localise the witch proper, even though the rules be…
It is true that certain arbitrary lines may be drawn to localise the witch proper, even though the rules be chiefly made up of exceptions
Read record →The Magician, whatsoever his own private failings, has certainly deserved well of posterity
The Magician, whatsoever his own private failings, has certainly deserved well of posterity
Read record →The witch proper, on the other hand, did not trouble herself with research work
The witch proper, on the other hand, did not trouble herself with research work
Read record →We thus may briefly state the difference between the witch and the magician as that the one professed powers in…
We thus may briefly state the difference between the witch and the magician as that the one professed powers in which she might herself believe or not believe, inherited or received by her, and by her passed on to her successors without any attempt to augment
Read record →Between the witch and the conjurer a wide gulf is fixed
Between the witch and the conjurer a wide gulf is fixed
Read record →Naturally enough, seeing that the desire to influence the future is the obvious corollary to that of knowing…
Naturally enough, seeing that the desire to influence the future is the obvious corollary to that of knowing it, the part of diviner was more often than not doubled with that of witch or sorcerer
Read record →Alchemy, despite its Moorish name, has a scarcely less extended history
Alchemy, despite its Moorish name, has a scarcely less extended history
Read record →To attempt any close study of the great alchemists were foreign to my present purpose, and would entail more…
To attempt any close study of the great alchemists were foreign to my present purpose, and would entail more space than is at my disposal
Read record →A native of Somerset, and born, traditionally, the year before the signing of Magna Charta, he might have…
A native of Somerset, and born, traditionally, the year before the signing of Magna Charta, he might have ranked among the greatest Englishmen had not his reputation as a magician given him the suggestion of being a myth altogether
Read record →Perhaps no symptom of civilisation is more disquieting than the increasing tendency to compress the half-way…
Perhaps no symptom of civilisation is more disquieting than the increasing tendency to compress the half-way worlds--built up by our forefathers with such lavish expenditure of imagination--into the narrow limits of that in which we are doomed to spend our wor
Read record →They showed one at the same booth wherein the degenerate giant was mewed
They showed one at the same booth wherein the degenerate giant was mewed
Read record →Even those who smile at Neptune and his daughters cannot refuse the tribute of a shudder to the Man-Beast
Even those who smile at Neptune and his daughters cannot refuse the tribute of a shudder to the Man-Beast
Read record →With the were-wolf we return to closer contact with witchcraft proper
With the were-wolf we return to closer contact with witchcraft proper
Read record →Doubtless because the wolf was extirpated in this country at a comparatively early date English were-wolf…
Doubtless because the wolf was extirpated in this country at a comparatively early date English were-wolf legends are few and far between
Read record →It were, of course, impossible to include within the limits of such a volume as is this--or of a hundred like…
It were, of course, impossible to include within the limits of such a volume as is this--or of a hundred like it--one tithe of the great store of spells, charms, and miscellaneous means towards enchantment gathered together in the long centuries since the birt
Read record →Of her actual appearance, divested of her infernal attributes, no better description could be desired than that…
Of her actual appearance, divested of her infernal attributes, no better description could be desired than that given by Reginald Scot in "The Discoverie of Witchcraft":--"Witches be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles; poore, su
Read record →Endowed with so unfortunate a personality, it is not surprising that, as Scot goes on to inform us, the witch…
Endowed with so unfortunate a personality, it is not surprising that, as Scot goes on to inform us, the witch should have found it difficult to make a living
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