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The question of familiars is one which has always puzzled the student of witch-trials, and almost more than any other has been the cause of the belief that hysteria and hallucination were the foundation of the witches' confessions
Read record →The essence of this familiar is that it did not belong to the witch but was an animal which appeared accidentally after the performance of certain magical ceremonies
Read record →'learned this arte of witchcraft of hyr grandmother whose nam mother Eue
Read record →ble's daughter, Margaret Thorpe, had a 'familiar in the shape of a bird, yellow of colour, about the bigness of a crow--the name of it is Tewhit'; Elizabeth Dickenson's spirit was 'in the likeness of a white cat, which she calleth Fillie, she hath kept it twen
Read record →This informant saith, That being lately at Colchester, he went to the castle, where the said Rebecca Weste, with the other five, are secured until the next gaole delivery: and this informant going to Rebecca Weste, and asking her how shee came first to be a wi
Read record →unto hir the Devell in the liknes of a great catt and speak unto this ex^t and demanded of hir hir blood w^ch she gave hime after which the spirit in the liknes of a catt suck upon the body of this ex^t and the first thing this ex^t commanded her spirit to doe
Read record →As the essential point of this class of familiar was that it should be a species of animals and not one special animal, the devil merely appointed to the witch what species she should observe in divining
Read record →The gift from a fellow-witch was always a domestic familiar, as to the Devil alone belonged the power of appointing a divining familiar; therefore this method of obtaining a familiar is found only in the eastern counties and other places where the domestic or
Read record →The profession of the witch-religion being hereditary, it is not uncommon to find that the familiar descended from mother to daughter
Read record →On the analogy of these two examples, I suggest that in the accounts of familiars offering themselves to the witch, there was, previous to such appearance, some formula of words or some magical action which are not recorded
Read record →In 1556 Joan Waterhouse, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the witch Mother Waterhouse, of Hatfield Peveril, being angry with another girl, 'shee goinge home dydde as she had seene her mother doe, callynge Sathan, whiche came to her (as she sayd) in the lykene
Read record →her by William Berry, whom she serued three yeares; the Spirit stood vpon the ground in the shape and forme of a Woman, which Spirit did aske of her her Soule, which shee then promised vnto it, being willed thereunto by her Master'.[888] In 1633, Margaret John
Read record →In the Aberdeen trials of 1596-7 the accused are stated to have 'come to the Fish Cross of this burgh, under the conduct of Sathan, ye all danced about the Fish Cross and about the Meal market a long space'
Read record →The very simplicity of the method shows that the transformation was ritual; the witch announced to her fellow that she herself was an animal, a fact which the second witch would not have known otherwise; the second witch at once became a similar animal and wen
Read record →That there was a strong connexion between witches and fairies has been known to all students of fairy lore
Read record →It is a great tree, a beech [fagus], from which comes the may [unde venit mayum, gallice le beau may]
Read record →Jeanne was not instructed in her youth in the belief and primitive faith, but was imbued by certain old women in the use of witchcraft, divination, and other superstitious works or magic arts; many inhabitants of those villages have been noted from antiquity f
Read record →welf yeiris of age or therby and haid wandereit out of Caithnes quher sho wes borne to Lochquhaber ye cam to Allane McKeldowies wyfe quha wes your ant That she upon ane day being out of the loch in the contrey and returning and being at the Loch syd awaiting q
Read record →There was (he saith) as I have heard the story credibly reported in this Country a Man apprehended for suspicion of Witchcraft, he was of that sort we call white Witches, which are such as do cures beyond the ordinary reasons and deductions of our usual practi
Read record →I was in the Downie-hillis, and got meat ther from the Qwein of Fearrie, mor than I could eat
Read record →[The devil] 'gave her ane elf errow stone to shott him [a child of seven] which she did ten dayes therafter that the child dyed imediately therafter
Read record →It was the common rumour that Elphin Irving came not into the world like the other sinful creatures of the earth, but was one of the Kane-bairns of the fairies, whilk they had to pay to the enemy of man's salvation every seventh year
Read record →The lists of witch-names bring to light several facts as regards the women
Read record →Michael' came to her naked, she did not give a direct answer
Read record →She first heard the 'Voices' at the age of thirteen, the usual time for the Devil and the witch to make 'paction'
Read record →How much of his confession was true cannot be determined now, but it is very evident that he was resolved to make his own death certain
Read record →Domestic Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1861
Read record →Giffard's Dialogue of Witches. London, 1843
Read record →Sadducismus Debellatus. London, 1698
Read record →Tracts relating to Northamptonshire. Northampton, 1866
Read record →Question of Witchcraft. London, 1671
Read record →Aberdeen:-- Allhallow Eve, 107, 110-12, 131, 136
Read record →Devil as an animal, 66, 70, 129, 183
Read record →" Back to back, 128, 131, 133, 134, 135, 232, 247
Read record →Blood sacrifice, 89, 152, 154, 210, 225
Read record →Children by Queen of Elphen, 44, 242
Read record →Forfar:-- Ale, 141. All Hallow Eve, 110. Aqua vitae, 141. Black plaid, 37. Candlemas, 110. Cannibalism, 159. Change of shape, 183, 236, 237. Child witch, 73, 176. Churchyard dance, 113, 146. Coldness of the Devil, 64. Dance in churchyard, 113, 146. Dates of me
Read record →Lancashire:-- All Saints' Day, 108, 111, 116
Read record →Christmas, 49, 111, 112. Cold food, 144. Coldness of Devil, 179, 181. Day of meeting, 122. Devil as a cat, 66, 128, 182. " a dog, 182. " a fowl, 182. " a goat, 68, 145, 159, 182, 233. " a man, 40, 101, 145, 182. " a sheep, 70, 182, 233. Drinking, 143. Easter,
Read record →Orleans:-- Back-to-back dance, 247. Baptism, 247, 248. Book, 246, 248. Child witch, 248. Devil as a goat, 69, 70, 247, 248. " God, 29, 247. " man, 41, 63, 246. " sheep, 70, 247. Disguise, 63. Divination, 221, 248. Feeding of familiars, 221, 248. Fines, 247. Gi
Read record →A stupid, "unintelligent sceptic" woman put us all out of harmony by making inane suggestions, always declaring that "she would not for the world interfere with the conditions," but doing so all the same
Read record →Opening and shutting one's eyes did not affect the vision
Read record →A few days later the new birds and the old ones had amalgamated, and twelve little swallows floated in the air before my eyes
Read record →It was promised, and the promise has been redeemed." These were the thoughts that passed idly through my brain as I lay--fully awake--and looked up at the comforting woman's figure
Read record →Could Mr Kitchener or any other person present have had to do with the matter?
Read record →We must always remember the natural prejudices of a conquered race towards the conqueror
Read record →In a short time he appeared again, and told her that she would be haunted by his unwelcome presence so long as the necklace remained in her possession
Read record →It must first be noted that the wide staircase I have described as passing close to my room was thence continued upward to the next floor
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