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Years thus passed, Jinney using her foul tongue against everyone, and the rabble in return baiting her as if…

Date of account: Published 1908
Source: The book of witches
Reference: The book of witches · selected passage 100
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Years thus passed, Jinney using her foul tongue against everyone, and the rabble in return baiting her as if she were a wild beast

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Years thus passed, Jinney using her foul tongue against everyone, and the rabble in return baiting her as if she were a wild beast. The occasion of this arose principally from Jinney being reputed a practiser of the black art--a very witch. She was resorted to by numbers, as a fortune-teller and healer of strange diseases; and when any mishap occurred, then the old crone was set upon by the mob, and hooted without mercy. The old, ill-favoured creature would at such times lean out of her hatch door, with a grotesque red cap on her head. She had a large broad nose, heavy shaggy eyebrows, sunken eyes, and lank and leathern cheeks; her forehead wrinkled, her mouth wide, and her look sullen and unmoved. On her shoulders was thrown a dark grey striped frieze with black patches, which looked at a distance like flying bats.

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