The mysteries of all nations : rise and progress of superstition, laws against and trials of witches, ancient and modern delusions : together with strange customs, fables, and tales ... / by James Grant.

  • Grant, James (Archaeologist)
Date:
1880
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Credit: The mysteries of all nations : rise and progress of superstition, laws against and trials of witches, ancient and modern delusions : together with strange customs, fables, and tales ... / by James Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER LXIV. PAGE Paying Blackmail to Witches—Demon of Tedworth—A Perse- cuted Pamily prayed for—UnacconntalDle Sounds and Sights— Drummer found guilty of Sorcery—Raising Storms—A Wizard in Cromwell's Army—Aldermen's Children bewitched—Man kissed to Death—Witch unable to say the Lord's Prayer—A. Taunton Witch—Bewitched Cattle—Mode of discovering a Witch—Selling a Soul to the Devil—Witch Executed—A Song of the Seventeenth Century , . . . .547 CHAPTER LX\^. Elizabeth Style's Confession—Signing a Covenant with Blood— Alice Duke, Anne Bishop, and Mary Penny—Somerset Witches—Running backwards round a Church—Compact with Satan—Accusation against Sarah Morduck—A Judge's Opinion of Witchcraft—Supposed Sufferer from Witchcraft prayed for in the Church, and a Subscription raised for him—Falsely accusing a Woman of Witchcraft—Witch and Stolen Plate— Charm for Sore Eyes—Flames issuing from a Bewitched Person's Mouth—Tormenting a Witch—Jane Wenham's Witch- crafts and Trial—The last Persons who suffered in England for Witchcraft—List of Persons who suffered as'Witches . . 552 CHAPTER LXYI. Scotchmen and Englishmen in America—Superstition in the Back Settlements—Witchcraft in New England—Rev. Cotton Mather's View of Witchcraft—Judges and Witnesses over- awed by Witches—Bewitched Persons prayed for—Trial of Susan Martin—Absurd Evidence—Witchcraft in Sweden— Commission of Inquiry—Day of Humiliation appointed on account of Witchcraft—Threescore and Ten Witches in a Village—Children engaged in Witchery put to Death—The Devil bound with an Iron Chain—An Angel's Warning Voice —Witch assaulting Ministers—Witches' Imps—Butter of Witches—Witches Punished—Horse Burned . . .558 CHAPTER LXVIL Superstition in France—Pope John XXII. celebrated in the History of Sorcery and Magic—A Bishop skinned alive and