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Discover the Truth Behind Witchcraft Stories

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The Superstitions of Witchcraft. by Howard Williams

Preface

PART I. EARLIER FAITH

Chapter I

PART II. MEDIÆVAL FAITH

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

PART III. MODERN FAITH

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

The Devil in Britain and America. by John Ashton

Preface

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Footnotes:

Witchcraft in Europe

History of Magic and Witchcraft

Magic and Witchcraft. by George Moir

Preface

Magic and Witchcraft

Footnotes:

Lives of the Necromancers. by William Godwin

Preface

Lives of the Necromancers

Ambitious Nature of Man

His Desire to Penetrate Into Futurity

Augury

Chiromancy

Physiognomy

Interpretation of Dreams

Casting of Lots

Astrology

Oracles

Delphi

The Desire to Command and Control Future Events

Commerce with the Invisible World

Sorcery and Enchantment

Witchcraft

Compacts with the Devil

Imps

Talismans and Amulets

Necromancy

Alchemy

Fairies

Rosicrucians

Sylphs and Gnomes, Salamanders and Undines

Examples of Necromancy and Witchcraft from the Bible

The Magi, or Wise Men of the East

Egypt

Statue of Memnon

Temple of Jupiter Ammon: its Oracles

Chaldea and Babylon

Zoroaster

Greece

Deities of Greece

Demigods

Daedalus

The Argonauts

Medea

Circe

Orpheus

Amphion

Tiresias

Abaris

Pythagoras

Epimenides

Empedocles

Aristeas

Hermotimus

The Mother of Demaratus, King of Sparta

Oracles

Invasion of Xerxes Into Greece

Democritus

Socrates

Rome

Virgil

Polydorus

Dido

Romulus

Numa

Tullus Hostilius

Accius Navius

Servius Tullius

The Sorceress of Virgil

Canidia

Erichtho

Sertorius

Casting Out Devils

Simon Magus

Elymas, the Sorcerer

Nero

Vespasian

Apollonius of Tyana

Apuleius

Alexander the Paphlagonian

Revolution Produced in the History of Necromancy and Witchcraft upon the Establishment of Christianity

Magical Consultations Respecting the Life of the Emperor

History of Necromancy in the East

General Silence of the East Respecting Individual Necromancers

Rocail

Hakem, Otherwise Mocanna

Arabian Nights’ Entertainments

Persian Tales

Story of a Goule

Arabian Nights

Resemblance of the Tales of the East and of Europe

Causes of Human Credulity

Dark Ages of Europe

Merlin

St. Dunstan

Communication of Europe and the Saracens

Gerbert, Pope Silvester Ii

Benedict the Ninth

Gregory the Seventh

Duff, King of Scotland

Macbeth

Virgil

Robert of Lincoln

Michael Scot

The Dean of Badajoz

Miracle of the Tub of Water

Institution of Friars

Albertus Magnus

Roger Bacon

Thomas Aquinas

Peter of Apono

English Law of High Treason

Ziito

Transmutation of Metals

Artephius

Raymond Lulli

Arnold of Villeneuve

English Laws Respecting Transmutation

Revival of Letters

Joan of Arc

Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester

Richard III

Sanguinary Proceedings Against Witchcraft

Savonarola

Trithemius

Luther

Cornelius Agrippa

Faustus

Sabellicus

Paracelsus

Cardan

Quacks, Who in Cool Blood Undertook to Overreach Mankind

Benvenuto Cellini

Nostradamus

Doctor Dee

Earl of Derby

King James’s Voyage to Norway

John Fian

King James’s Demonology

Statute, 1 James I

Forman and Others

Latest Ideas of James on the Subject

Lancashire Witches

Lady Davies

Edward Fairfax

Doctor Lamb

Urbain Grandier

Astrology

William Lilly

Matthew Hopkins

Cromwel

Dorothy Mateley

Witches Hanged by Sir Matthew Hale

Witchcraft in Sweden

Witchcraft in New England

Conclusion

Witch, Warlock, and Magician. by W. H. Davenport Adams

Preface

Introduction. Progress of Alchemy in Europe

THE EARLIER ALCHEMISTS

IN THE MIDDLE AGES

FOOTNOTE

BOOK I. THE ENGLISH MAGICIANS

Chapter I. Roger Bacon: The True and the Legendary

ROGER BACON

‘THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRIAR BACON.’

GREENE’S COMEDY

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I

FOOTNOTES

Chapter II. The Story of Dr. John Dee

EDWARD KELLY

NOTE

FOOTNOTES

Chapter III. Dr. Dee’s Diary

FOOTNOTES

Chapter IV. Magic and Imposture—A Couple of Knaves

A CAUSE CÉLÈBRE

DR. LAMBE

FOOTNOTES

Chapter V. The Last of the English Magicians: William Lilly

NOTE.—DR. DEE’S MAGIC CRYSTAL

FOOTNOTE

Chapter VI. English Rosicrucians

THOMAS VAUGHAN

JOHN HEYDON

FOOTNOTES

BOOK II. WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT

Chapter I. Early History of Witchcraft in England

FOOTNOTES

Chapter II. Witchcraft in England in the 17th Century

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES

THE WITCHES OF SALMESBURY

THE WITCH-FINDER: MATTHEW HOPKINS

FOOTNOTE

Chapter III. The Decline of Witchcraft in England

Chapter IV. The Witches of Scotland

JAMES I. AND THE WITCHES

CASE OF JANET WISHART

FOOTNOTES

Chapter V. The Literature of Witchcraft

FOOTNOTE

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology. by St. John D. Seymour

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Footnotes:

Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance. by Bram Stoker

PRACTITIONERS OF MAGIC

Paracelsus

Cagliostro

Mesmer

WITCHCRAFT AND CLAIRVOYANCE

A. The Period

B. Doctor Dee

C. La Voisin

D. Sir Edward Kelley

E. Mother Damnable

F. Matthew Hopkins

Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. by Wilhelm Meinhold

Preface

Introduction

The Seventh Chapter. How the Imperialists Robbed Me of All that was Left, and Likewise Broke Into the Church and Stole the Vasa Sacra; Also What More Befell Us

The Eighth Chapter. How Our Need Waxed Sorer and Sorer, and How I Sent Old Ilse with Another Letter to Pudgla, and How Heavy a Misfortune This Brought Upon Me

The Ninth Chapter. How the Old Maid-Servant Humbled Me by Her Faith, and the Lord Yet Blessed Me His Unworthy Servant

The Tenth Chapter. How We Journeyed to Wolgast, and Made Good Barter There

The Eleventh Chapter. How I Fed All the Congregation: Item, How I Journeyed to the Horse Fair at Gützkow, and What Befell Me There

The Twelfth Chapter. What Further Joy and Sorrow Befell Us: Item, How Wittich Appelmann Rode to Damerow to the Wolfhunt, and What He Proposed to My Daughter

The Thirteenth Chapter. What More Happened During the Winter: Item, How in the Spring Witchcraft Began in the Village

The Fourteenth Chapter. How Old Seden Disappeared All on a Sudden: Item, How the Great Gustavus Adolphus Came to Pomerania, and Took the Fort at Peenemünde

The Fifteenth Chapter. Of the Arrival of the High and Mighty King Gustavus Adolphus and What Befell Thereat

The Sixteenth Chapter. How Little Mary Paasch was Sorely Plagued of the Devil, and the Whole Parish Fell Off From Me

The Seventeenth Chapter. How My Poor Child was Taken Up for a Witch, and Carried to Pudgla

The Eighteenth Chapter. Of the First Trial, and What Came Thereof

The Nineteenth Chapter. How Satan, by the Permission of the Most Righteous God, Sought Altogether to Ruin Us, and How We Lost All Hope

The Twentieth Chapter. Of the Malice of the Governor and of Old Lizzie: Item, of the Examination of Witnesses

The Twenty-first Chapter. De Confrontatione Testium

The Twenty-second Chapter. How the Syndicus Dom. Michelsen Arrived and Prepared His Defence of My Poor Child

The Twenty-third Chapter. How My Poor Child was Sentenced to be Put to the Question

The Twenty-fourth Chapter. How in My Presence the Devil Fetched Old Lizzie Kolken

The Twenty-fifth Chapter. How Satan Sifted Me Like Wheat, Whereas My Daughter Withstood Him Right Bravely

The Twenty-sixth Chapter. How I Received the Holy Sacrament with My Daughter and the Old Maidservant, and How She was Then Led for the Last Time Before the Court, with the Drawn Sword and the Outcry, to Receive Sentence

The Twenty-seventh Chapter. Of that Which Befell Us by the Way: Item, of the Fearful Death of the Sheriff at the Mill

The Twenty-eighth Chapter. How My Daughter was at Length Saved by the Help of the All-merciful, Yea, of the All-merciful God

The Twenty-ninth Chapter. Of Our Next Great Sorrow, and Final Joy

Sidonia, the Sorceress. by Wilhelm Meinhold

VOLUME I

Preface

LETTER OF DR. THEODORE PLÖNNIES

BOOK I

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

BOOK II

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

BOOK III

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

VOLUME II

BOOK III. Continued

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Conclusion

La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages. by Jules Michelet

Preface

Introduction

FOOTNOTES:

BOOK I

Chapter I. The Death of the Gods

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter II. Why the Middle Ages Fell Into Despair

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter III. The Little Devil of the Fireside

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter IV. Temptations

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter V. Possession

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VI. The Covenant

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VII. The King of the Dead

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VIII. The Prince of Nature

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter IX. The Devil a Physician

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter X. Charms and Philtres

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter XI. The Rebels’ Communion—Sabbaths—The Black Mass

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter XII. The Sequel—Love and Death—Satan Disappears

FOOTNOTES:

BOOK II

Chapter I. The Witch in Her Decline—Satan Multiplied and Made Common

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter II. The Hammer for Witches

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter III. Century of Toleration in France: Reaction

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter IV. The Witches of the Basque Country: 160984

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter V. Satan Turns Priest

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VI. Gauffridi: 1610

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VII. The Demoniacs of Loudun—Urban Grandier: 1632-1634

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter VIII. The Demoniacs of Louviers—Madeline Bavent: 1633-1647

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter IX. The Devil Triumphs in the Seventeenth Century

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter X. Father Girard and La Cadiere: 1730

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter XI. Cadiere in the Convent: 1730

FOOTNOTES:

Chapter XII. The Trial of Cadiere: 1730-1731

FOOTNOTES:

Epilogue

Tales & Legends

Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. by John G. Campbell

Chapter I. Black Witchcraft

WITCHES AND MILK

COUNTER-CHARMS

GOING TO SEA

RAISING STORMS AND DROWNING PEOPLE

WITCHES AS SHEEP

WITCHES AS HARES

WITCHES AS CATS

WITCHES AS RATS

WITCHES AS GULLS

WITCH AS CORMORANT

WITCHES AS WHALES

DELAYING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD

CLAY CORPSE

SILVER SIXPENCE

SAVING HORSES

TAILOR AND WITCHES

CELEBRATED WITCHES

WIZARD RISING AFTER DEATH

HOW TO DETECT WITCHES

Chapter II. White Witchcraft

EOLAS

CURE FOR THE EVIL EYE

CHARM FOR SPRAINS

CHARM FOR BRUISES

CHARM FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS

CHARM FOR CONSUMPTION

FOR AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST

CHARM FOR TOOTHACHE

MADE FOR MERRION MACFADYN

CHARMS FOR CATTLE

CHARM AGAINST DANGER (Sian)

THE OLD WIFE’S CHARM FOR HER COW

CHARM FOR A SHEEP IN ITS COT

AGAINST DROWNING AND IN WAR

CHARM AGAINST DANGERS IN WAR

CHARM FOR CLOTH

CHARM FOR GENERAL USE

“THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.”

CHARM FOR CONFERRING GRACES

CHARM FOR THE FACES OF YOUNG WOMEN

LOVE CHARM

CHARM TO KEEP AWAY HARM IN A LAWSUIT

SERPENT STONE

SNAIL BEADS (Cnaipein Seilcheig)

FROG STONE

STONES

FAIRY ARROW

CRUBAN STONE

VARIOUS

Soisgeul, GOSPEL

MISCELLANEOUS CURES

WARTS (Foineachun)

STYE (Neònagan)

TETTER (Teine-dé, HERPES LABIALIS)

HICCUP (an aileag)

HOOPING-COUGH (an trigh, an trîugh)

STIFF NECK,

TOOTHACHE (Déide)

FALLING SICKNESS (an tuiteamas)

MADNESS

Màm, AXILLARY SWELLING

LUMBAGO (Leum droma)

CONSUMPTION (Caitheamh)

LEPROSY (Mùr)

Loch Ma Nàr,

WELLS

PLANTS AND TREES. MOUNTAIN ASH

PEARLWORT (Mòthan)

ST. JOHN’S WORT (Achlasan Challum Chille)

JUNIPER (Iubhar-beinne, lit. Mountain Yew)

YARROW (Chathair làir)

“THE ENTICING PLANT” (Lus an tàlaidh)

THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF ENCHANTMENTS

Chapter III. Death Warnings

HUGH OF THE LITTLE HEAD (Eoghan a chinn bhig)

Chapter IV. Second Sight (an da shealladh)

SPECTRES OF THE LIVING (Tamhasg)

APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD

STRONG AND UNDUE WISHES

TÀRADH

MARRIAGE

COMING MISFORTUNE

EVENTS AT A DISTANCE

DEATH

COFFIN

NOISE OF GLASSES TO BE USED AT FUNERALS

FUNERAL PROCESSION

WRAITHS SEEN BEFORE DEATH

DROWNING

HORSES AND DOGS

CRYING HEARD BEFORE DEATH

LIGHTS

SPIRITS SEEN BEFORE DEATH

RETURN OF THE DEAD

BONES OF THE DEAD AND PLACE OF BURIAL

SPIRITS APPEARING IN DREAMS

TO GET RID OF THE SECOND SIGHT

Chapter V. Hobgoblins

THE Bodach, OR CARLE

FUATH

CACHLAIDH NA FEUSAIG, ISLAY

THE HEADLESS BODY (Colann gun cheann)

THE GREY PAW (Spòg liath)

EWEN AND THE CARLIN WIFE

THE BLACK WALKER OF THE FORD

STROWAN, ATHOLE

THE UNEARTHLY WHISTLE

THE BATTLE OF GAURA

THE BEAST OF ODAL PASS

Luideag, “THE RAG.”

Lochan Doimeig

RETURN OF THE DEAD

DONALD GORM’S GHOST

TAIBHSE CHOIMHLIG

KINGAIRLOCH, ARGYLESHIRE

FLADDA-CHUAIN

HAUNTED HOUSES

Bòcain, GOBLINS

Chapter VI. The Celtic Year

NOLLAIG

CALLUINN

CHRISTMAS RHYMES (Rann Calluinn)

NEW-YEAR NIGHT

NEW-YEAR’S DAY

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

WINTER SEASON

FEBRUARY (Faoilleach)

Earrach beag nam Faochag

ST. BRIDE’S DAY

SPRING

Feadag, THE WHISTLE,

Gobag, THE SHARP-BILLED ONE,

Sguabag, THE SWEEPER,

Gearran, A GELDING, OR PERHAPS Gearan, COMPLAINT

A Chailleach, the old wife

Trì làithean nan ōisgean, THREE HOG DAYS

Mhàrt, SEED-TIME

Inid, SHROVETIDE

Carghas, LENT,

ST. KESSOCK’S DAY (Féill mo Cheasaig)

ST. PATRICK’S DAY (Feill Pàruig)

LADY DAY (Féill Moire)

SHORE OR MAUNDY-THURSDAY

GOOD FRIDAY (Di-haoine na Ceusa)

EASTER (Càsg)

ALL-FOOLS’ DAY

Bailc na Bealltainn

Bealltainn, MAY-DAY

Céitein, MONTH OF MAY

WHISTLING WEEK

Màigh, MAY

THE AVOIDING DAY OF THE YEAR

Caingis, WHITSUNTIDE, PENTECOST

Feill-Sheathain, ST. JOHN’S OR MID-SUMMER’S EVE, 24TH JUNE-6TH JULY

Mios crochadh nan Con, DOG-DAYS

Latha Martainn Builg, TRANSLATION OF MARTIN

Lùnasdal, LAMMAS, AUGUST 1-12TH

Iuchar, THE HOT MONTH (i.e. AUGUST)

Fèill Moire, ASSUMPTION DAY

Féill Ròid, ROODMAS, SEPTEMBER 14-26

MICHAELMAS (Feill Mìcheil)

Samhain, HALLOWMAS,

Feill Fionnain

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Di-dòmhnaich, SUNDAY (dies Domini)

Di-luain, MONDAY

Di-màirt, TUESDAY

Di-Ciadain, WEDNESDAY

Di’rdaoin, THURSDAY

Di-haoine, FRIDAY, DIES VENORIS

Di-sathuirne, SATURDAY (Dies Saturni)

WEATHER WISDOM, ETC

THE MOON

FOOTNOTES

Witch Stories. by E. Lynn Linton

Preface

The Witches of Scotland

THE STORY OF LADY GLAMMIS1

BESSIE DUNLOP AND THOM REID.2

ALISON PEARSON AND THE FAIRY FOLK.3

THE CRIMES OF LADY FOWLIS.4

BESSIE ROY

THE DEVIL’S SECRETARY.5

THE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH AND HER CUMMERS.6

THE TWO ALISONS

THE TROUBLES OF ABERDEEN.13

WHITE WITCHES.16

THE MISDEEDS OF ISOBEL GRIERSON.17

BARTIE PATERSON’S CHARM.18

BEIGIS TOD AND HER COMPEERS.19

THE PITIFUL FATE OF MARGARET BARCLAY.21

MARGARET WALLACE AND HER DEAR BURD.22

THOM REID AGAIN.23

BESSIE SMITH

THOMAS GRIEVE’S ENCHANTMENTS (1623).25

KATHERINE GRANT AND HER STOUP.26

THE MISDEEDS OF MARION RICHART.27

LADY LEE’S PENNY AND THE WITCHES OF 1629.28

ELSPETH CURSETTER AND HER FRIENDS.29

SANDIE AND THE DEVIL.31

THE MIDWIFE’S DOUBLE SIN

KATHERINE GRIEVE AND JOHN SINCLAIR.32

BESSIE BATHGATE’S NIPS.33

BESSIE SKEBISTER.34

THE TRIAL OF SPIRITS.35

SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE

SINCLAIR’S STORIES.42

MANIE HALIBURTON.43

THE DEVIL OF GLENLUCE,44

JONET WATSON AND THE DEVIL IN GREEN

THE LANTHORNE AND THE BAHR-RECHT.49

MISCELLANEOUS

CLOWTS AND THE SERPENT.54

THE WITCHES OF AULDEARNE:55

THE SECRET SINS OF MAJOR WEIR.57

THE DUMB GIRL OF POLLOK.58

LIZZIE MUDIE AND HER VICTIMS.59

BRAVE OLD KATHERINE LIDDELL.60

THE DEVIL IN HIS CUPS.62

THE GHOST OF THE BLACK-BROWED MAID.63

THE SUCCUBUS.64

THE ISLAND WITCHES

THE RENFREWSHIRE WITCHES.70

MISCELLANEOUS

THE STIRK’S FOOT.72

THE HORRIBLE MURDER OF JANET CORNFOOT.73

THE SPELL OF THE SLAP.75

THE PLAGUE OF CATS.76

THE YOUNG HONOURABLE’S DECEITS

THE LAST OF THE WITCHES

The Witches of England

THE WITCH OF BERKELEY

EARLY HISTORIC TRIALS

THE AFFLICTIONS OF ALEXANDER NYNDGE,

ADE DAVIE’S MOURNING.97

THE POSSESSION OF MILDRED NORRINGTON.98

MISCELLANEOUS

THE WITCHES OF S. OSEES,

THE WOMAN AND THE BEAR

THE WITCHES OF WARBOIS.107

THE MAN OF HOPE AND THE DEVIL.108

GIFFARD’S ANECDOTES.109

THE POSSESSED MAID OF THAMES STREET.111

SWEET FATHER FOREMAN

THE WITCHES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.113

THE WITCHES OF LANCASHIRE.114

GRACE SOWERBUTS AND THE PRIESTS.122

MARY AND HER CATS.123

RUTTERKIN.124

THE BOY OF BILSTON.125

MR. FAIRFAX’S FOLLY

THE COUNTESS.126

THE TWO VOICES.127

THE SECOND CURSE OF PENDLE.128

THE WITCH ON A PLANK.129

THE WITCH-FINDING OF HOPKINS

THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES,

THE HUNTINGDON IMPS

MR. CLARK’S EXAMPLES

THE NEWCASTLE PRICKERS

THE WITCH IN THE BRAKE.136

THE TEWKESBURY WITCH THAT SUCKED THE SOW

THE DEVIL’S DELUSION.137

THE WITCH OF WAPPING

THE GEOLOGICAL BEWITCHMENT.138

THE BURNING BEWITCHMENT.139

THE STRINGY MEAT.140

THE LOST WIFE.141

DR. LAMB AND HIS DARLING.142

THE SPRIGHTLY LAD OF SOMERSETSHIRE.143

THE WITCHES OF THE RESTORATION

THE WITCH-FINDER FOUND

DOLL BILBY AND HER COMPEER.145

THE ASTRAL SPIRIT’S ASSAULT

JULIAN’S TOADS.146

THE YOUGHAL WITCH

THE WITCHES OF STYLES’S KNOT.147

ROBIN AND HIS SERVANTS148

SIR MATTHEW HALE’S JUDGMENT.149

THE WAITING-MAID AND THE PIN.150

JANE STRETTON AND THE CUNNING WOMAN.151

THE BIDEFORD TROUBLES.152

SIR JOHN HOLT’S JUDGMENTS.153

THE SURREY DEMONIAC.156

THE GROCER’S YOUNG MAN.158

THE WITCH OF WALKERNE.159

OUR LATEST

Footnotes:

Studies

The Witch Mania. by Charles Mackay

Volume 1: National Delusions

The Mississippi Scheme

The South Sea Bubble

LIST OF BUBBLES

The Tulipomania

Relics

Modern Prophecies

Popular Admiration for Great Thieves

Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard

Duels and Ordeals

The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True

Popular Follies in Great Cities

Old Price Riots

The Thugs, or Phansigars

Volume 2: Peculiar Follies

The Crusades

The Witch Mania

"REQUEST OF THE PARLIAMENT OF ROUEN TO THE KING, IN 1670

The Slow Poisoners

Haunted Houses

Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions

BOOK I. The Alchemysts

OR, SEARCHERS FOR THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE AND THE WATER OF LIFE

PART I.—HISTORY OF ALCHYMY FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

PART II.—PROGRESS OF THE INFATUATION DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

BOOK II. Fortune Telling

BOOK III. The Magnetisers

The Witch-cult in Western Europe. by Margaret Murray

Preface

Introduction

FOOTNOTES:

I. Continuity of the Religion

FOOTNOTES:

II. The God

1. As God

2. As a Human Being. (a) Man

(b) Woman

3. Identification

4. As an Animal

FOOTNOTES:

III. Admission Ceremonies

1. General

2. The Introduction

3. The Renunciation and Vows

4. The Covenant

5. The Baptism

6. The Mark

FOOTNOTES:

IV. The Assemblies

1. Sabbath

2. The Esbat

FOOTNOTES:

V. The Rites

1. General

2. Homage

3. The Dances

4. The Music

5. The Feast

6. Candles

7. The Sacrament

8. Sacrifices

9. Magic Words

FOOTNOTES:

VI. The Rites (continued)

Witches' Rain-making and Fertility Rites. 1. General

2. Rain-making

3. Fertility

FOOTNOTES:

VII. The Organization

1. The Officer

2. The Covens

3. Duties

4. Discipline

FOOTNOTES:

VIII. Familiars and Transformations

1. The Divining Familiar

2. The Domestic Familiar

3. Methods of obtaining Familiars

4. Transformations into Animals

FOOTNOTES:

Appendix I

FAIRIES AND WITCHES

FOOTNOTES:

Appendix II

TRIAL OF SILVAIN NEVILLON AND GENTIEN LE CLERC AT ORLEANS, 1614-15

Appendix III

A. NAMES OF WITCHES IN COVENS

B. NAMES OF WITCHES

Appendix IV

JOAN OF ARC AND GILLES DE RAIS

1. Joan of Arc

2. Gilles de Rais

FOOTNOTES:

Appendix V

FLYING OINTMENTS

Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland. by John Maxwell Wood

Preface

Chapter I. Traditional Witchcraft Described

Chapter II. Witch Narrative

Chapter III. Witchcraft Trials and Persecution

Chapter IV. Fairies and Brownies

Chapter V. Wraiths and Warnings

Chapter VI. Death Customs and Funeral Ceremony

Chapter VII. Ghost Lore and Haunted Houses

Appendix

Glossary

Footnotes:

Modern Magic. by M. Schele de Vere

Preface

I. Witchcraft

II. Black and White Magic

III. Dreams

IV. Visions

V. Ghosts

VI. Divination

SECOND SIGHT

ORACLES AND PROPHECIES

THE DIVINING ROD

VII. Possession

VAMPIRISM

ZOANTHROPY

VIII. Magnetism

SOMNAMBULISM

IX. Miraculous Cures

X. Mysticism

Witchcraft in America

Salem Trials

The Wonders of the Invisible World. by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather

Introduction

The Author's Defence

Enchantments Encountered

Section I

§ II

§ III

§ IV

§ V

§ VI

§ VII

An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches

A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World

Corollary I

Corollary II

Corollary III

Corollary IV

Corollary V

The first Conjecture

The Second Conjecture

The Third Conjecture

An Hortatory and Necessary Address, to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum'd by the Wrath of the Devil

TIS THIS,

A Narrative of an Apparition which a Gentleman in Boston, had of His Brother, Just Then Murthered in London

A Modern Instance of Witches, Discovered and Condemned in a Tryal, Before that Celebrated Judge, Sir Matthew Hale

I. The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692

II. The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, Alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held at Salem, June 2. 1692

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III. The Tryal of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29. 1692

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IV. The Tryal of Elizabeth How, at the. Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment. at Salem, June 30. 1692

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V. The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the. Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment. at Salem, August 2. 1692

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The First Curiositie

A Second Curiositie

A Third Curiositie

A Fourth Curiositie

Matter Omitted in the Trials

The Devil Discovered

Case

A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches

Cases of Conscience. Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men

A True Narrative of some Remarkable Passages relating to sundry Persons afflicted by Witchcraft at Salem Village in New-England, which happened from the 19th. of March to the 5th. of April, 1692

Remarks of things more than ordinary about the. Afflicted Persons

Remarks concerning the Accused

A Further Account of the Tryals of. the New-England Witches, Sent in a Letter from. Thence, to a Gentleman in London

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men; Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are Accused with that Crime

Christian Reader

Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts

Postscript

FOOTNOTES:

Salem Witchcraft. by Charles Wentworth Upham

Preface

Map and Illustrations

Index to the Map

DWELLINGS IN 1692

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS LIST

Town of Salem

Grants

Farms

Introduction

Part First. Salem Village

Part Second. Witchcraft

Part Third. Witchcraft at Salem Village

Supplement

Appendix

I. Prefatory Address

II. Deodat Lawson's Narrative

III. Letter from R.P. to Jonathan Corwin

IV. Extracts from Mr. Parris's Church Records

Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather. by Charles Wentworth Upham

Prefatory Note

Introduction

I

The Connection of the Mathers with the Superstitions of Their Time

II

The Goodwin Children. Some General Remarks Upon the Criticisms of the North American Review

III

Cotton Mather and the Goodwin Children. John Baily. John Hale. Goodwin's Certificates. Mather's Idea of Witchcraft as a War with the Devil. His Use of Prayer. Connection Between the Case of the Goodwin Children and Salem Witchcraft

FOOTNOTES:

IV

The Relation of the Mathers to the Administration of Massachusetts, in 1692. The New Charter. The Government Under It Arranged by Them. Arrival of Sir William Phips

V

The Special Court of Oyer and Terminer. How It Was Established. Who Responsible for It. The Government of the Province Concentrated in Its Chief-justice

VI

Cotton Mather's Connection With the Court. Spectral Evidence. Letter to John Richards. Advice of the Ministers

VII

Advice of the Ministers, Further Considered. Cotton Mather's Plan for Dealing With Spectral Testimony

VIII

Cotton Mather and Spectral Evidence

IX

Cotton Mather and the Preliminary Examinations. John Proctor. George Burroughs

X

Cotton Mather and the Witchcraft Trials. The Executions

FOOTNOTES:

XI

Letter to Stephen Sewall. "Wonders of the Invisible World." Its Origin and Design. Cotton Mather's Account of the Trials

XII

"Wonders of the Invisible World," Continued. Passages From It. "Cases of Conscience." Increase Mather

XIII

The Court of Oyer and Terminer Brought to a Sudden End. Sir William Phips

FOOTNOTES:

XIV

Cotton Mather's Writings Subsequent to the Witchcraft Prosecutions

XV

History of Opinion as to Cotton Mather's Connection With Salem Witchcraft. Thomas Brattle. The People of Salem Village. John Hall. John Higginson. Michael Wigglesworth

XVI

History of Opinion as to Cotton Mather, Continued. Francis Hutchinson. Daniel Neal. Isaac Watts. Thomas Hutchinson. William Bentley. John Eliot. Josiah Quincy

XVII

The Effect Upon the Power of the Mathers, in the Public Affairs of the Province, of Their Connection With Witchcraft

XVIII

Cotton Mather's Writings and Character

XIX

Robert Calef's Writings and Character

XX

Miscellaneous Remarks. Conclusion

A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials. by M. V. B. Perley

Notice

Introduction

Antiquity of the Witch. and Her Legal Status

The Colonial Laws and. Their Biblical Origin

The Modern Witch and. Her Terrible Persecution

The American Witch and. Views of the Educated

Old Crone Lore and. Three Notable Dissenters

Pen Picture of a Witch. Home of the “Delusion”

Ingersoll and His Tavern. Revs. Bailey, Burroughs, Lawson

Rev. Samuel Parris, Student. West Indian Trader, First Pastor

John and His Tituba. Rev. S. Parris’s Slaves

Parris’s Witch School, Apt. Pupils, Their Personnel

Casting out Devils “Still the Wonder Grew”

A Portentous Leap Day “The Greatest Show on Earth”

Unwarrantable Usurpation. Names of the Court and Jury

Trials Arrested, Court Suspended. List of Those Hanged

The Beginning of the End. Rev. John Hale’s Change of Heart

Lofty Character of the Condemned. Judge Joseph Story’s Tribute

The Place of Execution. The Crevice for the Corpses

Mrs. Howe’s Case

The Sunday Warrant. And its Sunday Service

The Preliminary Examination. She Never Heard of Her Accusers Before

The Indictment. The Case. Heard June 29th and 30th and July 1st

The Witnesses. Timothy and Deborah Perley

Samuel and Ruth Perley

Rev. Samuel Phillips

Rev. Edward Payson

Deborah Hadley

Daniel, John, Sarah Warren

Simon and Mary Chapman

Isaac Cummings, Sr

Joseph and Mary Knowlton

James Howe, Sr. (ninety-four yrs. old)

Isaac Cummings, Jr

Mary Cummings, Sr

Mary Cummings, Sr

Mary Cummings

Francis Lane

John Howe

Jacob Foster

Joseph Safford

Thomas Andrews

Removal of Attainder. and Reimbursement

Home of Mrs. Howe. Located. The Conclusion

Descendants of James Howe

Descendants of James Howe. Ipswich Howes—James Branch

ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO

The Coat of Arms. James, Jr., and Elizabeth

An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682. by James Thacher

Witchcraft and Sorcery

Salem Witchcraft

TRIAL OF SUSANNA MARTIN, JUNE 29, 1692

TRIAL OF ELIZABETH HOW, JUNE 30, 1692

TRIAL OF MARTHA CARRYER, AUGUST 2, 1692

House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692. by William P. Upham

Studies

The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism. by Samuel Roberts Wells

Introduction

SALEM WITCHCRAFT. The Place

The Salemite of Forty Years Ago

How the Subject was Opened

Careful Historiography

The Actors in the Tragedy

Philosophy of the Delusion

Character of the Early Settlement

First Causes

Death of the Patriarch

Growth

Trouble in the Church

Rev. Mr. Burroughs

Deodat Lawson

Parris—A Malignant

A Protean Devil

State of Physiology

William Penn as a Precedent

Phenomena of Witchery

Parris and His “Circle”

The Inquisitions—Sarah Good

A Child Witch

The Towne Sisters

Depositions of Parris and His Tools

Goody Nurse’s Excommunication

Mary Easty

Mrs. Cloyse

The Proctor Family

The Jacobs Family

Giles and Martha Corey

Decline of the Delusion

The Physio-psychological Causes of the Trouble

The Last of Parris

“One of the Afflicted”—Her Confession

The Transition

The Fetish Theory Then and Now

The Views of Modern Investigators

Importance of the Subject

THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY. What Planchette Is and Does

The Press on Planchette

Theory First—That the Board is Moved by the Hands that Rest Upon It

Theory Second—It is Electricity, or Magnetism

Electricity Has Nothing To Do With It

Third—The Devil Theory

Theory of a Floating, Ambient Mentality

“To Daimonion” (The Demon)

It is Some Principle of Nature as Yet Unknown

Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits

Planchette’s Own Theory

The Rational Difficulty

The Medium—The Doctrine of Spheres

The Moral and Religious Difficulty

What This Modern Development Is, and What is to Come of It

Conclusion

How to Work Planchette

Spiritualism

“The Communion of Saints”

Dr. Doddridge’s Dream

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. Taylor

Foreword

Two Indictments for Witchcraft

A Warrant for the Execution of a Witch1 and the Sheriff's Return Thereon

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Historical Note

Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism. by Allen Putnam

Preface

Explanatory Note

Witchcraft Marvel-Workers

Mather and Calef

Cotton Mather

Robert Calef

Thomas Hutchinson

C. W. Upham

Margaret Jones

Ann Hibbins

Ann Cole

Elizabeth Knap

The Morse Family

The Goodwin Family

Salem Witchcraft

Tituba

Sarah Good

Dorcas Good

Sarah Osburn

Martha Corey

Giles Corey

Rebecca Nurse

Mary Easty

Susanna Martin

Martha Carrier

Rev. George Burroughs

Summary

The Confessors

The Accusing Girls

The Prosecutors

Witchcraft’s Author

The Motive

Local and Personal

Methods of Providence

Appendix

On Witchcraft

Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy. by Frederick George Lee

WITCHCRAFT AND NECROMANCY

Footnotes:

Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft. by Sir Walter Scott

Introduction

Letter I

Letter II

Letter III

Letter IV

Letter V

Letter VI

Letter VII

Letter VIII

Letter IX

Letter X

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