Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 3G. Bell, 1901 |
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... believe they mount and flye ; So witches some enchanted wand bestride , And think they through the airy regions ride . " Lord Verulam tells us that " the ointment that witches use is reported to be made of the fat of children digged out ...
... believe they mount and flye ; So witches some enchanted wand bestride , And think they through the airy regions ride . " Lord Verulam tells us that " the ointment that witches use is reported to be made of the fat of children digged out ...
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... believe that she was bewitched , and was cured by conveying of nayles , needles , feathers , and such like things into her close - stoole when she took physicke , making her believe that they came out of her bodie . " to the town . And ...
... believe that she was bewitched , and was cured by conveying of nayles , needles , feathers , and such like things into her close - stoole when she took physicke , making her believe that they came out of her bodie . " to the town . And ...
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... believe the confession of witches , nor yet the evidence against them ; for the witches themselves are imaginative , and believe oftentimes they do that which they do not ; and people are credulous in that point , and ready to impute ...
... believe the confession of witches , nor yet the evidence against them ; for the witches themselves are imaginative , and believe oftentimes they do that which they do not ; and people are credulous in that point , and ready to impute ...
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... believe witches , ' and so , to show they have some , hang the poor wretches . " 1 6 A writer in the Gent . Mag . for March , 1736 , vi . 137 , says : " The old woman must , by age , be grown very ugly , her face shrivelled , her body ...
... believe witches , ' and so , to show they have some , hang the poor wretches . " 1 6 A writer in the Gent . Mag . for March , 1736 , vi . 137 , says : " The old woman must , by age , be grown very ugly , her face shrivelled , her body ...
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... believe " that , when they are in hold , they must leave their DEVIL . " See Holiday's old play of the Marriage of the Arts , 4to . 1630 , signat . N. 4 . " Empescher qu'un sorcier , " says M. Thiers , " ne sorte du logis où il est , en ...
... believe " that , when they are in hold , they must leave their DEVIL . " See Holiday's old play of the Marriage of the Arts , 4to . 1630 , signat . N. 4 . " Empescher qu'un sorcier , " says M. Thiers , " ne sorte du logis où il est , en ...
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