Lingering sickness.
97. Stubble.
98. ‘History of Scotland,’ by David Scott. London, 1727.
99. Lyne, or Linne, in Ayrshire.
100. Battle of Pinkie, September 10, 1547.
101. Grieving much.
102. Weeping.
103. Child-bed; in old French, gisante, a woman that lies in.
104. Hailed.
105. Dwindled away.
106. Provoked.
107. Frightened.
108. Trust.
109. In baptism.
110. Riven, drawn asunder.
111. Went.
112. Fairyland.
113. Ewe.
114. Went.
115. Sift or strain.
116. Thinking if.
117. Likewise.
118. Wishing.
119. Buried.
120. Gate.
121. I have before me at this present writing seventeen volumes of American magazines containing articles on witchcraft in America, and that is not an exhaustive list.
122. ‘The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May, 1665,’ by J. Hammond Trumbull (Hartford, 1850), vol. i. p. 77.
123. ‘Records,’ vol. ii., p. 575.
124. The New Englander, November, 1885, p. 817.
125. For this and much else relating to witchcraft in Massachusetts, I am indebted to that most exhaustive book, ‘Salem Witchcraft,’ etc., by Charles W. Upham (Boston, 1867).
126. Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 179.
127. Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 187.
128. ‘Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possession,’ etc., by Cotton Mather (Boston, 1689), p. 1.
129. Major Pearson, at the sale of whose library the British Museum acquired the ‘Roxburghe Ballads.’
Lives of the Necromancers
by William Godwin
Examples of Necromancy and Witchcraft from the Bible
History of Necromancy in the East
Communication of Europe and the Saracens
Sanguinary Proceedings Against Witchcraft
Preface
The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons.
One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance of our faculties. Without pride man is in reality of little value. It is pride that stimulates us to all our great undertakings. Without pride, and the secret persuasion of extraordinary talents, what man would take up the pen with a view to produce an important work, whether of imagination and poetry, or of profound science, or of acute