And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore, That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
The faculty of witchcraft is also said to be hereditary, and in some places families are pointed out as possessing this peculiarity.
Blackstone was not unenlightened; and so we can see that a belief in the actual and present existence of witchcraft was not inexcusable in our New England forbears.
It must be remembered that the witchcraftoutbreak at Salem, though it was there most exaggerated, was yet typical.
The miserable delusion of witchcraft illustrates, in a still more impressive way, the false ideas which governed the supposed relation of men with the spiritual world.
And he says, also, "The Swinnerton family were all along opposed to Mr. Parris, and kept remarkably clear from the witchcraft delusion.
It was a superstitious age, and the duchess invoked the aid of witchcraft to accomplish her wishes.
She had recently been made to do penance by Gloucester in a white sheet for practising witchcraft upon him; but her unhappy position, as well as her well-known charity in better days, gained for her much sympathy and respect.
Witchcraft continues to flourish amongst the equatorial peoples, and important events are almost everywhere attended by sanguinary rites.
The law of blood for blood was pitilessly enforced, and charges of witchcraft were so frequent that whole villages were depopulated, or abandoned by their terror-stricken inhabitants.
It iswitchcraft by which Mazunga-wa-Kazi makes the hard iron tenfold harder in the water.
It is witchcraft by which he sends the wheels round and makes our hoes sharp.
He did not doubt but fifty-six might be found, by which parliament had sanctionedwitchcraft of the existence of which we had now no belief whatever.
Before God Kate, you haue witchcraft 110 In your kisses: And may perswade with me more, Then all the French Councell.
And after a while witchcraft vanished out of all civilised countries, and in its place came all the wonderful comforts and discoveries which we have now, and which under God, we owe to the wisdom of the great Lord Verulam.
Answer me, wherein was the witchcraft of that, saving the witchery natural to all fair women?
It appears that, at the earliest times of which we have any record, the inhabitants of France and Germany were in the habit of frequenting nocturnal assemblies in which witchcraft was believed or pretended to occupy a prominent place.
A very definite attempt was made to bring a case of this kind before the courts, the subject matter of which exactly resembled some of the old witchcraft trials in New England!
A fourth pamphlet is The Examination and Confession of a notorious Witch named Mother Arnold, alias Whitecote, alias Glastonbury, at the Assise of Burntwood in July, 1574: who was hanged for Witchcraft at Barking.
The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd.
It would be entirely natural that in a court sermon delivered by the newly appointed bishop of Salisbury the prevalence of witchcraft should be mentioned.
Baxter had not only talked on witchcraft with Puritan ministers, but had corresponded as well with Glanvill, with whom, although Glanvill was an Anglican, he seems to have been on very friendly terms.
These pamphlets furnish a peculiar species of historical material, and it is a species so common throughout the history of English witchcraft that it deserves a brief examination in passing.
If our theory be true that the jurists were in advance of other professions and that they were sprung of a higher stock, it is of course some confirmation of the larger theory that witchcraft was first discredited among the gentry.
The college where an annual sermon was preached on the subject of witchcraft since the Warboys affair.
His Certainty of the World of Spirits, in which he took up the subject of witchcraft in more detail, was written but a few months before his death.
He himself relates a very patent instance of witchcraft in Somerset; yet, despite the fact that numerous physicians agreed on the matter, no "justice was applyed.
Roberts's explanation of the proneness of women to witchcraft deserves mention in passing.
As a matter of fact it is probable that, in the general question of repeal of felonies, the question of witchcraft received scant attention.
It seems to one who has wandered through many tedious defences of the belief in witchcraft that James's work is as able as any in English prior to the time of Joseph Glanvill in 1668.
The power of witchcraft is by no means believed to be confined to them; any person may be suspected of this crime, and it is not an uncommon occurrence for people when dying to lay their death to the charge of some person by name.
To the charge of witchcraft and black magic she refused to make answer, save that she denied harming man, woman, child, or beast.
Of herwitchcraft there was no longer any doubt, in all opinions.
Witchcraft should be punished wherever it hides, Monseigneur,' returned the captain gravely.
Now in Stuttgart he went further, and actually accused her of witchcraft as well.
You will regret your insolence,' said Wilhelmine, thereby forging another link in that chain of the witchcraft theory which was destined to have such strange developments in her life and fate.
In ---- times many things were attributed towitchcraft that now have a scientific explanation.
Many diseases formerly attributed to witchcraft are now referred to the action of micro-organisms.
Since the last Umfundisi, or Teacher died, they had been walking the road to hell at a very great pace, marrying many wives, drinking gin and practising all kinds of witchcraft under the guidance of the Isanusi or doctor, Menzi.
Now nothing except witchcraft can save these two," said a councillor to one who stood by him.
Thou hast suffered much woe because of thewitchcraft of thine enemies.
She is wife to the Slaughterer, and because of her witchcraft he has put me, his first wife, away against all law and honour.
Caucasus, where the Argonauts, according to Greek tradition, found and conquered the Golden Fleece; the natives had a reputation for witchcraft and sorcery.
