Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands / Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction
TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE GUERNSEY ROYAL COURT, WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
Membre de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie.
Editor of The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands; The Sermon on the Mount and the Parable of the Sower, in the Franco-Norman Dialects of Guernsey and Sark, &c., &c.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
—Exodus xxii, 18.
Guernsey:
GUILLE-ALLÈS LIBRARY,
AND
THOMAS M. BICHARD, PRINTER TO THE STATES.
1886.
F.S.A., LONDON AND NORMANDY, AND MEMBER OF THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY,
John Linwood Pitts
WITCHCRAFT
AND
DEVIL LORE
IN THE
CHANNEL ISLANDS
JOHN LINWOOD PITTS,
TO
EDGAR MacCULLOCH, Esquire,
BAILIFF OF GUERNSEY,
IS DEDICATED
FOREWORD.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CONFESSIONS OF WITCHES UNDER TORTURE.
WITCHCRAFT TRIALS IN GUERNSEY,
From 1563 to 1634, a period of 71 years.
THE STORY IN BRIEF
OF THE
GUILLE-ALLÈS LIBRARY,
GUERNSEY.
GUILLE-ALLÈS LIBRARY SERIES.
EDITED BY J. LINWOOD PITTS.
FOOTNOTES