FOOTNOTES:
[831] Forbes, ii, p. 33.
[832] Examination of John Walsh.
[833] Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 236.
[834] Spalding Club Misc., i, pp. 157-60.
[835] Alse Gooderidge, p. 27.
[836] From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh.
[837] Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 136, 137, 152.
[838] Sharpe, p. 191.
[839] Forbes, ii, pp. 33.
[840] F. Hutchinson, Hist. Essay, p. 77.
[841] Giffard, p. 18.
[842] Witches at Chelmsford, pp. 24-32; Philobiblon Soc., viii.
[843] Rehearsall, par. 2-5.
[844] Also called Tissey. Compare the name of the magic cat given to Frances More by Goodwife Weed, p. 219.
[845] In Ales Hunt's own confession (q. v.) the animals in question are called colts. I would suggest that this is cotes, the well-known provincialism for cats; but the recorder understood the word as colts and further improved it into horses.
[846] Witches taken at St. Oses, A 3, A 5, C 3 and 4, B 2, B 5 and C 1, B 3.
[847] Giffard, pp. 19, 27, 39.
[848] Potts, B 3.
[849] Fairfax, pp. 32, 33, 34, 79, 82.
[850] Wonderfull Discouerie of Elisabeth Sawyer.
[851] Whitaker, p. 216.
[852] Howell, iv, 834 et seq.
[853] Davenport, pp. 1-12.
[854] Gibbons, p. 113.
[855] Gerish, The Divel's Delusions, p. 12.
[856] Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 151, 157.
[857] Petto, p. 18.
[858] De Lancre, L'Incredulité, pp. 801, 803.
[859] La Martinière, pp. 42-3 (ed. 1671).
[860] Imp = A slip, sapling, scion; hence applied to persons with the meaning child, lad, boy.
[861] Lawes against Witches, p 7.
[862] Howell, iv, 855.
[863] Davenport, p. 12.
[864] Id., p. 1.
[865] Witches at Chelmsford, pp. 20, 29.
[866] Examination of John Walsh. His master was Sir Robert Draiton.
[867] Giffard, p. C., see Percy Soc., viii.
[868] De Lancre, L'Incredulité, p. 803.
[869] Howell, iv, 834, 836.
[870] Davenport, p. 5.
[871] Witches at Chelmsford, p. 24. Philobiblon Soc., viii.
[872] Witches taken at St. Oses, p. C 4.
[873] Alse Gooderidge, pp. 26, 27.
[874] Howell, iv, 845, 853, 856.
[875] Moore Rental, Chetham Society, xii, p. 59.
[876] Scheffer, quoting Tornaeus.
[877] Davies, p. 231. For a similar practice in modern England, see Transactions of the Devonshire Association, vi (1874), p. 201.
[878] Witches at Chelmsford, p. 34. Philobiblon Soc., viii.
[879] Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 129.
[880] Potts, H 3.
[881] Goodcole, Wonderfull Discoverie, p. C.
[882] J. Hutchinson, ii, p. 31; Howell, vi, 659.
[883] 'Nos sorciers tiennent la plus-part de ces Demons pour leurs Dieux,' De Lancre, Tableau, p. 23.
[884] Moret, pp. 247 seq.
[885] Camden Soc., Dame Alice Kyteler, p. 3
[886] Boguet, pp. 69, 132.
[887] De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 67, 197.
[888] Wonderfull Discoverie of Margaret and Phillip Flower, E 3.
[889] Whitaker, p. 216.
[890] Gerish, The Divel's Delusions, p. 12.
[891] Pitcairn notes: 'Issobell, as usual, appears to have been stopped short here by her interrogators, when she touched on such matters', i.e. the fairies.
[892] Pitcairn, iii, pp. 606, 614.
[893] Taylor, p. 81.
[894] Volsunga Saga, Bks. I, II; Wm. Morris, Collected Works, xii, pp. 32. 77.
[895] Pausanias, viii, 2, 3, 6, ed. Frazer. Cp. also the animal names applied to priests and priestesses, e.g. the King-bees of Ephesus; the Bee-priestesses of Demeter, of Delphi, of Proserpine, and of the Great Mother; the Doves of Dodona; the Bears in the sacred dance of Artemis; the Bulls at the feast of Poseidon at Ephesus; the Wolves at the Lupercalia, &c.
[896] Remigius, pt. i, pp. 65, 67.
[897] Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 245-6.
[898] Boguet, pp. 120, 132-3.
[899] De Lancre, Tableau, p. 129.
[900] Fournier, p. 16.
[901] Monoyer, p. 30.
[902] Van Elven, v, p. 215.
[903] Boguet, p. 132.
[904] Spalding Club Misc., i, pp. 97, 114-15, 165; Bessie Thom, p. 167. Spelling modernized.
[905] Goldsmid, p. 10.
[906] Scottish Antiquary, ix, pp. 50-2.
[907] Sharpe, pp. 132, 134.
[908] Surtees Soc., xl, pp. 191, 193, 194.
[909] Pitcairn, iii, pp. 607, 608, 611. Spelling modernized.
[910] De Lancre, Tableau, p. 128.
[911] Surtees Soc., xl, pp. 192, 194, 197.
[912] Kinloch, p. 129. Spelling modernized.
[913] De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 129, 130.
[914] Kinloch, p. 123.