[B 3 a 3]. "Alizon Device.">[ Device is merely the common name Davies spelled as pronounced in the neighbourhood of Pendle.
[B 3 b]. "Is to make a picture of clay.">[
Hecate. What death is't you desire for Almachildes?
Duchess. A sudden and a subtle.
Hecate. Then I've fitted you.
Here be the gifts of both; sudden and subtle:
His picture made in wax and gently molten
By a blue fire kindled with dead men's eyes
Will waste him by degrees.
Duchess. In what time, prithee?
Hecate. Perhaps in a moon's progress.
Middleton's Witch, edit. 1778, p. 100.
None of the offices in the Witches rubric had higher classical warrant than this method, a favourite one, it appears, of Mother Demdike, but in which Anne Redfern had the greatest skill of any of these Pendle witches, of victimizing by moulding and afterwards pricking or burning figures of clay representing the individual whose life was aimed at. Horace, Lib. i. Sat. 8, mentions both waxen and woollen images—
Lanea et effigies erat altera cerea, &c.