[65.1] The Earl himself presided at some of the examinations, though it is fair to say that, so far as appears, the charges of bewitching his children were not gone into before him. The British Solomon, his royal master, was not so scrupulous. ii. Nichols, pt. i., App. ix., 70, reprinting a pamphlet of 1619, giving a full report of the case.
[65.2] G. B. Corsi, in x. Archivio, 30; Leland, Etruscan, 329. An extraordinary ritual for this purpose is quoted by De Mensignac from Éliphas Lévi. De Mensignac, 45. Another prescription quoted by Leland (Etruscan, 241) is for the maiden to take some of her faithless lover’s hair and to invoke the aid of Saint Elisha against him, at midnight in a cellar.
[66.1] Felicina Giannini-Finucci, in xi. Archivio, 448. It seems enough in Lucca for a deserted girl to wind her own hair round the toad’s legs, or to introduce it into a cigar, in order to cause anguish to her betrayer. Ibid., 453.
[66.2] xvii. Pitrè, 115. See also Zanetti, 234; i. Rivista, 134, 319; Ostermann, 511; De Mensignac, 48, note; Andree, ii. Ethnog. Par., 11, 12; Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1799, 1836; Zingerle, Sitten, 28.
[66.3] Leland, Etruscan, 328. (The other substance was illegible in the manuscript charm supplied to Mr. Leland. Compare the Tirolese tale cited above, p. 58.) Ostermann, 517.
[66.4] Addy, 74. Bodin, 369, relates a curious tale of a lascivious devil who got a girl into his power by inducing her to give him a lock of her hair. Barham has made powerful use of this incident in the Ingoldsby Leg. (“A Passage in the Life of the late H. Harris, D.D.”).
[67.1] Monseur, 91; i. Mélusine, 79, citing Auguste Hock; E. Polain, in ii. Bull. de F.L., 145; J. B. Andrews, in ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 256. In the Tirol hairs not spit upon before being thrown away are used by witches in the manufacture of hailstones and storms. Zingerle, Sitten, 28.
[67.2] O. Schell, in iii. Am Urquell, 211; Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Siebenb. Sachs., 150.
[67.3] Schiffer, in iii. Am Urquell, 151, citing Federowski.
[67.4] Featherman, Turanians, 510.