[131] Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, II, 284.
[132] Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, New Series, V, 267.
[133] F. Legge, Witchcraft in Scotland, in The Scottish Review, October, 1891, XVIII, 263.
[134] On modern savages as devil worshippers, see, for example, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, 1668, I, 404 ff. (Dialogue iii, sections 15-16).
[135] Magnalia, book i, chap. i, §2, ed. 1853, I. 42; book vi, chap. vi, §3, III, 436; Jesuit Relations, ed. Thwaites, I, 286; II, 76; VIII, 124, 126. See also Thomas Morton, New English Canaan, 1637, chap. ix, ed. Adams, (Prince Society), p. 150, with the references in Mr. Adams’s note. Cf. Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, chap. vi, ed. 1795, I, 419 ff.; Diary of Ezra Stiles, June 13, 1773, ed. Dexter, I, 385-386.
[136] Mayhew’s letter of Oct. 22, 1652, in Eliot and Mayhew’s Tears of Repentance, 1653 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Soc. Collections, 3d Series, IV, 203-206); Gookin, Historical Collections of the Indians in New England (Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, I, 154). See the references in Mr. Adams’s note to Morton’s New English Canaan, Prince Society edition, p. 152, and compare the following places in the Eliot Tracts (as reprinted in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, 3d Series, IV),—pp. 17, 19-20, 39, 50-51, 55-57, 77, 82, 113-116, 133-134, 156, 186-187. See, for the impression that Indian ceremonies made on a devout man in 1745, David Brainerd’s Journal, Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, Philadelphia, [1746,] pp. 49-57:—“I sat,” writes Brainerd, “at a small Distance, not more than Thirty Feet from them, (tho’ undiscover’d) with my Bible in my Hand, resolving if possible to spoil their Sport, and prevent their receiving any Answers from the infernal world” (p. 50).
[137] Gookin, Historical Collections (Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, I, 154); Mass. Records, ed. Shurtleff, II, 177; III, 98.
[138] The Most Strange and Admirable Discoverie of the Three Witches of Warboys, 1593, sig. B2 rᵒ. P vᵒ.
[139] Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, 1613 (Chetham Society reprint, sig. S); The Arraignment and Triall of Iennet Preston, of Gisborne in Craven, in the Countie of York, London, 1612 (in same reprint, sig. Y 2).
[140] Mary Smith’s case, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft, 1616, pp. 52, 56, 57; the Husband’s Bosworth case, Letter of Alderman Robert Heyrick, of Leicester, July 18, 1616, printed in Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II, 471*.