[CHAPTER LXIV.]
- Paying Blackmail to Witches—Demon of Tedworth—A Persecuted
Family prayed for—Unaccountable Sounds and Sights—Drummer
found guilty of Sorcery—Raising Storms—A Wizard
in Cromwell's Army—Aldermen's Children bewitched—Man
kissed to Death—Witch unable to say the Lord's Prayer—A
Taunton Witch—Bewitched Cattle—Mode of discovering a
Witch—Selling a Soul to the Devil—Witch Executed—A Song
of the Seventeenth Century547
[CHAPTER LXV.]
- Elizabeth Style's Confession—Signing a Covenant with Blood—Alice
Duke, Anne Bishop, and Mary Penny—Somerset
Witches—Running backwards round a Church—Compact with
Satan—Accusation against Sarah Morduck—A Judge's Opinion
of Witchcraft—Supposed Sufferer from Witchcraft prayed for
in the Church, and a Subscription raised for him—Falsely
accusing a Woman of Witchcraft—Witch and Stolen Plate—Charm
for Sore Eyes—Flames issuing from a Bewitched
Person's Mouth—Tormenting a Witch—Jane Wenham's Witchcrafts
and Trial—The last Persons who suffered in England for
Witchcraft—List of Persons who suffered as Witches552
[CHAPTER LXVI.]
- Scotchmen and Englishmen in America—Superstition in the
Back Settlements—Witchcraft in New England—Rev. Cotton
Mather's View of Witchcraft—Judges and Witnesses overawed
by Witches—Bewitched Persons prayed for—Trial of
Susan Martin—Absurd Evidence—Witchcraft in Sweden—Commission
of Inquiry—Day of Humiliation appointed on
account of Witchcraft—Threescore and Ten Witches in a
Village—Children engaged in Witchery put to Death—The
Devil bound with an Iron Chain—An Angel's Warning Voice—Witch
assaulting Ministers—Witches' Imps—Butter of
Witches—Witches Punished—Horse Burned558
[CHAPTER LXVII.]
- Superstition in France—Pope John XXII. celebrated in the
History of Sorcery and Magic—A Bishop skinned alive and
torn by Horses for Witchcraft—King Philippe and Superstition—Extracting
Teeth without Pain—Berne Witch—Sorcerers
in Navarre—Demoniacal Operations—Witches meeting their
Deserts—Maria Renata's Witchcrafts—Nuns possessed of
Devils—Jeanne D'Arc—Credulity of France and England—Fairies
of Domremi—Charmed Tree—Sparkling Spring—Jeanne's
Heavenly Mission—Maid at the head of Troops—Her
Achievements—Siege of Orleans—Great Victories—Dauphin
Crowned—Heroine Betrayed—Charmed Sword—Jeanne's
Surrender—King's Ingratitude—Great Rejoicing at the Maid's
Downfall—Attempt to Escape—Trial and Condemnation—Maid
Burned—A White Dove rising from her Ashes564
[SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.]
[CHAPTER LXVIII.]