[23] These extracts are from an English translation of Olaus Magnus, 1658.
[24] A Finn is even now reckoned to be a very uncanny person on board ship, and to be able to control the weather.
[25] The same selling of winds used to be done both in the Isle of Man and the Orkneys.
[26] ‘Demonologie,’ lib. ii., cap. v.
[27] ‘The Discouerie of Witchcraft,’ lib. i., cap. iii.
[28] The Spectator, No. cxvii.
[29] Lib. iii., cap. i.
[30] A bat.
[31] Lib. i., cap. iv.
[32] ‘A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts,’ by George Giffard. London, 1603.