The History of Witchcraft in Europe. Брэм Стокер

children’? In fact, people began to fight shy of them; they even accused a member of Increase Mather’s family, and made charges against Mrs. Hale, wife of the Minister of the First Church in Beverley, so that their testimony at last received no credence. After the Sessions of September 22, no one was hanged, even if convicted; and in April, 1693, the Governor-General, by proclamation, gave freedom to all suspects that were in confinement, and in 1711 a reversal of attainder was granted in those cases marked with an asterisk, and compensation made to their representatives to the amount of £578 12s.

      Footnotes:

1. The old writers and the old maps probably meant mosquitoes when they said ‘Here be Divells.’

2. ‘A Discourse of the Subtill Practises of Deuilles by Witches and Sorcerers,’ etc. By G. Gyfford. Lond., 1587.

3. Chap. iv.

4. ‘The Discouerie of Witchcraft, etc., by Reginald Scot, Esq^re,’ 1584, p. 377.

5. ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock; or, a True Narrative of the Several Apparitions, the Frights and Punishments, inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners Sent thither, to Survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to His Majestie.’ London; printed in the year 1660.

6. ‘The Woodstock Scuffle; or Most Dreadfull Apparitions that were lately seene in the Mannor-House of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the great Terror and Wonderful Amazement of all there, that did Behold them.’ 1649.

7. ‘Palpable Evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft, in an Account of the Fam’d Disturbance by the Drummer, in the House of M. Mompesson, etc.’ London, 1668.

8. The writer was the Rev. Joseph Glanville, M.A., F.R.S., Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II., Rector of the Abbey Church, Bath, and a Prebendary of Worcester.

9. ‘The Dæmon of Burton; or, A True Relation of Strange Witchcrafts, or Incantations, lately practised at Burton, in the Parish of Weobley, in Herefordshire. Certified in a Letter from a Person of Credit in Hereford.’ London, 1671.

10. Herefordshire.

11. Ewell.

12. ‘Strange and Wonderful News from Yowel in Surry, giving a True and Just Account of One Elizabeth Burgiss, who was most strangely Bewitched,’ etc. London, 1681.

13. ‘Discours des Sorciers,’ by Henry Boguet (Lyon, 1608), p. 417.

14. Whooping.

15. Shriek.

16. A sheaf or bundle.

17. Table.

18. Hiccoughing.

19. Or bannocks, oat cakes.

20. A hump.

21. A hedgehog.

22. Sleight, cunning.

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.

33. ‘The Discovery of Witches,’ etc., by Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder. London, 1647.

34. Bairns, or children.

35. Warts.

36. Gyves or fetters.

37. Torture.

38. Notes and Queries, Series IV., vol. viii., p. 44.

39. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1759, p. 93.

40. Ed. 1730, p. 187.

41. A dove or wood-pigeon.

42. ‘A Rehearsall both Straung and true, of hainous and horrible acts committed by Elizabeth Stile, alias Rockingham, Mother Dutten, Mother Deuell, Mother Margaret, Fower notorious Witches, apprehended at Winsore in the Countie of Barks, and at Abbington arraigned, condemned and executed on the 26 daye of Februarie last, Anno