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THE POSSESSION OF JOHN STARKIE
Joyce Froome
1. Introduction
On 4 January 1597, John Starkie, a boy about 13 years old, and the heir of one of the wealthiest families in Lancashire, was reading a book when ‘he was suddenly stricken down with an horrible scryke [screech], saying that Satan had broken his neck’. That night,
being in bed, he leapt out on a sudden, with a terrible outcry that amazed all the family. […] Then was he […] very fierce like a madman, or a mad dog, snacted [snapped] at and bit everyone that he laid hold on […] hurling bed-staves, pillows, or whatsoever at them, and into the fire.1
This was, of course, disturbing for his parents, but it is hardly unusual for children to behave in hurtful and alarming ways. However, John’s father, Nicholas Starkie, was convinced that John was in the power of a demonic evil. And this conviction was the result of the Starkie family’s relationship with two people who practiced magic – a ‘witch’ called