Discover the Truth Behind Witchcraft Stories. William Godwin

73. Shapes and trims.

74. Hollow-backed.

75. Gruffly.

76. Alive.

77. Jerk.

78. Touch.

79. A coat of mail.

80. Crow.

81. Bean-straws.

82. Besom.

83. Cattle.

84. Webs of cloth.

85. Stroking or rubbing.

86. Sciatica.

87. Haunch.

88. Frightened.

89. Ends.

90. One or more.

91. Grains of barley.

92. Chopped up together.

93. In a fold of his plaid.

94. A quaigh, or cup.

95. Hard.

96. Lingering sickness.

97. Stubble.

98. ‘History of Scotland,’ by David Scott. London, 1727.

99. Lyne, or Linne, in Ayrshire.

100. Battle of Pinkie, September 10, 1547.

101. Grieving much.

102. Weeping.

103. Child-bed; in old French, gisante, a woman that lies in.

104. Hailed.

105. Dwindled away.

106. Provoked.

107. Frightened.

108. Trust.

109. In baptism.

110. Riven, drawn asunder.

111. Went.

112. Fairyland.

113. Ewe.

114. Went.

115. Sift or strain.

116. Thinking if.

117. Likewise.

118. Wishing.

119. Buried.

120. Gate.

121. I have before me at this present writing seventeen volumes of American magazines containing articles on witchcraft in America, and that is not an exhaustive list.

122. ‘The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May, 1665,’ by J. Hammond Trumbull (Hartford, 1850), vol. i. p. 77.

123. ‘Records,’ vol. ii., p. 575.

124. The New Englander, November, 1885, p. 817.

125. For this and much else relating to witchcraft in Massachusetts, I am indebted to that most exhaustive book, ‘Salem Witchcraft,’ etc., by Charles W. Upham (Boston, 1867).

126. Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 179.

127. Hutchinson, ‘History of Massachusetts Bay,’ 1767, vol. i., p. 187.

128. ‘Memorable Providences