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" Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? take off her black thrumb cap, for I cannot abide to look at her. "
Witch Stories - Page 224
1861 - 428 pages
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Narratives of Sorcery and Magic: From the Most Authentic Sources, Volume 1

Thomas Wright - 1851 - 370 pages
...from one of its fits, and it no sooner saw her than it began to cry out, pointing to mother Samwell, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black thrumbed cap, for I cannot abide to look at her ?" Little attention was paid to...
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Shakespeare's England: Or, Sketches of Our Social History of the ..., Volume 2

Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 440 pages
...both looking on. Soon after Mother Samuel entered the child grew worse, and cried, pointing at her, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? take off her black thrumb cap, for I cannot abide to look at her." The child's mother, thinking want...
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Shakspere's England, Or, Sketches of Our Social History in the ..., Volume 2

Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 442 pages
...both looking on. Soon after Mother Samuel entered the child grew worse, and cried, pointing at her, " Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? take off her black thrumb cap, for I cannot abide to look at her." The child's mother, thinking want...
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The Superstitions of Witchcraft

Howard Williams - 1865 - 302 pages
...of her fits. The girl no sooner noticed her than she began to cry out, pointing to the old woman, ' Did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black-thumbed cap, for I cannot abide to look at her.' The illness becoming worse, they...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 13

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 726 pages
...observing it, said to her grandmother, who was present, " Grandmother, looke where the old witch sitteth : did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her black thrumbed cap, for 1 cannot abide to looke on her." This foolish fancy of a child,...
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Witch Stories

1883 - 332 pages
...to see her as a kind of curiosity — and stepping up into the chimney-side, sat down by her, Jane being held in another woman's arms by the fire. Suddenly...dismally, as those that saw her remembered very well." As well she might, poor old soul ; for she must have known that Mrs. Jane's light speech would, in...
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Legends and Traditions of Huntingdonshire

W. H. Bernard Saunders - 1888 - 346 pages
...childe soon observed, and pointing at her exclaimed: 'Grandmother, look where the olde witch sittethe : did you ever see one more like a witch than she is ? Take off her blacke thrumb'd cap, for I cannot abide to look at her.' The child afterwards became...
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