...apprehensions of witches, conjurers and fairies, and all that Lymphatic chimera, I find to be marshalled in one of these five ranks ; children, fools, women, cowards, sick or black melancholic discomposed wits.' The imputation of witchcraft could be fixed upon any one with the greatest...

...&c. And then with an old Mother Nobs hath by Chance call'd her Idle young Housewife, QE,,bid title < Devil scratch her ; then no doubt but Mother Nobs...these lost and damned souls; from every hovel peered ont the cursing witch, or cried aloud for help the stricken victims. These poor and old and wretched...

...apprehensions of witches, conjurers, and fairies, and all that lymphatic chimera, I find to be marshalled in one of these five ranks : children, fools, women, cowards, sick or black melancholic discomposed wits." Ill 1669, a work was published in London with the^ following title :...

...apprehensions of witches, conjurers, and fairies, and nll that lymphatic chimera, I find to be marshalled in one of these five ranks : children, fools, women, cowards, sick or black melancholic discomposed wits." la 1009, a work was published in London with the following title: "...

...apprehensions of witches, conjurors, and fairies, and all that lymphatical chimera, I find to be marshalled in one of these five ranks : — Children, fools, women, cowards, sick or black melancholic discomposed wits." Many hundreds of poor old women, and many a Cat, were sacrificed to...

...is owl-blasted, &c." Then he goes on to say, with more force and just judgment than might have been expected from one of his generation : — "They that...their minds to the task of stemming the raging torrent of cruelty and superstition. For the whole world was overrun with witches. From every town came crowds...