wiglaer, a compound of wig, an idol, and laer, learning, which would almost seem to intimate something holy in his character; scin-læca in its literal sense meant "a shining dead body," but it was used also for a phantom or apparition, and as designating one capable of producing such things; goldorcraeftig implied one powerful in incantations; morthwyrta signified "a worshipper of the dead," if taken in its proper acceptation; galdra, magic; hwata, omens; wilweorthunga, fountain-worship; licwiglunga, incantations of the dead; dry,-evidently from the same family as drus, druda, and druid-was a general name for a magician, and was also used to designate their veneficial arts,-unlybban wyrce; that is, destructive of life.

The law was particularly severe against witches and wizzards, classing them with perjurers and horewenan, literally excrement, but metaphorically used for prostitutes. One and all of these were to be deprived of their goods, and driven from the land, unless they ceased from such evil doings. But indeed the notions of the Anglo-Saxons upon this subject can be studied nowhere so well as in their various enactments against the practice.

In the laws of Eadgar it is written,-"We admonish that every priest shall diligently advance Christianity, and shall altogether root out Heathendom, and forbid wilweorthunga, and licwiglunga, and hwata, and galdra, and the deification of man, and many things which are done in divers kinds of witchcraft; in friths plottum, in elms and various other trees, in stones, and other phantasmata, by which those are deceived who ought not to be.”

From another law of the same monarch we find that poisoning was practiced under the guise of witchcraft-" If one man kill another by wicce-cræfte "—that is, by witchcraft-"let him fast for seven years, three on bread and water, and for another four let him fast thrice a week, and for ever repent it."

Again: "If any one causes sickness or death to another, let him fast for three years; one on bread and water, and for two more let him fast thrice a week on the like diet; and if the man die, then let him fast seven years as is here ordained, and let him for ever bewail his crime."

Other prohibitory statutes, with accompanying penalties, teach

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