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nipple would regard it as something supernatural, and would use it to
nourish a supernatural animal.
Elizabeth Francis, tried at Chelmsford in 1556,
'learned this arte of witchcraft of hyr grandmother whose nam mother Eue.
Item when shee taughte it her, she counseiled her to renounce GOD and his
worde and to geue of her bloudde to Sathan (as she termed it) whyche she
delyuered her in the lykenesse of a whyte spotted Catte, and taughte her to
feede the sayde Catte with breade and mylke, and she
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[1. Forbes, ii, pp. 33.
2. F. Hutchinson. Hist. Essay, p. 77.
3. Giffard, p. 18.]
dyd so, also she taughte her to cal it by the name of Sathan and to kepe it
in a basket. Item that euery tyme that he did any thynge for her, she sayde
that he required a drop of blonde, which she gaue him by prycking herselfe,
sometime in one place and then in an other. When shee had kept this Cat by
the space of XV or XVI yeare, and as some saye (though vntruly) beinge wery
of it, she came to one mother Waterhouse her neyghbour, she brought her this
cat in her apron and taught her as she was instructed by her grandmother
Eue, telling her that she must cal him Sathan and geue him of her bloude and
breade and milke as before.--Mother Waterhouse receyued this cat of this
Frances wife in the order as is before sayde. She (to trye him what he
coulde do) wyld him to kyll a hog of her owne, which he dyd, and she gaue
him for his labour a chicken, which he fyrste required of her and a drop of
her blod. And thys she gaue him at all times when he dyd anythynge for her,
by pricking her hand or face and puttinge the bloud to hys mouth whyche he
sucked, and forthwith wold lye downe in hys pot againe, wherein she kepte
him. Another tym she rewarded hym as before, wyth a chicken and a droppe of
her bloud, which chicken he eate vp cleane as he didde at the rest, and she
cold fynde remaining neyther bones nor fethers. Also she said that when she
wolde wyl him to do any thinge for her, she wolde say her Pater noster in
laten. Item, this mother Waterhouse confessed that shee fyrst turned this
Cat into a tode by this meanes, she kept the cat a great while in woll in a
pot, and at length being moued by pouertie to occupie the woll, she praied
in the name of the father and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost that it
wold turne into a tode, and forthwith it was turned into a tode, and so kept
it in the pot without woll.'[1]
In 1579 at Windsor--
'one Mother Dutton dwellyng in Cleworthe Parishe keepeth a Spirite or Feende
in the likenesse of a Toade, and fedeth the same Feende liyng in a border of
greene Hearbes, within her Garden, with blood whiche she causeth to issue
from her owne flancke. Mother Deuell, dwellyng nigh the Ponde in Windesore,
hath a Spirite in the shape of a Blacke Catte, and calleth it Gille, whereby
she is aided in her Witchcrafte, and she daiely feedeth it with Milke,
mingled with her owne bloud. Mother Margaret, dwellying in the Almeshouse at
Windesore, dooeth feede a Kitlyng or Feende by her named Ginnie, with
crummes of bread and her owne blood. The saied Elizabeth Stile, of her self
confesseth that she the same
[1. Witches at Chelmsford, pp. 24-32; Philobiblon Soc., viii.]
Elizabeth kept a Ratte, beeyng in very deede a wicked Spirite, namyng it
Philip, and that she fedde the same Ratte with bloode, issuing from her
right handwrest, the markes whereof euidently remaine.'[1]
At St. Osyth in Essex in 1582 Thomas Rabbet, aged eight, said that his
mother Ursley Kemp 'hath foure seuerall spirites, the one called Tyffin, the
other Tittey, the third Pigine, and the fourth Iacke: and being asked of
what colours they were, saith, that Tyttey is like a little grey Cat,[2]
Tyffin is like a white lambe, Pygine is black like a Toad, and Iacke is
blacke like a Cat. And hee saith, hee hath seen his mother at times to giue
thie{m} beere to drinke, and of a white Lofe or Cake to eate, and saith that
in the night time the said spirites will come to his mother, and sucke blood
of her vpon her armes and other places of her body.' Febey Hunt,
stepdaughter of Ales Hunt of the accused witches, stated that 'shee hath
seen her mother to haue two little thinges like horses,[3] the one white,
the other blacke, the which shee kept in a little lowe earthen pot with
woll, colour white and blacke, and that they stoode in her chamber by her
bed side, and saith, that shee hath seene her mother to feede them with
milke'. Ales Hunt herself said that 'shee had within VI. dayes before this
examination two spirits, like unto little Coltes, the one blacke, and the
other white: And saith she called them by the names of Iacke and Robbin.
This Examinate saith that her sister (named Margerie Sammon) hath also two
spirites like Toades, the one called Tom, and the other Robbyn.' Ursley Kemp
confessed that 'about a quarter of a yere past, she went vnto mother Bennets
house for a messe of milke, the which shee had promised her: But at her
comming this examinate saith shee knocked at her dore, and no bodie made her
any answere, whereupon shee went to her chamber windowe and looked in
therat, saying, ho, ho, mother Bennet are you at home: And
[1. Rehearsall, par. 2-5.
2. Also called Tissey. Compare the name of the magic cat given to Frances
More by Goodwife Weed, p. 219.
3. In Ales Hunt's own confession (q.v.) the animals in question are called
colts. I would suggest that this is cotes, the well-known provincialism for
cats; but the recorder understood the word as colts and further improved it
into horses.]
casting her eyes aside, slice saw a spirit lift up a clothe, lying ouer a
.
pot, looking much lik a Ferret. And it being asked of this examinate why the
spirite did looke vpon her, shee said it was hungrie.[1] Elizabeth Bennet
acknowledged that she had two 'spirits, one called Suckin, being blacke like
a Dogge, the other called Lierd, beeing red like a Lion. Suckin this
examinat saith is a hee, and the other a shee. Many tymes they drinke of her
milke bowle. And when, and as often as they did drinke of the mylke: This
Examynate saith they went into the sayd earthen pot, and lay in the wooll.'
Ursley Kemp also gave evidence concerning Ales Hunt's familiars: 'About the
foureteene or fifteene day of Januarie last, shee went to the house of
William Hunt to see howe his wife did, and shee being from home, slice
called at her chamber window and looked in, and then espied a spirite to
looke out of a potcharde from vnder a clothe, the nose thereof beeing browne
like vnto a Ferret.'[1] In 1588 in Essex an old woman, whose name is not
given,
'confessed all: Which was this in effect: that she had three spirits: one
like a cat, which she called Lightfoot, another like a toad, which she
called Lunch, the third like a Weasill, which she called Makeshift. This
Lightfoot, she said, one mother Barlie of W. solde her aboue sixteene yeares
agoe, for an ouen cake, and told her the Cat would doe her good seruice, if
she woulde, she might send her of her errand: this Cat was with her but a
while, but the Weasill and the Toad came and offered their seruice: The Cat [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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nipple would regard it as something supernatural, and would use it to
nourish a supernatural animal.
Elizabeth Francis, tried at Chelmsford in 1556,
'learned this arte of witchcraft of hyr grandmother whose nam mother Eue.
Item when shee taughte it her, she counseiled her to renounce GOD and his
worde and to geue of her bloudde to Sathan (as she termed it) whyche she
delyuered her in the lykenesse of a whyte spotted Catte, and taughte her to
feede the sayde Catte with breade and mylke, and she
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[1. Forbes, ii, pp. 33.
2. F. Hutchinson. Hist. Essay, p. 77.
3. Giffard, p. 18.]
dyd so, also she taughte her to cal it by the name of Sathan and to kepe it
in a basket. Item that euery tyme that he did any thynge for her, she sayde
that he required a drop of blonde, which she gaue him by prycking herselfe,
sometime in one place and then in an other. When shee had kept this Cat by
the space of XV or XVI yeare, and as some saye (though vntruly) beinge wery
of it, she came to one mother Waterhouse her neyghbour, she brought her this
cat in her apron and taught her as she was instructed by her grandmother
Eue, telling her that she must cal him Sathan and geue him of her bloude and
breade and milke as before.--Mother Waterhouse receyued this cat of this
Frances wife in the order as is before sayde. She (to trye him what he
coulde do) wyld him to kyll a hog of her owne, which he dyd, and she gaue
him for his labour a chicken, which he fyrste required of her and a drop of
her blod. And thys she gaue him at all times when he dyd anythynge for her,
by pricking her hand or face and puttinge the bloud to hys mouth whyche he
sucked, and forthwith wold lye downe in hys pot againe, wherein she kepte
him. Another tym she rewarded hym as before, wyth a chicken and a droppe of
her bloud, which chicken he eate vp cleane as he didde at the rest, and she
cold fynde remaining neyther bones nor fethers. Also she said that when she
wolde wyl him to do any thinge for her, she wolde say her Pater noster in
laten. Item, this mother Waterhouse confessed that shee fyrst turned this
Cat into a tode by this meanes, she kept the cat a great while in woll in a
pot, and at length being moued by pouertie to occupie the woll, she praied
in the name of the father and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost that it
wold turne into a tode, and forthwith it was turned into a tode, and so kept
it in the pot without woll.'[1]
In 1579 at Windsor--
'one Mother Dutton dwellyng in Cleworthe Parishe keepeth a Spirite or Feende
in the likenesse of a Toade, and fedeth the same Feende liyng in a border of
greene Hearbes, within her Garden, with blood whiche she causeth to issue
from her owne flancke. Mother Deuell, dwellyng nigh the Ponde in Windesore,
hath a Spirite in the shape of a Blacke Catte, and calleth it Gille, whereby
she is aided in her Witchcrafte, and she daiely feedeth it with Milke,
mingled with her owne bloud. Mother Margaret, dwellying in the Almeshouse at
Windesore, dooeth feede a Kitlyng or Feende by her named Ginnie, with
crummes of bread and her owne blood. The saied Elizabeth Stile, of her self
confesseth that she the same
[1. Witches at Chelmsford, pp. 24-32; Philobiblon Soc., viii.]
Elizabeth kept a Ratte, beeyng in very deede a wicked Spirite, namyng it
Philip, and that she fedde the same Ratte with bloode, issuing from her
right handwrest, the markes whereof euidently remaine.'[1]
At St. Osyth in Essex in 1582 Thomas Rabbet, aged eight, said that his
mother Ursley Kemp 'hath foure seuerall spirites, the one called Tyffin, the
other Tittey, the third Pigine, and the fourth Iacke: and being asked of
what colours they were, saith, that Tyttey is like a little grey Cat,[2]
Tyffin is like a white lambe, Pygine is black like a Toad, and Iacke is
blacke like a Cat. And hee saith, hee hath seen his mother at times to giue
thie{m} beere to drinke, and of a white Lofe or Cake to eate, and saith that
in the night time the said spirites will come to his mother, and sucke blood
of her vpon her armes and other places of her body.' Febey Hunt,
stepdaughter of Ales Hunt of the accused witches, stated that 'shee hath
seen her mother to haue two little thinges like horses,[3] the one white,
the other blacke, the which shee kept in a little lowe earthen pot with
woll, colour white and blacke, and that they stoode in her chamber by her
bed side, and saith, that shee hath seene her mother to feede them with
milke'. Ales Hunt herself said that 'shee had within VI. dayes before this
examination two spirits, like unto little Coltes, the one blacke, and the
other white: And saith she called them by the names of Iacke and Robbin.
This Examinate saith that her sister (named Margerie Sammon) hath also two
spirites like Toades, the one called Tom, and the other Robbyn.' Ursley Kemp
confessed that 'about a quarter of a yere past, she went vnto mother Bennets
house for a messe of milke, the which shee had promised her: But at her
comming this examinate saith shee knocked at her dore, and no bodie made her
any answere, whereupon shee went to her chamber windowe and looked in
therat, saying, ho, ho, mother Bennet are you at home: And
[1. Rehearsall, par. 2-5.
2. Also called Tissey. Compare the name of the magic cat given to Frances
More by Goodwife Weed, p. 219.
3. In Ales Hunt's own confession (q.v.) the animals in question are called
colts. I would suggest that this is cotes, the well-known provincialism for
cats; but the recorder understood the word as colts and further improved it
into horses.]
casting her eyes aside, slice saw a spirit lift up a clothe, lying ouer a
.
pot, looking much lik a Ferret. And it being asked of this examinate why the
spirite did looke vpon her, shee said it was hungrie.[1] Elizabeth Bennet
acknowledged that she had two 'spirits, one called Suckin, being blacke like
a Dogge, the other called Lierd, beeing red like a Lion. Suckin this
examinat saith is a hee, and the other a shee. Many tymes they drinke of her
milke bowle. And when, and as often as they did drinke of the mylke: This
Examynate saith they went into the sayd earthen pot, and lay in the wooll.'
Ursley Kemp also gave evidence concerning Ales Hunt's familiars: 'About the
foureteene or fifteene day of Januarie last, shee went to the house of
William Hunt to see howe his wife did, and shee being from home, slice
called at her chamber window and looked in, and then espied a spirite to
looke out of a potcharde from vnder a clothe, the nose thereof beeing browne
like vnto a Ferret.'[1] In 1588 in Essex an old woman, whose name is not
given,
'confessed all: Which was this in effect: that she had three spirits: one
like a cat, which she called Lightfoot, another like a toad, which she
called Lunch, the third like a Weasill, which she called Makeshift. This
Lightfoot, she said, one mother Barlie of W. solde her aboue sixteene yeares
agoe, for an ouen cake, and told her the Cat would doe her good seruice, if
she woulde, she might send her of her errand: this Cat was with her but a
while, but the Weasill and the Toad came and offered their seruice: The Cat [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]