Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, Volumul 31855 |
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... appears that , having tortured in vain a suspected witch with " the pilliwinckes upon her fingers , which is a grievous torture , and binding or wrenching her head with a cord or rope , which is a most cruel torture also , they , upon ...
... appears that , having tortured in vain a suspected witch with " the pilliwinckes upon her fingers , which is a grievous torture , and binding or wrenching her head with a cord or rope , which is a most cruel torture also , they , upon ...
Pagina 10
... appear in the shape of a goat , about whom several dances and magic cere- monies are performed . Before the assembly ... appears from Strype's Annals of the Reformation , i 10 SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
... appear in the shape of a goat , about whom several dances and magic cere- monies are performed . Before the assembly ... appears from Strype's Annals of the Reformation , i 10 SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
Pagina 11
... appears from the same work , iv . 7 , sub anno 1589 , that " one Mrs. Dier had practised conjuration against the queen , to work some mischief to her Majesty ; for which she was brought into question ; and accordingly her words and ...
... appears from the same work , iv . 7 , sub anno 1589 , that " one Mrs. Dier had practised conjuration against the queen , to work some mischief to her Majesty ; for which she was brought into question ; and accordingly her words and ...
Pagina 26
... appear , " by reason country people ofttimes will fall upon them , and scratch and abuse them shrewdly . ' وو I find the following in Articles to be enquired of within the Archdeaconry of Yorke , by the Church Wardens and Sworne Men ...
... appear , " by reason country people ofttimes will fall upon them , and scratch and abuse them shrewdly . ' وو I find the following in Articles to be enquired of within the Archdeaconry of Yorke , by the Church Wardens and Sworne Men ...
Pagina 28
... appears from a Relation printed by Matthews , in Long Acre , London , that , in the year 1716 , Mrs. Hicks , and her daughter , aged nine years , were hanged in Huntingdon for witchcraft , for selling their souls to the devil ...
... appears from a Relation printed by Matthews , in Long Acre , London , that , in the year 1716 , Mrs. Hicks , and her daughter , aged nine years , were hanged in Huntingdon for witchcraft , for selling their souls to the devil ...
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Pagina 396 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Pagina 303 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Pagina 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Pagina 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Pagina 312 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Pagina 315 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Pagina 73 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy...
Pagina 192 - CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are...
Pagina 159 - To see the phantom train their secret work prepare. (To monarchs dear, some hundred miles astray, Oft have they seen Fate give the fatal blow ! The seer, in Sky, shriek'd as the blood did flow, When headless Charles warm on the scaffold lay...
Pagina 292 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the losa of the use of the limb.