A history of the witches of Renfrewshire, who were burned on the gallowgreen of Paisley. Publ. by the ed. of the Paisley repository [J. Millar].

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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

קטעים בולטים

עמוד 34 - ... charm, or sorcery, whereby any person shall be killed, destroyed, wasted, consumed, pined, or lamed in his or her body, or any part thereof...
עמוד 60 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
עמוד 34 - ... wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
עמוד 74 - ... time to see the damsel, did (though not desired) pray for her, viz., " That the Lord of heaven and earth might send the damsel her health, and try out the verity": After which the damsel declared that though the said Agnes had formerly been very troublesome to her, yet, from that time forth, she did no more appear to her as her tormentor, but, on the contrary, as she apprehended, defending her from the fury of the rest. Second, it is further here to be noticed, that the forenamed Katherine Campbell...
עמוד 41 - Weir, who was officer to their several meetings, she put her hand to the crown of her head and the other to the sole of her foot, and did give herself up to the Devil.
עמוד 47 - Prayer, which she had heard the witches repeat, it seems, by her vision, in the presence of the Devil ; and at his desire, which they observed, they added to the word art the letter w, which made it run, ' Our Father which wart in heaven,' by which means the Devil made the application of the prayer to himself.
עמוד 12 - ... that she had not confest because she was guilty, but being a poor creature who wrought for her meat, and being defamed for a witch, she knew she would starve, for no person thereafter would either give her meat or lodging, and that all men would beat her and hound dogs at her, and that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said.
עמוד 15 - ... given to the Devil then present, or by presenting, a Supplication to him, or by giving the promise to a Proxie or Commissioner impowered by the Devil for that effect, which is used by some who dare not see himself. The Formula set down by Delrio, is, I deny God Creator of Heaven and Earth, and I adhere to thee, and believe in thee.
עמוד 106 - Thou sayest there is an old gray haired man with him, having a ring upon his hand ; but I can neither see nor feel any of them.
עמוד 16 - Delrio calls it stigma, or character, lib. ii., quest. 4, and alledges that it is sometimes like the impression of a hare's foot, or the foot of a rat or spider, — lv, sect.

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