The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1849 - London (England) |
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Page 153 - that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding any evil spirit. Or taking up dead bodies from their graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment. Or killing or otherwise hurting
Page 189 - This is one of the 'good helps' to the discovery of a witch, pointed out by our sovereign lord the king," said the attorney, narrowly examining the spot. "'The one,' saith our wise prince, 'is the finding of their mark, and the trying the insensibleness thereof. The other is their fleeting on the water.
Page 156 - Not so much as their eyes are able to shed tears, albeit the womenkind especially be able otherwise to shed tears at every light occasion when they will, yea, although it were dissemblingly like the
Page 154 - if witches be but apprehended and detained by any private person, upon other private respects, their power, no doubt, either in escaping, or in doing hurt, is no less than ever it was before. But if, on the other part, their apprehending and detention be by the lawful magistrate upon the just
Page 163 - Catterai another behind him, and for the residue the use shall be, first come first speed, and that will make the proud wives of Whalley rise betimes to come to church." One can fancy the rough knight's chuckle, as he addressed these words to the old clerk, certain of their being quickly repeated to the "proud wives
Page 57 - Lacrymosa dies ilia, Qua resurget ex favilla Judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce, Deus! Pie lesu Domine! Dona eis requiem. Amen
Page 125 - than he. And then, as to tippling, he would sit you a whole afternoon at the alehouse, and be the merriest man there, and drink a bout with every farmer present. And if the parson chanced to be out of hearing, he would never make a mouth
Page 157 - The reason is easy,' he saith, 'for as that sex is frailer than man is, so it is easier to be entrapped in those gross snares of the devil,
Page 157 - proved to be true, by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine.
Page 155 - and detention be by the lawful magistrate upon the just respect of their guiltiness in that craft, their power is then no greater than before that ever they meddled with their master. For where God begins justly to strike by his lawful lieutenants, it is not in the devil's power to defraud or bereave him of the office or effect of his powerful and revenging sceptre.