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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 23 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 78291 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 God 13 witch 13 Mr. 12 Satan 12 Lord 12 John 11 England 10 Devil 9 Thomas 9 Sir 9 James 7 man 7 Witchcraft 7 William 7 Dr. 6 Scotland 6 New 6 Elizabeth 5 time 5 Salem 5 Court 4 child 4 St. 4 Mary 4 Margaret 4 Lady 4 Bishop 3 person 3 history 3 great 3 Robert 3 Rev. 3 Mrs. 3 Mother 3 Item 3 Henry 3 Grace 3 George 3 Footnote 3 Church 3 CHAPTER 3 Anne 2 year 2 thing 2 spirit 2 old 2 mind 2 life 2 footnote 2 find Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1629 most 67 least 61 well 2 lest 2 goethe 1 ¦ 1 wrest 1 tempest 1 speakest 1 smallest 1 presenti㢠1 long 1 imprest 1 dramaturgie_,--next 1 brightest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.archive.org 1 gallica.bnf.fr Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.archive.org/details/witchstories00lintrich 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 _ did not 12 _ was _ 9 _ come down 7 _ is _ 7 _ know _ 7 god had not 6 _ did _ 6 _ is not 6 god be merciful 5 _ are _ 5 _ called out 5 _ do _ 5 _ was not 4 _ are not 4 _ are so 4 _ came in 4 _ looked round 4 _ was very 4 child did not 4 devil has often 4 devil is now 4 devil was not 4 god had once 4 men were scarce 4 name was _ 4 people had not 3 _ do not 3 _ go up 3 _ had not 3 _ had now 3 _ have _ 3 _ seeing _ 3 _ thought _ 3 _ was amazed 3 case is not 3 case was very 3 child had thus 3 child was well 3 day was very 3 death took place 3 god be good 3 god had graciously 3 man is not 3 man is there 3 men do not 3 men were not 3 name was elizabeth 3 one does not 3 one had ever 3 persons are often Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ is not so 2 _ was no less 2 _ was not likely 2 devil was not there 2 god be not so 2 god had not graciously 2 god had not yet 2 men do not rightly 2 people had not either 2 power was not strong 2 times were not yet 2 witches have not only 1 _ are not over 1 _ are not yet 1 _ did not so 1 _ finds no difficulty 1 _ had no advice 1 _ is not that 1 _ made no communication 1 _ was no bar 1 _ was no witch 1 _ was not offensive 1 _ was not pleased 1 _ were not over 1 case is not so 1 case was not now 1 cases was not sufficient 1 child has no friend 1 child has no natural 1 child is not well 1 child made no more 1 child was not attractive 1 children is not satisfactorily 1 children made no difficulties 1 children were not competent 1 death was no bar 1 death was not natural 1 devil had no permission 1 devil had not power 1 devil had not time 1 devil is no liar 1 devil was not able 1 devil was not content 1 god did not so 1 god has not strangely 1 god makes no difference 1 hands did not perhaps 1 life was not subject 1 man had not squarely 1 man has no money A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 7082 author = Godwin, William title = Lives of the Necromancers date = keywords = Agrippa; Charles; Dee; Dunstan; East; Egypt; Elizabeth; England; Faustus; God; Gods; Greece; Henry; Ibid; James; John; Laertius; Lib; Macbeth; Pythagoras; Rome; Scotland; St.; find; great; history; king; life; man; person; place; time; year summary = future time, lays down plans which he shall be months and years in Man looks through nature, and is able to reduce its parts into a great the God should in time arrive at an extraordinary degree of sagacity manner perpetual, while a wife of our own nature is in a short time men and women in great multitudes, eminently accomplished in the arts of the God. In due time Alexander made his appearance; and he so well In the mean time these magicians appear to have produced the wonderful prince of high spirit, and at that time (1075) twenty-four years of years with great popularity and applause, but at the end of that time time he was brought to a town; and there by great good fortune, after About this time a great revolution took place in the state of So great an alarm was conceived about this time respecting the art of id = 14015 author = Hopkins, Matthew title = The Discovery of Witches date = keywords = Devill; answ; witch summary = hanged, where this Discoverer lives, for sending the Devill like a place, from whence such naturall markes proceed, as if a witch plead confessions (though made by a Witch against her selfe) he allowes not 1. He utterly denyes that confession of a Witch to be of any validity, 2. He utterly denyes that confession of a Witch, which is drawn from 3. He utterly denyes that confession of a Witch, when she confesseth 4. He utterly denyes a confession of a Witch, when it is interrogated Yes, in brief he will declare what confession of a Witch is of Gods power, who for certaine limits the Devill and the Witch; disease kills the party, not the Witch, nor the Devill, (onely the Devill knew that such a disease was predominant) and the witch heare witches confess such and such a murder, whether the party had id = 62273 author = Karkeek, Paul Q. (Paul Quick) title = Devonshire Witches date = keywords = Biddiford; Devil; Grace; Susanna; Temperance; Thomas summary = And saith that when the said Susanna was apprehended concerning Grace the body of the said Grace Thomas, which this examinant at first did that the said Black man or Devil with her, this examinant did do some this informant further saith--That the said Temperance did also confess And this Informant did hear the said Temperance confess that on Friday This informant further saith that he heard the said Temperance And this informant did hear the said Temperance confess that she this informant did hear Susanna Edwards confess, that the Devil did hear the said Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles say and confess unto the said Susanna Edwards "O thou Rogue, I will now confess all: And further saith that the said Susanna did confess that the Devil further saith that she did hear the said Susanna Edwards to confess said Grace Barnes was in great pains with prickings and stabbings unto id = 39176 author = Lee, Eliza Buckminster title = Delusion; or, The Witch of New England date = keywords = Dinah; Edith; England; God; Grafton; Lady; Mr.; New; Phoebe; Seymore; Ursula; child summary = said, "I fear your life is too solitary; your young heart yearns for It was beautiful to see the little Edith watching the mild and loving "Edith, my child," said her father, "what has happened?" "But what can we live for, if not for love?" said Edith. "And cannot you turn to God?" said Edith; "cannot you pray? Edith had felt herself all the comfort of opening her heart in prayer to "Poor child!" said the old woman; "you can weep for others, but yours is More than two years had passed since Edith''s visit to the old woman of "God grant I may be as faithful to my duty," said Edith; but this is not At the same time with Edith, a poor old woman, nearly eighty years of Edith looked in her face, and said, very kindly, "Tell me, my poor Edith thought she had touched the child''s heart, and continued: "I knew id = 32176 author = Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) title = Witch Stories date = keywords = Agnes; Alexander; Alice; Andrew; Anne; Bessie; Christian; Darrel; Devil; Edward; Elizabeth; George; God; Henry; Hopkins; Isobell; James; Jane; Jennet; Joan; John; Katherine; Lady; Lord; Margaret; Mary; Master; Matthew; Mother; Mr.; Mrs.; Richard; Robert; Samuel; Satan; Sir; Thomas; Tom; William; child; come; man; time; witch; woman summary = were like big black candles held in an old man''s hand round about the Here they met the devil, like a mickle black man, as John Fian had said, said that eighteen years ago, the devil had come to her in likeness of a witch, yow came to the said Jeane, her landlord''s house, where she was time, she said, there was a meeting, when the devil was dressed in "black not quite nine years old, was taken like the rest; and soon after Mrs. Joan, of fifteen, went the same way--only more severely handled than them said that his mother, Elizabeth Device, had a spirit like a brown dog said, too, that her spirit came to her last night, in the form of a woman a young servant girl, to whom one day came an old woman, unknown, saying witnesses said, of passing for a witch or a woman of God. The judge and id = 8503 author = Lowell, James Russell title = Among My Books. First Series date = keywords = Charles; Cromwell; Devil; Dr.; Dryden; England; English; France; God; Goethe; Greek; Hamlet; Herr; John; Johnson; Latin; London; Lord; Milton; Mr.; Nature; New; Pope; Preface; Rousseau; Shakespeare; Sir; Stahr; Voltaire; Winthrop; character; find; french; german; good; great; lessing; letter; life; like; little; long; man; mind; old; poet; thing; thought; time; verse; witch; word; work; year summary = a few weeks before his death, warning her against the example of Mrs. Behn, he says, with remorseful sincerity: "I confess I am the last man in since no man talks any kind of verse in real life. character of the man, to the weaknesses of his nature, as where he says none but poetical men.[95] He was said to be a very good man by all that Swift, says: "We speak and we write at random; and if a man''s common subsidiary, and goes only a little way toward the making of a great poet. for it will carry a man a great way in the outward successes of life, noble man in an unobtrusive way,--a kind of greatness that makes less December, 1751, and a year later Lessing calls Voltaire a "great man," me a man_." Like most men of great knowledge, as distinguished from mere id = 28513 author = Mather, Increase title = The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches date = keywords = Bishop; Book; Children; Christ; Court; Devil; Earth; England; God; Heaven; House; Lord; Martin; Men; Mr.; New; People; Persons; Salem; Satan; Spirits; Witchcraft; Witches; World; child; day; death; evidence; man; thing; witch summary = extraordinary Time of the _Devils coming down in great Wrath upon us_, Shortness of the Devil''s Time+, that all Good Men must needs desire, the Devil is come down unto you, having great Wrath, because he knows, that God is another thing that brings the _wrath_ of the Devil upon us. come in his way; such a _Tyger_ the Devil is; because God said of old, the _Devil provokes_ men that are Eminent in Holiness unto such things Then ''tis that the _Devil_ shall hear the Son of God swearing with loud perillous times shall come._ Truly, when the Devil _knows_, that he is Devil, the _Word_ of our God at the same time unto us, is that in _Rom. 16.20._ _The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet Shortly._ Devils Name, that such things are done; and in Gods Name I do this day id = 6700 author = Meinhold, Wilhelm title = Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 date = keywords = Appelmann; Barnim; Bork; CHAPTER; Clara; Dr.; Duchess; Duke; Ernest; God; Grace; Highness; Item; Johann; Lord; Marcus; Otto; Pomerania; Prince; Princess; Satan; Sidonia; Stargard; Stettin; Stramehl; Ulrich; Wolgast; footnote summary = How Sidonia makes the young Prince break his word--Item, how Clara Then the young Sidonia began to coax and caress the old Duke, Accordingly, next day I took leave of the good old man, praying said, Open the Gospel of St. John, Sidonia looked in the Old _How Sidonia makes the young Prince break his word--Item, how that the young Prince exclaimed, "Dearest Sidonia, you look like a Ulrich takes Sidonia in one hand and Prince Ernest in the other, _How Sidonia is sent away to Stettin--Item, of the young lord''s _How Sidonia is sent away to Stettin--Item, of the young lord''s So, when the old knight had let go his daughter''s hand, her Grace old Duke Barnim cried out, laughing--"Give him a kiss, Sidonia; which means he hoped soon to turn their hearts to God. Here old Ulrich laughed outright, and asked the doctor, was he id = 6701 author = Meinhold, Wilhelm title = Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 date = keywords = Anna; Bork; CHAPTER; Diliana; Dom; Dorothea; Dr.; Duke; Francis; God; Grace; Highness; Item; Jobst; Joel; Lizzie; Lord; Ludecke; Marienfliess; Old; Paasch; Philip; Pomerania; Prince; Satan; Sidonia; Stettin; Wolde; Wolgast; footnote summary = Jobst Bork takes away his daughter by force from the Duke and Dr. Joel; also is strengthened in his unbelief by Dr. Cramer--Item, "My old maid," said Sidonia, "tells me that the reverend chaplain that time, day and night, Sidonia prayed, and was never seen but stood round, and Sidonia''s old maid, Wolde, laughed likewise; but Grace heard; and when the time came for the poor people to get _What Sidonia said to these doings--Item, what our Lord God daughter said, ''If thou art not content, thou old witch, go thy little Mary, a child nearly seven years old, the same who had said God, my child said, "If the Lord goes on to bless us so little girl, a child near twelve years old, said that a few days my daughter still stood looking at this devil''s work, up came old My child straightway went to see her little god-daughter, but id = 8743 author = Meinhold, Wilhelm title = Mary Schweidler, the amber witch The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. date = keywords = Dom; God; Item; Lizzie; Lord; Majesty; Paasch; Princely; Rea; Satan; Seden; Sheriff; Streckelberg; child; old summary = daughter said, ''If thou art not content, thou old witch, go thy ways and heaviness I took my staff in my hand, seeing that my child fell away like power of the most merciful God, my child said, "If the Lord goes on to stood looking at this devil''s work, up came old Paasch--who also had heard My child straightway went to see her little god-daughter, but believed that my daughter had bewitched her little god-child? At length their worships came in and sat round the table, whereupon _Dom. Consul_ motioned the constable to fetch in my child. seeing that old Lizzie was a woman in good repute and fearing God as _Dom. Consul_ might learn for himself; but that, nevertheless, he had had her 5. That old Lizzie had most likely made the wild weather when _Dom. Consul_ was coming home with _Rea_ from the Streckelberg, seeing it was id = 42550 author = Moir, George title = Magic and Witchcraft date = keywords = Dr.; England; Fowlis; George; Germany; James; Justiciary; King; Lady; Satan; Scotland; Sir; Wurtzburg; case; confession; time; trial; witch; witchcraft summary = Hesse." The following pages formed a review of this work, which appeared strange confessions which form the great peculiarity in the witch trials, the case of the New England witches in 1696, six of the poor women who from the witch trials of different countries. strongly did this exposure of the horrors of the witch trials operate on witch trials; and in all probability the appearance of the edict of 1680 down to the reign of Mary, no trial properly for witchcraft appears on the confession; the peculiarity in this case is that, instead of the devil simple case of poisoning, he having merely resorted to a notorious witch, differ a little from the ordinary routine of the witch trials of the time. noticing the case of the ten poor women convicted on their own confession accused appears to have taken place principally on the evidence of the id = 31511 author = Notestein, Wallace title = A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 date = keywords = Anne; Bishop; County; Darrel; Devil; Elizabeth; England; Henry; Hopkins; III; Ibid; James; Jane; Joan; John; Lancashire; London; MSS; Margaret; Mary; Middlesex; Mother; Mr.; Northampton; Records; Richard; Scot; Sir; St.; Stearne; Thomas; William; Witchcraft; Witches; York; english; history; witch summary = of the witch trials from Anglo-Saxon times to Elizabeth''s accession and to English witches and witchcraft prior to the days of Elizabeth. Mrs. Lynn Linton, _Witch Stories_ (London, 1861; new ed., 1883), 144. witch trials, but a time too when but few cases were fully described. sharp dispute over its use in witch cases was just at this time going on spirits sent by several women whom he accused as witches. bewitched, supposed Witches were accused and after executed.... [6] Matthew Hopkins, _The Discovery of Witches_ (London, 1647), 2--cited hundred cases where accusations are on record less than twenty witches witchcraft; namely, that the confessions of witches might sometimes be _A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches_ (London, trial how to know whether a woman be a Witch or not._ London, 1613. Fowler, who had for many years been accounted a witch._ London, 1685. id = 17203 author = Pitts, John Linwood title = Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction date = keywords = Becquet; Collas; Collette; Devil; Diable; Guernsey; Guille; Jean; Marie; Mr.; Pierre; Sabbath; St.; Thomas; witch summary = In presenting to the public another little volume of the "Guille-Allès CONFESSIONS OF GUERNSEY WITCHES UNDER TORTURE 9 burnt afterwards; one woman was hanged for returning to the island personable and good-like woman, the said colonel replied and of having burnt nine hundred persons in fifteen years; in little girl of nine years old, are said to have been hanged widow of _Jean Becquet_; _Marie_, her daughter, wife of _Pierre Devil, in the form of a dog, having had connection with her, gave her _Marie_, wife of _Massy_, and daughter of the said _Collette_. Becquet_, son of the said old woman (who [_Collas_] held her by the his house, having called the son of _Collas Becquet_ a wizard, it Mr. Guille also opened a branch Reading-room and Library at St. Martin''s, in the hope of being able thereby to draw the young men of id = 18253 author = Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618 title = Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster date = keywords = Alizon; Anne; Arraignement; Barre; Castle; Chattox; Countie; Court; Demdike; Deuice; Elizabeth; Examinate; Examination; Footnote; Forrest; God; Grand; Iennet; Iohn; Iustices; James; John; Lancaster; Lister; Lord; M.A.; Maiesties; Manchester; Master; Mother; Nutter; Pendle; Prisoner; Rev.; Robert; Sir; Spirit; Thomas; Tower; Triall; Witchcraft; witch summary = She the said Examinate saith, That shee was sent for by the wife of this Examinates said mother told her, were Witches, and that they came The said Examinate, _Thomas Walshman_, vpon his oath saith, That hee The said Examinate vpon his oath saith, That hee hath often heard The said Examinate vpon his oath saith, That hee hath seene the there dyned at this Examinates house, which she hath said are Witches, Examinates said mother told her were Witches, and that shee knoweth Good-Friday at this Examinates said Grand-mothers house, and now this Good-Friday at this Examinates said Grand-mothers house, and now this after vpon the same day, this Examinate with his said wife working in And this Examinate further saith, That all the said Witches went out And this Examinate further saith, That all the said Witches went out persons, this Examinates said mother told her were Witches, and that id = 36312 author = Putnam, Allen title = Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism date = keywords = Ann; Boston; Burroughs; Calef; Christendom; Cotton; Devil; Elizabeth; God; Good; Hutchinson; John; Margaret; Mather; Morse; Mr.; Mrs.; Osburn; Parris; Powell; Putnam; Salem; Sarah; Satan; Tituba; Upham; Village; man; spirit summary = time and common sense, but cause human physical science to bring within immediate source of the devil''s power to act upon visible man and matter. extent of witchcraft facts, than we generally get from other persons of of Mather''s great personal witchcraft devil of supernal origin, vast spirit action upon persons and things in earth life, he cannot perhaps impersonal force at times might cause supernal knowledge and power infatuation, he could have learned from passing developments that Mrs. Hibbins probably, at times, was essentially a liberated spirit, hearing for at that day faith was common that the devil had not power to accuse a testimony to the general fact that spirit action took sensible effect upon spirits, they might be, at times, able to _sense_ the fact that forceful man or some other spirit, or even some impersonal natural force, gained spirits and the devil; and also between persons whose inner senses were id = 17209 author = Roberts, Alexander title = A Treatise of Witchcraft date = keywords = Binfeldius; Christ; Diuell; Footnote; God; Iesus; Lord; Proposition; Sathan; Smith; art; bee; cap; haue; hee; lib; man; vnto; vpon; witch summary = when God affirmeth there be such, whose words are truth, shall man dare meanes man despising God his creator & redeemer, and obeying the Diuell demerits, or by laying violent hands vpon themselues, or else God such sort, (supposing that God had sent helpe) as of their owne accord, is when God pleaseth (of which I shall haue occasion to speake more themselues slaues and vassals vnto the Diuell, hee promising, that vpon whereof they conceiued hee was a Diuell in Mans likenesse. God giueth, both the diuell, and his seruants the witches, power reasons, why God doth giue this power to the diuel ouer the righteous After this hee presented himselfe againe at sundry times, and that to [Footnote a: _Witches can by no meanes bee so easily brought to of _Manasses_, by which hee sought to prouoke God vnto anger, _2. and condemne the whole practise of this Art, as iniurious vnto God, who id = 14461 author = Scott, Walter title = Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft date = keywords = Barclay; Bessie; Church; Dr.; Earl; Edinburgh; England; Footnote; George; God; Isobel; James; John; King; Lady; Lord; Margaret; Mr.; North; Queen; Reid; Rome; Samuel; Satan; Scotland; Sir; Thomas; Thome; William; Witchcraft; case; christian; man; person; scottish; time; witch summary = spirit of the deceased existing, without possessing or having the power friend, should at length place before his eyes in person the appearance years borne the character of a man of unusual steadiness, good sense, Supposing the powers of the witch to be limited, in the time of Moses, second time, the witch disguised her son under the appearance of a tame popular calumny, placed the poor old woman in a small house near his own that on the day which he pretended to see the said witches at the house evil-disposed persons called witches (though I hear your minister is far by ignorant persons to counteract the supposed witchcraft; the use of Superstition--Case of supposed Witchcraft, related from the Author''s death of those persons in the trial of the Irvine witches. persons in the common way of finding out witches, and in the means made id = 43651 author = Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) title = Irish Witchcraft and Demonology date = keywords = Bishop; Court; Dame; Devil; Dr.; England; Florence; God; Ireland; James; John; Lord; Maid; Mary; Mr.; Newton; Rev.; Scotland; Sir; William; irish; witch summary = people at the present day a book on Witchcraft in Ireland would be of books on witchcraft would, naturally, be the result of witch-trials, but remarkable witch case of that time, the trial of Florence Newton in 1661, Therewith came the said woman of Ireland, The next notice of witchcraft in Ireland occurs in the year 1578, when a appearance in Ireland, this time far south, at Youghal. said Florence came to the Deponent, at the house of John Pyne in matter in some mysterious way, it again appeared, this time in a great matter, and advised him the next time the spirit appeared to ask it the infer that trials for witchcraft had taken place in Ireland, of which Law A few years later a witch-story comes from the north of Ireland, and is witchcraft in Ireland from its first appearance to the present day, and as id = 12288 author = Taylor, John M. (John Metcalf) title = The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) date = keywords = Connecticut; Court; Elizabeth; England; God; Goodwife; Goody; Harrison; Hartford; John; Knapp; Ludlow; Mary; Mercy; Mr.; Mris; New; Records; Salem; Satan; Staplyes; Thomas; William; Witchcraft summary = Goodyeare said that one time she questioned wth Elizabeth Godmand aboute "Elizabeth Lamberton saith that one time ye chilldren came downe & said wife, the Witch and her execution, said that she came downe from the said Knapps wife told him that goodwife Staplies was a witch; thirdly, the passages concerning Knapps wife the witch, and her execution, said the said goodwife Staplyes they were Indian gods, as the Indian called that aboute a day after goodwife Knapp was condemned for a witch, Mris. were witches teates wch were found aboute her, the said Knapp, wn the all together at the prison house where goodwife Knapp was, and ye said that she was a witch, vpon wch goodwife Staplies said, why should she, Goodwife Knapp said she must not say anything wch is not true, hee remembred not that Knapps wife said a woman in the towne was a witch id = 26978 author = Upham, Charles Wentworth title = Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather: A Reply date = keywords = Boston; Burroughs; Calef; Cotton; Council; Court; Devil; England; God; Goodwin; Governor; John; Judges; Mather; Ministers; Mr.; New; Phips; Rev.; Reviewer; Salem; Sewall; William; Witchcraft; York summary = diabolical agency, possessions, apparitions, and the like, he says, "Mr. Increase Mather hath already published many such histories of things The Reviewer charges me with having wronged Cotton Mather, by sentence, referring to Cotton Mather''s agency, in the Goodwin case, in In considering Cotton Mather''s connection with the case of the Goodwin very decidedly, in the following passages: [_Pp. 95, 96, 101._] "Mr. Cotton Mather, no longer since than 1690, published the case of one after mentioning the fact that Cotton Mather had published an account of Cotton Mather to John Richards, called by the Reviewer "his Letter to In his _Life of Sir William Phips_, Cotton Mather has this paragraph: Examinations with the Trials--in stating that Cotton Mather rendered _Autograph Letter of COTTON MATHER, on Witchcraft, presented to the HISTORY OF OPINION AS TO COTTON MATHER''S CONNECTION WITH SALEM view given in my book of Cotton Mather''s connection with Salem id = 42318 author = Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) title = The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge''s Dream date = keywords = Christians; Church; Corey; God; Holy; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nurse; Parris; Planchette; Rebecca; Salem; Satan; Tragedy; Upham; Vol; mind; person; spirit summary = ignorant old women; whereas, in his day, they had come to be persons spirit or mind, regarded as in direct opposition to the world of matter. of her own mind at the time; and when frivolous questions are asked, minds of the persons present, although it frequently gives theories in his wife''s mind when she asked the question, were supposed to be stated that those young persons whose hands were on the Planchette knew _I._ True, but the Bible calls the spirits thus communicating, "familiar medium at all; and why spirits can not, as a general rule, communicate foundation of a new thought in your mind by asking, Do you know of any How shall a good and Christian person who knows and has felt the truth not." This Satan was a person ever present in the mind of Christ. faith in spirits; minds which are empty, swept of all spiritual belief, id = 22822 author = Williams, Howard title = The Superstitions of Witchcraft date = keywords = Bacon; Bishop; CHAPTER; Christendom; Christian; Church; Dr.; England; English; Europe; France; Germany; God; James; John; Lord; Magic; Mr.; Parliament; Satan; Scotland; Sir; Spain; St.; Thomas; Witchcraft; devil; great; history; witch summary = of the Number of Witches who suffered Death in England and World of Spirits,'' &c.--Witch Trial at Bury St. Edmund''s The reputed witch, both in ancient and modern times, very often such as are said to be witches are women which be commonly old, body.[47] If, however, the proper vulgar witch is an old woman, all the people--the first witch, it is said, ever burned in or deformity, as like an old man (for so the witches say); and, Three Sorts of Witches--Various Modes of Witchcraft--Manner Three Sorts of Witches--Various Modes of Witchcraft--Manner authority--Nider--Witch-case at Warboys--Evidence adduced at authority--Nider--Witch-case at Warboys--Evidence adduced at witches contracting with devils, spirits, or their familiars, and said the witches demanded of the devil why he did bear such Nature of Witches and Witchcraft: being Advice to Judges, Witchcraft.'' Towards the close of the century witch-trials still found all their witchcraft was gone: and the devil at this time id = 43966 author = Wood, J. Maxwell (John Maxwell) title = Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland date = keywords = Aiken; Andrew; April; Castle; Dalry; Davidson; Devil; Dumfries; Galloway; God; James; Janet; Jean; John; Kirkcudbright; Kirkmaiden; Lord; Mackie; Maxwell; Minister; Nithsdale; Parish; Robert; Sanquhar; Satan; Scotland; Session; Sir; Thomas; Tower; William; day; ghost; house; illustration; witch summary = "At a farm-house in the vicinity of Logan an old woman, a reputed witch, one day took his courage in both hands and turned the witch at the gate. farm-house of Blackaddie, and the good man told the servant girl to carry came a second time to her, being in Janet''s house alone, in the likeness house, and stayed there all night, and the said John going to her and left the said John in a rage, and within about four days his wife took house since that time, and the said Robert declares that he has still the two years ago Jean M''Murrie came to his house and sought his horse, and said Jean Davidson at her father''s house at Killymingan, in the Parish of but the said Jean Davidson, having by this time got into the use of her the Minister of the said parish (who was present several times, and was