Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853

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and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20368]
Language: English
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 191.] Saturday, June 25, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
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Witchcraft in Somersetshire 613
"Emblemata Horatiana," by Weld Taylor 614
Shakspeare Criticism, by Thomas Keightley 615
Red Hair a Reproach, by T. Hughes 616
Extracts from Newspapers, 1714, by E. G. Ballard 616
MINOR NOTES:--Last Suicide buried at a Cross Road. --Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Lexicon-- Slang Expressions--"Quem Deus vult perdere"-- White Roses 617
QUERIES:--
"Merk Lands" and "Ures:" Norwegian Antiquities 618
The Leigh Peerage, and Stoneley Estates, Warwickshire 619
MINOR QUERIES:--Phillips Family--Engine-à-verge --Garrick's Funeral Epigram--The Rosicrucians-- Passage in Schiller--Sir John Vanbrugh--Historical Engraving--Hall-close, Silverstone, Northamptonshire --Junius's Letters to Wilkes--The Reformer's Elm--How to take Paint off old Oak 619
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Cadenus and Vanessa --Boom--"A Letter to a Member of Parliament" --Ancient Chessmen--Guthryisms 620
REPLIES:--
Correspondence of Cranmer and Calvin, by Henry Walter 621
"Populus vult decipi," by Robert Gibbings, &c. 621
Latin: Latiner 622
Jack 622
Passage in St. James, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 623
Faithfull Teate 624
Parvise 624
The Coenaculum of Lionardo da Vinci 624
Font Inscriptions, by F. B. Relton, &c. 625
Burn at Croydon 626
Christian Names, by William Bates, &c. 626
Weather Rules 627
Rococo, by Henry H. Breen 627
Descendants of John of Gaunt, by J. S. Warden 628
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem 628
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Anticipatory Worship of the Cross--Ennui--"Qui facit per alium, facit per se," &c.--Vincent Family--Judge Smith--"Dimidiation" in Impalements--Worth--"Elementa sex," &c.--"A Diasii 'Salve,'" &c.--Meaning of "Claret" --"The Temple of Truth"--Wellborne Family --Devonianisms--Humbug--George Miller, D.D. --"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire--Ferdinand Mendez Pinto--"Other-some" and "Unneath" --Willow Pattern--Cross and Pile--Old Fogie --Another odd Mistake--Spontaneous Combustion --Erroneous Forms of Speech--Ecclesia Anglicana-- Gloves at Fairs--The Sparrows at Lindholme, &c. 629
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 634
Notices to Correspondents 634
Advertisements 634
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Notes.
WITCHCRAFT IN SOMERSETSHIRE.
Perhaps the following account of superstitions now entertained in some parts of Somersetshire, will be interesting to the inquirers into the history of witchcraft. I was lately informed by a member of my congregation that two children living near his house were bewitched. I made inquiries into the matter, and found that witchcraft is by far less uncommon than I had imagined. I can hardly adduce the two children as an authenticated case, because the medical gentleman who attended them pronounced their illness to be a kind of ague: but I leave the two following cases on record in "N. & Q." as memorable instances of witchcraft in the nineteenth century.
A cottager, who does not live five minutes' walk from my house, found his pig seized with a strange and unaccountable disorder. He, being a sensible man, instead of asking the advice of a veterinary surgeon, immediately went to the white witch (a gentleman who drives a flourishing trade in this neighbourhood). He received his directions, and went home and implicitly followed them. In perfect silence, he went to the pigsty; and lancing each foot and both ears of the pig, he allowed the blood to run into a piece of common dowlas. Then taking two large pins, he pierced the dowlas in opposite directions; and still keeping silence, entered his cottage, locked the door, placed the bloody rag upon the fire, heaped up some turf over it, and reading a few verses of the Bible, waited till the dowlas was burned. As soon as this was done, he returned to the pigsty; found his pig perfectly restored to health, and, mirabile dictu! as the white witch had predicted, the old woman, who it was supposed had bewitched the pig, came to inquire after the pig's health. The animal never suffered a day's illness afterwards. My informant was the owner of the pig himself.
Perhaps, when I heard this story, there may have been a lurking expression of doubt upon my face, so that my friend thought it necessary to give me farther proof.