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of Eyemouth--Isabella
Young of Eastbarns burned at the Castlehill 519
CHAPTER LXI.
The Demon of Jedburgh--An Apparition--Witch shot in the form of a
Cat--Auldearne Witch--Sabbath Meetings with Satan--Farmer
Breadley--Disinterring Unbaptised Children--Singularly-constructed
Plough and Team--Attempt to shoot a Minister--Borrowstounness

Witches--A Pittenweem Witch--An Unearthly Horse--Merciful View of
a Witch's Case--A Perthshire Witch--Water of Ruthven Well--A
Changeling 524
CHAPTER LXII.
Witchcraft in Aberdeen--Dean of Guild rewarded for his Diligence in
burning Witches--Expense of burning Witches--The Marquis of
Huntly's Desire to punish Witches--Action of the Presbytery anent
Witches--Man under the Protection of the Fairy Queen--Strathdown
Witches--Riding on Brooms--Crossing the Spey in
Riddles--Disappearance of Witches--Madge M'Donald of
Tomintoul--Witches' Pool--A Mountain Tale--Girl controlling the
Elements--Witch Burned--Caithness Witches--One of the Evil
Sisterhood--Investigation by the Sheriff--Margaret Nin-Gilbert--Helen
Andrew--Shetland Witches--An Orkney Lady--Mary Lamont of
Innerkip 529
CHAPTER LXIII.
Neither Police nor Medical Men much required in Olden
Times--Instrument of Torture--Torture declared Illegal--Berkly
Witch--Attempt on the Life of Edward II.--Master John of
Nottingham--Escape of Coventry Necromancers from Justice--Rutland
Family bewitched--A Pendle Witch--Strange Narrative--Essex
Witches--Witches of Northamptonshire--Bullet-proof Witch--Drawing
Blood above the Temples--Anne Bodenham foretelling how a Law Plea
would be decided--Strange Proceedings--Discovering Concealed
Poison--Performing Spirits--Ride to London through the
Air--Impenitent Witch 538
CHAPTER LXIV.
Paying Blackmail to Witches--Demon of Tedworth--A Persecuted
Family prayed for--Unaccountable Sounds and Sights--Drummer found
guilty of Sorcery--Raising Storms--A Wizard in Cromwell's
Army--Aldermen's Children bewitched--Man kissed to Death--Witch

unable to say the Lord's Prayer--A Taunton Witch--Bewitched
Cattle--Mode of discovering a Witch--Selling a Soul to the
Devil--Witch Executed--A Song of the Seventeenth Century 547
CHAPTER LXV.
Elizabeth Style's Confession--Signing a Covenant with Blood--Alice
Duke, Anne Bishop, and Mary Penny--Somerset Witches--Running
backwards round a Church--Compact with Satan--Accusation against
Sarah Morduck--A Judge's Opinion of Witchcraft--Supposed Sufferer
from Witchcraft prayed for in the Church, and a Subscription raised for
him--Falsely accusing a Woman of Witchcraft--Witch and Stolen
Plate--Charm for Sore Eyes--Flames issuing from a Bewitched Person's
Mouth--Tormenting a Witch--Jane Wenham's Witchcrafts and
Trial--The last Persons who suffered in England for Witchcraft--List of
Persons who suffered as Witches 552
CHAPTER LXVI.
Scotchmen and Englishmen in America--Superstition in the Back
Settlements--Witchcraft in New England--Rev. Cotton Mather's View
of Witchcraft--Judges and Witnesses overawed by Witches--Bewitched
Persons prayed for--Trial of Susan Martin--Absurd
Evidence--Witchcraft in Sweden--Commission of Inquiry--Day of
Humiliation appointed on account of Witchcraft--Threescore and Ten
Witches in a Village--Children engaged in Witchery put to Death--The
Devil bound with an Iron Chain--An Angel's Warning Voice--Witch
assaulting Ministers--Witches' Imps--Butter of Witches--Witches
Punished--Horse Burned 558
CHAPTER LXVII.
Superstition in France--Pope John XXII. celebrated in the History of
Sorcery and Magic--A Bishop skinned alive and torn by Horses for
Witchcraft--King Philippe and Superstition--Extracting Teeth without
Pain--Berne Witch--Sorcerers in Navarre--Demoniacal
Operations--Witches meeting their Deserts--Maria Renata's

Witchcrafts--Nuns possessed of Devils--Jeanne D'Arc--Credulity of
France and England--Fairies of Domremi--Charmed Tree--Sparkling
Spring--Jeanne's Heavenly Mission--Maid at the head of Troops--Her
Achievements--Siege of Orleans--Great Victories--Dauphin
Crowned--Heroine Betrayed--Charmed Sword--Jeanne's
Surrender--King's Ingratitude--Great Rejoicing at the Maid's
Downfall--Attempt to Escape--Trial and Condemnation--Maid
Burned--A White Dove rising from her Ashes 564
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SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
Generality of Superstition--The Church and Superstition--St.
Mourie--Various Modes of Superstition--Charms--Lucky and Unlucky
Times--Sailors' and Fishermen's Delusions--Weddings, Funerals, and
Baptisms--Spae-wives--May Dew--Holy-days--Kirk-session
Records--Fort-William Fisherman--Dipping in
Fountains--Lochmanur--Holy Well of Kilvullen--Well of
Craiguck--Superstition in the Highlands--Warlock Willox--Superstition
in Dundee 572
CHAPTER LXIX.
Ghost at Sea--Ghosts in Edinburgh--Fear of Ghosts in
Glasgow--Fortune-telling--Choice of Lovers, how decided--Irish
Story--How a Ghost settled a Land Question--Prophecy respecting the
Argyll Family--Yetholm Gipsies--Curses--Superstition among
Fishermen--Superstition among Seamen--Providing for the Dead--A
Warning--Blood Stains--Hallow-e'en at Balmoral--Faith in Dreams, etc.
583
CHAPTER LXX.
Lizzie M'Gill, the Fifeshire Spae-wife--Predicting a Storm--Servants

alarmed--Prediction fulfilled--Adam Donald, an Aberdeenshire
Prophet--His Predictions and Cures--His Marriage--The Wise Woman
of Kincardineshire--The Recruiting Sergeant--High-spirited
Lady--Charmed Ring and its Effects--Elopement and Marriage--An
Enraged Father--Life in America--Strong-minded Women 597
CHAPTER LXXI.
Superstition at Chelmsford--Woman Bewitched--Old
Zadkiel--Incantation in Somerset--Turning the Bible and Key--Woman
assuming the form of a Hare--Ruling the Stars--Superstition in
London--How to preserve Children from Disease--Dreams
fulfilled--Virtue of Holly and Ivy--Legend concerning the Tichborne
Family--Romantic Divorce Case 608
CHAPTER LXXII.
Spiritualism--Spiritualism not a new Delusion--Phantoms at a
Seance--Juggling of a Medium--Unsuccessful Effort at a Vulgar
Deception--Spiritualists Exposed--A Medium's Deception
discovered--Foolish Exhibitions--Russian Peasants and their House
Spirits--Spirits' Care over Persons and Property--Death, Pestilence,
War, and other Evils foretold by Spirits--A Suggestion 622
CHAPTER LXXIII.
Superstition in Roman Catholic Countries--Miracle-working Images,
etc.--Image paying Homage to the Virgin Mary--Madonnas at
Trastevere--Miraculous Cures--Superstitious Ceremony at
Dieppe--Blessing the Neva--Superstitious Belief of Napoleon's
Mother--Trust in Amulets--Zulu Superstition--Witchcraft forbidden by
Great Britain--Eating Fetish--Superstition among the
Ashantees--Endeavour to prevent the Advance of the British
Army--Shah of Persia's Talismans--Indian Princes consulting
Fortune-tellers--Procuring Rain in India--Mysterious Lights on the
River St. Lawrence--The Queen of Hearts--Superstition in
America--Superstitious Artists--Hogarth's last Picture, "The End of all

Things" 629

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF SUPERSTITION.
CHAPTER I.
Rise and Progress of Superstition--The Serpent--Cain's Departure from
the true Worship--Worship of the Sun, Moon, and Stars--Strange Story
of Abraham--The Gods of Antiquity--Ether, Air, Land, and Water filled
with