The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins
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turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore.
4. _Sack and Sugar_, like a black Rabbet. 5. _Newes_, like a Polcat. All these vanished away in a little time. Immediately after this Witch confessed severall other Witches, from whom she had her _Imps_, and named to divers women where their marks were, the number of their _Marks_, and _Imps_, and _Imps_ names, as _Elemanzer_, _Pyewacket_, _Peckin the Crown_, _Grizzel_, _Greedigut_, _&c._ which no mortall could invent; and upon their searches the same Markes were found, the same number, and in the same place, and the like confessions from them of the same Imps, (though they knew not that we were told before) and so peached one another thereabouts that joyned together in the like damnable practise that in our Hundred in _Essex_, 29. were condemned at once, 4. brought 25. Miles to be hanged, where this Discoverer lives, for sending the Devill like a Beare to kill him in his garden, so by seeing diverse of the mens Papps, and trying wayes with hundreds of them, he gained this experience, and for ought he knowes any man else may find them as well as he and his company, if they had the same skill and experience. Quer. 5. _Many poore People are condemned for having a Pap, or Teat about them, whereas many People (especially antient People) are, and have been a long time troubled with naturall wretts on severall parts of their bodies and other naturall excressencies, as Hemerodes, Piles, Childbearing, &c. and these shall be judged |
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