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.

BY

JOHN LINWOOD PITTS,

_Membre de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie._

_Editor of "The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands;" "The Sermon on
the Mount and the Parable of the Sower, in the Franco-Norman Dialects
of Guernsey and Sark," &c., &c._


Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

--EXODUS xxii, 18.