Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands by John Linwood Pitts
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page 41 of 87 (47%)
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The Devil appeared sometimes in the form of a goat at the Sabbath; never saw him in other forms: on their departure he made them kiss him behind, and asked them when they would come again: he exhorted them always to be true to him: and to do evil deeds, and to this end he gave them certain black powders, wrapped in a cloth, for them to throw upon those whom they wished to bewitch: on leaving the Sabbath, the Devil went away in one direction and they in the other: after he had taken them all by the hand: At the instigation of the Devil she threw some of the powder over several persons and cattle: notably over _Jean Jehan_, when he came to her house to look for a pig. Item, over the child of _James Gallienne_, and over others. Item, over the cattle of _Brouart_, and of others. It was the Devil that was seen at the said _Gallienne's_ house in the form of a rat and a weazle, she herself being then in the neighbourhood of _Gallienne's_ house, and he [the Devil] came to her in the form of a man, and struck her several blows on the face and head: by which she was bruised and torn in the way that she was seen the next day by _Thomas Sohier_. And she believed that the cause of this maltreatment was because she would not go with the Devil to the house of the said _Gallienne_. She never went to the Sabbath except when her husband remained all night fishing at sea. Whenever she wanted to bewitch anyone and her powder happened to have been all used up, the Devil appeared to her and told her to go to such a place, which he named, for some more, and when she did so, she never failed to find it there. |
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