Copy 1, Volume 1

Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright.

  • Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
Date:
1846
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    his childe taken lame, a girle of ten yeares olde, and such a paine in her backe, that she could not sit upright. He went to that woman; she told him he had some badde neighbour—the childe was forespoken, as he had suspected. Marry, if he would- goe home, and bring her some of the clothes which the child lay in all night, shee would tell him certainely. He went home, and put a table-napkin about her necke all night, and in the morning tooke it with | him; and shee told him the girle was bewitched indeede, and so told him what hee should doe: and he had remedy. The girle is as well at this day, and a pretty quicke girle. There was another of my neighbours had his wife much troubled, and he went to her, and shee told him his wife was haunted with a fairy. I cannot tell what she bad him doe, but the woman is merry at this howre. I have heard—I dare not say it is so—that shee weareth about her Saint John’s Gospel, or some part of it. ... If I had heard but of one [cunning person], I should have gone ere this time; and I am glad that I met with you. ... We have a schoolmaister that is a good prettie scholler, they say, in the Latine tongue, one M. B.; he is gone to my house even now; I pray you let me entreat you to go thither, you two may reason the matter. * Dan. Well, I will goe with you. “ Sam. Wife, I have brought an olde friende of mine ; I pray thee, bid him welcome. ““ The Wife. He is verie welcome. But trulie, man, I am angrie with you, and halfe out of patience, that you go not to seek helpe against yonder same olde beast: I have another hen déad this night. Other men can seeke remedy. Here is M. B. tells me, that the goode wife R. all the laste weeke could not make her butter come. She never rested