Letters on demonology and witchcraft. Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
- Walter Scott
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters on demonology and witchcraft. Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the company you saw, and shall 1)0 till the day of judg-ment.” He added, that if the butler had acknowledged God in all his ways, he had not suffered so much by their means ; he reminded him that he had not prayed to God in the morning before he met with this company in the field, and, moreover, that he was then going on an tmlau'ful business. It is pretended that Lord Orreiy confirmed the whole of this story, even to having seen the butler raised into the air by the invisible beings who strove to cany him otf. Only he did not bear witness to the passage which seems to call the pm-chase of cards an unlawful errand.* Individuals whose lives have been engaged in intrigues of politics or stratagems of war, were sometimes surreptitiously carried off to Fairy land ; as Ahson Pearson, the sorceress who cured Arch- bishop Adamson, averred that she had recognised in the Fairy couit the celebrated Secretary Lething- ton and the old Knight of Buccleuch, the one of whom had been the most busy politician, and the other one of the most unwearied jiartisans of Queen Mary, during the reign of that unfortunate queen. U] )on the whole, persons carried otf by sudden death were usually suspected of having fallen into the hands of the fairies, and unless redeemed from their power, which it was not always safe to attempt, were doomed to conclude their hves with them. We must not omit to state, that those who had an intimate communication with these spirits, while they were yet inhabitants of middle earth, were • Sadducismus Triumphatus, by Joseph Glanville. Edinburgh, 1700, p. 131.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029667_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
