The darker superstitions of Scotland, illustrated from history and practice / By John Graham Dalyell, F.A.S.E.

  • John Graham Dalyell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The darker superstitions of Scotland, illustrated from history and practice / By John Graham Dalyell, F.A.S.E. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ever I had adoe with that witch Janet Cock, for shoe has been at my bed syd all this night standing, and I could not get red of her:—And behold the fruit of it, my child is dead !’”* Supernatural faculties were generally ascribed fo the instruction of Satan—as the arch-enemy of man- kind, ever ready in finding instruments to wreak his vengeance on them.f Thus he taught Jonet Irving, “ if she bure ill-will to onie bodie,” to look on them “ with opin eyis, and pray evill for thame in his name,” <e that she sould get her heartis desyre.,JJ The most trivial incidents were treasured carefully in remembrance, to corroborate the sorcerer’s design ; and industriously enrolled in the catalogue of supersti- tious practices. One reached Henry Janies house, <c with a stoup in hir hand, with the boddome formest, and sat down ryght foment the said Henrie, and gantit thryce on him :—and going furth he followit hir ; * Records of the Court of Justiciary in MS. 10 September, 11 No- vember 1661. Trial of Jonet Cock. It is necessary to observe, that if the original passages be abbreviated, it is only by the omission of mere redundancies, or of passages which are not pertinent to the essence of the argument. By the style of an indictment, a narrative of the offence is addressed to the accused, who, when put on trial, is called the pannel. This record is designated, the Books of Adjournal. The author was in- debted to the late Mr James Anderson, deputy-clerk of court, for the most liberal access to the whole during thirty years. Or, i.e. before. Jeane Forrest, her chyld—Jeane Forrest’s child, f Scribonius de Sagarum Natura, fol. 43. [A.D. 1585. f. 53.] J Trial of Jonet Irwing, 5th March 1616. Rec. Ork. f. 60.
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