The history of the devils of Loudun ; the alleged possession of the Ursuline nuns, and the trial and execution of Urbain Grandier, told by an eye-witness. Translated from the original French, and edited by Edmund Goldsmid.
- Des Niau.
- Date:
- 1887-88
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of the devils of Loudun ; the alleged possession of the Ursuline nuns, and the trial and execution of Urbain Grandier, told by an eye-witness. Translated from the original French, and edited by Edmund Goldsmid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![impressed on the magician priest, suffering from extraordinary troubles, was of course said by the sometimes like a little teate, sometimes but a blewish spot; and I myself have seen it in the body of a con- fessing witch, like a little powder-mark, of a blea colour, somewhat hard, and withall insensible, so as it did not bleed when I pricked it.—A Discourse of Witchcraft, by Mr. John Bell, Minister of the Gospel at Gladsmuir, 1705, MS. [Quoted by T, D. Morison in his Edition of Sharpe's Witchcraft.] In another prmted Tract, by the saiie author, entitled, The Trial of Witchcraft j or Witchcraft Arraigned and Condemned, in some answers to a few (Questions anent Witches and Witchcraft, wherein is shewed how to know if one be a Witch, as also when one is bewitched : With some Observations upon the Witch's Mark, their compact with the Devil, the White Witches, &c.—he says, The witch mark is sometimes like a blew spot, or a little teate, or reid spots, like flea biting ; sometimes also the flesh is sunk in, and hollow, and this is put in secret places, as among the hair of the head, or eye-brows, within the lips, under the arm-pits, and even in the most secret parts of the body. Mr. Robert Kirk, minister at Aberfoill, in his Secret Commonwealth, describes the witch's mark— A spot that I have seen, as a small mole, horny, and brown-coloured j throw which mark, when a large brass pin was thrust, (both in buttock, nose, and rooft' of the mouth,) till it bowed and became crooked, the witches, both men and women, nather felt a pain nor did bleed, nor knew the precise time when this was doing to them, (their eyes only being covered.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070325_0115.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
