Scribbleomania; or, the printer's devil's Polychronicon. A sublime poem / Edited by Anser Pen-drag-on, Esq. [pseud.] [i.e. S.W.H. Ireland].

  • William Henry Ireland
Date:
1815
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Credit: Scribbleomania; or, the printer's devil's Polychronicon. A sublime poem / Edited by Anser Pen-drag-on, Esq. [pseud.] [i.e. S.W.H. Ireland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This writer, abounding with taults, still possesses A pathos which often the reader impresses. Those gentlemen, who, quite serene, Bow’d necks to chopper Guillotine; And made a boast of /right-cap red, 9 Having nought else to cover head. (a) Of witches, and the estimation in which they were held among the Danes and Anglo Saxons, there are some curious notes in Erin’s Rauga Saga, and other Icelandic annals. The description of the witch Thorbiorga, and her interview with Earl Thorchill, is particularly curious. She is represented as the only survivor of nine sisters, all witches or fortune-tellers, and frequented public entertainments, when invited. Earl Thorchill, to ascertain when a sickness or famine would cease, which then raged, sent for, and made preparations for the re- ception of Thorbiorga. On her arrival in the evening, she was dressed in a gown of green cloth, buttoned from top to bottom; about her neck was a string of glass beads, and her head was covered with the skin of a black lamb, lined with that ot a white cat; her shoes were of calf’s skin with the hair on, tied with thongs, and fastened with brass buttons; and on her hands w ere a pair of gloves of white cat’s skin, with the fur inward; about her waist she wore a Hunlandic girdle, at which hung a
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