The History of the Witch-Cult in Western Europe. Margaret Murray
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form of a deer or fawn'.218 The bear is still rarer, as I have found it only twice—once in Lorraine, and once in Lancashire. In 1589 'es haben die Geister auch etwann Lust sich in Gestalt eines Bären zu erzeigen'.219 In 1613 Anne Chattox declared that the Devil 'came vpon this Examinate in the night time: and at diuerse and sundry times in the likenesse of a Beare, gaping as though he would haue wearied (worried) this Examinate. And the last time of all shee, this Examinate, saw him, was vpon Thursday last yeare but one, next before Midsummer day, in the euening, like a Beare, and this Examinate would not then speake vnto him, for the which the said Deuill pulled this Examinate downe.'220
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27. Danaeus, E 1, ch. iv.
28. Gaule, p. 62.
29. Cannaert, p. 45.
30. Spalding Club Miscellany, i, pp. 171, 172.
31. De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 398, 399.
32. Id., L'Incredulité, p. 801.
33. Baines, i, p. 607 note. For the name Mamillion see Layamon's Brut, p. 155, Everyman Library.
34. Bourignon, Vie, p. 222.—Hale, p. 37.
35. Pitcairn, iii, pp. 605, 607, 613.
36. Hale, p. 58.
37. Surtees Soc., xl, pp. 191, 193.
38. Fountainhall, i. 15.
39. Howell, vi, 660.—J. Hutchinson, ii, p. 31.
40. Alse Gooderidge, pp. 9, 10.
41. Boguet, p. 54.
42. Wonderfull Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer, C 4, rev.
43. County Folklore, iii, Orkney, pp. 103, 107-8.
44. Stearne, pp. 28, 38
45. Highland Papers, iii, pp. 16, 17.
46. It is possible that the shoe was cleft like the modern 'hygienic' shoe. Such a shoe is described in the ballad of the Cobler of Canterbury, date 1608, as part of a woman's costume:
'Her sleevës blue, her traine behind,
With silver hookes was tucked, I find;
Her shoës broad, and forked before.'
47. Danaeus, ch. iv.
48. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 69.
49. Cooper, Pleasant Treatise, p. 2.
50. Burns Begg, p. 217.
51. Examination of John Walsh.
52. Potts, D 3, B 2.
53. Baines, i, p. 607 note.
54. Hale, p. 46.
55. Howell, iv, 833, 836, 840, 854-5.
56. Stearne, p. 13.—Davenport, p. 13.
57. Stearne, pp. 22, 29, 30.
58. Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 136, 137, 147, 149, 156, 161-5.
59. Hale, p. 58.
60. Petto, p. 18.
61. Denham Tracts, ii, p. 301.
62. Howell, viii, 1035.
63. Elinor Shaw and Mary Phillips, p. 6.
64. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 51-6.
65. Id., i, pt. ii, p. 162.
66. Id., i, pt. ii, pp. 245-6, 239. Spelling modernized.
67. Melville, pp. 395-6.
68. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 210.
69. Spalding Club Miscellany, i, pp. 124, 127, 164, 172.
70. Pitcairn, ii, p. 537.
71. County Folklore, iii, p. 103. Orkney.