By Margaret Alice Murray
This booklet has been professionally retyped and reformatted to slot modern-day criteria by means of officers of the Portuguese Institute of upper reports in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences. The mass of current fabric in this topic is so nice that i haven't tried to make a survey of the complete of eu 'Witchcraft', yet have constrained myself to an extensive examine of the cult in nice Britain. so as, notwithstanding, to procure a clearer knowing of the ritual and ideology i've got had recourse to French and Flemish assets, because the cult appears to be like to were an analogous all through Western Europe. the hot England files are regrettably no longer released in extenso; this can be the extra unlucky because the extracts already given to the general public sometimes throw gentle on a few of the English practices. it really is more challenging to track the English practices than the Scotch or French, for in England the cult used to be already in a decadent while the documents have been made; for this reason documents in a in simple terms English colony may most likely include a lot of curiosity. The assets from which the data is taken are the judicial documents and modern chroniclers. in terms of the chroniclers i've got studied their evidence and never their evaluations. i've got additionally had entry to a few unpublished trials one of the Edinburgh Justiciary documents and likewise within the Guernsey Greffe.
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A true and full Relation of the Witches of Pittenweem, p. 10,--Sinclair, p. lxxxix. 2. Sharpe, p. 191. 3. Camden Society, Lady Alice Kyteler, p. 3. 4. Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, p. 687. 5. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 123. 6. Bodin, p. 226. 7. Boguet, pp. 8, 96]. [1] Silvain Nevillon, tried at Orleans in 1614, 'dit que le Sabbat se tenoit dans vne maison, où il vit à la cheminée com{m}e ledit Sabbat se faisoit, vn homme noir, duquel on ne voyoit point la teste. Vit aussi vn grand homme noir à l'opposite de celuy de la cheminée.
164. 9. Chambers, iii, p. 298. 10. Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 316. 11. Sinclair, p. ] (b) Woman The Queen of Elphin, or Elfhame, is sometimes called the Devil, and it is often impossible to distinguish between her and the Devil when the latter appears as a woman. Whether she was the same as the French Reine du Sabbat is equally difficult to determine. The greater part of the evidence regarding the woman-devil is from Scotland. In 1576 Bessie Dunlop's evidence shows that Thom Reid, who was to her what the Devil was to witches, was under the orders of the Queen of Elfhame: 'Interrogat, Gif sche neuir askit the questioun at him, Quhairfoir he com to hir mair [than] ane vthir bodye?
The wretched Fian was faced with death either way; if he retracted his confession, he would die as a criminal by the hands of the law; if he held to it, he would die as a traitor by the hands of his comrades. There was no alternative. All that day he 'continued verie solitarie', calling upon God, but by night he had made his choice and fled. He apparently escaped without difficulty. The story of his stealing the keys of his own cell and of the prison door is absurd; the escape was obviously effected by connivance just as later on Bothwell's own escape was effected.