Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 67 pages of information about Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands.

Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 67 pages of information about Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands.

That the Devil having come to fetch her that she might go to the Sabbath, called for her without anyone perceiving it:  and gave her a certain black ointment with which (after having stripped herself), she rubbed her back, belly and stomach:  and then having again put on her clothes, she went out of her door, when she was immediately carried through the air at a great speed:  and she found herself in an instant at the place of the Sabbath, which was sometimes near the parochial burial-ground:  and at other times near the seashore in the neighbourhood of Rocquaine Castle:  where, upon arrival, she met often fifteen or sixteen Wizards and Witches with the Devils who were there in the form of dogs, cats, and hares:  which Wizards and Witches she was unable to recognise, because they were all blackened and disfigured:  it was true, however, that she had heard the Devil summon them by their names, and she remembered among others those of Fallaise and Hardie; confessed that on entering the Sabbath:  the Devil wishing to summon them commenced with her sometimes.  Admitted that her daughter Marie, wife of Massy, now condemned for a similar crime, was a Witch:  and that she took her twice to the Sabbath with her:  at the Sabbath, after having worshipped the Devil, who used to stand up on his hind legs, they had connection with him under the form of a dog; then they danced back to back.  And after having danced, they drank wine (she did not know what colour it was), which the Devil poured out of a jug into a silver or pewter goblet; which wine did not seem to her so good as that which was usually drunk; they also ate white bread which he presented to them—­she had never seen any salt at the Sabbath.

Confessed that the Devil had charged her to call, as she passed, for Isabel le Moygne:  when she came to the Sabbath, which she had done several times.  On leaving the Sabbath the Devil incited her to commit various evil deeds:  and to that effect he gave her certain black powders, which he ordered her to throw upon such persons and cattle as she wished; with this powder she perpetrated several wicked acts which she did not remember:  among others she threw some upon Mr Dolbell, parish minister:  and was the occasion of his death by these means.  With this same powder she bewitched the wife of Jean Maugues:  but denied that the woman’s death was caused by it:  she also touched on the side, and threw some of this powder over the deceased wife of Mr Perchard, the minister who succeeded the said Dolbell in the parish, she being enceinte at the time, and so caused the death of her and her infant—­she did not know that the deceased woman had given her any cause for doing so.

Upon the refusal of the wife of Collas Tottevin to give her some milk:  she caused her cow to dry up, by throwing upon it some of this powder:  which cow she afterwards cured again by making it eat some bran, and some terrestrial herb that the Devil gave her.

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