Out of these is shaped vs the true Idoea of a Witch, an old weather-beaten Croane, hauing her chinne, & her knees meeting for age, walking like a bow leaning on a shaft, hollow eyed, vntoothed, furrowed on her face, hauing her lips trembling with the palsie, going mumbling in the streetes, one that hath forgott[=e] her pater noster, and hath yet a shrewd tongue in her head, to call a drab, a drab.  If shee haue learned of an olde wife in a chimnies end:  Pax, max, fax, for a spel:  or can say Sir Iohn of Grantams curse, for the Millers Eeles, that were stolne:  All you that haue stolne the Millers Eeles, Laudate dominum de coelis:  And all they that haue consented thereto, benedicamus domino:  Why then ho, beware, looke about you my neighbours; if any of you haue a sheepe sicke of the giddies, or an hogge of the mumps, or an horse of the staggers, or a knauish boy of the schoole, or an idle girle of the wheele, or a young drab of the sullens, and hath not fat enough for her porredge, nor her father, and mother, butter enough for their bread; and she haue a little helpe of the Mother, Epilepsie, or Cramp, to teach her role her eyes, wrie her mouth, gnash her teeth, startle with her body, holde her armes and hands stiffe, make anticke faces, grine, mow, and mop like an Ape, tumble like a Hedge-hogge, and can mutter out two or three words of gibridg, as obus, bobus:  and then with-all old mother Nobs hath called her by chaunce, idle young huswife, or bid the deuill scratch her, then no doubt but mother Nobs is the Witch:  the young girle is Owle-blasted, and possessed:  and it goes hard but ye shall haue some idle adle, giddie, lymphaticall, illuminate dotrel, who being out of credite, learning, sobriety, honesty, and wit, will take this holy aduantage, to raise the ruines of his desperate decayed name, and for his better glory wil be-pray the iugling drab, and cast out Mopp the deuil.

They that haue their braines baited, and their fancies distempered with the imaginations, and apprehensions of Witches, Coniurers, and Fayries, and all that Lymphatical Chimaera:  I finde to be marshalled in one of these fiue rankes, children, fooles, women, cowards, sick, or blacke, melancholicke, discomposed wits.  The Scythians being a warlike Nation (as Plutarch reports) neuer saw any visions.—­Harsnet’s Declaration, p. 136.

D 2 a 2. “From these two sprung all the rest in order.”] The descent from these two rival witch stocks, between which a deadly feud and animosity prevailed, which led to the destruction of both families, is shewn as follows: 

Elizabeth Sothernes,
alias Old Demdike,
died in prison in 1612,
about 80 years old.
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Christopher = Eliz.  Elizabeth, executed = John