item: #1 of 6
          id: 17203
      author: Pitts, John Linwood
       title: Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction
        date: None
       words: 18947
      flesch: 69
     summary: _Jean De Garis_, fils _Guillaume_, depose qu'il y a viron deux ou trois ans qu'ayant presté quelque argent sur un gage à _ Jean Le Messurier_, deposed that her husband and _Collas Becquet_ had angry words together one day; they had an infant about six weeks old, and as she was undressing it in the evening to put it to bed, there fell upon the stomach of the said infant, a black beast which melted away as soon as it fell, so that although she carefully sought for it, she could never discover what had become of it; immediately afterwards the infant was taken ill and would not suck, but was much tormented; being advised to look into the said infant's pillow, she found there several witches' spells sewn with thread; these she took out and carefully dressed all the feathers in the pillow; yet when she examined it again a week afterwards, she found there a black bean with a hole in it; of which, the said _Becquet_ hearing that he was suspected, his wife came to witness's house while the said _Becquet_ was at sea, and told her that on account of the rumour which witness had raised about her husband, he the said _
    keywords: allès; becquet; collas; collette; de la; death; devil; diable; djt; elle; form; fut; guernsey; guille; island; jean; les; library; lors; luy; marie; par; persons; pierre; place; pour; qu'elle; qu'il; que; question; sabbath; son; sur; thomas; time; wife; witchcraft; witches; woman; years
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 20569
      author: Peterson, Henry
       title: Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem
        date: None
       words: 79148
      flesch: 78
     summary: What young Master Joseph Putnam undertook to do, he was apt to do pretty thoroughly. Hearing one day that she had gone to Master Joseph Putnam's, he had walked up the road to meet her on her return to the village.
    keywords: alden; ann; boston; captain; chapter; course; day; devil; dulcibel; face; friend; good; governor; hand; hathorne; house; joseph putnam; know; lady; little; magistrates; man; mary; master; master joseph; master mather; master parris; master putnam; master raymond; men; minister; mistress; mistress putnam; new; people; putnam; salem; sir; squire; thought; time; village; way; wife; william; witch; witches; woman; years; young
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 26282
      author: Musick, John R. (John Roy)
       title: The Witch of Salem; or, Credulity Run Mad
        date: None
       words: 81596
      flesch: 80
     summary: Long Charles Stevens stood gazing after the retreating woman. Charles Stevens of Salem, with Cora Waters, the daughter of an indented slave, whose father was captured at the time of the overthrow of the Duke of Monmouth, are the principal characters.
    keywords: adelpha; book; charles; charles stevens; charter; child; children; cora; day; death; door; england; eyes; face; father; fire; friends; george; god; goody; governor; hand; heart; home; house; indians; james; john; king; leisler; life; little; lord; louder; man; martin; men; mother; mrs; new; night; nurse; parris; pastor; penn; people; salem; sarah; thought; time; waters; way; william; witch; witchcraft; witches; woman; years; york
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 37877
      author: None
       title: Goody Two Shoes
        date: None
       words: 1965
      flesch: 76
     summary: for his pains; but poor Mrs. Margery did not know how much folly and wickedness there was in the world, and she was greatly surprised to find that the half-witted Nicky Noodle had got a warrant against her. Mrs. Margery was ever on the look-out to be useful to her neighbours.
    keywords: illustration; margery; shoes
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 45278
      author: Anonymous
       title: Goody Two Shoes
        date: None
       words: 2628
      flesch: 69
     summary: Fortunately, while she was in this distress, the shoemaker came with a pair of new shoes, which the gentleman had ordered for her, and it being so long since little Margery wore a pair of shoes, her attention was so engaged as to give a new turn to her thoughts. It was with delight that little Margery exhibited them to her benefactress, saying, Two shoes, ma'am! see, two shoes!
    keywords: goody; margery; shoes; tommy
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 62273
      author: Karkeek, Paul Q. (Paul Quick)
       title: Devonshire Witches
        date: None
       words: 13499
      flesch: 72
     summary: Some months previous to the date of our story, Mistress Grace Thomas had recovered sufficiently well as to be able to go out a little to take the air. I did hurt a woman sore against my conscience: he carried me up to her door, which was open: The woman's name was Mrs. Grace Thomas.
    keywords: barnes; biddiford; devil; edwards; examinant; grace; informant; july; mary; saith; susanna; temperance; thomas
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