item: #1 of 23
          id: 12288
      author: Taylor, John M. (John Metcalf)
       title: The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)
        date: None
       words: 47345
      flesch: 62
     summary: Although casting into ye water is by some justified for ye witch having made a ct wth ye Anothr insufficient testimoy of a witch is ye testimony of a wizard, who prtends to show ye face of ye witch to ye party afflicted in a glass, but this he counts diabolicall & dangerous, ye devill may reprsent a pson inocent.
    keywords: bed; case; chapter; child; colonial; connecticut; court; day; death; delusion; devil; doe; elizabeth; england; evidence; execution; fairfield; general; god; godman; goodwife; goody; goodyeare; guilty; hand; harrison; hartford; hath; haue; history; house; john; joseph; jury; knapp; law; ludlow; mary; mather; men; mercy; mris; new; night; oath; old; place; records; saith; salem; satan; shee; staplyes; tell; testimony; things; thomas; time; vpon; wch; william; windsor; witchcraft; witches; woman; words; wth; years
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        item: #2 of 23
          id: 14015
      author: Hopkins, Matthew
       title: The Discovery of Witches
        date: None
       words: 3803
      flesch: 75
     summary: Immediately after this Witch confessed severall other Witches, from whom she had her _Imps_, and named to divers women where their marks were, the number of their _Marks_, and _Imps_, and _Imps_ names, as _Elemanzer_, _ Certaine _Queries_ answered, which have been and are likely to be objected against MATTHEW HOPKINS, in his way of finding out _Witches_.
    keywords: confession; devill; doth; quer; witch; witches
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        item: #3 of 23
          id: 14461
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
        date: None
       words: 109923
      flesch: 51
     summary: A woman, supposed to be the victim of the male sorcerer at the bar, vomited pins in quantities, and those straight, differing from the crooked pins usually produced at such times, and less easily concealed in the mouth. Stewart, who was first apprehended, acknowledged that Margaret Barclay, the other suspected person, had applied to him to teach her some magic arts, in order that she might get gear, kye's milk, love of man, her heart's desire on such persons as had done her wrong, and, finally, that she might obtain the fruit of sea and land.
    keywords: account; accused; apparition; appearance; author; belief; believe; case; character; charge; children; church; circumstances; confession; country; course; court; crime; day; death; degree; devil; england; evidence; existence; fairies; fairy; faith; family; footnote; form; friend; general; ghost; god; good; hand; house; human; imagination; influence; instances; james; john; kind; king; knowledge; lady; law; length; life; long; lord; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; new; night; occasion; patient; people; period; persons; place; power; present; purpose; reason; satan; scotland; scottish; sense; sorcery; species; spirits; state; story; subject; superstition; time; trial; truth; way; witchcraft; witches; woman; world; years
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        item: #4 of 23
          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: #5 of 23
          id: 17209
      author: Roberts, Alexander
       title: A Treatise of Witchcraft
        date: None
       words: 25725
      flesch: 72
     summary: Marcellinus_ hath left in record, that one _Hilarius_, because hee committed his sonne yong, and not of mature yeares, to be taught and instructed vnto a Coniurer, was adjudged to die, and escaping from the hands of the executioner, who had negligently bound him, drawne by force out of the next church of the Christians to which hee fled as vnto a Sanctuary, and executed. _text reads_ secundæ secundæ --but either to signifie and expresse the conceits of the minde _text reads_ bnt either --As when _Paul_ reasoned before _F[oe]lix_ and _Drusilla_
    keywords: apud; art; bee; binfeldius; body; cap; cause; christ; christian; death; diuell; doe; doth; end; est; euery; euill; footnote; giue; god; good; hath; haue; hee; helpe; himselfe; holy; kai; lib; life; lord; man; manner; meanes; men; ouer; owne; people; place; power; proposition; rest; sathan; shee; sort; sundry; text; themselues; things; time; truth; vide; vnto; vpon; wee; wicked; witch; witches; woman; words
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        item: #6 of 23
          id: 18253
      author: Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618
       title: Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
        date: None
       words: 85751
      flesch: 74
     summary: And after her deliuerance in Lent, it is proued shee rode vpon a white Foale, and was present in the great assembly at _Malkin Tower_ with the Witches, to intreat and pray for aide of them, to kill Master _ The said Examinate vpon his oath saith, That about two yeares agoe, hee this Examinate saw three Pictures of Clay, of halfe a yard long, at the end of _Redfernes_ house, which _Redferne_ had one of the Pictures in his hand, _Marie_
    keywords: aforesaid; againe; alias; alice; alizon; anne; arraignement; away; barre; bee; bierley; boy; brother; castle; chattox; child; children; christopher; church; confession; countie; course; court; daughter; day; death; demdike; deuice; doe; edward; elizabeth; euidence; examinate; examination; father; following; footnote; forrest; friday; giue; god; good; great; guiltie; hall; hath; haue; henry; house; iames; iane; iennet; iohn; iustices; john; lancashire; lancaster; life; lister; little; lord; m.a; maiesties; malking; manchester; master; meeting; mother; nowel; nutter; order; owne; particular; pendle; persons; place; practises; present; prisoner; rev; richard; robert; robinson; roger; saith; sayd; set; shee; sir; southworth; spirit; thing; thomas; thou; time; tower; triall; viz; vnto; vpon; webster; whittle; wicked; wife; william; witchcraft; witches; woman; world; yeares
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        item: #7 of 23
          id: 22822
      author: Williams, Howard
       title: The Superstitions of Witchcraft
        date: None
       words: 69180
      flesch: 54
     summary: Constantine, in distinguishing between good and bad magic, between the _theurgic_ and _goetic_, maintains a distinction made by the pagans--a distinction ignored in the later Christian Church, in whose system 'all demons are infernal spirits, and all commerce with them is idolatry and apostasy.' With young and good-looking witches he is careful to assume the recommendations of a young and handsome man, whilst it is not worth while to disguise so unprepossessing peculiarities in his incarnate manifestations to _old_ women, the enjoyment of whose souls is the great purpose of seduction.
    keywords: age; art; author; authority; belief; bishop; body; case; century; chapter; children; christian; church; court; crime; day; death; demons; devil; earth; england; english; europe; evidence; fact; faith; fire; form; france; general; god; good; great; history; human; kind; king; life; lord; magic; man; men; nature; new; number; origin; parliament; people; period; persecution; persons; place; power; practices; present; protestant; reason; religion; science; shape; sir; sorcery; sort; spirits; subject; superstition; time; torture; vulgar; way; witchcraft; witches; women; work; world; years
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        item: #8 of 23
          id: 26978
      author: Upham, Charles Wentworth
       title: Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather: A Reply
        date: None
       words: 86318
      flesch: 60
     summary: Robert Calef, writing to the Ministers of the country, March 18, 1694, says: I having had, not only occasion, but renewed provocation, to take a view of the mysterious doctrines, which have of late been so much contested among us, could not meet with any that had spoken more, or more plainly, the sense of those doctrines [_relating to the Witchcraft_] than the Reverend Mr. Cotton Mather, but how clearly and consistent, either with himself or the truth, I meddle not now to say, but cannot but suppose his strenuous and zealous asserting his opinions has been one cause of the dismal convulsions, we have here lately fallen into. Goodwin further states, as follows: The Ministers would, now and then, come to visit my distressed family, and pray with and for them, among which Mr. Cotton Mather would, now and then, come.
    keywords: account; advice; book; boston; calef; case; character; children; connection; cotton mather; council; country; court; day; devil; england; evidence; general; god; goodwin; governor; having; historical; history; increase; john; judges; language; letter; life; man; mather; men; mind; ministers; new; people; persons; phips; proceedings; prosecutions; public; reviewer; salem; sir; subject; testimony; things; time; trials; use; way; william; witchcraft; work; world; years; york
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        item: #9 of 23
          id: 28513
      author: Mather, Increase
       title: The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
        date: None
       words: 85727
      flesch: 78
     summary: Moreover, the _Tyrannical Ceremonies_, whereto the Devil uses to subjugate such _Woful_ Nations or Orders of Men, as are more Entirely under his Dominion, do declare what _woful_ Wars_ do often furnish him with some Thousands of Souls in one Morning from one Acre of Ground; and for the sake of such _ThyestÃ
    keywords: account; afflicted; bishop; book; cast; cause; children; christ; court; day; death; devil; earth; england; evidence; fits; god; good; hand; having; heaven; hell; house; look; lord; man; martin; men; new; people; persons; place; power; present; prisoner; salem; satan; self; set; shape; spirits; temptations; testimony; things; thou; thy; time; tis; touch; way; witchcraft; witches; woman; words; world; wrath; years
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        item: #10 of 23
          id: 31511
      author: Notestein, Wallace
       title: A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
        date: None
       words: 141321
      flesch: 76
     summary: _ London, 1645. _ London, 1645.
    keywords: account; accused; affair; alice; anne; assizes; belief; bishop; book; boy; cambridge; case; century; chapter; charges; children; church; confession; council; county; course; court; darrel; daughter; day; death; depositions; devil; discovery; doubt; elizabeth; england; english; essex; evidence; examination; execution; fact; francis; glanvill; good; great; harsnett; henry; history; hopkins; house; ibid; iii; inderwick; james; jane; joan; john; judge; justice; king; lancashire; lancaster; later; law; letter; life; london; man; margaret; mary; matter; middlesex; mother; mss; n. n.; narrative; new; northampton; note; number; opinion; pamphlet; peace; people; period; point; read; records; reign; relation; richard; samuel; scot; second; sir; soc; spirits; stearne; stories; story; subject; superstition; testimony; thomas; time; trials; way; william; witchcraft; witches; women; work; writer; years; york; yorkshire
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        item: #11 of 23
          id: 32176
      author: Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
       title: Witch Stories
        date: None
       words: 134890
      flesch: 66
     summary: Then she began to fall into fits, when she would be so terribly tormented that it took two or three to hold her; and she would screech and cry out vehemently, and bite and scratch anything she could lay hold of, all the while exclaiming, Ah, Alice, old witch, have I gotten thee! And were they not all at the meeting with the Devill and other witches at the croce of Murestaine, above Kinneil, upon the threttin of October last, where yow all danced, and the Devill acted the pyiper, and where yow endevored to have destroyed Andrew Mitchell, sone to John Mitchell, elder in Dean of Kinneil?
    keywords: agnes; alexander; alice; ane; anne; bed; bessie; black; blood; body; boy; brother; case; cast; cat; child; children; christian; coming; confession; crying; daughter; day; days; dead; death; devil; dog; door; elizabeth; end; evidence; eyes; face; faith; father; feet; fire; fits; form; gentleman; george; girl; god; good; grace; half; hand; head; home; house; husband; imps; james; jane; joan; john; justice; katherine; lady; law; life; lord; maid; man; manner; margaret; mark; mary; master; men; milk; minister; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; neighbours; night; people; persons; place; poor; power; prayer; prison; rest; richard; robert; round; satan; saying; servant; set; shee; sick; sir; sister; son; sorcery; soul; spirit; thee; thing; thomas; thou; thought; time; trial; water; way; white; wife; william; witch; witchcraft; witches; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #12 of 23
          id: 36312
      author: Putnam, Allen
       title: Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism
        date: None
       words: 139598
      flesch: 61
     summary: When clear-headed logicians, being also conscientious and true men, as well as holders of undoubting faith that none but covenanted devotees to a wily devil could obtain knowledge and work harm by mysterious processes,--when such men took this case into careful consideration, the facts stated by the girl were to them proof that Mrs. Corey was the devil's minion, and therefore must be consigned to a witch's doom--death. The account shows that four _such_ children, of a sudden, without previous training for it, all join at first, and three of them long unitedly continue, in a course of most distressing imposition upon their own family, upon physicians, clergymen, magistrates, and the neighborhood; also that the imposition is manifested by astounding physical feats, and simultaneous, identical signs and complaints of suffering, even though the sufferers are in separate apartments.
    keywords: account; action; afflicted; agents; ann; beings; belief; body; boston; boy; calef; case; character; children; creed; day; devil; doubt; evidence; facts; faith; family; forces; form; girls; god; good; history; house; human; inner; knowledge; life; little; man; margaret; mather; mediumistic; men; mind; mortals; mrs; nature; new; old; ones; people; persons; powers; presence; present; public; putnam; salem; sarah; saw; senses; spirit; statement; testimony; things; time; tituba; upham; use; village; wife; witchcraft; woman; words; work; world; years
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        item: #13 of 23
          id: 39176
      author: Lee, Eliza Buckminster
       title: Delusion; or, The Witch of New England
        date: None
       words: 30841
      flesch: 78
     summary: He declined daily, and Edith, his tender nurse, could not conceal from herself that there was little hope of his ever reviving. Edith Grafton was formed for gentleness and love, to suffer patiently, to submit gracefully, to think more of others' than of her own happiness.
    keywords: beauty; child; death; dinah; edith; england; eyes; father; friend; god; grafton; hand; heart; lady; life; love; mind; moment; mother; nature; night; room; seymore; tears; thought; time; woman
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        item: #14 of 23
          id: 42318
      author: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts)
       title: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge's Dream
        date: None
       words: 56233
      flesch: 61
     summary: And why does it so often happen that the spirits--if they _are_ spirits--can not communicate anything except what is already in the mind of the medium, or at least of some other person present? I am constrained to say, my mysterious friend, that the novelty and ingenuity of your ideas surprise me greatly, and I do, in all candor, acknowledge that you have skillfully disposed of my objections to the spiritual theory of these phenomena on _rational_ grounds, and explained the philosophy of this thing, in a manner which I am at present unable to gainsay.
    keywords: answer; body; children; church; course; day; dead; death; devil; facts; god; good; hands; human; intelligence; life; man; matter; medium; mind; nature; new; nurse; parris; persons; phenomena; planchette; power; present; questions; salem; satan; science; society; spirit; state; subject; theory; things; thought; time; wife; work; world; years
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        item: #15 of 23
          id: 42550
      author: Moir, George
       title: Magic and Witchcraft
        date: None
       words: 27297
      flesch: 55
     summary: In France, the edict of Louis XIV., in 1682, directed only against _pretended_ witches and prophets, proves distinctly that the belief in the reality of witchcraft had ceased, and that it was merely the pretended exercise of such powers which it was thought necessary to suppress. No sooner has Innocent placed his commission of fire and sword in the hands of Sprenger and his brethren, and a regular form of process for the trial of this offence been laid down in that unparalleled performance, the 'Malleus Maleficarum,' which was intended as a theological and juridical commentary on the Bull, than the race of witches seems at once to increase and multiply, till it replenishes the earth.
    keywords: belief; case; century; confession; course; court; crime; day; death; devil; effect; form; fowlis; general; good; history; infernal; influence; james; justiciary; king; lady; life; little; magic; man; means; men; mind; new; number; persons; place; satan; scotland; sir; subject; superstition; time; torture; trials; way; witchcraft; witches; women; work; years
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        item: #16 of 23
          id: 43651
      author: Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
       title: Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
        date: None
       words: 49155
      flesch: 64
     summary: Though the first half of the seventeenth century is so barren with respect to _witchcraft_, yet it should be noticed that during that period we come across frequent notices of ghosts, apparitions, devils, &c., which forces us to the conclusion that the increase of the belief in such subjects at that time was almost entirely due to the advent of the Cromwellian settlers and the Scotch colonists in Ulster; indeed the beliefs of the latter made the Northern Province a miniature Scotland in this respect. But when once the suspicion of _witchcraft_ arose the ejection of such an extraordinary collection of miscellaneous articles followed quite as a matter of course--it would, so to speak, have been altogether against the rules of the game for the girl to have got rid of anything else at that particular date.
    keywords: account; belief; bishop; case; century; chapter; children; co.; country; court; dame; day; death; devil; doubt; england; florence; following; god; hand; history; house; ireland; irish; james; john; king; lord; maid; man; mary; matter; men; newton; night; people; period; persons; place; present; sorcery; spirit; things; time; trial; way; witchcraft; witches; woman; words; years
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        item: #17 of 23
          id: 43966
      author: Wood, J. Maxwell (John Maxwell)
       title: Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland
        date: None
       words: 80857
      flesch: 71
     summary: She can read print, but cannot write herself; but whatever she saw in vision, was at times able to give ane exact account of it, after all was over; and accordingly did give the relation following to some creditable gentlemen, and some country people, her acquaintance:-- The time of my exercise was eight years, and all this time was troubled with the appearance of a thing like a _bee_, and other times like a black man, and that also at severall times, and in severall places. Then at the end of the eight year, I being at prayer, the black man did appear as at other times, he being upon the one side of me, and there appearing upon the other side a bonny hand and a rod in it, and the rod was budding; and I said, 'Is that Thy hand and Thy rod, O Lord?'
    keywords: account; act; andrew; appearance; auld; bed; bell; black; body; brownie; castle; child; church; close; coming; cow; day; days; dead; death; devil; district; door; drum; dumfries; end; fairies; fairy; family; farm; farmer; father; fire; following; form; frae; funeral; galloway; ghost; god; good; green; half; hand; head; hill; home; house; illustration; item; james; janet; jean; john; kirkcudbright; kirkmaiden; lady; laird; left; life; lord; maxwell; minister; nae; night; parish; passing; people; person; place; power; prayer; road; robert; round; said; scotland; session; sir; south; spirit; stones; story; tell; things; thomas; thought; time; tradition; trouble; water; white; wife; william; witch; witchcraft; witches; woman; years
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        item: #18 of 23
          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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        item: #19 of 23
          id: 6700
      author: Meinhold, Wilhelm
       title: Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 139627
      flesch: 77
     summary: Appelmann was the first to reach the outer court, and there beheld poor Sidonia in a sad condition, for the stag had flung her off. At last Sidonia grew so weary of catechisms that she determined to run away from court.
    keywords: appelmann; bork; brother; castle; chapter; clara; come; court; day; dear; death; devil; doctor; door; duchess; duke; ernest; eyes; father; fool; footnote; girl; god; good; grace; great; hand; head; heart; highness; hold; house; item; johann; knave; know; lady; land; lay; leave; left; life; lord; love; maiden; man; marcus; men; mother; night; otto; people; place; pomerania; poor; priest; prince; princely; room; round; set; sidonia; son; stettin; thee; thou; thy; time; town; ulrich; von; way; witch; wolgast; word; young
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        item: #20 of 23
          id: 6701
      author: Meinhold, Wilhelm
       title: Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 148508
      flesch: 77
     summary: And further, it was a strange thing (whether of witchcraft or of God, I cannot say) that except my gracious Duke Philip, almost every one present at this remarkable _colloquium_ died within the year; for example, Count Albert, Eustache Flemming, Caspar von Stogentin, Christoph von Mildenitz--all lay in their graves before the year was out. But of all that now follows, and of what I myself did, I remember not one word, but will relate it all as I have received it from my daughter and other _testes_, and they have told me as follows:-- That when _Dom.
    keywords: abbess; answer; bed; black; blood; castle; chapter; child; church; constable; consul; convent; court; daughter; day; dear; death; devil; diliana; dom; door; dorothea; duke; eyes; face; father; footnote; god; gone; good; grace; great; hag; hand; hath; head; heart; help; highness; holy; house; item; jobst; knight; know; lay; leave; left; life; like; lizzie; lord; maid; maiden; man; morning; mother; people; poor; priest; princely; red; right; room; round; said; satan; save; saw; seeing; sheriff; sidonia; spirit; stettin; straightway; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; virgin; way; white; wife; witch; word; young
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        item: #21 of 23
          id: 7082
      author: Godwin, William
       title: Lives of the Necromancers
        date: None
       words: 110317
      flesch: 63
     summary: At other times however, and especially in the extremely popular tales digested by M. Perrault, they shew themselves in indiscriminate assemblies, brought together for some solemn festivity or otherwise, and join the human frequenters of the scene, without occasioning enquiry or surprise. He therefore did not go, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, [11] but took up his discourse, and began, saying, Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel!
    keywords: account; age; ages; air; art; beings; body; cause; character; city; consequence; country; day; days; dead; death; dee; degree; devil; doctor; earth; egypt; emperor; end; events; father; faustus; fire; form; god; gods; good; great; hand; having; head; heaven; history; house; human; james; king; length; lib; life; magic; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; new; night; occasion; people; period; persons; place; power; present; prince; purpose; pythagoras; queen; respecting; saw; set; sorcery; sort; spirits; state; stone; subject; things; thought; time; trial; way; wife; witchcraft; witches; woman; world; years
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        item: #22 of 23
          id: 8503
      author: Lowell, James Russell
       title: Among My Books. First Series
        date: None
       words: 125717
      flesch: 66
     summary: he fancies a relationship between _busy_ and the German _böse_, though _wicked_ is evidently the participial form of A. S. _wacan_, (German _weichen_,) _to bend, to yield_, meaning _one who has given way to temptation_, while _quick_ seems as clearly related to _wegan_, meaning _to move_, a different word, even if radically the same. When Romeo must leave Juliet, the private pang of the lovers becomes a property of Nature herself, and _Envious_ streaks Do lace the _severing_ clouds in yonder east.
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        item: #23 of 23
          id: 8743
      author: Meinhold, Wilhelm
       title: Mary Schweidler, the amber witch The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon.
        date: None
       words: 70130
      flesch: 76
     summary: And as the young lord his servant had got up behind the coach, old Paasch drove us home, and all the folks who had waited till _datum_ ran beside the cart, praising and pitying as much as they had before scorned and reviled us. _item_, the cries of men and the barking of dogs resounded, so that we could easily guess that the enemy was in the village.
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