Witch Stories

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Author

Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Witchcraft -- Great Britain

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Text

eBook-No.

32176

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32176

Release Date

April 29, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — WITCH STORIES — COLLECTED BY — E. LYNN LINTON, — AUTHOR OF “AZETH THE EGYPTIAN,” “AMYMONE,” ETC. — LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY. 1861.
2. 2.PREFACE. — THE STORY OF LADY GLAMMIS [1] — BESSIE DUNLOP AND THOM REID. [2] — ALISON PEARSON AND THE FAIRY FOLK. [3] — THE CRIMES OF LADY FOWLIS. [4] — BESSIE ROY. — THE DEVIL’S SECRETARY. [5] — THE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH AND HER CUMMERS. [6] — THE TWO ALISONS. — THE TROUBLES OF ABERDEEN. [13] — WHITE WITCHES. [16] — THE MISDEEDS OF ISOBEL GRIERSON. [17] — BARTIE PATERSON’S CHARM. [18] — BEIGIS TOD AND HER COMPEERS. [19] — THE PITIFUL FATE OF MARGARET BARCLAY. [21] — MARGARET WALLACE AND HER DEAR BURD. [22] — THOM REID AGAIN. [23] — BESSIE SMITH. — THOMAS GRIEVE’S ENCHANTMENTS (1623). [25] — KATHERINE GRANT AND HER STOUP. [26] — THE MISDEEDS OF MARION RICHART. [27] — LADY LEE’S PENNY AND THE WITCHES OF 1629. [28] — ELSPETH CURSETTER AND HER FRIENDS. [29] — SANDIE AND THE DEVIL. [31] — THE MIDWIFE’S DOUBLE SIN. — KATHERINE GRIEVE AND JOHN SINCLAIR. [32] — BESSIE BATHGATE’S NIPS. [33] — BESSIE SKEBISTER. [34] — THE TRIAL OF SPIRITS. [35] — SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE. — SINCLAIR’S STORIES. [42] — MANIE HALIBURTON. [43] — THE DEVIL OF GLENLUCE, [44] — JONET WATSON AND THE DEVIL IN GREEN. — THE LANTHORNE AND THE BAHR-RECHT. [49] — MISCELLANEOUS. — CLOWTS AND THE SERPENT. [54] — THE WITCHES OF AULDEARNE: [55] — THE SECRET SINS OF MAJOR WEIR. [57] — THE DUMB GIRL OF POLLOK. [58] — LIZZIE MUDIE AND HER VICTIMS. [59] — BRAVE OLD KATHERINE LIDDELL. [60] — THE DEVIL IN HIS CUPS. [62] — THE GHOST OF THE BLACK-BROWED MAID. [63] — THE SUCCUBUS. [64] — THE ISLAND WITCHES. — THE RENFREWSHIRE WITCHES. [70] — MISCELLANEOUS. — THE STIRK’S FOOT. [72] — THE HORRIBLE MURDER OF JANET CORNFOOT. [73] — THE SPELL OF THE SLAP. [75] — THE PLAGUE OF CATS. [76] — THE YOUNG HONOURABLE’S DECEITS. — THE LAST OF THE WITCHES. — THE WITCH OF BERKELEY. — EARLY HISTORIC TRIALS. — THE AFFLICTIONS OF ALEXANDER NYNDGE, — ADE DAVIE’S MOURNING. [97] — THE POSSESSION OF MILDRED NORRINGTON. [98] — MISCELLANEOUS. — THE WITCHES OF S. OSEES, — THE WOMAN AND THE BEAR. — THE WITCHES OF WARBOIS. [107] — THE MAN OF HOPE AND THE DEVIL. [108] — GIFFARD’S ANECDOTES. [109] — THE POSSESSED MAID OF THAMES STREET. [111] — SWEET FATHER FOREMAN. — THE WITCHES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [113] — THE WITCHES OF LANCASHIRE. [114] — GRACE SOWERBUTS AND THE PRIESTS. [122] — MARY AND HER CATS. [123] — RUTTERKIN. [124] — THE BOY OF BILSTON. [125] — MR. FAIRFAX’S FOLLY. — THE COUNTESS. [126] — THE TWO VOICES. [127] — THE SECOND CURSE OF PENDLE. [128] — THE WITCH ON A PLANK. [129] — THE WITCH-FINDING OF HOPKINS. — THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES, — THE HUNTINGDON IMPS. — MR. CLARK’S EXAMPLES. — THE NEWCASTLE PRICKERS. — THE WITCH IN THE BRAKE. [136] — THE TEWKESBURY WITCH THAT SUCKED THE SOW. — THE DEVIL’S DELUSION. [137] — THE WITCH OF WAPPING. — THE GEOLOGICAL BEWITCHMENT. [138] — THE BURNING BEWITCHMENT. [139] — THE STRINGY MEAT. [140] — THE LOST WIFE. [141] — DR. LAMB AND HIS DARLING. [142] — THE SPRIGHTLY LAD OF SOMERSETSHIRE. [143] — THE WITCHES OF THE RESTORATION. — THE WITCH-FINDER FOUND — DOLL BILBY AND HER COMPEER. [145] — THE ASTRAL SPIRIT’S ASSAULT. — JULIAN’S TOADS. [146] — THE YOUGHAL WITCH. — THE WITCHES OF STYLES’S KNOT. [147] — ROBIN AND HIS SERVANTS [148] — SIR MATTHEW HALE’S JUDGMENT. [149] — THE WAITING-MAID AND THE PIN. [150] — JANE STRETTON AND THE CUNNING WOMAN. [151] — THE BIDEFORD TROUBLES. [152] — SIR JOHN HOLT’S JUDGMENTS. [153] — THE SURREY DEMONIAC. [156] — THE GROCER’S YOUNG MAN. [158] — THE WITCH OF WALKERNE. [159] — OUR LATEST. — THE END.

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