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.
faithful to him; and when this was done he had connection with her in the aforesaid form of a dog, but a little larger:  then she and the others danced with him back to back:  after having danced, the Devil poured out of a jug some black wine, which he presented to them in a wooden bowl, from which she drank, but it did not seem to her so good as the wine which is usually drunk:  there was also bread—­but she did not eat any:  confessed that she gave herself to him for a month:  they returned from the Sabbath in the same manner that they went there.

The second time she was at the Sabbath was after the old woman Collette had been to fetch her, and she anointed herself with the ointment as above stated;—­declared, that on entering the Sabbath, she again had connection with the Devil and danced with him; after having danced, and upon his solicitation to prolong the time, she gave herself to him for three years; at the Sabbath the Devil used to summon the Wizards and Witches in regular order (she remembered very well having heard him call the old woman Collette the first, in these terms:  Madame the Old Woman Becquette):  then the woman Fallaise; and afterwards the woman Hardie.  Item, he also called Marie, wife of Massy, and daughter of the said Collette.  Said that after them, she herself was called by the Devil:  in these terms:  The Little Becquette:  she also heard him call there Collas Becquet, son of the said old woman (who [Collas] held her by the hand in dancing, and someone [a woman] whom she did not know, held her by the other hand):  there were about six others there she did not know:  the said old woman was always the nearest to the Devil:  occasionally while some were dancing, others were having connection with the Devils in the form of dogs; they remained at the Sabbath about three or four hours, not more.

While at the Sabbath the Devil marked her at the upper part of the thigh:  which mark having been examined by the midwives, they reported that they had stuck a small pin deeply into it, and that she had not felt it, and that no blood had issued:  she did not know in what part the Devil had marked the others:  those who came first to the place of the Sabbath, waited for the others; and all the Wizards and Witches appeared in their proper forms:  but blackened and disfigured so that they could not be recognised.

The Devil appeared sometimes in the form of a goat at the Sabbath; never saw him in other forms:  on their departure he made them kiss him behind, and asked them when they would come again:  he exhorted them always to be true to him:  and to do evil deeds, and to this end he gave them certain black powders, wrapped in a cloth, for them to throw upon those whom they wished to bewitch:  on leaving the Sabbath, the Devil went away in one direction and they in the other:  after he had taken them all by the hand:  At the instigation of the Devil she threw some of the powder over several persons and cattle:  notably over Jean Jehan, when he came to her house to look for a pig.  Item, over the child of James Gallienne, and over others.  Item, over the cattle of Brouart, and of others.

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