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.

[Footnote B:  Illegible in the record.]

Collas Rougier deposed that his brother Pierre Rougier when dying charged Collas Becquet with causing his death.

Collas Hugues reported that being at a wedding, Collas Becquet arrived there, and began to toy with his daughter-in-law, who repelled his advances; the very same evening she was taken ill in such a manner that they thought she would have died from one hour to another; besides which she remained under the charm, and they found one of the witches’ spells in her bed, which was shown to the Members of the Court, who were making an inspection at St. Peter’s; the said girl sometimes fell to the ground quite blinded.

The wife of the said Hugues deposed to exactly the same as her husband.

Jean de Garis, son of William, deposed that about two or three years ago, having lent some money on pledge to Collas Becquet, he asked him for the money, or else for a verification of his security; when the said Becquet replied that he would let him know what his security was; the said de Garis having then returned home, found his daughter sick and afflicted; they found witches’ spells and other conjurations several times in their child’s pillow; but the mother of the said Becquet having come to the said de Garis’s house, he gave her a drink of water and half-a-loaf of bread, as he had been advised to do; since which time they had found nothing more in the child’s pillow; however to avoid all risk of the said witches’ spells they had always since then let their child sleep upon straw; he fully believed that this evil had come upon them by their means.

Mr. Thomas de Lisle deposed that Thomas Brouart, who resided in his house, having called the son of Collas Becquet a wizard, it happened that there was one day found in the said Thomas’s bed a great number of maggots, which the said Sieur de Lisle saw, and compared to an ant-hill, so lively and thick were they, and they could hardly clear the said child of them, although they put it in different places; afterwards the said child gathered lice in such a manner that although its shirts and clothes were changed every day they could not free it; the said Thomas Brouart also had a brand new vest, which was so covered with lice that it was impossible to see the cloth, and he was compelled to have it thrown among the cabbages; upon which he went and threatened Massi’s wife that he would beat her if she did not abstain from thus treating his child; and on returning he found the said vest among the cabbages clear of lice, which had also since then quitted the said Brouart.

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