Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W.H. Davenport Adams

Author:W.H. Davenport Adams [Adams, W.H. Davenport]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798378534814
Amazon: B0BW2WR672
Published: 2012-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

‘Upon Good Friday, I will fast while I may

Untill I heare them knell

Our Lord’s owne bell.

Lord in His messe

With His twelve Apostles good,

What hath He in His hand?

Ligh in leath wand:

What hath He in His other hand?

Heaven’s door key.

Open, open, Heaven’s door keys!

Stark, stark, hell door.

Let Criznen child

Goe to its mother mild;

What is yonder that crests a light so farrndly?

Thine owne deare Sonne that’s nailed to the Tree.

He is naild sore by the heart and hand,

And holy harne panne.

Well is that man

That Fryday spell can,

His child to learne;

A crosse of blew and another of red,

As good Lord was to the Roode.

Gabriel laid him downe to sleepe

Upon the ground of holy weepe;

Good Lord came walking by.

Sleep’st thou, wak’st thou, Gabriel?

No, Lord, I am sted with sticks and stake

That I can neither sleepe nor wake:

Rise up, Gabriel, and goe with me,

The stick nor the stake shall never dure thee.

Sweet Jesus, our Lord. Amen!’

The other prayer consisted only of the Latin phrase: ‘Crucifixus hoc signum vitam æternam. Amen. ’[42]

FOOTNOTES

[40] So in Duclerq’s ‘Memoires’ (‘Collect. du Panthéon’), p. 141, we read of a case at

Arras, in which the sorcerers were accused of using such an ointment: ‘D’ung oignement que le diable leur avoit baillé, ils oindoient une vergue de bois bien petite, et leurs palmes et leurs mains, puis mectoient celle virguelte entre leurs jambes, et tantost ils s’en volvient où ils voullvient estre, purdesseures bonnes villes, bois et cams; et les portoit le diable au lieu où ils debvoient faire leur assemblée.’

[41] That is, of sacrificing to the Evil One, of meeting the demon Robert Artisson, and so on; though it is quite possible that strange unguents were made and administered to different persons, and that Dame Alice and her companions played at

being sorcerers. Some of the so-called witches, as we shall see, encouraged the deception on account of the influence it gave them.

[42] Thomas Pott’s ‘Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancashire’

(1615), reprinted by the Chetham Society, 1845.

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