  | PAGE | | CHAPTER I. | | Universal Belief in the Personality of the Devil, as portrayed by the British Artist—Arguments in Favour of his Personality—Ballad—‘Terrible and Seasonable Warning to Young Men’ | 1 | | | CHAPTER II. | | ‘Strange and True News from Westmoreland’—‘The Politic Wife’—‘How the Devill, though subtle, was guld by a Scold’—‘The Devil’s Oak’—Raising the Devil—Arguments in Favour of Devils—The Number of Devils | 13 | | | CHAPTER III. | | ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock’—Metrical Version—Presumed Genuine History of ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock’ | 28 | | | CHAPTER IV. | | ‘The DÆmon of Tedworth’ | 47 | | | CHAPTER V. | | ‘The DÆmon of Burton’—‘Strange and Wonderful News from Yowel, in Surrey’—The Story of Mrs. Jermin—A Case at Welton—‘The Relation of James Sherring’ | 60 | | | CHAPTER VI. | | A Demon in Gilbert Campbell’s Family—Case of Sir William York—Case of Ian Smagge—Disturbances at Stockwell | 72 | | | CHAPTER VII. | | Possession by, and casting out, Devils—The Church and Exorcisms—Earlier Exorcists—‘The Strange and Grievous Vexation by the Devil of 7 Persons in Lancashire’ | 85 | | | CHAPTER VIII. | | James I. on Possession—The Vexation of Alexander Nyndge—‘Wonderful News from Buckinghamshire’—Sale of a Devil | 113 | | | CHAPTER IX. | | The Witch of Endor—The ‘Mulier Malefica’ of Berkeley—Northern Witches | 129 | | | CHAPTER X. | | The Legal Witch—James I. on Witches—Reginald Scot on Witches—Addison on Witches | 139 | | | CHAPTER XI. | | How a Witch was made—Her Compact with the Devil—Hell Broth—Homage and Feasting—The Witches’ Sabbat | 148 | | | CHAPTER XII. | | Familiar Spirits—Matthew Hopkins, the ‘Witch-finder’—Prince Rupert’s dog Boy—Unguents used for transporting Witches from Place to Place—Their Festivities at the Sabbat | 157 | | | CHAPTER XIII. | | Waxen Figures—Witches change into Animals—Witch Marks—Testimony against Witches—Tests for, and Examination of, Witches | 175 | | | CHAPTER XIV. | | Legislation against Witches—Punishment—Last Executions for Witchcraft—Inability to weep and sink—Modern Cases of Witchcraft | 191 | | | CHAPTER XV. | | Commencement of Witchcraft in England—Dame Eleanor Cobham—Jane Shore—Lord Huntingford—Cases from the Calendars of State Papers—Earliest Printed Case, that of John Walsh—Elizabeth Stile—Three Witches tried at Chelmsford—Witches of St. Osyth—Witches of Warboys—Witches of Northamptonshire | 199 | | | CHAPTER XVI. | | The Lancashire Witches—Janet Preston—Margaret and Philip Flower—Anne Baker, Joane Willimot, and Ellen Greene—Elizabeth Sawyer—Mary Smith—Joan Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott | 220 | | | CHAPTER XVII. | Confessions of Witches executed in Essex—The Witches of Huntingdon—‘Wonderful News from th
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