Acts of Parliament, 57, 61, 66, 67
Antrim man bewitched in England, 101
Apparitions, at Castleconnell, 94;
at Loughill, 95;
at Portadown, 95;
in co. Tipperary, 150;
to insurgents, 101
Bed-clothes pulled off, 201, 205-6;
made up like a corpse, 205-6
Blackamoor executed, 60
Blair, Rev. Robert, 88 ff.
Burning alive, 39, 40, 48, 50
“Burying the sheaf,” 246
Butter stolen, 236, 242
Butters, Mary, 224 ff.
Carnmoney, 156, 159, 160, 225, 227
Carrigfergus, 143, 174, 213, 224
Cattle bewitched, 68, 225, 240;
cured by charms, 227, 232, 240
Charmed lives, 97
Charms, ingredients used in making of, 28, 29, 37, 227, 232
Chest opens mysteriously, 104
Child bewitched in co. Antrim, 195;
in co. Cork, 171
Clergy incriminated, 35, 78
Colville, Rev. Alex., 82 ff.
De Ledrede, Bishop, 26 ff., 47, 48
Demons, sacrifice to, 27, 29, 48
Desmond, fourth Earl of, 53;
sixteenth Earl of, 69 ff., 95;
rides round Lough Gur, 72;
appears as a black horse, 75
Devil, the, method of raising, 81;
cheated in bargains, 84, 133;
incites to homicide, 90;
appears as a huntsman, 135;
as a raven, 173;
in various shapes, 156
Dunbar, Miss Mary, 207 ff.
Evil spirit appears as a boy, 202 ff.
Exorcism practised in Ulster, 93
Eye-biters, 68
Fairies, 3, 237;
annoy a butler, 163 ff;
king of, 86
Familiar spirit, a: Huthart, 55-6;
Robin, son of Art, 27, 29, 38, 40;
appears to a witch, 183;
appears as an old man, 108;
appears as a greyhound, 118, 120
Fits, people seized with strange, 161, 179, 187 ff., 195, 208, 209, 214 ff.
Greatrakes, Valentine, 118, 122, 127, 165, 167
Ghost, a, 136 ff., 144 ff., 164, 168;
hand of in a law-court, 143;
vanishes to sound of music, 141, 147;
brings medicine, 165;
appears as a goat, 198
Girdle, devil’s, 39
Glover, Mrs., 179 ff.
Haltridge family, 201 ff.
Hand of Glory, 232
Haunted house in Dublin, 148
Healing powers, 244
Heresy, 47, 48, 50
Hutchinson, Francis, 11, 222
Images of rags, 182
Irish language spoken in Boston, 182, 186
Irish prophetess in Scotland, 54
Island Magee, 201 ff.
J.P.’s Commission, clause in, 248
Judges: Sir Wm. Aston, 112, 130;
Sir F. Brady, 239;
John Lindon, 170;
Jas. Macartney, 170, 213, 220;
Anthony Upton, 213, 220
Kiss, bewitched by a, 108, 111, 117, 123, 126
Knots mysteriously tied, 208, 215, 216
Kyteler, Dame Alice, 25 ff.;
her husbands, 26;
her confederates, 35
Literature, absence of, in Ireland, 10, 11
Longdon, Mary, 107 ff.
Lord’s Prayer, used as a test, 115, 125, 184;
said by supposed witches, 220
Mather, Rev. Cotton, 178 ff.;
Rev. Increase, 129, 177
Midwife bewitches people, 160
Money turns to leaves, 75
Newton, Florence, 105 ff.
Nobleman accused of sorcery, 57
Orrery, Lord, 163
Over-looking, 117, 120
Petronilla of Meath, 18, 35, 38, 39
Pillory, the, 64, 221
Pins stuck in a girl’s arm, 110;
in a straw body, 247
Pishogues, 236, 240
Pope John XXII, 44
Portents at Limerick, 100;
on entry of James II, 194
Presbyterian clergyman bewitched, 156
Prophecies of Mr. Peden, 174
Quakers, the, 155, 172
Red cap worn, 233
Red pigs, their sale forbidden, 67
Relic cures spells, 80
Riding on a staff, 39, 234

Scot, Michael, 52
Scotch girl delated, 199
Scotland, 19, 54, 81, 85, 90, 147
Sorcery and witchcraft, difference, 21
Sorrel-leaf causes witchcraft, 195
Stones thrown, 109, 157, 158, 201, 204
Storm attributed to witches, 99
Strange knowledge of deaf and dumb man, 87
Stroking of images, 182;
of a stone, 186
Swimming a witch suggested, 122;
the process, 107
Tate, Rev. Dr., 98
Taverner, Francis, 136 ff.
Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, 140, 144
Torture, not judicially used, 18;
rough-and-ready application of, 38;
employed on Continent, 20
Transference of disease, 245
Treasure-seeking at Cashel and Mellifont, 78;
made penal, 64
Ulster colonists, their influence, 14
Usher, Archbishop, 93, 102
Vomiting of strange substances, 80, 109, 113, 195, 218
Wafer with devil’s name, 39
Williams, Rev. Daniel, 148
Witch examined, 59;
curious tests of guilt of, 118, 119, 121;
tries to disembowel a boy, 185;
rescued by the Devil, 148;
murdered by a mob, 198;
supposed, murdered by a lunatic, 237
Witch-burning (so called) near Clonmel, 237
Witchcraft still a legal offence, 248
Witches executed, 60, 68, 69, 148, 186, 196;
placed in pillory, 221;
appear as cats, 156;
suck cows under form of hares, 241
Youghal, suspected witches at, 117, 122

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Footnotes:

[1] In his History of Witchcraft in England.

[2] Notestein, op. cit.

[3] FranÇais, L’Église et la Sorcellerie.

[4] FranÇais, op. cit.

[5] Elsewhere given as Basilia.

[6] Magical girdles were used for various purposes. Bosc in his Glossaire will have them to be the origin of the magnetic belts, &c. that are so freely advertised at the present day.

[7] FranÇais, op. cit.

[8] Carrigan, History of the Diocese of Ossory, i. p. 48.

[9] Stokes, Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church, p. 374.

[10] Theiner, Vet. Mon., p. 269.

[11] Westropp, Wars of Turlough (Proc. R.I.A.), p. 161; Seymour, Pre-Ref. Archbishops of Cashel, 47.

[12] Dict. Nat. Biog., Seymour, op. cit., p. 18.

[13] O’Daly, History of the Geraldines.

[14] Sharpe, History of Witchcraft in Scotland, p. 30.

[15] Ed. H. F. Berry, D.Litt.

[16] Carrigan, op. cit., iii. p. 18.

[17] Quoted in Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries, 3rd series, vol. i. FranÇais mentions a Swiss sorcerer, somewhat of a wag, who used to play the same trick on people.

[18] Ulster Journal of ArchÆology, vol. iv. (for 1858).

[19] All the Year Round (for April 1870).

[20] Lenihan, History of Limerick, p. 147.

[21] Enrolment of Pleas, 6 James I, memb. 2 (Queen’s Bench).

[22] Scott, Demonology and Witchcraft, Letter V.

[23] Ed. C. K. Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1818).

[24] Witherow, Memorials of Presbyterianism in Ireland.

[25] Quot. in Law’s Memorialls.

[26] Witherow, op. cit., pp. 15-16.

[27] Lenihan, History of Limerick, p. 147.

[28] Hickson, Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, vol. i.; Fitzpatrick, Bloody Bridge, p. 125; Temple’s History of the Rebellion.

[29] Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits (London, 1691); Clark, A Mirrour or Looking-Glass for Saints and Sinners (London, 1657-71).

[30] Fitzpatrick, op. cit., p. 127.

[31] Hist. MSS. Comm. Report 13 (Duke of Portland MSS.).

[32] No. 25 in Sadducismus Triumphatus (London, 1726).

[33] Dict. Nat. Biog.

[34] Cork Hist. and Arch. Journal, vol. x. (2nd series).

[35] Ibid., vol. vii. (2nd series).

[36] Furnished to the writer by T. J. Westropp, Esq., M.A.

[37] Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, Rel. 26.

[38] Ulster Journal of ArchÆology, vol. iii. (for 1855).

[39] Glanvill, op. cit., Rel. 27.[40] Law’s Memorialls.

[41] Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits.

[42] William Turner, Compleat History of Most Remarkable Providences (London, 1697).

[43] Seymour, Succession of Clergy in Cashel and Emly.

[44] O’Donoghue, Brendaniana, p. 301. See Joyce, Wonders of Ireland, p. 30, for an apparition of a ship in the air in Celtic times. See also Westropp, Brasil (Proc. R.I.A.); that writer actually sketched an illusionary island in 1872.

[45] Memorialls.

[46] Glanvill, op. cit., Rel. 18; Baxter, op. cit.

[47] Op. cit.; W.P., History of Witches and Wizards (London, 1700?).

[48] John Lindon (or Lyndon) became junior puisne Judge of the Chief Place in 1682, was knighted in 1692, and died in 1697 (Cork Hist. and Arch. Journal, vol. vii., 2nd series).

[49] Egmont MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), ii. 181.

[50] “An experiment was made, whether she could recite the Lord’s Prayer: and it was found that though clause after clause was most carefully repeated unto her, yet when she said it after them that prompted her, she could not possibly avoid making nonsense of it, with some ridiculous depravations. This experiment I had the curiosity to see made upon two more, and it had the same effect.”

[51] The Devil in Britain and America, chap. xxiv.

[52] C. K. Sharpe, op. cit.

[53] A man in the Orkneys was ruined by nine knots tied in a blue thread (Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of Scotland).

[54] The Rev. Dr. Tisdall, who has given such a full account of the trial, was Vicar of Belfast. For his attitude towards the Presbyterians, see Witherow’s Memorials of Presbyterianism in Ireland, pp. 118, 159. Yet his narrative of the trial is not biassed, for all his statements can be borne out by other evidence.

[55] James Macartney became second puisne Justice of the King’s Bench in 1701, puisne Justice of Common Pleas (vice A. Upton) in 1714, and retired in 1726. Anthony Upton became puisne Justice of Common Pleas, was succeeded as above, and committed suicide in 1718. Both were natives of co. Antrim.

[56] In the shorter version of the poem this line runs—

“He cured the kye for Nanny Barton,”

which makes better sense. Huie Mertin was evidently a rival of Mary Butters.

[57] South-running water possessed great healing qualities. See Dalyell, Darker Superstitions of Scotland, and C. K. Sharpe, op. cit., p. 94.

[58] When a child the writer often heard that if a man were led astray at night by Jacky-the-Lantern (or John Barleycorn, or any other potent sprite!), the best way to get home safely was to turn one’s coat inside out and wear it in that condition.

[59] Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. vii.

[60] Henderson, Folklore of Northern Counties of England, (Folklore Society).

[61] Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxii. (consec. ser.), p. 291.

[62] Irish Times for 14th June; Independent for 1st July.

[63] Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxi. (consec. ser.), pp. 406-7.

[64] Folklore.

[65] Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxv. (consec. ser.), p. 84.

[66] Folklore, vi. 302.

Transcriber’s Note:

Foonote 40 appears on page 156 of the text, but there is no corresponding marker on the page.