Witch Stories
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Victorian journalism and witchcraft history

Witch Stories

E. Lynn Linton1861
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A comprehensive historical collection of witchcraft cases and trials from Scotland and England. Written from a skeptical, rationalist Victorian perspective, Linton aims to document the 'cruelty and superstition' of the past, focusing on the legal and social aspects of the witch-hunts.

Also known asE. Lynn Linton - Witch Stories · The Witch Stories
This edition1861
EditionChapman and Hall, London
Folklore StudiesGender and witchcraftWitchcraft historyEuropean folklorebinding and hexingTypes of witchcraftritual documentationDemonologyHistoricalOccult HistoryWitchcraftWestern Historical / PopularFolklore & SuperstitionDemonic PossessionWitchcraft TrialsPersecution of Sorcery

Contents119 chapters

  1. 01E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
  2. 02WITCH STORIES
  3. 03COLLECTED BY
  4. 04E. LYNN LINTON,
  5. 05AUTHOR OF “AZETH THE EGYPTIAN,” “AMYMONE,” ETC.
  6. 06LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY. 1861.
  7. 07PREFACE.
  8. 08THE STORY OF LADY GLAMMIS[1]
  9. 09BESSIE DUNLOP AND THOM REID.[2]
  10. 10ALISON PEARSON AND THE FAIRY FOLK.[3]
  11. 11THE CRIMES OF LADY FOWLIS.[4]
  12. 12BESSIE ROY.
  13. 13THE DEVIL’S SECRETARY.[5]
  14. 14THE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH AND HER CUMMERS.[6]
  15. 15THE TWO ALISONS.
  16. 16THE TROUBLES OF ABERDEEN.[13]
  17. 17WHITE WITCHES.[16]
  18. 18THE MISDEEDS OF ISOBEL GRIERSON.[17]
  19. 19BARTIE PATERSON’S CHARM.[18]
  20. 20BEIGIS TOD AND HER COMPEERS.[19]
  21. 21THE PITIFUL FATE OF MARGARET BARCLAY.[21]
  22. 22MARGARET WALLACE AND HER DEAR BURD.[22]
  23. 23THOM REID AGAIN.[23]
  24. 24BESSIE SMITH.
  25. 25THOMAS GRIEVE’S ENCHANTMENTS (1623).[25]
  26. 26KATHERINE GRANT AND HER STOUP.[26]
  27. 27THE MISDEEDS OF MARION RICHART.[27]
  28. 28LADY LEE’S PENNY AND THE WITCHES OF 1629.[28]
  29. 29ELSPETH CURSETTER AND HER FRIENDS.[29]
  30. 30SANDIE AND THE DEVIL.[31]
  31. 31THE MIDWIFE’S DOUBLE SIN.
  32. 32KATHERINE GRIEVE AND JOHN SINCLAIR.[32]
  33. 33BESSIE BATHGATE’S NIPS.[33]
  34. 34BESSIE SKEBISTER.[34]
  35. 35THE TRIAL OF SPIRITS.[35]
  36. 36SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE.
  37. 37SINCLAIR’S STORIES.[42]
  38. 38MANIE HALIBURTON.[43]
  39. 39THE DEVIL OF GLENLUCE,[44]
  40. 40JONET WATSON AND THE DEVIL IN GREEN.
  41. 41THE LANTHORNE AND THE BAHR-RECHT.[49]
  42. 42MISCELLANEOUS.
  43. 43CLOWTS AND THE SERPENT.[54]
  44. 44THE WITCHES OF AULDEARNE:[55]
  45. 45THE SECRET SINS OF MAJOR WEIR.[57]
  46. 46THE DUMB GIRL OF POLLOK.[58]
  47. 47LIZZIE MUDIE AND HER VICTIMS.[59]
  48. 48BRAVE OLD KATHERINE LIDDELL.[60]
  49. 49THE DEVIL IN HIS CUPS.[62]
  50. 50THE GHOST OF THE BLACK-BROWED MAID.[63]
  51. 51THE SUCCUBUS.[64]
  52. 52THE ISLAND WITCHES.
  53. 53THE RENFREWSHIRE WITCHES.[70]
  54. 54MISCELLANEOUS.
  55. 55THE STIRK’S FOOT.[72]
  56. 56THE HORRIBLE MURDER OF JANET CORNFOOT.[73]
  57. 57THE SPELL OF THE SLAP.[75]
  58. 58THE PLAGUE OF CATS.[76]
  59. 59THE YOUNG HONOURABLE’S DECEITS.
  60. 60THE LAST OF THE WITCHES.
  61. 61THE WITCH OF BERKELEY.
  62. 62EARLY HISTORIC TRIALS.
  63. 63THE AFFLICTIONS OF ALEXANDER NYNDGE,
  64. 64ADE DAVIE’S MOURNING.[97]
  65. 65THE POSSESSION OF MILDRED NORRINGTON.[98]
  66. 66MISCELLANEOUS.
  67. 67THE WITCHES OF S. OSEES,
  68. 68THE WOMAN AND THE BEAR.
  69. 69THE WITCHES OF WARBOIS.[107]
  70. 70THE MAN OF HOPE AND THE DEVIL.[108]
  71. 71GIFFARD’S ANECDOTES.[109]
  72. 72THE POSSESSED MAID OF THAMES STREET.[111]
  73. 73SWEET FATHER FOREMAN.
  74. 74THE WITCHES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.[113]
  75. 75THE WITCHES OF LANCASHIRE.[114]
  76. 76GRACE SOWERBUTS AND THE PRIESTS.[122]
  77. 77MARY AND HER CATS.[123]
  78. 78RUTTERKIN.[124]
  79. 79THE BOY OF BILSTON.[125]
  80. 80MR. FAIRFAX’S FOLLY.
  81. 81THE COUNTESS.[126]
  82. 82THE TWO VOICES.[127]
  83. 83THE SECOND CURSE OF PENDLE.[128]
  84. 84THE WITCH ON A PLANK.[129]
  85. 85THE WITCH-FINDING OF HOPKINS.
  86. 86THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES,
  87. 87THE HUNTINGDON IMPS.
  88. 88MR. CLARK’S EXAMPLES.
  89. 89THE NEWCASTLE PRICKERS.
  90. 90THE WITCH IN THE BRAKE.[136]
  91. 91THE TEWKESBURY WITCH THAT SUCKED THE SOW.
  92. 92THE DEVIL’S DELUSION.[137]
  93. 93THE WITCH OF WAPPING.
  94. 94THE GEOLOGICAL BEWITCHMENT.[138]
  95. 95THE BURNING BEWITCHMENT.[139]
  96. 96THE STRINGY MEAT.[140]
  97. 97THE LOST WIFE.[141]
  98. 98DR. LAMB AND HIS DARLING.[142]
  99. 99THE SPRIGHTLY LAD OF SOMERSETSHIRE.[143]
  100. 100THE WITCHES OF THE RESTORATION.
  101. 101THE WITCH-FINDER FOUND
  102. 102DOLL BILBY AND HER COMPEER.[145]
  103. 103THE ASTRAL SPIRIT’S ASSAULT.
  104. 104JULIAN’S TOADS.[146]
  105. 105THE YOUGHAL WITCH.
  106. 106THE WITCHES OF STYLES’S KNOT.[147]
  107. 107ROBIN AND HIS SERVANTS[148]
  108. 108SIR MATTHEW HALE’S JUDGMENT.[149]
  109. 109THE WAITING-MAID AND THE PIN.[150]
  110. 110JANE STRETTON AND THE CUNNING WOMAN.[151]
  111. 111THE BIDEFORD TROUBLES.[152]
  112. 112SIR JOHN HOLT’S JUDGMENTS.[153]
  113. 113THE SURREY DEMONIAC.[156]
  114. 114THE GROCER’S YOUNG MAN.[158]
  115. 115THE WITCH OF WALKERNE.[159]
  116. 116OUR LATEST.
  117. 117THE END.
  118. 118THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
  119. 119"Cover"

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