Annals of Witchcraft in New England And Elsewhere in the United States From T
Annals of Witchcraft in New England And Elsewhere in the United States From T
Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875
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For Nightfhade and Hemlock grew under the Eaves, And feemed to have Sorcery writ on their leaves. When the feathery Group gave their ominous fhout, I thought of the Chicks Mother Carey fent out ! Then there lay old Growler at Length on the Floor, And looked like the Wicked One keeping the Door ; With Eyes femi-clofed, as inclining to Sleep, But ope d now and then for an impious Peep ; And even the Puff, as fhe dozed on the Hearth, I thought had a Spice of the Witch from her Birth. " l68o. While... Witchcraft was flourishing in Newbury, a moft exciting Cafe of it broke forth in Hamp ton, in 1680. Rachel, the Wife of John Fuller, of that Town, was charged with caufing the Death of a Child by the Practice of Sorcery. A Jury of twelve Men was impanneled to inveftigate the Charge, and the Refult as recorded is briefly as follows : The Jurors fay, "being called by Authority to view a dead Child of John Godfres, being about a Year old, which was fufpefted to be murdered, we find Grounds of Sufpicion that the faid Child was murdered by Witchcraft: firft, in Part by what we faw by the dead Corpfe; fecond, Some thing we perceived by the Party fufpe&ed, which 1 Madam Hooper was nearly her Lines may have Reference to Cotemporary with Mifs Gould, and her, as more applicable.
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