The witch of EdmontonBuchdr. von H. John, 1904 - 36 pages |
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... Devil's access unto her . Die unmutvollen Worte Mother Sawyer's . p . 196 . ähnlich p . 197 . Some call me witch etc. ... ( vgl . oben ) , and in part Make me to credit it ( sc . practice of witchery ) muten wie eine Glossierung des ...
... Devil's access unto her . Die unmutvollen Worte Mother Sawyer's . p . 196 . ähnlich p . 197 . Some call me witch etc. ... ( vgl . oben ) , and in part Make me to credit it ( sc . practice of witchery ) muten wie eine Glossierung des ...
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... hat , antwortet M. S .: I never did such any thing . Bei der weiteren Frage : G. XCIX . What was the white thing that did run through the thatch of your house , was it a spirit or a Devil ? räumt sie indes ein : So far as I know - 9.
... hat , antwortet M. S .: I never did such any thing . Bei der weiteren Frage : G. XCIX . What was the white thing that did run through the thatch of your house , was it a spirit or a Devil ? räumt sie indes ein : So far as I know - 9.
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... Devil came unto me was when I was cursing , swearing and blaspheming ; he then rushed in upon me , and never before that time did I see him , or he me . vgl . p . 200/01 Diese Schilderung haben die Verfasser benutzt , um zu zei- gen ...
... Devil came unto me was when I was cursing , swearing and blaspheming ; he then rushed in upon me , and never before that time did I see him , or he me . vgl . p . 200/01 Diese Schilderung haben die Verfasser benutzt , um zu zei- gen ...
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... Devil come unto you ? Answer . Always in the shape of a dog ; and two colours , sometimes of black and sometimes of white . ( Vgl . hierüber später Akt V , Szene 1 , pag . 257 ) . Die ersten Worte des Teufels p . 201 Ho ! have I found ...
... Devil come unto you ? Answer . Always in the shape of a dog ; and two colours , sometimes of black and sometimes of white . ( Vgl . hierüber später Akt V , Szene 1 , pag . 257 ) . Die ersten Worte des Teufels p . 201 Ho ! have I found ...
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... Devil , when he came unto you and spake unto you , were you not afraid of him ? him , what said the Devil then unto you ? If you did fear Zur besseren Vergleichung werde die Textstelle einge- schoben : p . 201/02 Sawyer . what art thou ...
... Devil , when he came unto you and spake unto you , were you not afraid of him ? him , what said the Devil then unto you ? If you did fear Zur besseren Vergleichung werde die Textstelle einge- schoben : p . 201/02 Sawyer . what art thou ...
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Agnes alte Banks alte Hexe angered Ann Ratcliffe Answer beasts bending blood body was crooked Brandls bring unto call the Devil cattle cause children confess crooked and deformed Cuddy Banks curse death of nurse-children Dramatiker Dramen Elizabeth Sawyer fear ferrets found thee Cursing Frank Thorney Gifford Goodcoles great Hamluc Handlung Heinrich VI help Hexe von Edmonton Höllenhund house indem John Ford Jonson Justice Köppel a. a. little LXXXVI Macbeth make mischief Mohrentanz Morsbach Mother Sawyer Mother Sawyer's Mummenschanz neighbours never Newgate oaths pray Question Rache Ratcleife revenge revenged Sanctibicetur nomen tuum schwarze Hund seeing the death Shakespeare shame shape Sir Arthur Somerton sometimes soul and body suck Susanne Carter swearing swearing and blaspheming Teufel Teufelshund thatch thing Tragikomödie trial Tyburn UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unserem unto the Devil Verfasser Verhör Vorlage white Winnifrede Witch of Edmonton witchery Worte XCIV XCIX XCVII Zauberformel
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Page 10 - Or anything that's ill ; so I might work Revenge upon this miser, this black cur, That barks and bites, and sucks the very blood Of me, and of my credit.
Page 9 - And hated like a sickness : made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of Familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets, weasels, and I wot not what, That have appear'd ; and suck'd, some say, their blood.
Page 10 - I'd go out of myself, And give this fury leave to dwell within This ruined cottage, ready to fall with age : Abjure all goodness, be at hate with prayer, And study curses, imprecations, Blasphemous speeches, oaths, detested oaths, Or...
Page 30 - Dog. I'll thus much tell thee : thou never art so distant From an evil spirit but that thy oaths, Curses, and blasphemies pull him to thine elbow ; Thou never tell'st a lie, but that a devil Is within hearing it ; thy evil purposes Are ever haunted ; but when they come to act, — As thy tongue slandering, bearing false witness, Thy hand stabbing, stealing, cozening, cheating, — He's then within thee : thou play'st, he bets upon thy part; Although thou lose, yet he will gain by thee.
Page 7 - Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together By some more strong in mischiefs than myself; Must I for that be made a common sink For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant, of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one : urging That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) Forespeaks their cattle, doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse : This they enforce...
Page 4 - Elizabeth Sawyer was a poor woman, that in the superstitious reign of James the First probably incurred the displeasure of some more potent neighbour, who, having no just cause of complaint to allege against her, accused her of witchcraft ; a crime that, of all others, was at this period most dreaded : very little time was allowed between the accusation, condemnation, and death of a suspected witch ; and if a voluntary confession was wanting, they never failed extorting a forced one by tormenting...
Page 13 - Out, alas! My soul and body ? Dog. And that instantly, And seal it with thy blood ; if thou deniest, I'll tear thy body in a thousand pieces.
Page 21 - Saw. I am none. None but base curs so bark at me; I am none. Or would I were! if every poor old woman, Be trod on thus by slaves, reviled, kick'd, beaten, As I am daily, she to be revenged Had need turn witch. Sir Ar. And you to be revenged Have sold your soul to th
Page 4 - The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a witch, late of Edmonton ; her conviction, and condemnation and death ; together with the [relation of the] divel's accesse to her, and their conference together.
Page 30 - Were it not possible for thee to become an honest dog yet?— 'Tis a base life that you lead, Tom, to serve witches, to kill innocent children, to kill harmless cattle, to stroy ' corn and fruit, etc. : 'twere better yet to be a butcher and kill for yourself.