CHAPTER VII.. Belief in Witchcraft.

BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT.

A witch as regarded by our fathers.--Compact or agreement with the devil.--Carried through the air on brooms and spits.--Anointing their bodies with a magical ointment.--How to prepare the same.--Singular ceremonies at the meetings of witches.--How they afflicted others. --The bewitched pins shown to Grace Greenwood.--Mode of examining and trying witches.--Witch catcher in England.--How he was arrested and condemned.--Singular record on a church book in Scotland.-- Notice of the Salem witchcraft.--How such superstitions are to be done away.--Witches and wizards of modern times. 53