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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81077	The kingdom of darkness: or the history of dæmons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions, disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural delusions, mischievous feats, and malicious impostures of the Devil Containing near fourscore memorable relations, forreign and domestick, both antient and modern. Collected from authentick records, real attestations, credible evidences, and asserted by authors of undoubted verity. Together with a preface obviating the common objections and allegations of the sadduces and atheists of the age, who deny the being of spirits, witches, &c. With pictures of several memorable accidents. By R. B. Licensed and entred according to order.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing C7342; ESTC R224752	121,198	192

the Devil if he can it is very remarkable that from this time they had no more disturbance in the Family But Isabel Murray reports divers other particulars of this Apparition as that when she saw it first the face was as black as soot and that she once saw her walking in the Garden and taking up something from the ground saying a stone a stone and gathering a great number of small stones into her Cap she threw them down under a bush which some think were the stones that were thrown in the night The woman took the courage to speak to her and said Hey what dost thou do here Isabel Heriot I charge thee by the Law thou lives on to tell me The Spectre replyed I am now come again because I wronged my Master while I was his Servant for it was I that stole his Shekel this was a Jewish Shekel of Gold that with some other things had been stoln from him several years before which I hid under the Hearth-stone in the Kitchen and when I fled I took it up and offered to sell it to a French woman who lodged in the Canongate where I then served who askt where I had it I told her I found it between Leith and Edenburgh One night says she I was riding home late from the Town and by the way my Horse stumbling I said the Devil raise thee whereupon the foul Thief appeared presently to me and threatned me that if I would not promise to destroy my Master the Minister he would throw me into a deep hole there which I suppose is still to be seen near a place called the Fauside Brae or if I could not get power over my Master I should endeavour to destroy the School-Master It is very remarkable that one of the Ministers Maids had given to the School-Masters Maid some Linnen to wash among which was a cross-cloth of strong Linnen which could not be found till one morning the Master awaking found it bound round his Night-cap which caused admiration both in himself and wife and shewed that the Devil nor the Witch had no further power of him though it is probable they designed to strangle him therewith in the night Isabel Heriot or her Ghost confest likewise that the Devil met her a second time at Elsiston Mill within a quarter of a mile of Ormiston and that as she another time was coming home from Hadington Market with Corn the Devil again appeared to her and bid her destroy Thomas Anderson who was riding with her and because she refused the Daemon threw the Corn off the Horse and it is well known that her Corn lay there all night and she went early next morning to fetch it home And says she I cheated my Master when I went to the Market to buy Oats by telling him it cost more than it did and do not you remember Isabel Murray says she that one night coming out of the Ministers house you had a sore blow on the back with a stone it was I that did it yet not for your own sake but your husbands who once threw me down and abused me After this Conference the woman began to be afraid and leaving the Spectre came running home with all speed This Isabel Heriot was never reputed a Witch nor accused by any but was very ignorant in Religion and travelled oft in the night But this Disturbance and Apparition after her death made it believed that it was either her real body acted by the Devil or else Satan taking upon him her shape and form and imitating her to the life which seems most probable Invisib World. p. 144. XXXVI ONE Alexander Hunter lived at Edenburgh in Scotland and was nick-named by the Devil Hatterick He was first a Servant to a Gentleman in East Lothian and was much given to Charms pretending to cure Men and Beasts by Words and Spells which sometimes succeeded otherwhile not One Summers day as he was looking after his Cattel on the side of an Hill the Devil appeared to him in the shape of a Physician and said Sauny you have long followed my trade and never acknowledged me for your Master you must now bargain with me and be my Servant and I will make you more perfect in your Calling Whereupon the fellow gave himself to the Devil and received his mark and the new name of Hatterick After this he grew very famous throughout the Countrey for his Charms and curing distempers and turned a wandring Mountebank getting Bread Meat and Money by his Tricks from the ignorant people So that at length whatever house he came to none durst refuse Hatterick an alms though many gave it more out of fear than love One day he came to a Gentlemans gate who had some Friends that dined with him just ready to take horse and ride away A young Gentleman brother to the Lady seeing him there switcht him about the ears saying You Conjuring Rogue what have you to do here Whereupon the Fellow goes away grumbling and was overheard to say You shall buy this dear ere long The Young Gentleman having waited on his Friends a good part of their way returned back again where he supt After which taking his Horse to go home to his own house and crossing Tine-Water 〈◊〉 through a shady place called the Allers and the Evening being somewhat dark he met with some such dreadful Apparitions as brought him into a terrible consternation and which he would never full discover When he came home the Servants observe● a strange trouble and disorder in his countenance and the next day he became distracted and wa● bound in his bed a considerable time His sister the Lady Samuelston hearing of it was heard say Sure● that knave Hattarick is the cause of this trouble call 〈◊〉 him presently He being come Sarrah says she wh● is that you have done to my brother William I told his says he I should make him repent his striking of me at the gate lately She giving the Rogue good words and promising him his poke-full of Bread and Beef perswaded the Fellow to cure him again He undertook the business but saies he I must have one of his Shirts which being given him what tricks he plaid with it they knew not but in a little while the Gentleman recovered his health When Hattarick came for his reward he told the Lady Your brother William shall quickly go out of this Countrey but shall never return again She knowing the Fellows prophecies were generally true caused her brother to dispose of his Estate before he went After this Wizzard had abused the Countrey a long time he was at length apprehended at Dunbar and being brought to Edenburg and found guilty of many notorious crimes was burnt in the Castle there Ibidem p. 122. XXXVII ABout the time that the Earl of Traquair was his late Majesties Commissioner in Scotland it happened that at Dalkeith where he resided one Spalding living in that Town killed one Sadler his Neighbour

Dunghill she gave it her Mother who put it into hot water and after took it out and rub'd it on Rutterkin her Cat and bid him go upwards and afterward buried it in the yard and said a mischief light on him but he will mend again She confessed also that her Mother and she and her Sister contrived so to bewitch the Earl and his Countess that they might have no more Children for turning her out of the Castle at which her Mother was so inraged that she swore dreadfully to be revenged Her malice increasing because she thought the Earl did not take her part against one Peak who had abused her whereupon they took Wooll out of the bed the Lady had given her and a pair of Gloves of the Earls and put them into warm water mingled with bloud stirring it together and then taking them out rubb'd them on Rutterkin her Imp saying The Lord and the Lady should have more Children but it would be long first She likewise confest that she brought her Mother a piece of the Lady Katherines Handkercher and her Mother put it in water and rubb'd it on her Spirit bidding him fly and go whereupon he whined and cryed mew at which she said That Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurs her She also acknowledged that she had two Familiar Spirits sucking on her one white and the other black and spotted the white suckt under her breast and the black in the lower parts of her body When she first entertained them she promised them her Soul and they covenanted to do all the mischief she commanded them Lastly she confessed that Jan. 30. four Devils appeared to her in Lincoln Jayl about twelve a Clock at night one standing at her bed-side with a black head like an Ape and spoke to her but the words she could not understand at which she was very angry because he spoke not plainer that she might know his meaning the other three were Rutterkin little Robin and Spirit and that she never feared she should lose her life nor suspected their treachery till that time About the same time Joan Willimot of Goadby a Witch was examined by Sir Henry Hastings and Dr. Fleming Justices in Leicestershire about the murder of Henry Lord Ross who declared that Joan Flower told her the Earl of Rutland had dealt badly by her and had put away her Daughter and though she could not have her will of my Lord himself yet she had sped my Lords Son and had stricken him to the heart She further confessed that to her own knowledge my Lords Son was struck with a white Spirit and that she can cure those who send to her and that some reward her for her pains and or others she takes nothing Acknowledging that she had a Spirit which she called Pretty given her by William Berry of Langholm in Rutlandshire to whom she was a servant three years and that when her Master gave it her he bid her open her mouth and he would blow a Fairy into her which should do her good and accordingly he blowed into her mouth and soon after there came a Spirit out of her mouth which stood on the ground in the form of a woman who asked her to give her Soul to her which she then promised by the instigation of her Master She said she never hurt any body but helpt divers who were bewitcht and that her Spirit came to her weekly giving her an account who were thus afflicted and that the night before it came like a woman mumbling somewhat she could not understand And being asked whether she were not in a dream she affirmed she was awake as much as at that instant Another time her Spirit told her there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her Soul to the Devil and that her Spirit did then appear in a more hideous form than it had formerly done and much urged her to give it something though but a piece of her Girdle saying it had taken great pains for her but she refused to give it any thing She said further that John Pachet whose child was bewitcht to death might have had it alive if he would have sought help in time and that Pachets Wife had an evil thing within her which would make an end of her which she knew by her Girdle and accordingly she died soon after And that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in Leicestershire a Shepherd had a Spirit like a Mouse which went into his Body at the time he contracted to give his Soul to the Devil after which if he lookt maliciously upon any thing it received hurt thereby and that he had a mark on his left arm which was cut away of which her own Spirit inform'd her before he left her Upon a second Examination she confest that Joan Flower and her Daughter Margaret met together about a week before their apprehension in Black-borrow Hill and went thence to Joan Flowers house where she saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owl and one of them suckt her right ear as she thought and Joan told her that her Spirits had promised she should neither be hanged nor burnt and then took up some earth and spit upon it working it with her Fingers and put it into her purse saying Though she could not hurt the Lord himself yet she had sped his Son who is dead Another Witch called Ellen Green of Stathorn in Leicestershire was examined about that time by the same Justices who confessed that Joan Willimot abovenamed came to her about six years since and perswaded her to forsake God and betake her self to the Devil to which she consented who then called two Spirits one like a young Cat which she named Puss and the other in the shape of a Mole which she called Hiff Hiff who instantly came and Willimot going away left them with her after which they leapt on her shoulder the Kitling sucking her neck under her right ear and the Mole under her left in the same place After which she sent the Kitling to a Baker in the Town who had called her Witch and struck her bidding it go and bewitch him to death and the Mole she sent to Ann Daws of the same Town upon the same errand because she had called her Witch Whore and Jade and within a Fortnight after they both died After which she sent them to destroy two Husbandmen named Willison and Williman who died both in ten days These four she murdered while she dwelt at Waltham When she removed to Stathorn where she now dwelt upon a difference between her and one Pachets Wife a Yeoman there Joan Willimot called her to go and touch Pachets Wife and Child which she did touching the Woman in bed and the Child in the Midwives arms and then sent her Spirits to bewitch them to death the woman languished a month before she died but the Child lived only till next day after she had touched