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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03653	The wonderfull and true relation of the bewitching a young girle in Ireland, what way she was tormented, and a receipt of the ointment that she was cured with.	Higgs, Daniel.	1699 (1699)	Wing H1959A; ESTC R178028	5,460	16

Bodkin betwixt them and after an Iron Nail a Wooden Spindle c. but all in vain the Mother seing the Child fall For she would never go one step from her said the Ministers were comeing she had no sooner said this but they knocked at the Door when they were come in and lighted a Candle as soon as ever they had read the first Words of a Chapter of the Gospel of S. Matthew the Girle which hitherto had lain more immovable than any dead Corps fell a shaking all over Her Fingers and Toes continuing as they were with that Violence that she could not be held still by six of us by no means We could use my self who with all my strength essayed to hold her Head observed it both by my sight and feeling to be writhen as by an Ophisthonick Convulsion together with Her Neck towards her shoulders in the mean time her belly was ra●ed up to a prodigious bigness and was nearer her Throat than Her Thighs and that with so great a Noise Grumbling of Her Bowels that all present could hear it at above ten Paces distance The Sound was the nearest to that which is caused by tempestuous Waves under the Prow of a ship all this while the child vomited sevral of the abovementioned things I begg'd the Minister out of Compassion to Her to forbear his reading he had scarce pronounced the last sillable when in an instant she lay as quiet as possible and after He had quited the House and was at a considerable distance off she undid her fingers and Toes and open her Eyes straight way stood up and when she had weept a little and chid her mother for sending for the Minister tho' she never saw them nor as she said heard them she presently began to eat drink and play with her equals just as if nothing had ailed her but upon the Minister's returning to do his office she was as formerly I saw her this while cast up Feathers Bundles of Straw above the bigness of my thumb with pins stuck across the straws Points woven of Threed of several Colours and a row of Pins stuck in a blue paper as fresh and new as any sold in the Pedlar's stall In fine every thing as the innocent child affirmed which she had seen in the Witches basket when she begg'd which favours plainly of Devilsm which all the Philosophers in the World are not able to solve for by what Operation could every thing she had seen in the basket be conveyed in the same kind and tale into the Bowels of the child except the Devil himself was not assisting But when I saw all she had cast up was perfectly dry and without the least wet I told the Ministers and several learned men present for I cal'd many out of desire of being the better informed that surely our Eyes were inchanted for that these things could not possibly come out of her Body For how could it be that the pricking of so many Pins should bring up no Blood How could a sharp knife come up the narrow throat of a young child without cutting the passage I added that it was my Opinion that these things must be convyed privatly some way from some other Place and then by the malicious Demon that took pleasure to deceave us drop from the Childs Lips into our hands and that I was brought to mind of a Verse in Ovid which I never understood but now less than ever it is this Devovet absentes simulacraque cerea singit Et miserum tenues in jecur urget Acus Curses the absent then forms waxen shapes Runs into th' Liver Needles The words are spoken of Maedea a Witch but the child herself being immixt with us in our debates and of a capacity above her years soon resolved this difficulty for we doubt not said she but that thes things com out of me and with that she caught my Hand and put it to her Throat feel said she a Pin without an head comeing up and which will come up presently I felt and immediatly when I thought verily I held it fast betwixt the fingers of my left Hand within her Throat I perceaved it to be forced violently from me and presently seeing the child about to spit I receaved in my right Hand and I have shewed since to several incredulous persons and still keep it by me to shew to the Curious with Parots Feathers Threed Straw and other like Materials In like maner I have frequently at other times felt the ends of Points while they were yet in the very orifice of her stomach and while they were comeing up and ready to come out of her Mouth all who were curious to make experiments imagined they could hold the end of the Point in the middle of her Throat but the crafty Demon defeated all their Attempts After she had exorted for some weeks to no Purpose her mother had great desire to carry her to a Doctor near to Dublin who was belived by the vulgar to be verie famous in the curing of these but staying severall dayes without any effect they bring the child back to my house not on Jot the better but the worse by a Hydrophobia or as I would rather call it a Stygrophobia or fearfullness of moist things so called very sad and disconsolat and disparing of her life Yea praying for her death she came back to me about the midst of Autum refusing not only wine beer meed and all water but also boiled meat and bread steept in broath or wine and att last wheat wheaten bread I belive because the one was made with milk and the other with water as is usuall with us for which reason for forty dayes time she lived on nothing but Apples Raisins Nuts Almonds other fruits proper to the season yet for all this-the rosie blush in her cheeks was not diminished nor the milky snow of her forehead at last for fifteen dayes and nights together she took neither meat nor drink how she could Pass so many dayes without eaither meat or drink I confess my selfe ignorant but that so it was I doe avow and all my family are ready most solemnly to depose upon Oath on the sexteenth day when she had of her own accord asked for some drink and taken it she no longer refused food I thought then season to have recourse to naturall means not omitting divne exercise and I prepared the decoction ex fuga Daemonum of southeren wood Mugwort Vervene c. and after I had used her a while to that drink I sent her home in the Intrim tumbling over all the books I could find at last I light on Bartholemew Carrichters secret● who in XII Chap. of his 2 book describs a certain medicine proper to this malady finding this mightly recomended in Horstius his medicinall epistles Epist. I. Sect. VII in Hector Schlands letter to Grigory Hostrus dated in the year 1612. I write to the Apothecary in Dublin in whose shops I thought it was sold promising any rate for the unguent and prescription but receving no advice from them and being day and night solicitus for the Childs recoverie I took Carrichter again into my hands and having much adoe to understand him by reason of a mistack of the printers who had printed in one word Hoter bletter beer which should have been in three I at last a long time after for want of necessarie materials caused the folowing unguent to be made Take of Dogs Grease well dissolved and cleansed four Ounces Of Bears Grease eight Ounce Of Capons Grease four and twenty Ounces three trunks of the Misletoe of the Hazle while green cut in pieces pound it smal till it become moist bruise together the wood leaves and Berries mix all in a Vial after You have exposed it to the Sun for nine weeks You shall extract a green Balsom wherewith if you anoint the Bodies of the Bewitched especially the parts most effected and the joynts they will certainly be cured as hath been proved by the child who hath been now perfectly well since only an the dayes of the Ember-weeks do what she can she is seized with a certain transient melancholy And this is the reason why I have ingenously communicated to the world the above-mentioned Prescription concealed by others and ordered it to be printed for the Good of others that may have the like So Farewell Daniel Higgs FINIS