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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35351	Sadducimus debellatus: or, a true narrative of the sorceries and witchcrafts exercis'd by the devil and his instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw, daughter of Mr. John Shaw, of Bargarran in the County of Renfrew in the West of Scotland, from Aug. 1696 to Apr. 1697. Containing the journal of her sufferings, as it was exhibited and prov'd by the voluntary confession of some of the witches, and other unexceptionable evidence, before the Commissioners appointed by the Privy Council of Scotland to enquire into the same. Collected from the records. Together with reflexions upon witchcraft in general, and the learned arguments of the lawyers, on both sides, at the trial of seven of those witches who were condemned: and some passages which happened at their execution.	Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing C7475A; ESTC R215462	80,964	71

Tear all about her that it was as much as one or two could do to hold her in their Arms But when Ministers and other good Christians seeing her in such intollerable Anguish made serious Application by Prayer to God on her behalf she had respite from her greivous Fits of this kind and was ordinarly free of them during most of the time of Prayer tho seiz'd by them before usually when Ministers began to Pray she made great disturbance by idle lowd talk Whistling Singing and Roaring to drown the Voice of the person praying Particularly Ianuary 22. She was more Turbulent then at other times and continued some space after the Minister began to Pray Singing and making a hideous Noise fetching furious Blows with her Fist and Kicks with her Feet at the Minister uttering reproachful Talk to him and calling him Dog c. Yet being Compos'd and her Fits over before Prayer was ended the Minister when he had done finding her Sober and in a right Composure of Mind enquired why she made such disturbance She reply'd she was forc't to do it by the Hellish Crue about her and that she thought they were none of her own words that she uttered Ianuary 24th She said that some things relating both to her self and to others had been suggested to her by her Troublers but that they had threatned to Torment her if she should offer to make them known And accordingly as she Essay'd to express her Mind she was cast into two grievous Fits in which she cry'd out of violent pains all the parts of her Body becoming stiff and extended like a Corps her Head was twisted round and if any Person offered by force to obstruct such dangerous Motions she would roar out exceedingly sometimes her Neck-bone seem'd to be dislocated and yet on a sudden became so stiff that there was no moving of it and when those grevious Agonys were over she again Essay'd to express her Mind in Writing but to no purpose for she was cast instantly into other two very grievous Fits wherein she was struck Dumb Deaf and Blind and her Tongue drawn to a prodigeous length over her Chin. And when the Fits were over she declar'd that the Andersons I. P. the Gentlewoman and I. D. with the rest of the Hellish Crew some of whom she could not name had been Tormenting her in her Fits and that there had been fifteen of them about the House all last Night but were now all gone save one who was to stay about the House till her Fits were over And accordingly her Brother and Sister declared that they saw in the Morning a Woman in the Garden with a red Coat about her Head sitting at the Root of an Apple-Tree but Bargarren with most of the Servants being abroad that Matter was not further search't into That same day about Six at Night she was seiz'd with variety of greivous Fits in which sometimes she lay wholly Senseless and Breathless with her Belly swel'd like a Drum her Eyes were pul'd into her Head so far that the Spectators thought she should never have us'd them more sometimes when she was tying her own Neck-cloaths her enchanted Hands would tye them so strait that she had certainly strangled her self if the Spectators had not prevented her sometimes she offered with violence to throw her self into the Fire and divers times she struck furiously at her near Relations In her Fits she 'd maintain Discourse with her Tormentors ask Questions concerning her self and others and receive answers from them which none but her self could hear She Reasoned particularly with one of them after this manner O what ail'd thee to be a Witch thou say'st it is but three Nights since thou wast a Witch O if thou would'd Repent it may be God might give thee Repentance if thou would'st seek it and Confess if thou would desire me I would do what I could for the Devil is an ill Master to serve he is a Lyer from the beginning he promises but he cannot perform Then calling for her Bible she said I 'll let thee see where he promised to our first Parents that they should not Dye And reading the passage said now thou seest he is a Lier for by breaking of the Commandment they were made liable to Death here and Death everlasting O that 's an Uncouth word long Eternity never to have an end never never to have an end Had not God of his infinite Mercy ordain'd some to Eternal Life through Jesus Christ. The Devil makes thee believe thou wilt get great Riches by serving him but come near and having uttered this word she lost the power of her Speech her Tongue being drawn back into her Throat yet beckning with her Hand to the Spectre to come near her and turning over the Book kep't her Eye upon that passage of Holy Scripture Iob. 27. 18. And pointing with her Finger at the place and shaking her Head turn'd over the Book again And recovering Speech said I 'll let thee see where God bids us seek and we shall find and reading over the place said it is God that gives us every good Gift we have nothing of our own I submit to his will tho I never be better for God can make all my trouble turn to my Advantage according to his Word Rom. 8. 28. which place she then read and thus continued Reasoning for the space of an Hour Sometimes she cry'd out of violent pain by reason of furious Blows and Strokes she had received from the Hands of her Tormentors the Noise of which those that stood by heard distinctly tho they perceiv'd not the Hands that gave them One Night sitting with her Parents and others she cry'd out something was wounding her Thigh upon which instantly her Mother putting her Hand in the Damsels Pocket found her folding Knife open'd which had been folded when put into her Pocket but her Uncle not believing the thing did again put up the Knife and leaving it folded in her Pocket on a sudden she cry'd out as before that the Knife was cutting her Thigh being unfolded by the means of I. P. and others Upon which her Uncle searching her Pocket found the Knife open'd as formerly This happened twice or thrice to the Admiration of the Beholders who took special Notice that neither she her self nor any other visible Hand opened it Ianuary 25th She was again seiz'd with her Swooning Fits with this remarkable Variation her Throat was sometimes most prodigiously extended and sometimes as strangely Contracted so that she appear'd in palpable danger of being Choak't and through the violence of pain in her Throat and difficulty of Breathing struggled with her Feet and Hands as if some body had been actually Strangling her and she could neither speak nor cry out to any with these kind of Fits she was frequently seiz'd for several days and in the intervals declar'd that the fore-mention'd persons and others whom she could not then name were strangling her