{"product_id":"2940011869501","title":"Witch Stories","description":"This ebook is complete with linked footnotes and linked Table of Contents making navigation quicker and easier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”— Exodus xxii. 18.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn offering the following collection of witch stories to the public, I do not profess to have exhausted the subject, or to have made so complete a summary as I might have done, had I been admitted into certain private libraries, which contain, I believe, many concealed riches. But I had no means of introduction to them, and was obliged to be content with such authorities as I found in the British Museum, and the other public libraries to which I had access. I do not think that I have left much untold; but there must be, scattered about England, old MSS. and unique copies of records concerning which I can find only meagre allusions, or the mere names of the victims, without a distinctive fact to mark their special history. Should this book come to a second edition, any help from the possessors of these hitherto unpublished documents would be a gain to the public, and a privilege which I trust may be afforded me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither have I attempted to enter into the philosophy of the subject. It is far too wide and deep to be discussed in a few hasty words; and to sift such evidence as is left us—to determine what was fraud, what self-deception, what actual disease, and what the exaggeration of the narrator—would have swelled my book into a far more important and bulky work than I intended or wished. As a general rule, I think we may apply all the four conditions to every case reported; in what proportion, each reader must judge for himself. Those who believe in direct and personal intercourse between the spirit-world and man, will probably accept every account with the unquestioning belief of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; those who have faith in the calm and uniform operations of nature, will hold chiefly to the doctrine of fraud; those who have seen much of disease and that strange condition called “mesmerism,” or “sensitiveness,” will allow the presence of absolute nervous derangement, mixed up with a vast amount of conscious deception, which the insane credulity and marvelous ignorance of the time rendered easy to practice; and those who have been accustomed to sift evidence and examine witnesses, will be utterly dissatisfied with the loose statements and wild distortion of every instance on record.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents include:\u003cbr\u003eWITCHES OF SCOTLAND\u003cbr\u003eTHE STORY OF LADY GLAMMIS\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE DUNLOP AND THOM REID\u003cbr\u003eALISON PEARSON AND THE FAIRY FOLK\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRIMES OF LADY FOWLIS\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE ROY\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEVIL'S SECRETARY\u003cbr\u003eTHE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH AND HER CUMMERS\u003cbr\u003eTHE TWO ALISONS\u003cbr\u003eTHE TROUBLES OF ABERDEEN\u003cbr\u003eWHITE WITCHES\u003cbr\u003eTHE MISDEEDS OF ISOBEL GRIERSON\u003cbr\u003eBARTIE PATERSON'S CHARM\u003cbr\u003eBEIGIS TOD AND HER COMPEERS\u003cbr\u003eTHE PITIFUL FATE OF MARGARET BARCLAY\u003cbr\u003eMARGARET WALLACE AND HER DEAR BURD\u003cbr\u003eTHOM REID AGAIN\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE SMITH\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS GRIEVE'S ENCHANTMENTS 1623\u003cbr\u003eKATHERINE GRANT AND HER STOUP\u003cbr\u003eTHE MISDEEDS OF MARION RICHART\u003cbr\u003eLADY LEE'S PENNY AND THE WITCHES OF 1629\u003cbr\u003eELSPETH CURSETTER AND HER FRIENDS\u003cbr\u003eSANDIE AND THE DEVIL\u003cbr\u003eTHE MIDWIFE'S DOUBLE SIN\u003cbr\u003eKATHERINE GRIEVE AND JOHN SINCLAIR\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE BATHGATE'S NIPS\u003cbr\u003eBESSIE SKEBISTER\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRIAL OF SPIRITS\u003cbr\u003eSIXTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE\u003cbr\u003eSINCLAIR'S STORIES\u003cbr\u003eMANIE HALIBURTON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WITCHES OF ENGLAND\u003cbr\u003eTHE WITCH OF BERKELEY\u003cbr\u003eEARLY HISTORIC TRIALS\u003cbr\u003eTHE AFFLICTIONS OF ALEX AND ERNYNDGE\u003cbr\u003eADE DAVIES MOURNING\u003cbr\u003eTHE POSSESSION","brand":"Spastic Cat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152362422512,"sku":"2940011869501","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011869501_p0.jpg?v=1763550557","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011869501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}