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Witch Stories

A collection of stories in England, Scotland and thereabout based off court records for the charge of witchcraft during the witch delusion of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. (summary by a LibriVox Volunteer)

From the author: "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 Should this book come to a second edition, any help from the possessors of these hitherto unpublished documents would be a gain to the public."

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Preface (Nichole Di Dio)
The Witches of Scotland (Nichole Di Dio)
The Story of Lady Glammis (czandra)
Bessie Dunlop and Thom Reid (Sonia)
Alison Pearson and the Fairy Folk (Kerrith Fraser)
The Crimes of Lady Fowlis (Kerrith Fraser)
Bessie Roy (czandra)
The Devil's Secretary (Sonia)
The Grace Wife of Keith and Her Cummers (czandra)
The Two Alisons (czandra)
The Troubles of Aberdeen (Nichole Di Dio)
White Witches (czandra)
The Misdeeds of Isobel Grierson (czandra)
Bartie Paterson's Charm (Christine Rottger)
Beigis Tod and Her Compeers (Christine Rottger)
The Pitiful Fate of Margaret Barclay (Christine Rottger)
Margaret Wallace and Her Dear Burd (Christine Rottger)
Thom Reid Again (Christine Rottger)
Bessie Smith (Christine Rottger)
Thomas Grieves Enchantments (1623) (Christine Rottger)
Katherine Grant and Her Stoup (Christine Rottger)
The Misdeeds of Marion Richart (Christine Rottger)
Lady Lee's Penny and the Witches of 1629 (Galena Rayven)
Elspeth Cursetter and Her Friends (Sonia)
Sandie and the Devil (Sonia)
The Midwife's Double Sin (Amanda Leung)
Katherine Grieve and John Sinclair (Kerrith Fraser)
Bessie Bathgates Nips (Kerrith Fraser)
Bessie Skebister (Kerrith Fraser)
The Trial of Spirits (Sonia)
Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Three (Sonia)
Sinclair's Stories (MoonLylith)
Manie Haliburton (Sonia)
The Devil of Glenluce (Sonia)
Jonet Watson and the Devil in Green (Sonia)
The Lanthorne and the Bahr-Recht (Sonia)
The Papists and Calvinists (Sonia)
Miscellaneous (Sonia)
Clowts and the Serpent (Sonia)
The Witches of Auldearne (MoonLylith)
The Secret Sins of Major Weir (Kerrith Fraser)
The Dumb Girl of Pollok (Kerrith Fraser)
Lizzie Mudie and Her Victims (Kerrith Fraser)
Brave Old Katherine Liddell (Kerrith Fraser)
The Devil in His Cups (Sonia)
The Ghost of the Black-Browed Maid (Sonia)
The Succubus (Nichole Di Dio)
The Island Witches (Christine Rottger)
The Renfrewshire Witches (Christine Rottger)
Miscellaneous (Christine Rottger)
The Stirk's Foot (Christine Rottger)
The Horrible Murder of Janet Cornfoot (Nichole Di Dio)
The Spell of the Slap (Emily Schueller)
The Plague of Cats (Cbteddy)
The Young Honourable's Deceits (Sonia)
The Last of the Witches (Emily Schueller)
The Witches of England (Nichole Di Dio)
The Witch of Berkeley (April6090)
Early Historic Trials (Nichole Di Dio)
The Afflictions of Alexander Nyndge (Sonia)
Ade Davie's Mourning (Sonia)
The Possession of Mildred Norrington (Michele Fry)
Miscellaneous (Sonia)
The Witches of S. Osees (Brian Fullen)
The Woman and the Bear (Agnes Robert Behr)
The Witches of Warbois (Brian Fullen)
The Man of Hope and the Devil (Katina Papadakis)
Giffard's Anecdotes (Katina Papadakis)
The Possessed Maid of Thames Street (Katina Papadakis)
Sweet Father Foreman (Agnes Robert Behr)
The Witches of Northamptonshire (Sonia)
The Witches of Lancashire (MoonLylith)
Grace Sowerbuts and the Priests (Sonia)
Mary and Her Cats (Nichole Di Dio)
Rutterkin (Cbteddy)
The Boy of Bilston (GMGDave)
Mr. Fairfax's Folly (Tess Hogue)
The Countess (Tess Hogue)
The Two Voices (Cbteddy)
The Second Curse of Pendle (Cbteddy)
The Witch on a Plank (nes166)
The Witch-Finding of Hopkins (Nichole Di Dio)
The Manningtree Witches (Nichole Di Dio)
The Huntingdon Imps (Brian Fullen)
Mr. Clark's Examples (Christopher J Ashfield)
The Newcastle Prickers (Christopher J Ashfield)
The Witch in the Brake (Amanda Leung)
The Tewkesbury Witch That Sucked the Sow (Brian Fullen)
The Devil's Delusion (Brian Fullen)
The Witch of Wapping (Brian Fullen)
The Geological Bewitchment (Brian Fullen)
The Burning Bewitchment (Charlie Kingfisher)
The Stringy Meat (Liz Petersen)
The Lost Wife (ruthruby)
Dr. Lamb and his Darling (ruthruby)
The Sprightly Lad of Somersetshire (ruthruby)
The Witches of the Restoration (Amanda Leung)
The Witch-Finder Found (Amanda Leung)
Doll Bilby and Her Compeer (Stacey Malcolm)
The Astral Spirit's Assault (Nichole Di Dio)
Julian's Toads (Brian Fullen)
The Youghal Witch (Brian Fullen)
The Witches of Styles's Knot (Brian Fullen)
Robin and his Servants (Brian Fullen)
Sir Matthew Hale's Judgment (Brian Fullen)
The Waiting-Maid and the Pin (Brian Fullen)
Jane Stretton and the Cunning Woman (Joshua Demers)
The Bideford Troubles (Raffaele Di Carlo)
Sir John Holt's Judgments (Raffaele Di Carlo)
The Surrey Demoniac (Raffaele Di Carlo)
The Grocer's Young Man (Raffaele Di Carlo)
The Witch of Walkerne (czandra)
Our Latest (Nichole Di Dio)
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