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 Should this book come to a second edition, any help from the possessors of these hitherto unpublished documents would be a gain to the public."
Chapters
1 Preface 3 min 2 The Witches of Scotland 11 min 3 The Story of Lady Glammis 3 min 4 Bessie Dunlop and Thom Reid 7 min 5 Alison Pearson and the Fairy Folk 6 min 6 The Crimes of Lady Fowlis 11 min 7 Bessie Roy 3 min 8 The Devil's Secretary 10 min 9 The Grace Wife of Keith and Her Cummers 17 min 10 The Two Alisons 4 min 11 The Troubles of Aberdeen 18 min 12 White Witches 9 min 13 The Misdeeds of Isobel Grierson 4 min 14 Bartie Paterson's Charm 2 min 15 Beigis Tod and Her Compeers 7 min 16 The Pitiful Fate of Margaret Barclay 7 min 17 Margaret Wallace and Her Dear Burd 5 min 18 Thom Reid Again 4 min 19 Bessie Smith 2 min 20 Thomas Grieves Enchantments (1623) 3 min 21 Katherine Grant and Her Stoup 2 min 22 The Misdeeds of Marion Richart 3 min 23 Lady Lee's Penny and the Witches of 1629 4 min 24 Elspeth Cursetter and Her Friends 7 min 25 Sandie and the Devil 6 min 26 The Midwife's Double Sin 2 min 27 Katherine Grieve and John Sinclair 2 min 28 Bessie Bathgates Nips 4 min 29 Bessie Skebister 2 min 30 The Trial of Spirits 3 min 31 Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Three 10 min 32 Sinclair's Stories 15 min 33 Manie Haliburton 2 min 34 The Devil of Glenluce 19 min 35 Jonet Watson and the Devil in Green 4 min 36 The Lanthorne and the Bahr-Recht 5 min 37 The Papists and Calvinists 4 min 38 Miscellaneous 6 min 39 Clowts and the Serpent 4 min 40 The Witches of Auldearne 18 min 41 The Secret Sins of Major Weir 8 min 42 The Dumb Girl of Pollok 11 min 43 Lizzie Mudie and Her Victims 3 min 44 Brave Old Katherine Liddell 5 min 45 The Devil in His Cups 4 min 46 The Ghost of the Black-Browed Maid 7 min 47 The Succubus 3 min 48 The Island Witches 9 min 49 The Renfrewshire Witches 18 min 50 Miscellaneous 5 min 51 The Stirk's Foot 4 min 52 The Horrible Murder of Janet Cornfoot 7 min 53 The Spell of the Slap 2 min 54 The Plague of Cats 6 min 55 The Young Honourable's Deceits 4 min 56 The Last of the Witches 6 min 57 The Witches of England 12 min 58 The Witch of Berkeley 5 min 59 Early Historic Trials 19 min 60 The Afflictions of Alexander Nyndge 3 min 61 Ade Davie's Mourning 4 min 62 The Possession of Mildred Norrington 6 min 63 Miscellaneous 6 min 64 The Witches of S. Osees 40 min 65 The Woman and the Bear 7 min 66 The Witches of Warbois 34 min 67 The Man of Hope and the Devil 22 min 68 Giffard's Anecdotes 12 min 69 The Possessed Maid of Thames Street 7 min 70 Sweet Father Foreman 3 min 71 The Witches of Northamptonshire 13 min 72 The Witches of Lancashire 22 min 73 Grace Sowerbuts and the Priests 5 min 74 Mary and Her Cats 5 min 75 Rutterkin 12 min 76 The Boy of Bilston 7 min 77 Mr. Fairfax's Folly 2 min 78 The Countess 5 min 79 The Two Voices 5 min 80 The Second Curse of Pendle 13 min 81 The Witch on a Plank 5 min 82 The Witch-Finding of Hopkins 9 min 83 The Manningtree Witches 31 min 84 The Huntingdon Imps 23 min 85 Mr. Clark's Examples 4 min 86 The Newcastle Prickers 7 min 87 The Witch in the Brake 2 min 88 The Tewkesbury Witch That Sucked the Sow 2 min 89 The Devil's Delusion 3 min 90 The Witch of Wapping 3 min 91 The Geological Bewitchment 3 min 92 The Burning Bewitchment 3 min 93 The Stringy Meat 4 min 94 The Lost Wife 4 min 95 Dr. Lamb and his Darling 16 min 96 The Sprightly Lad of Somersetshire 8 min 97 The Witches of the Restoration 2 min 98 The Witch-Finder Found 2 min 99 Doll Bilby and Her Compeer 6 min 100 The Astral Spirit's Assault 4 min 101 Julian's Toads 7 min 102 The Youghal Witch 4 min 103 The Witches of Styles's Knot 11 min 104 Robin and his Servants 5 min 105 Sir Matthew Hale's Judgment 14 min 106 The Waiting-Maid and the Pin 4 min 107 Jane Stretton and the Cunning Woman 7 min 108 The Bideford Troubles 9 min 109 Sir John Holt's Judgments 17 min 110 The Surrey Demoniac 9 min 111 The Grocer's Young Man 4 min 112 The Witch of Walkerne 9 min 113 Our Latest 10 min
