Note 3 — GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE

King James’s connection with the history of witchcraft almost deserves a monograph for it has never been adequately discussed, and various misconceptions on the subject are afloat. Thus Mr. H. M. Doughty, in an interesting but one-sided essay on Witchcraft and Christianity (Blackwood’s Magazine, March, 1898, CLXIII, 388), remarks that “the new King James had long lived in abject fear of witches”—an assertion that he would find it impossible to prove, even if it were true, as it seems not to be.