Note 524 — Chapter II · THE WITCH TRIALS
Reading edition
See J. P. Migne, Encyclopédie théologique, vol. xlix. tome second, p. 72. Paris, 1848.
Charles Mackay has observed: “It was no unusual thing then, nor is it now, that in aged persons there should be some spot on the body totally devoid of feeling,” p. 137. In Scotland there were a number of witch-finders who were known as “common prickers,” p. 146.—Popular Delusions, London, 1869.