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Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series

Note 58 — CHARMING, PROPHETIC POWER, ETC.

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When cattle or human beings have been bewitched, it was very commonly thought that if a bottle of urine from the diseased beast or person was obtained, then corked very tight and buried mouth downwards, that the witch would be afflicted with strangury, and in her suffering confess her crime and beg forgiveness.

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