In the same book we read how a witch g-ets milk 



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from any cow ho\vever distant. She sticks a knife 

 into the wall, takes a pail between her knees, and 

 cries to the devil to send the milk of any cow she 

 wishes j upon this the milk immediately runs down 

 the handle of the knife into the pail. 



In 1669 sixty-two women in Sweden were con- 

 demned to death for bewitching' a great number of 

 children. The} r confessed that they had been in the 

 habit of taking- children to a rock in the sea, called 

 Blokula, where they met the devil. He was usually 

 dressed in a grey coat, red breeches, and red stock- 

 ings. They rode through the air to the rock, with 

 the children on goats. The way was to run a long- 

 spit through the g^oat ; then the witch rode on the 

 g'oat, and the children rode on the spit behind. 

 When they got to Blokula, the devil feasted them on 

 cabbag'e and oatmeal porridge. The young'er witches 

 were not admitted to the feast ; but were set to take 

 care of the toads, and keep them in order with long 1 ^ 

 white sticks. The witch's husband, who all the time 

 has a piece of wood in bed with him, in the place of 

 his wife, knows nothing' of the affair. Then there 

 were dances. When the devil was in a cheerful 

 humour, his amusement was to make the witches ride 

 on long- poles, and then all at once he would pluck 

 away the poles, when down would tumble the witches, 

 to his very great g-lee. All these sixty-two witches 

 wore executed. 



lu 1303, an English Bishop was accused of evil 



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