60 Pitcairn, Records of Justiciary. In 1663 Kincaid was thrown into jail, where he lay nine weeks for “pricking” without a magistrate’s warrant. He was only released owing to his great age and on condition that he would “prick” no more.
61 This shaving of the head and body was the usual procedure before the search for the devil-mark. We find it recorded in nearly every case. Generally, a barber was called in to perform the operation: e.g. the trials of Gaufridi and Grandier, where the details are very ample.
62 The Wardlaw Manuscript, p. 446. Scottish History Society publication, Edinburgh.
63 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, p. 86.
64 Angelica in Love for Love (1695), II, mocking her superstitious old uncle, Foresight, and the Nurse, cries: “Look to it, Nurse; I can bring Witness that you have a great unnatural Teat under your Left Arm, and he another; and that you Suckle a young Devil in the shape of a Tabby-Cat by turns, I can.”
65 The most wonderfull . . . storie of a . . . Witch named Alse Gooderidge. London. 1597.
66 Goodcole’s Wonderful Discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, London, 1621. There is an allusion in Ford and Dekker’s drama, IV:
Sawyer.My dear Tom-boy, welcome . . .
Comfort me: thou shalt haue the teat anon.
Dog.Bow, wow! I'll haue it now.
67 W. B. Gerish. The Devil’s Delusions, Bishops Stortford, 1914.
68 Prodigious and Tragicall Histories, London, 1652.
69 W. B. Gerish, Relation of Mary Hall of Gadsden, 1912
70 T. B. Howell, State Trials, London, 1816.
71 Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World.
