Page:Satan's invisible world discover'd, or, The history or witches and warlocks.pdf/10

10 my brother's infernal acquaintances for I knew he had familiarity with ſuch."

This minds me of a wizard accuſed and executed in Zetland, for witchcraft, ſeveral years ago, called Luggy to a nickname. He being a fiſher, had a trick at any time when hungry at ſea, to caſt out his line, and would bring up fiſh well boiled and roaſted; and he and his comrades would make a merry meal thereof, not queſtioning who was cook

He had another piece of art in great ſtorms, to go up to a hill near his own houſe, where there was a deep pit out of which with his lines, he drew up coelings, or keiling for his proviſion. This ſtory is yet to be ſeen in the criminal books of that country.

Miſs Weir being aſked anent her parents, She ſaid, ſhe was perſuaded her mother was a witch; for the ſecreteſt thing that either ſhe or any of the family could do, when once a mark appeared on her brow, ſhe could tell it them tho' done at a diſtance. Being aſked what ſort of a mark it was, She anſwered, "I have ſome ſuch mark myſelf when I pleaſe; on my forehead.' Whereupon ſhe offered to uncover her head for viſible ſatiſfaction. The miniſter refuſing to behold it, and forbidding any diſcovery, was earneſtly requeſted by ſome ſpectators to allow her, and he yielded. She then put back her head-dreſs, and ſeeming to frown there was ſeen an exact figure of a horſeſhoe with nails in her wrinkles, terrible to the ſtouteſt beholders.