Dear all,
I have a quick inquiry that I am hoping someone on the list might assist with. It seems particularly apropos with the discussion of Murray happening.
I am looking for assistance with a reference in John Cotta's _A Short Discovery_ (1612). Cotta writes that he helped treat a young woman or Warwickshire in 1608 who exhibited symptoms of bewitchment. Although he happily reported she recovered by taking the waters at Bath, thus making this a natural, rather than a supernatural illness, he does mention that "certaine witches lately dying for sorcerie, haue confessed themselues to haue bewitched this gentlewoman" (69).
I have been unable to track down reference to the names of these witches. Would there be someone on the list who has?
many thanks,
Kirsten
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Kirsten C. Uszkalo
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Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://weme.uszkalo.com
- Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org
- Adjunct Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
- Visiting Assistant Professor |
Post-Doctoral Fellow |
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not"
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