| Anonymous 342 | A woman from Wapping in the county of Greater London, known to be a cow keeper, who approached Jane Peterson for help in un-witching her cow; Peterson used divination to discover who had bewitched the animal and advised her on how to undo the bewitchment.(4) | Also there was a Cow-keepers Wife, that had one of her Cows lay in such a condition, that she and all that saw the Cow did verily perswade themselves that it was bewitched; whereupon she came to this Peterson, and promised her a reward, if she would cure her Cow: She desired the woman to save her water, and bring it to her, which she did; then taking the water, shee set it on the fire, and it had not been on long, but the water rose up in bubbles, in one of the which she shewed her the face of the woman which the Cow-keepers wife suspected to have bewitched it, and so prescribing what she should do to recover it, she took her leave; divers other things of this nature, and severall cures she hath performed, but whether they were done in Gods name, or whether she used unlawfull means, I shall leave that to the charitable reader to judge of, my self desiring to wave my judgement herein.() |