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Name Description Original Text
Anonymous 195A woman from Ipswich in the county of Suffolk, described as a maid of a reputed witch (Anonymous 194). Anonymous 195 is sent by her Mistress to collect herbs, but is delayed by a "meeting with her sweetheart" and beginning to grow nervous, that she "should bee halfe hanged for staying so long," was told by her lover that she could get the same herbs "in their owne garden." She collected the herbs, and despite her long delay, her mistress was pleased because she brought the herbs back. She spied her employer cut up and "strew the herbs about a room," and the next day witnessed the master of the house cry that he had "found twelve or fourteene great Hogs, being all his owne, dead in the yard, and so for his Sheepe and all his other Cattell." (4-5)Another Witch sent her maid to a neighbours house for a handfull of herbes, who meeting with her sweetheart staid an houre by the way, saying she should bee halfe hanged for staying so long: whereupon he told her that in such a place in their owne garden there grew the same herbes, so it was but going over the pale and her iourney was ended; which she did, and pleased her mistris well for her long stay, by bringing those herbes. At night her mistris bade her go up to bed first, which made her mistrust something; where upon she peeked between the boards, and observed her mistris to cut the herbes in small peeces, shrewing them about the roome: the next morning her husband rising betimes found twelve or fourteene great Hogs, being all his owne, dead in the yard, and so for his Sheepe and all his other Cattell, and telling his wife how they were undone, she replyed, Hath the queane served me thus? she shall suffer for it. Then he examined the maid, and both gave evidence. This was at Ipswich in Suffolke.()