ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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2529 | Anne Whittle gives deposition alleging that Margaret Pearson confessed to her that she is a witch and has a spirit (Anonymous 153) in the shape of a man with cloven feet. Pearson claimed to have "done very much harme to one Dodgesons goods" and sat with her spirit on the back of Dodgeson's mare until the horse died.(S2v)
Appears in:
Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster. London: 1613, S2v
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1612, August 19 | Paddiham | Lancashire | Lancaster | England | |
2531 | Jennet Booth gives deposition on August 9, 1612 before Justice of the Peace Nicholas Bannister. In her deposition, she alleges that the Friday after Margaret Pearson was gaoled, Booth was carding wool in Pearson's home. She went to warmed up some milk to give to her child, and took it off the fire only to find a thing like a toad crawling out from under the pan. Her child carried the toad out of the house in tongs.(T)
Appears in:
Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster. London: 1613, T
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1612, August 9 | Paddiham | Lancashire | Lancaster | England |