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“Facsimile of an 18th century chapbook concerning witches from John Ashton’s Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century (1882). Robin the “Cobler,” as punishment for his lecherous ways, is turned into a variety of animals before being transformed back into a man tasked with forever kissing the “bums” of his witch tormenters (who are, naturally, in turn “glad he can”). The full story is apparently “too broad in its humour” to be printed in full.” Via: The New Inquiry | From: University of Toronto Libraries
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Made in 1755 by Jean Jacques Aliamet After David Teniers the Younger.
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Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts – review
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Tracy Borman’s study of the mysterious deaths at Belvoir Castle in 1613 casts light on the exploitation of credulity for political purposes
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