Death Spell
One method by which witches believed they could commit murder was explained by Elizabeth Southern, better known as ‘Olde Demdike’, when she confessed to witchcraft at the Pendle Witch trials, at Lancaster Assize Court in 1612.
She declared that in order to kill someone by sorcery witches would: 'Make a Picture of clay, like unto the shape of the person whom they meant to kill, and dry it thoroughly, and when they would have them to be ill – and…have any part of the body to consume away – then take part of the Picture and burn it. And when they would have the whole body to consume away, then take the remnant of the said Picture and burn it, and so thereupon by that means the body will die.'
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Posted on Fri 26th Jun 2009 22:02:00