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British mythology attributed bay leaves with the power to ward off disease, witchcraft, and lightning.
There is also an intimate connexion between alchemy and witchcraft.
Indeed, many terrible diseases originate from this source, which were formerly ascribed to witchcraft, and the possession of devils.
" "Although vervain, therefore, as the enchanter's plant, was gathered by witches to do mischief in their incantations, yet, as Aubrey says, it 'hinders witches from their will,' a circumstance to which Drayton further refers when he speaks of the vervain as ''gainst witchcraft much avayling.
Or is it her regretful ghost, Or witchcraft of the almanac?
I will only add that practising upon themselves and upon others all sorts of abominable witchcraft, they offered by their shameful conduct a spectacle of the most repulsive vice.
John’s Wort, which the country people used formerly to gather on midsummer eve, as a preservative against witchcraft.
With the witchcraft practised largely by women in mediæval times, we have not much[86] to do; although belief in its influence was widespread during the middle ages.
So general did the practice of witchcraft become that no class of society was safe from accusation and suspicion, thousands perishing by the faggot and torture.
The “evil eye” was another form of witchcraft, mostly practised by women.
On the same principle we are solemnly assured that three scruples of the ashes of a witch, after she has been well and carefully burnt at the stake, is a sure protection against the evil effects of witchcraft.
Two thousand years ago they were dispensed by the priests, and afterwards by those who practised medicine, alchemy, and astrology, during the middle ages, when medical practice was mainly composed of a mixture of white magic, witchcraft, and religion.
The toadstone was supposed to be specially powerful against witchcraft and poison.
It was not for medicine, but for a kind of witchcraft.
That a belief in charms and witchcraft is still fostered by ignorant people in some parts of the country, is manifest from cases reported in the newspapers from time to time.
John’s wort, and dill were supposed to possess the power of protecting the wearer from the evil eye or witchcraft, hence the old rhyme called Saint Colme’s charm:- “Trefoil, vervain, John’s wort, dill, Hinders witches of their will; Well is them, that well may Fast upon St.
Hung over the door or porch of a house, it was believed to defend the inmates from witchcraft.
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