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WITCHCRAFT
AND
DEVIL LORE
IN THE
CHANNEL ISLANDS

TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE GUERNSEY ROYAL COURT,
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
BY
JOHN LINWOOD PITTS,
_Membre de la Societe des Antiquaires de Normandie._
_Editor of "The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands;" "The Sermon on
the Mount and the Parable of the Sower, in the Franco-Norman Dialects
of Guernsey and Sark," &c., &c._

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
--EXODUS xxii, 18.

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Guernsey:
GUILLE-ALLES LIBRARY,
AND
THOMAS M. BICHARD, PRINTER TO THE STATES.
1886.
[_All Rights Reserved._]


TO
EDGAR MACCULLOCH, ESQUIRE,
F.S.A., LONDON AND NORMANDY, AND MEMBER OF THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY,
BAILIFF OF GUERNSEY,
WHOSE HISTORICAL RESEARCHES HAVE TENDED SO MUCH TO ELUCIDATE THE
TIME-HONOURED CONSTITUTION
AND
ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF HIS NATIVE ISLAND,
THIS
BRIEF RECORD OF ONE OF THE DARKEST CHAPTERS IN ITS CHEQUERED ANNALS
Is Dedicated
WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM.
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