Traditional Witchcraft: It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know“In the Capital C
Traditional Witchcraft: It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know“In the Capital Code of Connecticut (A.D. 1642) a witch is defined as one who ‘hath or consorteth with a familiar spirit.’ European codes, as illustrated by the sixth chapter of Lord Coke’s Third Institute, have parallels to this definition:–’A witch is a person who hath conference with the devil; to consult with him to do some act.’ And upon these theories, not upon the broomstick and black-cat conception, were based the trials for witchcraft during the seventeenth century.”-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) -- source link
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