| Michael Angelo Garvey - 1852 - 266 páginas
...Hicks and her infant daughter, aged nine, who were found guilty in 1716 of selling themselves to Satan, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. The mischief of this national recognition of a lie did not pass away with its repeal ; it was easy... | |
| William Chambers - 1853 - 858 páginas
...case, " yet frightful to think, alter all this, in 1716. Mrs. Hicks, and her daughter, aged тле, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.'* And a long catalogue, and a black catalogue it was. " Harrington, in his observations on the statute... | |
| 1853 - 588 páginas
...place in 1716, and reads thus : " Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine years, were condemned and hung for selling their souls to the devil, and raising...off their stockings and making a lather of soap." In Scotland, the picture is still darker ; for there. in almost every instance, the dreadful doom is... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 páginas
...to this accusation in England were a woman and her daughter, the latter only nine years of age, who were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...off their stockings and making a lather of soap.* At length, in 1736, the British parliament, to the great annoyance of many ignorant, but well-meaning... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 páginas
...charges against this woman and her daughter are, that "they sold their souls to the devil, and raised a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap." The catalogue of executions in England, foj the crime of witchcraft, so far as we have been able to... | |
| 1862 - 422 páginas
...ten years before, viz. in 1716, a woman and her daughter, — the latter only nine years of age, — were hanged at Huntingdon " for selling their souls...off their stockings and making a lather of soap." Between the years 1694 and 1701, no less than eleven trials were instituted before Lord Chief Justice... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1856 - 340 páginas
...set at liberty. In the year 1716, a woman and her daughter — the latter only nine years of age — were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and malting a lather of soap. This appears to have been the last judicial execution in England. From that... | |
| Essex Archaeological Society - 1858 - 624 páginas
...thousands of poor old -women. But, even so late as 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged 9 years, were hanged, at Huntingdon, for selling their souls...off their stockings, and making a lather of soap. This was the last execution on the charge of witchcraft, in England — the last of a fearful roll... | |
| Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1858 - 454 páginas
...thousands of poor old women. But, even so late as 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged 9 years, were hanged, at Huntingdon, for selling their souls...off their stockings, and making a lather of soap. This was the last execution on the charge of witchcraft, in England — the last of a fearful roll... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 páginas
...the most commanding intellects to believe in astrology and alchemy ; in 1716 a woman and her daughter were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ; ill 1718 the sheriff depute of Caithness had an old woman executed as a witch, the principal charge... | |
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