...the pillory ; but twelve years later one Mrs Hicks and her daughter (nine years of age !) were hanged for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm, by putting on their stockings inside-out and making a lather of soap ! Holt was called to the Bar in 1663,...

...and False, p. 13. The Famous Stocking Case. A woman and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings! — Ibid., p. 20. Note 10. — Page no. Enslaving. So young a king, and so ignorant a peasant were...

...False, as an authority of the statement that a woman and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings. He does not give the date, and the incident would have occurred more naturally at a later time, under...

...the latter only nine years of age. They were accused of selling their souls to the devil, and causing a storm " by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap/* In the eighteenth century, even men like John Wesley 1 " Fountainhalls Decisions," Vol. I, p. if. and...

...and bigoted even unto this day. In 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. In England it has been estimated that at least thirty thousand were hanged and burned. The last victim...

...grows like the devil." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. In 1716 Mrs. Hickes and her daughter, nine years old, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. This was the last execution for witchcraft in England. JOHN RADCLIFFE. [For i In- last execution for...

...remtirks, after noticing this case : rYet, frightful to .think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged .nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raining a storm by puffing off their stockings, iuid making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity,...

...England long after those in Salem ; and in 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her daughter nine years old were hanged for selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings. In Scotland a woman was hanged in 1722 for transforming her daughter into a pony and having her shod...