When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the... two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common pr...udence and discretion?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this g...uilt nevertheless did not exist. Thus it is with all guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prose--it might be speculated--is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably artic...ulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No exorciser harm thee. Nor no witchcraft charm thee.... Ghost unlaid forbear thee. Nothing ill come near thee. Quiet consummation have, And renowned be thy grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of... the French council.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furr'd brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice, or a scolding t...ongue ... a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspected but pronounced for a witch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons... The shard-born beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »