The Examination

...if the prick is put to the heart, the person original: "party" dies within nine days. They burn this image in the dampest original: "moste moystest" place they can find.

Regarding the use of the toads, he says they have several names: some they call "Great Browning," "Little Browning," or "Bonne," "Great Tom Twite," or "Little Tom Twite," and other similar names. When these toads are called, the witches strike them with two withy spears flexible willow twigs or pointed sticks on both sides of the head and say the Lord's Prayer original: "Pater noster" backward to the spirit, beginning at the end of the prayer; however, they will never say their Creed The Apostles' Creed, a statement of Christian belief. In folklore, reciting the Lord's Prayer backward and refusing the Creed were classic signs of a pact with the Devil..

When the toad is struck, they command it to hurt whatever man or woman they want to have harmed. If the toad swells in response, it will go wherever it is assigned—either to the dairy, the brewhouse, the malt kiln original: "dry kill of malt," a building for drying grain, the cattle in the field, the stable, the sheepfold, or any other such places—and then return again to its original place. The bodies of men or women are hurt...