This Septic Isle: Britain’s Satanic Secrets

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Filthy Britain’s Satanic Secrets:
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'We all know Britain is run by lying, sociopathic, thieving, murderous, paedophilic filth.

What’s less well-known though is their secret obsession with the Devil.

You see, hard as it is to believe, the rulers of this septic isle are, in fact, practising Satanists.

They love nothing better than to partake in gruesome rituals that the average person would find sickening.

They also see no wrong in abusing or even killing children and babies during their filthy gatherings.

They’ve even been known to sell the organs of their victims when they’ve finished the abuse.

Their sordid secret is shared with royalty, judges, intelligence services, teachers, social workers, MP’s, the police and even showbiz ‘stars‘,( to name but a few).

The brilliant writer Chris Spivey has extensively researched the issue:

http://chrisspivey.org/the-whos-who-of-satanic-child-abuse/

In fact, at this very moment, there are hundreds of satanic paedophile rings in existence throughout the UK and many are quite horrifyingly taking place in primary schools.

Children who’ve been abused at school and reported their injuries to parents have been ignored by the police when evidence was presented to them.

More disturbingly, there are reports that the remains of thousands of children are buried right across Britain. Children who lost their lives at the hands of satanic filth.
Esther Rantzenesther savile

The excellent Aangirfan website has reported on this abuse for many years:

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/satanic-ritual-abuse-of-childre n.html

In a recent article in the Express, journalist Sonia Poulton wrote about satanic practices taking place in Parliament:

” ” In October 2012, MP Tom Watson stood up in the Commons and addressed the Prime Minister. He told David Cameron that he had become aware of rumours of paedophile rings which “encircled parliament” and had done so for decades and he then asked for this to be investigated.

The Prime Minister agreed and Operation Fairbank (later evolving into Operation Fernbridge) was duly launched.

Since Mr Watson’s pronouncement, we have witnessed the arrest of a Catholic priest, two unnamed workers associated with a children’s care home and a sorry display of Seventies light entertainers and present-day soap stars who have been ­paraded before the public and the courts to answer varying charges of abuse from paedophilia to groping.

Most of the charges have been dismissed due to lack of evidence that comes when reporting historic abuse. There have been scant convictions save for the former TV presenter Stuart Hall.

However what we have failed to see, and they have been glaring by omission, are any arrests pertaining to parliamentary paedophiles.....'

[Samhill1970]

My blog discuses how institutions and connected people have prevented justice.
http://samhill1970.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/the-press-solicitors-alway s-want-bullet-points-and-timelines

This sign probably written by a child due to spelling errors has been behind abusers house for 32 years.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7c29z2hykznz3nz/2015-01-07%2013.00.54.jpg?dl =0

I have come along way but can’t do this without some serious legitimising clout backing me up. Ive done the ground work, I’ve survived, documented events collected evidence now I want some movement and can’t seem to find any among all the usual places to turn. I have a good partner and children and home so I’m blessed with security at last, and don’t want to risk that by speaking about what happened, but as you all know who are on a similar journey to me, we just have to speak out. I will try to set out a timeline from here journeying backwards I’m bound to miss out important bits but it here goes!

16th June I went for an X-ray, had to say it was for an old accident so as not to alarm the staff and get them to do the job! Interesting result, it shows the L shape external scar clearly on the right as I had expected. The scar that my partner shaved part of my head to reveal after 29 years. Not being visible since 16 and recovering from treatment at an exclusive mental hospital. I had been told not to remove the bandage by a small Malasian looking nurse with large glasses as she walked me around the opulent building, my mind had been turned to haze, no memory of sexual abuse no concentration poor coordination neck pain and a rash.

I had tried to get the authorities to listen to me in 2008, they lost all records of my interview about a sexual assault at my dads work, yet persisted in using the testimony of the poor abuser to claim I was harassing him.

This person had tried to confuse manipulate as they all do, unfortunately I’ve met quite a few and their facilitators also many abuse survivors. I had been so enslaved at times that the Stockholm syndrome almost felt like a safer place than the awful secrets I held alone and the reaction from friends and family and authorities regarding my issues.

This person was helped by one of my earliest abusers friends a CPN, who had always heard about me, we met at a cricket game shortly before I was 16 and carted of to the private hospital we had consentual sex in the trees near the pavilion. Ive a witness who was told about this by him he has also been harassed into silence. Anyway they sided together with a common aim using a profession or there own paranoia to discredit me.

I had been escaping the abusive clutches of my Etonian abusers in 1998 again linked intrinsically with the medical profession as he had lived in the neighbourhood of my grandparents where 3 doctors in the same practice lived, they were close friends. We were often seen horse riding together in the mid 80s by a local GP who had horses we went to many horse shows. The Etonian told his friends in London he had a young girlfriend, my family had accepted it going on, until I was 16 and his wife and brother had visited and told them to keep me away from him. Several of my friends knew what was going on, one in particular in Australia mentioned in my tape was also abused and never interviewed.

I had been very unhappy at home family were abusive physically and mentally. I had been promised a way out by this abuser he was a manic depressive who received treatment at a top psychiatric hospital, he said he would marry me and we would live in his second home.

This was not to be, they were very wealthy people, the way I was dragged into the car was brutal I will not describe its a matter (eventually ) for the police.

I will list a few bits of evidence here and there for you all (I always have a fear ) a bit like Diana that something will happen to me and I need some account made publically of all that went on, for all the good it will do!

going even further back I was originally raped by his church leading brother, who had come to his brothers daughters 2 years birthday in my village, I was a helper along with another friend (they knew all my school friends) typical Saville type charisma with a key to everywhere. It was one GPs daughters birthday party too a shared party, when the brother arrived he did balloon bending (he’s working with kids now in the church)! I was after witnessing 2 men expose themselves at the top of the stairs asked to get light bulbs with him. The shop was shut so we walked to the playing fields behind he asked me to lie down.The rest is history.

The two brothers knew family life was a nightmare I would see the non religious brother mostly after this although I met them both again at another kids party that I discussed in my radio interviews.

Important people would be at another house wanting to meet us kids I was told, I already knew Gary Glitter was involved as I had been told but the people mentioned this time were not stars, I can’t help thinking it may be well known local politician, I always had a nasty suspicion, can’t prove anything though.

What used to upset me most was how family swept it all under the carpet from recovering from treatment at the hospital, to lying and trying to undermine my sanity when I was so vulnerable with no where else to go.

My abuser used this situation again in 1992 (22 years old) when I’d been pushed into a break down through my grandmothers death and family cruelty and lies. I had also been having flash backs. I was thinking that all around was so sick and evil that we were living in the end times. I did nothing majorly psychotic but read the bible a lot, that was all it took to be diagnosed bearing in mind that the local doctors were still on the scene, in fact they were the doctors who sectioned me! The one who told my abuser to go to the hospital after a suicide attempt had known I was there…he also told his wife my diagnosis which she milked in all her manipulation legally regarding contact with his kids saying he’s living with a girl diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia! This doctors been in the national news recently for serious fraud, my abuser said he could get any drug from his friends.This one always talked about patients details at the dinner table! This abuser manipulated me I was on such a huge level of meds I could hardly walk properly let alone think! His brother and soon to be ex did all they could to disrupt, withholding deeds to our home was the brothers idea (his daughter now has post traumatic dissaffective disorder) ! I began to formulate thoughts again when meds were reduced but his CPN (yes the same one) friend had me on injections for almost a year.

I have various witnesses to all that happened but due to failings in human nature so many people turned away.

I managed to record the Etonian abuser talking about the private hospital my memory loss and describing the abuse of me and others. At the time the police lost evidence and didn’t investigate properly. A clever trap he had me in with the matrimony given huge approval by my family who had finally palmed me off! A psychiatrist who had given the go ahead for fertility treatment when it failed and I wanted to break away and tell the police he decided I had become ill and when I thought they were coming to interview me they sectioned me. This happened similarly twice secondly when I was asked to go to the station regarding the other local paedophile who had joined the pile on and tried to defame me to the helpfull authorities, when I talked to his female “friend” who had a daughter. I was expecting an interview instead I was fingerprinted and held for an afternoon.

the uncaring unthinking authorities play right into the hands of abusers over and over I’ve seen it!

Anyway now years on, well away from the psychiatry and meds of 20 years ago I’ve come to a point of talking about it, still scared of the police, my parents were masons I used to sit opposite head of police at Christmas Masonic dinners. My parents especially my mother started defaming me young. My dad would come home I would be crying due to her abuse and she would say “hello darling Samantha’s been a nightmare” this was very young around 10, at 15 she split my lip open which my friends saw, yet she tried to shame me on the phone with work colleagues running me down.The power imbalance was set young and needs putting right.

I need a solicitor to help me compile a case of serious human rights abuses, beyond the norm as it involved medical corruption. If I go to the police I won’t do so without being supported by an organisation as I won’t disappear quietly and can’t trust the police now..

The press need to be more supportive of survivors like me and stop turning away from people who had no where else to go as they have done for so many years. Please take a look at some of my evidence any advice appreciated X

[TonyGosling]

Hi Sam,

Good to have you on board here

Jonathan Meades makes it pretty clear what we're all dealing with in Germany/UK/US Israel

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCC-DGbhCg

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HAMPSTEAD ‘SATANIC CULT': POLICE HAVE THEIR OWN PAGAN WITCHES JUST UP THE ROAD!:
https://enigmachannel.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/hampstead-satanic-cult- police-have-their-own-pagan-witches-just-up-the-road/

'Police Pagan Association – an association for police officers who are witches, pagans, druids and any other type of person who worships the HORNED DEITY

Report by CHRIS EVERARD – THE ENIGMA CHANNEL has been investigating Satanism, Paganism, Witch Cults and Druidism – this week our new TV Series reveals that British Police have their own Association for officers who are Pagans… Their association is for officers who share common religious Pagan interests such as the HORNED DEITY and Sacrifice… Their HQ is just a stone’s throw from where an alleged cult of Satanists are accused of drinking blood from sacrificed babies…

Now we come to the spectre of the Pagan Police Association; Druids, you know, also did sacrifices – and it is pertinent to note that there is a PAGAN POLICE ASSOCIATION with it’s HQ a few miles from the Hampstead cult.
Clearly, Wicca, Satanism, Paganism, Druidism and WitchCraft are all recognised as serious religions in the Pagan Police Association literature and on their website. Sacrifice is a central aspect to Judaism, and a central aspect to Paganism.

Should we not – as members of the public – be told if Officer D.C. Savage, the Judge, other police officers and family members condone or have ever practiced sacrifice?

This is an important question because on many occasions, the children said that certain police officers themselves were members of the cult....'

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray, [1921], at sacred-texts.com

I. CONTINUITY OF THE RELIGION

OF the ancient religion of pre-Christian Britain there are few written records, but it is contrary to all experience that a cult should die out and leave no trace immediately on the introduction of a new religion. The so-called conversion of Britain meant the conversion of the rulers only; the mass of the people continued to follow their ancient customs and beliefs with a veneer of Christian rites. The centuries brought a deepening of Christianity which, introduced from above, gradually penetrated downwards through one class after another. During this process the laws against the practice of certain heathen rites became more strict as Christianity grew in power, the Church tried her strength against 'witches' in high places and was victorious, and in the fifteenth century open war was declared against the last remains of heathenism in the famous Bull of Innocent VIII.

This heathenism was practised only in certain places and among certain classes of the community. In other places the ancient ritual was either adopted into, or tolerated by, the Church; and the Maypole dances and other rustic festivities remained as survivals of the rites of the early cult.

Whether the religion which survived as the witch cult was the same as the religion of the Druids, or whether it belonged to a still earlier stratum, is not clear. Though the descriptions, of classical authors are rather too vague and scanty to settle such a point, sufficient remains to show that a fertility cult did once exist in these islands, akin to similar cults in the ancient world. Such rites would not he suppressed by the tribes who entered Great Britain after the withdrawal of the Romans; a continuance of the cult may therefore be expected among the people whom the Christian missionaries laboured to convert.

As the early historical records of these islands were made by Christian ecclesiastics, allowance must be made for the religious bias of the writers, which caused them to make Christianity appear as the only religion existing at the time. But though the historical records are silent on the subject the laws and enactments of the different communities, whether lay or ecclesiastical, retain very definite evidence of the continuance of the ancient cults.

In this connexion the dates of the conversion of England are instructive, The following table gives the principal dates:

597-604. Augustine's mission. London still heathen. Conversion of Æthelbert, King of Kent. After Æthelbert's death Christianity suffered a reverse.

604. Conversion of the King of the East Saxons, whose successor lapsed.

627. Conversion of the King of Northumbria.

628. Conversion of the King of East Anglia.

631-651. Aidan's missions.

635. Conversion of the King of Wessex.

653. Conversion of the King of Mercia.

654. Re-conversion of the King of the East Saxons.

681. Conversion of the King of the South Saxons.

An influx of heathenism occurred on two later occasions in the ninth century there was an invasion by the heathen Danes under Guthrum; and in the eleventh century the heathen king Cnut led his hordes to victory, As in the case of the Saxon kings of the seventh century, Guthrum and Cnut were converted and the tribes followed their leaders' example, professed Christianity, and were baptized.

But it cannot be imagined that these wholesale conversions were more than nominal in most cases, though the king's religion was outwardly the tribe's religion. If, as happened among the East Saxons, the king forsook his old gods, returned to them again, and finally forsook them altogether, the tribe followed his lead, and, in public at least, worshipped Christ, Odin, or any other deity whom the king favoured for the moment; but there can be hardly any doubt that in private the mass of the people adhered to the old religion to which they were accustomed. This tribal conversion is clearly marked when a heathen king married a Christian queen, or vice. versa; and it must also be noted that a king never changed his religion without careful consultation with his chief men.[1] An example of the two religions existing side by side is found in the account of Redwald, King of the East Saxons, who 'in the same temple had an altar to sacrifice to Christ, and another small one to offer victims to devils'.[2]

The continuity of the ancient religion is proved by the references to it in the classical authors, the ecclesiastical laws, and other legal and historical records.

1st cent. Strabo, 63 B.C.-A.D. 23.

'In an island close to Britain, Demeter and Persephone are venerated with rites similar to the orgies of Samothrace.'[3]

4th cent. Dionysius says that in islands near Jersey and Guernsey the rites of Bacchus were performed by the women, crowned with leaves; they danced and made an even greater shouting than the Thracians.[4]

7th cent. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 668-690.

The Liber Poenitentialis[5] of Theodore contains the earliest ecclesiastical laws of England. It consists of a list of offences and the penance due for each offence; one whole section is occupied with details of the ancient religion and of its rites. Such are:

Sacrifice to devils.

Eating and drinking in a heathen temple, (a) in ignorance, (b) after being told by the [Christian] priest that it is sacrilege and the table of devils, (c) as a cult of idols and in honour of idols.

'Not only celebrating feasts in the abominable places of the heathen and offering food there, but also consuming it. Serving this hidden idolatry, having relinquished Christ. If anyone at the kalends of January goes about as a stag or a bull; that is, making himself into a wild animal and dressing in the skin of a herd animal, and putting on the heads of beasts; those who in such wise transform themselves into the appearance of a wild animal, penance for three years because this is devilish.'

[1. Hunt, vol. I

2. Bede, Bk. II, ch. xv.

3. Strabo, Geography, Bk. IV, c. iv, 6.

4. Dionysius, Periegetes, II. 1120-5.

5. Thorpe, ii, pp. 32-4.]

The Laws of Wihtraed, King of Kent,[1] 690.
Fines inflicted on those who offer to devils.

8th cent. The Confessionale and Poeniteniale of Ecgberht, first Archbishop of York,[2] 734-766.
Prohibition of offerings to devils; of witchcraft; of auguries according to the methods of the heathen; of vows paid, loosed, or confirmed at wells, stones, or trees; of the gathering of herbs with any incantation except Christian prayers.

The Law of the Northumbrian priests.[3]
'If then anyone be found that shall henceforth practise any heathenship, either by sacrifice or by "fyrt", or in any way love witchcraft, or worship idols, if he be a king's thane, let him pay X half-marks; half to Christ, half to the king. We are all to love and worship one God, and strictly hold one Christianity, and totally renounce all heathenship.'

9th cent. Decree attributed to a General Council of Ancyra.[4]
'Certain wicked women, reverting to Satan, and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess that they ride at night with Diana on certain beasts, with an innumerable multitude of women, passing over immense distances, obeying her commands as their mistress, and evoked by her on certain nights.'

10th cent. Laws of Edward and Guthrum.[5] After 901.
'If anyone violate christianity, or reverence heathenism, by word or by work, let him pay as well wer, as wite or lah-slit, according as the deed may be.'

Laws of King Athelslan,[6] 924-940.
We have ordained respecting witchcrafts, and lyblacs, and morthdaeds: if anyone should be thereby killed, and he could not deny it, that he be liable in his life. But if he will deny it, and at the threefold ordeal shall be guilty; that he be cxx days in prison.'

Ecclesiastical canons of King Edgar,[7] 959.
We enjoin, that every priest zealously promote Christianity, and totally extinguish every heathenism; and forbid

[1. Thorpe, i, p. 41.

2. Id., ii, p. 157 seq.

3. Id., ii, pp. 299, 303.

4. Scot, p. 66.--Lea, iii, p. 493.

5. Thorpe, i, p. 169,

6. Id., i, p. 203.

7. Id., ii, p. 249.]

well worshipings, and necromancies, and divinations, and enchantments, and man worshipings, and the vain practices which are carried on with various spells, and with "frithsplots",[1] and with elders, and also with various other trees, and with stones, and with many various delusions, with which men do much of what they should not.--And we enjoin, that every Christian man zealously accustom his children to Christianity, and teach them the Paternoster and the Creed. And we enjoin, that on feast days heathen songs and devil's games be abstained from.'

Laws of King Ethelred, [2] 978-1016.
'Let every Christian man do as is needful to him; let him strictly keep his Christianity. . . . Let us zealously venerate right Christianity, and totally despise every heathenism.'

11th cent. Laws of King Cnut,[3] 1017-1035,
'We earnestly forbid every heathenism: heathenism is, that men worship idols; that is, that they worship heathen gods, and the sun or the moon, fire or rivers, water-wells or stones, or forest trees of any kind; or love witchcraft, or promote morth-work in any wise.'

13th cent. Witchcraft made into a sect and heresy by the Church. The priest of Inverkeithing presented before the bishop in 1282 for leading a fertility dance at Easter round the phallic figure of a god; he was allowed to retain his benefice.[4]

14th cent. In 1303 the Bishop of Coventry was accused before the Pope for doing homage to the Devil.[3]

Trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324.
Tried for both operative and ritual witchcraft, and found guilty.

Nider's Formicarius, 1337.
A detailed account of witches and their proceedings in Berne, which had been infested by them for more than sixty years.

[1. Frith = brushwood, splot = plot of ground; sometimes used for 'splotch, splash'.

2. Thorpe, i, pp. 311, 323, 351.

3. Id., i, p. 379.

4. Chronicles of Lanercost, p. 109, ed. Stevenson.

5. Rymer, ii, 934.]

15th cent. Joan of Arc burnt as a witch, 1431. Gilles de Rais executed as a witch, 1440.

Bernardo di Bosco, 1457.
Sent by Pope Calixtus III to suppress the witches in Brescia and its neighbourhood.

Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, 1481,
'It has come to our ears that numbers of both sexes do not avoid to have intercourse with demons, Incubi and Succubi; and that by their sorceries, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurations, they suffocate, extinguish, and cause to perish the births of women, the increase of animals, the corn of the ground, the grapes of the vineyard and the fruit of the trees, as well as men, women, flocks, herds, and other various kinds of animals, vines and apple trees, grass, corn and other fruits of the earth; making and procuring that men and women, flocks and herds and other animals shall suffer and be tormented both from within and without, so that men beget not, nor women conceive; and they impede the conjugal action of men and women.'

It will be seen by the foregoing that so far from the Bull of Pope Innocent VIII being the beginning of the 'outbreak of witchcraft ', as so many modern writers consider, it is only one of many ordinances against the practices of an earlier cult. It takes no account of the effect of these practices on the morals of the people who believed in them, but lays stress only on their power over fertility; the fertility of human beings, animals, and crops. In short it is exactly the pronouncement which one would expect from a Christian against a heathen form of religion in which the worship of a god of fertility was the central idea. It shows therefore that the witches were considered to deal with fertility only.

Looked upon in the light of a fertility cult, the ritual, of the witches becomes comprehensible. Originally for the promotion of fertility, it became gradually degraded into a method for blasting fertility, and thus the witches who had been once the means of bringing prosperity to the people and the land by driving out all evil influences, in process of time were looked upon as being themselves the evil influences, and were held in horror accordingly.

The actual feelings of the witches towards their religion have been recorded in very few cases, but they can be inferred from the few records which remain. The earliest example is from Lorraine in 1408, 'lequel méfait les susdites dames disoient et confessoient avoir enduré à leur contentement et saoulement de plaisir que n'avoient eu onc de leur vie en tel pourchas'.[1] De Lancre took a certain amount of trouble to obtain the opinions of the witches, whereby he was obviously scandalized.

'Vne sorciere entre autres fort insigne nous dict qu'elle auoit tousiours creu, que la sorcelerie estoit la meilleure religion.--Ieanne Dibasson aagee de vingt neuf ans nous dict que le sabbat estoit le vray Paradis, où il y a beaucoup plus de plaisir qu'on ne peut exprimer. Que ceux qui y vont trouuent le temps si court à force de plaisir & de contenteme[n]t, qu'ils n'en peuuent sortir sans vn merveilleux regret, de maniere qu'il leur tarde infiniment qu'ils n'y reuiennent.--Marie de la Ralde, aagee de vingt huict ans, tres belle femme, depose qu'elle auoit vn singulier plaisir d'aller au sabbat, si bien que quand on la venoit semondre d'y aller elle y alloit comme à nopces: non pas tant pour la liberté & licence qu'on a de s'accointer ensemble (ce que par modestie elle dict n'auoir iamais faict ny veu faire) mais parce que le Diable tenoit tellement liés leurs coeurs & leurs volontez qu'à peine y laissoit il entrer nul autre desir . . . An reste elle dict qu'elle ne croyoit faire aucun mal d'aller au sabbat, & qu'elle y auoit beaucoup plus de plaisir & contentement que d'aller à la Messe, parce que le Diable leur faisoit à croire qu'il estoit le vray Dieu, & que la ioye que les sorciers prenoyent au sabbat n'estoit qu'vn commencement d'vne beaucoup plus grande gloire.--Elles disoyent franchement, qu'elles y alloyent & voyoient toutes ces execrations auec vne volupté admirable, & vn desir enrager d'y aller & d'y estre, trouua[n]t les iours trop reculez de la nuict pour faire le voyage si desiré, & le poinct ou les heures pour y aller trop lentes, & y estant, trop, courtes pour vn si agreable seiour & delicieux amusement.--En fin il a le faux martyre: & se trouue des Sorciers si acharnez à son seruice endiablé, qu'il n'y a torture ny supplice qui les estonne, & diriez qu'ils vont au vray martyre & à la mort pour l'amour de luy, aussi gayement que s'ils alloient à vn festin de plaisir & reioüyssance publique.--Quand elles sont preuenues de la Iustice, elles ne pleurent & ne iettent vne seule larme, voire leur faux martyre soit de la torture, soit du gibet leur est si plaisant, qu'il tarde à plusieurs qu'elles ne

[1. Bournon, p. 23.]

soiêt executées à mort, & souffre[n]t fort ioyeusement qu'on leur face le procez, tant il leur tarde qu'elles ne soient auec le Diable. Et ne s'impatientent de rien tant en leur prison, que de ce qu'elles ne lui peuuent tesmoigner co[m]bie[n]: elles souffrent & desirent souffrir pour luy."[1]

Bodin says, 'Il y en a d'autres, ausquelles Satan promet qu'elles seront bien heureuses apres cette vie, qui empesche qu'elles ne se repentent, & meurent obstinees en leur mechanceté'.[2]

Madame de Bourignon's girls at Lille (1661) 'had not the least design of changing, to quit these abominable Pleasures, as one of them of Twenty-two Years old one day told me. No, said she, I will not be other than I am; I find too much content in my Condition.'[3] Though the English and Scotch witches' opinions are not reported, it is clear from the evidence that they were the same as those of the Basses-Pyrénées, for not only did they join of their own free will but in many cases there seems to have been no need of persuasion. In a great number of trials, when the witches acknowledged that they had been asked to become members of the society, there follows an expression of this sort, 'ye freely and willingly accepted and granted thereto'. And that they held -to their god as firmly as those de Lancre put to death is equally evident in view of the North Berwick witches, of Rebecca West and Rose Hallybread, who 'dyed very Stuburn, and Refractory without any Remorss, or seeming Terror of Conscience for their abominable Witch-craft';[4] Major Weir, who perished as a witch, renouncing all hope of heaven;[5] and the Northampton witches, Agnes Browne and her daughter, who 'were never heard to pray, or to call vppon God, never asking pardon for their offences either of God or the world in this their dangerous, and desperate Resolution, dyed'; Elinor Shaw and Mary Phillips, at their execution 'being desired to say their Prayers, they both set up a very loud Laughter,

[1. De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 124, 125, 126, 135, 208, 458.

2. Bodin, Fléau, p. 373.

3. Bourignon, Parole, p. 87.--Hale, p. 27. Full Tryals of Notorious Witches, p. 8.

4. Records of the Justiciary Court of Edinburgh, ii, p. 14.--Arnot, p. 359.]

calling for the Devil to come and help them in such a Blasphemous manner, as is not fit to Mention; so that the Sherif seeing their presumptious Impenitence, caused them to be Executed with all the Expedition possible; even while they were Cursing and raving, and as they liv'd the Devils true Factors, so they resolutely Dyed in his Service': the rest of the Coven also died 'without any confession or contrition'.[1]

[1. Witches of Northhamtonshire, p. 8.]

Next: Chapter II. The God