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| Witches' Sabbath, 1821-1823. Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) |
"The surest method of escaping the influence of the evil eye, is to draw blood from the person of the witch. Shakespeare, in Henry III, says:
Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee :
Blood will I draw. Thou art a witch.
Blood will I draw. Thou art a witch.
A country man told me recently that he had "raped old mother Tapp's arm with a great rusty nail two or three times," till he made the blood flow freely. "She can't hurt me again arter that," said he."
Hewett 1900
