The Witches’ Pharmacopoeia: Read Before the Historical Club of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, April 13, 1896 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Witches' Pharmacopœia: Read Before the Historical Club of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, April 13, 1896

Crowds of boys Worry me with eternal noise Straws laid across my path retard The horse-shoe's nailed (the threshold's guard), The stunted broom the wenches hide, For fear that I should Up and ride. They stick with pins my bleeding seat, And bld me Show my secret teat.

Your genuine Witch was believed to be incapable of shed ding tears, and if through torture she could be made to weep, her power had departed and she became a helpless victim to justice. King James says They cannot even shed tears, though women in general are like the crocodile, ready to weep upon every light occasion.

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