The Blood Second Hit

As early as 1510, a teacher called John Stewart who was accused of conjuring spirits for the purpose of detecting very treasure denied giving his blood to spirits in the form of bumblebees. The cunning man of Netherbury and Dorset admitted in 1566 to employing a familiar that appeared to him in the forms of either a dog or a pigeon which helped him locate lost or stolen objects. Upon receiving this familiar, he gave it one drop of his blood, which bled. And then at her trial, Elizabeth Francis testified to her, awarding Safan with a drop of blood every time he did something, anything for her,. In another well published trial of four witches at Windsor in 15

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