The Witch Trials

The description of the witches familiar at St. Saint Oseth is reasonable, reasonably typical of accounts found throughout the English witch trial literature of the late 16th and 17th centuries. Although familiar is rarely appeared as odd looking people, the vast majority of those were described manifested themselves as commonplace animals. Elizabeth Francis familiar, a key figure in the famous 1566 trial appeared first in the likeness of a white spotted cat, but later transformed himself into a toad and later still into a dog with horns on his head.

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