 | Medicine - 1890 - 620 pages
...Huntingdon, in England, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child of only nine years of age, were hung for " selling their souls to the devil, and raising...off their stockings and making a lather of soap." One of the last judicial executions in Scotland took place at Dornoch in 1722. A judicial execution... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Agnosticism - 1892 - 254 pages
...and bigoted even unto this day. In 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, nine years of age, were hanged for selling their souls to the devil, and raising...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap. In England it has been estimated that at least thirty thousand were hanged and burned. The last victim... | |
 | William Andrews - Essex (England) - 1892 - 284 pages
...New England. Even to comparatively recent times the superstition has lingered. In 1716, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon, for selling their souls to the Devil. In the same county, at Great Paxton, near St. Neots, so recently as 1806, the ignorant peasantry took... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Miracles - 1894 - 636 pages
...were those of Mrs. Hicks, in 1716, and her daughter, a child nine years of age (! !), who were hung at Huntingdon, for "selling their souls to the devil;...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap "(!!).* When JAMES brought home his bride from Denmark, in 1590, thirty persons were put to death for... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 482 pages
...took place in 1716, was that of "Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child nine years of age, who were hung at Huntingdon, for ' selling their souls to the devil...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ' " (191. 344). In the London Times for Dec. 8, 1845, appeared the following extract from the Courier,... | |
 | Canada - 1896 - 852 pages
...selling their souls to the devil, tormenting and destroying their neighbours by making them vomit pins, raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather with soap so that a ship •was almost lost. The statutes against witchcraft (33 Hen. VIII. cap. 8,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 890 pages
...some years, iu consequence of confessions extracted after the Hopkins fashion. In 1710 a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. In Scotland, witchcraft as a crime per se was first made legally punishable by an act passed iu the... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 450 pages
...reprieved and then pardoned. Three of the witnesses against the woman were clergymen. In 17163 Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm; and in 1722 there was an execution for witchcraft in Scotland. Prosecutions for witchcraft were abolished... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 pages
...reprieved and then pardoned. Three of the witnesses against the woman were clergymen. In 1716a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm ; and in 1722 there was an execution for witchcraft in Scotland. Prosecutions for witchcraft were abolished... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 266 pages
...Yet even in 1716, five years after this paper was written, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ! . . . One of the worst stains on the memory of the Long Parliament, and on the fair fame of Puritanism... | |
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Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. 
