her time Anne Styles went, by order of Mrs. Goddard, to learn
from Bodenham where a quantity of poison, concealed by the lady's two
step-daughters, could be found. The witch went through all the
ceremonies formerly performed, and the sprites acted their parts. One
of the boys, however, on this occasion turned into a snake, and
afterwards into a dog. Herbs that caused a noisome smell were burned,
the book was again consulted, and a glass produced, in which Styles
saw Mrs. Goddard's bed-chamber, and the poison concealed below a
pillow. To punish the young ladies for their diabolical intention,
Anne Bodenham sent Mrs. Goddard powdered leaves and the parings of her
finger nails, to operate injuriously on their stomachs and brains. The
witch offered to carry Anne Styles through the air to London--an offer
that was not accepted. Bodenham often changed herself into the form of
a black cat of enormous size. The witch had a tame toad that she
constantly kept in a small bag, suspended from her neck. She could say
the Creed backwards as well as forwards. She was condemned to death,
and died impenitent, refusing to listen to psalm-singing or prayers.

Glasgow, like other towns, did not lack witches and warlocks, nor did
it permit its burning faggots to be extinguished. The fury against
such members of society may be judged of when it is known that
repentance stools, pillars, and jugs were made, and whips prepared for
ordinary church offenders--when it is known that scolding women were
stuck up in jugs and branks in the most public places of Glasgow--when
it is known that holy men and women were burned alive there for
adhering to the principles of the Reformation--when it is known that
men and women were imprisoned and whipped every day during the
kirk-session's pleasure, for offences now considered venial--when it
is known that, for a breach of the seventh commandment, some were
carted through the streets, whipped, and thereafter banished from the
town; that others, for a violation of the said commandment, were fined
and ordained to stand at the cross with "fast bands of iron about
their craigs, and papers on their foreheads, bareheaded, and without
cloaks or plaids;" and that others again, for similar offences, were
carted through the town, and lowered by means of a pulley from the
Glasgow Bridge and ducked in the Clyde.

In 1649 the session requested all who knew any acts of witchcraft or
sorcery against witches and warlocks in