accused, 132;
their execution; further persecution, 135;
case of Isabel Gowdie, 136;
opinions of Sir George Mackenzie (_portrait_), 136, 155;
death preferred to the imputation of witchcraft, 137, 139;
King James's "Demonology," 139;
the "Lancashire witches" executed, 141;
Matthew Hopkins, the "witch-finder general" (_engraving_), 143;
his impositions, cruelty, and retributive fate, 148;
"common prickers" in Scotland, 146;
Mr. Louis, a clergyman, executed, 147;
Glanville's _Sadducismus Triumphatus_, 148;
witches tried before Sir Matthew Hale (_portrait_); Sir Thomas Brown's
evidence (_portrait_); conviction and execution, 148-152;
trials before Chief Justices Holt and Powell, 152, 153;
the last execution in England, in 1716, 153;
Scotch laws on the subject, 154;
various trials in Scotland 155-158;
last execution in Scotland, in 1722, 158;
proceedings of Sprenger in Germany, Bodinus and Delrio in France, 159;
executions at Constance, Toulouse, Amsterdam, and Bamberg, 160-162;
numerous executions at Wurtzburg, including many children, 163;
others at Lendheim, 164;
the "Witches' Gazette," a German ballad, 165;
the Marechale D'Anere executed, 166;
200 executions at Labourt, 166;
"weir-wolves," belief in, 168;
Urbain Grandier, curate of Loudun, executed, 169;
singular cases at Lisle, 169;
the Duke of Brunswick's exposure of the cruelty of torture, 170;
diminution of charges in Germany, 171;
singular remonstrance from the French Parliament to Louis XIV. on his
leniency to witches, 171;
executions at Mohra, in Sweden, 177;
atrocities in New England; a child and a dog executed, 180;
the last execution in Switzerland in 1652, 182;
the latest on record, in 1749, at Wurtzburg, 184;
witches ducked in 1760, 185;
Lady Hatton's reputation for witchcraft; her house in Cross Street,
Hatton Garden, (_engraving_), 186;
the horse-shoe a protection against witches, 187;
belief in witchcraft recently and still existing, 187;
witch-doctors still practising, 189;
prevalence of the superstition in France, 189;
"floating a witch" (_engraving_), 191.

Women accompanying the Crusades in arms, ii. 12, 57, 67.

Woodstock Palace a "haunted house;" account of the noises, and their
cause, ii. 222;
_view of_, 217.

Wulstan, Bishop, his antipathy to long hair, i. 297.

Wurtzburg, numerous executions for witchcraft, ii. 162, 184;