03S00 Kittredge, George Lyman: Witchcraft in Old and New England. Cambridge (Maas.), Havard Univer- sity Press, 1929. S. 39 Anne Whittle alias Chattox, one of the Lanca«r- /ihire witch.es who were hanged in 1612, confessed that when she was sent for "to helpe drinke that was forspoken or bewitched" she successfully ■ "vsed this Prayer for the amending of it, viz. "A CHARME. Three Biters hast thou bitten, "fhe Hart, ill Eye, ill Tonge: Three bitter shall be thy Boote, w 15 Bather, Sonne, and Holy Ghost a” Gods narne Fine Pater-nosters, fine Auies, and a Creede, In worship of fine woundes of our Lord." 13^) Anne’s use of this old charm is a very curious circumstance, for she had v ignoran^ly perverted 1 its function from mankind* to malt. In 1616 Isobel Harvie at Kirkcaldy admitted using a Version of the charm which she had learned from "ane way- fairing man"; 133) other versions were employed in Scotland for sick horses in 1641 and 1656,WO and still another is reported from the Orkneys in recent days. 13F) The Most Strange and Admirable Biscoverie of the Three 7itch.es of 7arboys, 1593, sigg. B2 r°, p v°. Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Biscoverie of Jitches, 1613, sig. S; The Arraignment and Triall of lennet Preston, of Gisborne in
