“ The old woman's two daughters become witches, and one of them, in the shape of a mare, is revenged upon her false sweetheart and rival.
Mother Cuthbert, growing more and more perfect in her art, resolved to bring in her daughters for a snack and thereupon communicates to them all that had befallen her. They were content to be ruled by the mother, and she anointed them, and used the best means she was able to make them perfect in their new trade.
Their names were Margery and Cicely. The first was courted by Roger Clodpate, a plain, downright country fellow ”

“ The Lapland witches, they tell us, can send wind to sailors, and take delight in nothing more than raising of storms and tempests, which they effect by repeating certain charms, and throwing up sand into the air. The best way to avoid their power is to believe in God, who will not suffer them to hurt us ”

“ As many mistake their children and relations to be bewitched when they die of distempers somewhat strange to the unskilful, so one poor woman or other is falsely accused of things which they are entirely ignorant of. So it has often happened.
This may suffice as to what comically or really happened, or related to witches; or such as are imagined to be possessed with evil and familiar spirits. ”

“ One of them boasted she could go over the sea in an egg shell. It is held on all hands that they adore the devil, and become his bond-slaves, to have for a term of years their pleasure and revenge. And indeed many of them are more mischievous than others in laming and destropng of cattle, and in drowning ships at sea, by raising storms. But the Lancashire Witches we see, chiefly divert themselves in merriment, and are therefore found to be more sociable than the rest.
Chapter XII.
A short description of the famous Lapland Witches. ”

“ There being a general meeting of the witches, to consult for merry pranks, and to be even with any who had injured them, one of them must needs bring her husband with her; but charged him and made him promise that, whatever he saw or heard, he should not speak a word of it. ”

“ The first thing she saw was a tree rising out of the ground which moved towards her, and, to her surprise, multiplied into a very thick wood round her, so that she was afraid of losing herself, when on a sudden she saw a house, and heard the sound of musick. This appeared most strange; however, she took courage and went towards it, when she found a great many women all dancing and revelling ”