 ... consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body...  History of the middle and working classes - Page 52by John Wade - 1833Full view - About this book
 | 1928 - 418 pages
...shall use, practise or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil or wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit for any intent or purpose, or take up any man, woman or child out of his or her grave or any other... | |
 | Thomas Allan Brady, Heiko A. Oberman, James D. Tracy - Architecture - 1994 - 814 pages
...were based did not even mention the pact. Only in the final witchcraft statute of 1604 did it become a felony to "consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit."16 In a few countries the heretical aspect of witchcraft, a pact with the Devil, served as... | |
 | Margaret Lucille Kekewich - History - 1994 - 276 pages
...shall use, practise or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their... | |
 | Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - History - 1997 - 308 pages
...making it a capital offense "to exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or [to] consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose."21 It was Sir Edmund Bacon's responsibility to square the statutory... | |
 | Luke Andrew Wilson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 388 pages
..."shall use practice or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose."7 Both conjuration and invocation suggest, as we will see, a unilateral... | |
 | Angela N. H. Creager, William C. Jordan - Medical - 2002 - 372 pages
...resembling a familiar until the 1604 Act of James I, when it became a felony, punishable by death, to "consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked Spirit, to or for any intent or purpose."" Familiars, however, appeared regularly in trial evidence and confessions... | |
 | Donald Tyson - Fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...familiar are most common in the records of England and Scotland. In England in the year 1604 it was a felony "to consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit."5 However, references to witches' familiars can be found decades earlier, and the belief in... | |
 | Ernest F. Henderson - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...shall use, practise, or exercise any invocation, or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked spirit, to or for any intent and purpose : or take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of his, her or their... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...after her Highness's decease." He may well have read the act passed in 1604 against anyone who shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked Spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their... | |
 | Peter Marshall, Alexandra Walsham - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...'use, practice, or exercise any invocation, or conjuration, of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose'. Yet few magicians were ever charged with the offence. Of the 794... | |
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