where it was alleged an old witch changed herself into a hare and
while running from the hounds towards an old cabin, just in the act
of leaping through a very narrow window opening into the cabin, she
was bitten and disappeared. The cabin was surrounded by the hounds
and hunters and two went in to hunt her out, and although they
searched every corner of the cabin, from the thatch to the floor, all
they could find in the house was an old woman sitting on a mat of
straw. Believing that this old woman must have killed the hare, they
compelled her to stand up and found a lot of blood. The farmer called
upon the witch and warned her never again to milk his cows or her
life would be ended.
In England, thirty thousand persons were hanged for being witches and
the Puritan fathers of New England, amongst many other wicked deeds
of theirs connected with witchcraft, executed a woman for being a
fox. I fail to understand how any people guilty of shedding so much
innocent blood, which our Pilgrim fathers used as divine perfume in
witchcraft, cases of which Boston and Salem furnish such an example,
could be found to possess a pure religion.
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TOC. 'Changlings' replaced by 'Changelings'.
TOC. 'Sein Fein' replaced by 'Sinn Fein'.
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Pg 19. 'Atholone' replaced by 'Athlone'.
Pg 25. 'Lady Chattam' replaced by 'Lady Chatham'.
Pg 32. 'Castlegregory' replaced by 'Castle Gregory' for consistency.
(the current spelling today however is Castlegregory).
Pg 33. 'bagles' replaced by 'beagles' (twice).
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Pg 43. 'surpressing' replaced by 'suppressing'.
Pg 46. 'Lord Baconsfield' replaced by 'Lord Beaconsfield'.
Pg 49. 'Sein Fein' replaced by 'Sinn Fein' (twice).
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text on Pg 51 as a Footnote without an anchor. This has been moved
to the relevant paragraph on Pg 50 as a Sidenote.
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Pg 55. 'Skellings,' replaced by 'Skelligs,'.
Pg 56. 'Lional, Duke of Clearance' replaced by 'Lionel, Duke of
Clarence'.
Pg 57. 'Castle-Gregory' and 'Castlegregory' replaced by
'Castle Gregory' for consistency.
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Pg 60. 'Four verses' replaced by 'Three verses'.
Pg 60. 'Spencer' replaced by 'Spenser'.
Pg 60. 'as the met' replaced by 'as they met'.
Pg 62. 'Atlone' replaced by 'Athlone'.
Pg 64. The section on 'Fenianism' was inserted here by the printer.
The section heading 'Fenianism' on Pg 29 refers the reader to this
inserted section on Pg 64.
Pg 73. 'Mrs. Eddy Baker' replaced by 'Mrs. Baker Eddy'.
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Pg 82. 'Changlings' replaced by 'Changelings'.
Pg 82. 'Teer-naoge' replaced by 'Teer-Na-Oge'.
Pg 89. ' Pilgrims' replaced by '--Pilgrims'.
Pg 91. 'sieze him' replaced by 'seize him'.
Pg 98. ' Old' replaced by '--Old'.
Pg 99. 'execeptions' replaced by 'exceptions'.
End of Project Gutenberg's Irish Historical Allusions, by Patrick Foley