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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12308	A certaine relation of the hog-faced gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker, who was borne at Wirkham a neuter towne betweene the Emperour and the Hollander, scituate on the river Rhyne Who was bewitched in her mothers wombe in the yeare 1618. and hath lived ever since unknowne in this kind to any, but her parents and a few other neighbours. And can never recover her true shape, tell she be married, &c. Also relating the cause, as it is since conceived, how her mother came so bewitched.		1640 (1640)	STC 22627; ESTC S117439	10,388	18

yeere Monsters have been borne within these few yeeres in Virginia New England and other Colonies of our own Plantation of which it is now too long to insist And the like prodigious is now that a Gentleman of quality within these moneth died who being opened in his heart was found a worme in the forme of a Serpent which stretched out was found to be sixteene inches long But if we shall be any way jealous of the trruth of reverent Antiquity let us but looke backe upon our selves I will give unto you a few instances for many not to speake of those which have preposterously come into the world with their Feet forward and born with Teeth in their head as Richard the Third of that name King of England and others Twin Children have beene borne amongst us with two heads and bodies from the Gird lested upward and but two legs and feet to support them both and when one of them dyed the other survived but not many houres after A Scotch childe about two yeeres since was to bee seen in Barthlomew Faire a Girle about the age of seven yeeres who was so hairy hands armes face and body that you would have thought Orson to have bin her Father and some she Beare her mother yet had she her speech sences and all other deportments of a child of her age who had bin well educated and instructed But to leave all digression and come to the purpose now in hand I will onely remember unto you a very handsome young man late if not now in Towne whose picture hath bin publickely set out to the common view and himselfe to bee seene for money who from one of his sides hath a twin brother growing which was borne with him and living still though having sence and feeling yet destitute of reason and understanding whence me thinkes a disputable question might arise whether as they have distinct lives so they are possessed of two soules or have but one imparted betwixt them both but of this let the Philosophers or rather the Divines argue and Define being I must ingeniously confesse an Argument much above my element This prodigious birth though it was knowne to some few yet was it not made popular spoken of by all which the Father and mother for their owne reputations and credits were very carefull to maintaine so that it was never seene by any being an infant bare-fac'd but vaild and covered and so brought up in a private Chamber both fed and taught by the Parents onely and her deformity scarce knowne to any of the Servants and as the daughter grew in stature so the Father also increased with wealth so that he was accounted to be one of the richest men in all that Country Now how she came to be borne with such deformity there be divers and sundry conjectures but if we may Judge the cause by the effect and of the preceedent by the subsequent most probable it is that it came by Witchcraft And that there be such we have manifest proofe for in Skedam in Holland there is scarce a man or woman but they are either Magi or Sagae that is men or women witches but for the last wee neede no further witnesse then that of the Lancashiere witches some few yeares since of which I make no doubt but this whole City hath taken especiall notice of c. Now whether Witches have power to effascinate an inant in the wombe of the mother may be a question of which after some illustrations by knowne examples without any tedious Deviation I hope to gaine the Reader ample satisfaction History tells us that the Witch Circe the daughter of Sol and the Nimphe Persae who dwelt not farre from Caietu a City of Campania by her sorcerous Spells and Incantations changed divers of Vlisses his companions into Swine if she had such power over the whole no wonder then if a Witch in these dayes by the helpe of her Father the Divell cannot disguise the face which is but a part It hath beene knowne also in our knowne Country when a Gentlewoman of good discent and quality hath brought an infant into the World with a live Snake wrapt about the necke and body in memory of which that Noble Family in the emblazon of their Armes give the Snake ever unto this day which accident is quite against nature and therefore can be conferr'd upon nothing but Diabolicall Sorcery and Witchcraft I could tell you of the like prodigious things done by Medea Micale Erecto Magun Dipsas Aeriphala Locusta Guthurna Canidia Neopolitana Sagana Vera Folia and infinite others but though I study brevity give mee leave to give thee this short Character Their power is by the permission of the higher powers and instigated by the malice of the Divells to transhape men into beasts make barren fields blast Corne unfructify Trees parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes bring scabs and diseases upon men and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes effascinate the eyes weaken the hands benumbe the feete c. Now to prove that this Child was bewitched in the wombe there be these pregnant reasons following It is credibly reported that this Burgers wife having conceived an old woman suspected for a Witch came to begge of her an Almes but she being at the busied about some necessary affaires gave her a short and neglectfull answer at which she went away muttering to her selfe the Divells pater noster and was heard to say As the Mother is Hoggish so Swinish shall be the Child shee goeth withall which is a great probability that the infants deformity came by the malitious Spells and divelish murmurations of this wicked woman who after for the like or worse practises both upon men women and children whom shee had bewitched unto death being brought within the compasse of the Law and after to suffer at the stake amongst many other things confessed as much as I have before related yet either out of her perverse obstinacy would not or else the Divell forsaking her in extreamity as he doth all his other servants in her deficiency of power could not uncharme her yet by this means that which was before kept so private was now publickly discovered to the World insomuch that much confluence of people came to see the progedy which wearied the Father and cast a blush upon the cheekes of the good woman the mother some desirous to heare her speake whose language was onely the Dutch Hoggish Houghs and the Piggs French Owee Owee for other words she was not able to utter which bred in some pitty in others laughter according to their severall dispositions Others were importunate to see her feede then milke and the like was brought unto her in a silver Trough to which she stooped and eate just as a Swine doth in his swilling Tub which the more mirth it bred in the Spectators increased in the Parents the more melancholy insomuch that he bethought himselfe to finde out some meanes if it were