# Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland

Author: Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38763

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## Summary

The word +chêmeia+--from which we derive our English word 'chemistry'--first occurs, it is said, in the Lexicon of Suidas, a Greek writer who flourished in the eleventh century. Here is his definition of it:

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/11/index.md)
- [xvii. The following deposition is, however, the most singular of all:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Scene XII. passes in King Henry's Court, and the royal consent is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Scene XI.--_Friar Bacon's Cell.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Scene II. introduces us to Friar Bacon's cell at Brasenose College,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/4/index.md)
- [xiv. On Yule Eve, in '94, at three in the morning, Janet, remaining in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/23/index.md)
- [xiii. The next case must be given verbatim, it is so striking an](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/22/index.md)
- [xv. At Midsummer was a year or thereby, Elspeth Reid, her](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/24/index.md)
- [vi. Three years since, or thereby, James Ailhows, having been a long](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/17/index.md)
- [x. The particulars given of the case of James Lowe, stabler, are](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/20/index.md)
- [vii. For twenty years past she continually and nightly, after eleven](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/18/index.md)
- [xii. There is an air of novelty about the next case, that of John](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/21/index.md)
- [ix. She and Janet Patton having fallen into variance and discord,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/19/index.md)
- [v. She was also accused of lending to Meryann Nasmith a pair of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/16/index.md)
- [BOOK I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/witch-warlock-and-magician-historical-sketches-of-magic-and-wit-22cfcf6f/chapters/1/index.md)