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and pretended to possess Supernatural powers & intercourse with the Devil or bad Spirit. They? were supposed capable of transforming themselves into the beasts of the forest & fowls of the air & take their nocturnal excursions in pursuit of human victims, particularly those suffering from disease & it was often necessary for their friends to employ witch shooters to protect the sick from such visitors. Such characters were the dread of the Country & many a time have I trembled at the croaking of a frog -- hooting of an owl or guttural coarseness of a Raven by night in very younger days. After he people began to be a little more courageous, then witches had a bad time of it They were often on suspicion butchered or tomahawked by the enraged parents, relatives or friends, of the deceased, particularly if the sickness was of most unclear. The severity of revenge fell most principally on the grey hairs of aged persons of both sexes?. unclear this evil it was necessary to pass a law, considering all unclear of this kind in the light of murder which has effected the desired remedy. These yet