of a Sorcerer.

...none around him, nor in any other place of this world, whether above the ground or under the ground, whether in any place secret or open.

Seventhly, being asked original: "demaunded" how he knows when any man is bewitched: He says that he knew it partly by the fairies original: "feries." In the 16th century, fairies were often viewed as dangerous supernatural beings or spirits that could cause illness or "blast" people., and says that there are three kinds of fairies: white, green, and black. When he is inclined to use them, he speaks with them upon hills where there are great heaps of earth, specifically in Dorsetshire. The "heaps of earth" likely refer to the ancient Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mounds (barrows) common in the Dorset landscape, which were frequently associated with spirits in local folklore. And between the hours of twelve and one, either at noon or at midnight, he uses them. Of which (he says) the black fairies are the worst.

Also, he says that he had a book from his said master which had great circles in it, in which he would set two wax candles in the shape of a cross, made of virgin wax original: "virgin waxe," meaning pure, unused beeswax, often specified in ritual magic for its perceived spiritual purity., to summon original: "raise" the familiar spirit original: "familiar spirite," a supernatural entity or demon believed to assist a sorcerer in magic or divination.. He would then ask this spirit about anything stolen—who did it and where the stolen thing was left. By this means he would find out; he also knows who is bewitched by the fairies.