The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-31
may be the long-lost dollar of 1904. Then
she goes to the tow-linen towel and repeats
some such iargon as this.

may De the IOng-iOSt dollar OF 1871. Then
she goes to the tow-linen towel and repeats
some such Iargon as this:
1.-THE milk for her,
The cream for me,
saw, Brownie, saw"
Or Saw, Daisy" or any name her neigh
bors' cows may possess.
She always gets the cream She is very
considerate and does not take milk from
one COW oftener than once in every two or
three weeks. This enables every body to
fare alike.
There are great many people whom I
know-both white and colored-who never
go to bed on windy night without first
sprinkling salt around their beds. This
keeps the witches out. Another protec-
ton is to set up knife, fork and spoon at
the head of the bed; and then, so say the
sufferers, one can see the witch that visits
one and tell exactly who it is. Placing
bent pins in the track of a reputed witch is
another method of proving witchcraft If
upon returning in the same tracks she
limps, then the pins have struck home in
their uncanny mission. and she is witch.
There is one advantage in being witch
now rather than witch a hundred years
ago. Then one was tried, ducked or
burned. Now one is feared. respected,
pampered, appeased; and, in some in
stances, actually supported by their vic
Tins.
Such Is Sally Friddly.
In the case of Grace Sherwood. the pio-
neer witch of Virginia, one jury of women
searched her body for signs of witchcrafI.
The names of this famous jury / will
copy down for the benefit of their possible
posterity
Eliza Barnes, forewoman; Sarah Nor
ris, Margt Watkins, Hannah Dimiss,.
Sarah Goddard. Mary Burgess, Sarah Ser
gent, Winniford Davis, Ursula Henly.
Ann Brights, Exable Waplies, Mary
Cotle"
The woman was found to be somewhat
peculiar, and her jury foreswore a second
examination. She was brought forth at
every court for more than year-eighteen
months-because no second jury of women
could be obtained to examine her.
At her own suggestion she was tried by
water, Luke Hill and uxor still preferring
their charge against her. The old record
runs thus: Whereas Grace Sherwood be-
ing suspected of witchcraft have a long
time waited flor fit upportunit flor
further examinacon & by her consent e.
approbacon of we court it is ordr: vt. We.
Sherr. take We. sd. Grace forthwith & But
her into above mans. debth, & try her how
she swims, therein, always having care TO
reserve her life from drowning a. as soon
as she comes out. he request as many
antient and knowing weamen as possible
to search her carefully for all not
usual to others; and VT. as they find We
same, to make report on oath to We truth
thereof to We Court, and further it is or
dered vt. som women be requested to shift
her & serch her before she goe into We
water vt: she carry nothing about her to
cause any further serspicion."
The court went in boats and berlins to
witness this ceremony. To the horror of
all present, she swan the waves of Lynha-
ven bay and was then taken to Jail and
placed in jrons-''to be brought TO future
tryall there"
The stories of modern witches are legion;
and they are much more tangible pictures
than those of Queen AIMS reign.
Albert Lynch, respectable and reliable
coIored man, tells of night in a lonely
old field schoolhouse, where a witch held
an orgy over his body and called in TO her
assistance queer and curious community
of unknown creatures, that danced by the
light of fox-tire and at the first roulade
from the chanticleer, the witch and her
retinue skedaddled up the wide old Chin
new mouth We can explain this by call
ing it dream or the workings of rest
less. undisciplined brain.
But how can we explain the fact that in
one district a woman declares the witch of
another won't allow her butter 10 come,