Excerpt from The History of Our Country From Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of Its Declaration of IndependenceBelief in Witches. - Causes for this Belief. The Idea of the Devil. Study of Necro mancy. Two Children bewitched. - Arrest of Friendless Old Women. Babies chained and thrown into Prison as Witches. - Torture of Witches. - Confessions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.