“A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.”

— Edward Coke

Reported in Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (2007) p. 18.
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English lawyer and judge 1552–1634

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