Vulgar words in The Mysteries of All Nations - Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials - of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With - Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales (Page 1)
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Next followed actors and buffoons, who danced and sang, while one of them imitated the deceased's words and actions when alive.
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Titania wakened with eyes fixed on Bottom, who, by Puck's art, had an ass's head.
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By Puck's mistake, the love juice was laid in absence of the fair Athenian lady, and so the object desired was not obtained.
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The lungs of an ass, when burned, drive evil spirits away.
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By certain charms, magicians could place a horse or an ass's head upon a man's shoulders, and change the head of an inferior animal into that of a human pate.
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May the Son of the Living God, with all the glory of His Majesty, curse him or them; and may heaven, with all the powers which move therein, rise against him or them, to damn him or them, unless he or they shall repent, or that he or they shall make satisfaction.
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He ordered her and her "beggar bastard brat" to be off, or he would shoot them.
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Colquhoun, fascinated with his sister-in-law's charms, made love to her, but, meeting with no encouragement from the young lady, he consulted with Carlips (a necromancer) and with several witches and sorcerers as to the best way of making her return his affection.