cousening

Updated: May 15, 2025

"Witchcraft is in truth a cousening art, wherin the name of God is abused, prophaned and blasphemed, and his power attributed to a vile creature. In estimation of the vulgar people, it is a supernaturall worke, contrived betweene a corporall old woman, and a spirituall divell.

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718