The said Anne Ashby further confessed, that the Divellhad given them a piece of flesh, which whensoever they should touch, they should thereby effect their desires.
There be great multitudes of infernall spirits, as the holy scriptures doe euerie where shew, but yet they doe so ioine together in one, that they be called the divell in the singular number.
She further saith that the Divellpromised her that she should not sinke, being throwne into the water, and that the Divell sucked twice since she came into the prison; he came to her in the forme of a Muce.
To whom she answered, That the Divell went with her all the way, and told her that she should sinke; but when she was in the Water, he sate upon a Crosse beame and laughed at her.
She further saith that the Divell promised to be her servant about twenty yeeres, and that the time is now almost expired.
Helen Guthrie in 1661 stated that when the Forfar witches were trying to sink a ship, 'the divell wes there present with them all, in the shape of ane great horse.
In Northumberland in 1673 'their particular divell tooke them that did most evill, and danced with them first.
Quhan I cam first ther, theDivell called tham all be thair names, on the book; and my husband, than called thame at the door.
At a large meeting at Allensford, where a great many witches were present, 'every thirteen of them had a divell with them in sundry shapes.
Ann Armstrong declared that at a witch meeting Ann Baites 'hath been severall times in the shape of a catt and a hare, and in the shape of a greyhound and a bee, letting the divell see how many shapes she could turn herself into.
They returned all in the same liknes as of befor, except that the divell wes in the shape of a man.
We went two seueral tymes abowt; and all we of the Coeven went still wp and downe with the plewghe, prayeing to the Divell for the fruit of that land, and that thistles and brieris might grow ther'.
And saith, that in all her talke and conferense shee calleth her said Divell Mamillion, my god.
At the said meeting their particular divell tooke them that did most evill, and danced with them first, and called every of them to an account, and those that did most evill he maid most of.
The Lancashire witch, Margaret Johnson, 1633, said: 'There appeared vnto her a spirit or divellin the similitude and proportion of a man.
The matters are not Tanti, wee have made the Divell too much sport already; who threw in these bones to set us together by the eares, whilst hee lets in the common Enemy upon us.
But whun they have taken in their cups, it seemeth that many of them doe feare neither the divell nor any thing else.
I conceive," he says, "the Divell gets into their body and by his subtile substance more operative and searching than any fire or putrifying liquor, melts the yielding Campages of the body to such a consistency .
The Papists could often effect cures of the possessed, he thought, because "the divell is content to release the bodily hurting of them, .
Also how the Divell came to Soffarn to a Farmers house in the habit of a Gentlewoman on horse backe.
The Boy of Bilson: or A True Discovery of the Late Notorious Impostures of Certaine Romish Priests in their pretended Exorcisme, or expulsion of the Divell out of a young Boy, named William Perry.
There, master,' said I, 'I call that cleaving the divell in twain and keeping his white half.
The priest then rose from his knees, and turning to the company said, with quiet geniality, "Gentles, we have here as obstinate a divell as you may see in a summer day.
On a second examination she said that the divell came to her in the shape of a "black rugged Dog in the night time, and crept into the bed to her, and spake to her in a mumbling tongue.
That the Divell went with her all the way, and told her that she should sinke; but when she was in the Water he sat upon a Crosse beame, and laughed at her.
So take your parting, evereche one, and gird you for ye fraye, By all that's pure, ye Divell sure doth trend his path this way!
XII Ye divell had him in his power, and not colde Robin say thereto: Soe Robin from that very houre did what that divell bade him do; He wooed and dipt, and on a daye Sr.
The morall of which is, that if a man leave his owne busines and have an eie to his wives dooings, sheele give him the slip though she runne to the divell for her labour.
In trueth this name which the Choluanos gave to their god, was very fitte, although they vnderstood it not: they called it Quetzaalcoalt, signifying colour of a rich feather, for such is the divell of covetousnesse.
And as rage doth often confirm in ye human harte an evill purpose, so was ye Divell now more diabolically minded to work his unclean will, and full hejeously fell he to roar and lash his ribald legs with his poyson taile.
And ye frere plucked ye cloake from ye Divell and saw ye cloven feet and ye poyson taile, and straightway ye Divell ran roaring away.
Then returned ye Divell unto his pit of fire; and since that day, whereupon befell this thing of which I speak, ye Divell hath had nony taile at all, as you that hath seene ye same shall truly testify.
An you go not to battle with hearts purged of sin, the divell will have every mother's son of you.
I am true man, They were better beate the divell and his dam.
Dyce quotes the same phrase,--"though I am blacke, I am not the Divell .
Well, the divell never blesses a man better, when he purses up angels by owlight: I ranne through a hedge to take the boy, but I stuck in the ditch, and lost the boy.
Sayes Tarlton, To morrow morning the Divell shall help you to it, or I will trounce him.
I would pray now: but thedivell takes away my heart For having any confidence in praier.
There is a sawcy and ambitious divell Is dauncing in this circle.
For many men they maken shende; 850 They weten well, the sothe I say, But the divell hath foule hem blend.
I can no more herof [now] tell, But they ben lyke tho before, And clene serve the divell of hell, And ben his tresour and his store.
Nay, but you shall know furthermore that of soche sweete quality and of so great efficacy is this heavenly spirit of charity at ye Chrystmass season, that oftentimes is ye Divell himself made to do a kindly deed.
Then returned ye Divell unto his pit of fire; and since that day, whereupon befell this thing of which I speak, ye Divell hath had nony taile at all, as you that hath scene ye same shall truly testify.
Judas's heart was the shop, the divell was the foreman to worke in it.
The divell entered into the heart of Judas, and put in him this greedinesse, and covetousnesse of game, for which he was content to sell his master.
Thus we see that the divell is the planter, and the father of usury.
On the left hand, "Hee's a true Jaylor strips the Divell in ill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
