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‘We ring this round with our invoking spells’: Magic as Embedded Authorship in The Merry Devil of Edmonton
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ABSTRACT
Jonson's Bartholomew Fair is a play not directly about witchcraft, but certainly possessed by everyday assumptions about magic, demonic agents, and oven-baked or spit-roasted goods. Elizabeth Southerns alias Demdike's confession in Potts's The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster gives a very detailed description of images used for murder. The Northampton and Lancaster Witches of 1612 were assiduous and inventive in their use of image magic. The arraignment and execution of Helen Jenkenson in Northampton includes one bizarre incident involving Mistress Moulshow's buck of clothes. The seductive scent of roast pork that tempted the Puritans is now an unwholesome stench in the nostils, a smog irritating and inflaming the jeerers and their target alike. Demdike claims she refused to participate with Anne Whittle alias Chattox and Anne Redferne in image-making for the destruction of Christopher, Robert, and Mary Nutter.