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Here's a posting of interest from PERFORM! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 21:49:26 -0500 From: Helen Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Witches If anyone knows of an old English (or Scottish) play with witches represented in it, please let me know! Even sideways glances at witches will do -- like the alewife in the Chester "Harrowing of Hell", or the midwife with the withered hand in the Chester "Nativity". Outspoken old grumblers are also acceptable, but I don't mean Mrs Noah. References to witches, burnings, hangings, scratching of witches, killing of swine or cattle by cursing, familiars such as dogs, flies, toads, or cats. All replies will be gratefully received and acknowledged. I am looking for any references from before 1575. Helen Ostovich ([log in to unmask]) McMaster University