Quote#Children
Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like…
Quote byMatthew Hopkins · 1620–1647
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Discovery of Witches (1647), Query 4, p. 2.
English (original)
Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this discoverer spoke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him and his Angels, immediately transformed himselfe into the shape of a child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore.
— Matthew Hopkins
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