DEVONSHIRE WITCHES. BY PAUL Q. KARKEEK. (Read at Teignmouth, July, 1874.) _Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. 1874._ DEVONSHIRE WITCHES. BY PAUL Q. KARKEEK. (Read at Teignmouth, July, 1874.) Devonshire bears powerful evidence to the theory of Mr. Buckle, that the climate and scenery of a country tend to influence the creed of the people. Our miles of broad and almost deserted moorland, the deep valleys, the dark combes, and our stormy iron-bound coasts, may to a certain extent have inclined the Devonians of the past to a firmer belief in the miraculous, than would be found in a more populous and less rugged count…
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