ANIMAL, buying and selling
1486
SPRENGER & KRAMER
Malleus Maleficarum
(tr. Summers, 223)
A certain honest man was bargaining with a woman, and would not come to terms with her about the price of some article; so she angrily called after him, ‘You will soon wish you had agreed’ … Then he, not unreasonably being angry with her, looked over his shoulder to see with what intention she had uttered those words; and behold! he was suddenly bewitched so that his mouth was stretched sideways as far as his ears in a horrible deformity.
1584
SCOT
Discoverie of Witchcraft
XVI
VIII
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You shall not heare a butcher or horssecourser cheapen [make an offer for] a bullocke or ...