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BLACK MAN

BLACK MAN
1590 Witchcraft trial ( R. PITCAIRN Criminal Trials in Scotland I pt. 2 239–40) At the Kirk of North Beruik … abone ane hundreth persounes … maid … thair homage [to the Devil]. The Devill start vp him selff in the pulpett, lyke ane mekle blak man … He had one him ane goun and ane hatt, quhilkis wer baith blak.

1662 (Ibid. III 603) I met with THE DIVELL … in the Kirk of Aulderne … He wes in the Reader's dask, and a blak book in his hand … He wes a meikle, blak … man.

c. 1700 ( W. PAUL Aberdeenshire 18–19) Alex. Thomson, minister of ...

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