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English: Engraving of needles with a retractable point or false shaft used by 16th century magicians to trick audiences into thinking they had stabbed themselves. Such needles could also have been used to prick accused witches to create false evidence of their guilt. Originally published in The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
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Source http://shanmonster.net/witch/traits/mark.html https://archive.org/details/discoverieofwitc00scot/page/291/mode/1up
Author Reginald Scot
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