Elizabeth Sawyer
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Elizabeth Sawyer was a woman during the reign of James I of England
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It was said that a demon, in the form of a dog named Tom, had appeared before her and seduced her into serving Satan
. The story was the inspiration for Thomas Dekker's play, The Witch of Edmonton
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James I of England
James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
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It was said that a demon, in the form of a dog named Tom, had appeared before her and seduced her into serving Satan
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
. The story was the inspiration for Thomas Dekker's play, The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.The play—"probably the most sophisticated treatment of domestic tragedy in the whole of Elizabethan-Jacobean drama"—is based on supposedly real-life events that took place...
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