About: James Murrell

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British cunning man; professional folk magician (c. 1785 - 1860)

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  • British cunning man; professional folk magician (c. 1785 - 1860) (en)
  • onye aghụghọ na Britian; ọkachamara dibịa afa (c. 1785 - 1860) (ig)
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  • Maple (en)
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  • c. 1785 (en)
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  • Rochford, Essex, England (en)
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  • Seventeen in total. (en)
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  • Hadleigh, Essex, England (en)
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  • Reproductions of pages from Murrell's books of magic; the left page depicts sigils and pentacles, the right depicts a horoscope. (en)
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  • Murrell's Magic Book.png (en)
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  • James Murrell (en)
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  • Cunning man, shoemaker (en)
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  • Edward Murrell, Hannah Murrell (en)
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  • "Superstition it seems, is as powerful now as when ghosts walked the earth, and witches were weighed against the Church Bible. We are, says a correspondent, quite equal to the people in the days of old; for we have our magicians, necromancers, and such like, to bring the hidden things to light. There is an old man named Murrells, a sort of quack doctor and herbalist living at Hadleigh, who has been practicing the magician for years, and in some cases successfully; and many persons are in the habit of going to him for advice and assistance[...] Of course the little old man in knee breeches and gaiters, and an old coat, is looked upon in the neighbourhood as more potent than a whole troop of policemen." (en)
  • "A young woman found an old gypsy hiding in a barn and ordered her out. She was a witch, and she cursed the girl who presently began to scream like a cat and bark like a dog. Murrell was called in. He placed in the fire a bottle containing hair and nail-clippings from the victim. He told everyone to keep absolutely silent while they awaited the arrival of the witch. Presently there came a hammering on the door, and a woman's voice begged him to stop 'the test', as the fire was causing her agony. The bottle burst. On the following morning, an old woman was found burned to death outside the Woodcutters' Arms, three miles away. It was the gypsy. The girl recovered." (en)
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  • — Chelmsford Chronicle, 1857. (en)
  • — Account recorded from Mrs Watson, whose grandmother was a neighbour of Murrell's, by Maple. (en)
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  • Elizabeth Button (en)
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