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The witch-pricker, equipped with a variety of pins, lancets, and other pointed implements, was charged with testing for this condition.
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It was the object of the witch-pricker to discover this spot, and the unhappy wight who did not bleed when pricked upon it was doomed to the death.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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(noun) - A witch-finder who discovered witches by pricking them with a wooden bodkin or pin looking for the "witch-mark." Witch-score, the mark made with a sharp instrument on the forehead of a supposed witch to render her harmless. --Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
April 22, 2018