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And they made “pictures” of wax into which the little black man stuck thorns, one in the crown, another in the breast, and a third in the side, which then Margaret would fling down saying, “This is Cornish’s figure with a murrain to it,” and Elizabeth Cornish would languish and die; or “This is Bess Hill’s;” or any other person’s whom it was desired to “forespeak” and destroy; who of course were forespoken and destroyed from that hour.

She could forespeak them so that they should give poison instead of milk, and the cream she had once overlooked was never fit for the “yirning.”

She stood at the pier-head and as they passed poured a cup of ale into the sea, to forespeak good luck for the fleet.

Why do you forespeak misfortune, Liot?

No doubt Isolina had heard her captors forespeak their plans.