Townspeople gave the honor of naming the new town to Hiram McCrary, who had given the railroad the rights to come through his land.

Townspeople and businesses in Bethel, Maine created " Olympia " the snow-woman, named after Maine senator Olympia Snowe

In 1907 the Townspeople wanted to widen the bridge, but this idea was rejected in favor of planning for a new bridge.

Townspeople were even encouraged to disassemble the fortress and re-use its stone for their own purposes.

Townspeople gave chase and eventually captured the robbers, who were hanged for their crimes.

Townspeople collect items from the luggage of the deceased passengers whilst survivors are taken to the local hospital where they are given lobotomies with power tools and kept as " vegies " for medical experiments by the earnest town surgeon.

* Proscenium Servants, Sailors and Townspeople: Kenneth S. Eiland, Timm Fujili, Joey Ginza, Patrick Kinser-Lau, Diane Lam, Tony Marinyo, Kevin Maung, Kim Miyori, Dingo Secretario, Freda Foh Shen, Mark Hsu Seyers, Gedde Watanabe, Leslie Watanabe, Ricardo Tobia

Townspeople came to see the troublesome monk, and Tausen preached to them from the window of his cell.

Townspeople, with the complicity of the town constable, broke into the local jail where Stuart was being held, beat Stuart and started a fire.

Townspeople elected to name the town " Lafe " in honor of the new postmaster and the name was officially changed on 21 May 1902.

Townspeople could take their catch to the Rex Cafe to be cooked.

Townspeople turned to boot and shoe making, and the manufacturing of slave produced cotton and woolen mill machinery.

Townspeople painting chickens on the streets of Versailles on Poultry Days 2009, with a previous year's palimpsest visible to the side.

Townspeople organized and chartered Marietta College in 1835.

Currently there are five Aldermen representing the Townspeople.

Townspeople even obtained Gould's railcar and it is presently displayed as a tourist attraction in downtown Jefferson.

Townspeople mistakenly consider the clerk a hero.

Townspeople who lived in chartered towns were burghers, as opposed to serfs who lived in villages.

Townspeople were required to take an oath of allegiance to the crown or leave.

Townspeople close to death often report that they hear The Master " calling " them.

Townspeople constantly sprayed the lava with cold seawater, causing some of it to solidify and much to be diverted, thus saving the harbour from destruction.

Townspeople cooperate to keep the canals clean and the water fresh ; as a result of their efforts, Gujō's drinking water is a source of local pride.

Townspeople, villagers and farmers formed a lower class called the rayah.

Underdog, Polly and the Townspeople shrink him to the size of a flea and tickle him into telling them the cure to the shrinking water.

Townspeople carried bucketloads of the sandstone to the construction site piece by piece.

Townspeople attacked Lewis.

interview on April 28, 1998, Nicks said of the rumor: " I have no idea what precipitated those rumors … I am not a witch.

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez ( D-CA ), " appalled ", said " I urge the rest of my colleagues to join me in denouncing this witch hunt.

Other examples are Joan's confession of where she got her sword ( 1. 2. 100 – 101 ); the Mayor's last two lines at the Tower ( 1. 3. 89 – 90 ); Talbot's " My thoughts are whirl'd like a potter's wheel ./ I know not where I am nor what I do ./ A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal ,/ Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists " ( 1. 6. 19 – 22 ); some of Mortimer's monologue prior to the arrival of Richard ( 2. 5. 22 – 32 ); Richard's " Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue ,/ Lest it be said, ' Speak, sirrah, when you should :/ Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?

He would also cut the arm of the accused with a blunt knife, and if she did not bleed, she was said to be a witch.

Weyer criticised the Malleus Maleficarum and the witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities ; he is said to have been the first person that used the term " mentally ill " or melancholy to designate those women accused of practicing witchcraft.

The convulsive symptoms that can be a result of consuming ergot-tainted rye have also been said to be the cause of accusations of bewitchment that spurred the Salem witch trials.

Ingrid Ylva is known in various legends, and possibly in her time, as a so-called white witch ; she was said to be able to master magic, which she used for good purposes and for her family's good fortune.

Returning, he met a witch who said that de Shurland's horse, Grey Dolphin, which had borne him so bravely to the ship, would be the death of him.

Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.

Mrs. Goodbody plays the role of a witch, and girls can look into a mirror to know what their future husbands will look like ( a picture of the husband is said to be reflected in the mirror ).

" I said " I am no witch, I have a pure conscience in the matter ; if there are a thousand witnesses, I am not anxious, but I'll gladly hear the witnesses.

When at last the executioner led me back into the prison, he said to me: " Sir, I beg you, for God's sake confess something, for you cannot endure the torture which you will be put to ; and even if you bear it all, yet you will not escape, not even if you were an earl, but one torture will follow after another until you say you are a witch.

" It's not a witch hunt ," he said.

It was also said that he often cut off bird heads to offer their blood to witch spirits so that he would not shed any blood of his own during the upcoming fights.

Witches were also said to have a heart-shaped mark on their left side ; for a witch of great abilities, the heart-shaped mark would be hairy.

On Christmas Eve, a witch was said to test the strength of her craft by looking upwards through the roof of her house ; if she can't see all the stars, even the smallest, it is a sign that her condition is fading ; then she must wait for the first full moon night, especially if it falls on Saint Silvester's Day, to mark her buttocks and restore the power of her witchcraft.

) At the stroke of midnight, she would go to dance inside the oven ; merely to come near a witch during any of this was said to be particularly dangerous.

It could also be said that they each represent a different stereotype of witches: Granny is the classic fairy tale witch, Nanny the village wise woman and Magrat the modern romantic Wiccan.

She knew all the tricks a witch should know, and had mastered the use of stories ; Nanny Ogg said she could be running as many as three of them at once.

She was said often to curse people, including calling them " kronnekyn hager du ", an " ugly black toad ", and was even said to have been a witch.

Reviewing the young Bette Davis in Dangerous for the Picture Post in 1935, she said, " I think Bette Davis would probably have been burned as a witch if she had lived two or three hundred years ago.

The name itself is said to come from a local witch, Meg of Meldon, who was alive in the early 17th century.

Numerous folktales are associated with the stones, including the tale reported in a rhyming version by William Camden in 1610, that a king was riding across the county with his army when he was accosted by a local witch called Mother Shipton, who said to him:

The witch said: