A witch's mark, devil's mark or stigma diabolicum was a bodily mark that witch-hunters believed indicated that an individual was a witch, during the height of the witch trials. The beliefs about the mark differed, depending on the trial location and the accusation made against the witch.

A few sources quote that a witch’s tit (or witch’s teat) supposedly left a marking that witch hunters and courts would look for on the body of an accused witch. Supposedly, witches would suckle their familiars, and sometimes the Devil himself, from this “unholy” body part.

It was widely held that witches suckled their imps with their own blood. The indicator of such demonic suckling was either the teat, a nipple-resembling growth, or the appearance of a freshly sucked spot. Marks in strange or animal shapes could also have diabolical implications.

2024年10月31日 · Witch-hunters would examine the chest or torso for any irregularity and classify it as a witch’s teat. In reality, supernumerary nipples (or polythelia) are benign. These form during early...

2001年12月27日 · any blemishes, moles, or even scars that could be labeled as diabolical. To find marks invisible to the eye, the examiner would. poke the victim inch by inch with a blunt needle (called a bodkin) until they found a spot that didn't feel pain or bled. Discovery.

But besides this, a jury of women, found a preternatural teat upon her body; but upon a second search, within three or four hours, there was no such thing to be seen. There was

2014年10月28日 · Her spirit familiar has to nurse on her body, and so she has a special diabolical teat concealed on her person somewhere for that purpose. Check closely. It could be between her fingers, or in a...

The witches' teat was a raised bump somewhere on a witch's body. It is often depicted as having a wart-like appearance. A witches' mark should not be confused with a witch mark, which is a symbol or pattern scratched into the fabric of a building to keep witches out.

Once the accused had all been gathered, he conducted the “Touch Test,” one of the most diabolical schemes of the witch trials. At that time, it was believed that if a witch’s hand touched the body of the person they had bewitched, that person would immediately become well and could identify the witch.

At her trial these women testified that the eighty-year-old defendant “had […] the marks of an absolute Witch, having a teat about the length and bigness of the nipple of a woman’s breast, and hollow and soft as a nipple, with a hole on the top of it, on her left shoulder, and another likewise was found in her secret places, like the ...