Black John "Chastising the Witches" designed, etched and published by George Cruikshank in 1830. In the 17th Century Isobel Gowdies confessed to turning herself into a cat, turning round three times whilst chanting the following rhyme: I shall goe intil ane catt, With sorrow, and sych, and a black shott, And I sall goe in the divellis nam, Ay will I com hom againe. (to change back into her human form, she would say the following three times. Catt, catt, God send thee a black shott, I am in cattis liknes just now, Bot I sall be in womanis liknes ewin now, Catt,catt, God send thee a black shott. 固opham