Vinegar Tom

Vinegar Tom is a 1976 feminist play by Caryl Churchill, named after a greyhound with an ox's head alleged in a 1645 witchcraft trial to be the familiar of Elizabeth Clarke.

Holt, who came in like a white kittling.

Farmara who came in like a fat spaniel without any legs at all

Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe

Sack and Sugar, like a black Rabbet

Newes, like a Polecat.

See also

• Essex trials

External links

• Vinegar Tom asks "Are you afraid of women?"
• Vinegar Tom Critical Notes
• Vinegar Tom

References

• Names Familiar and Unfamiliar
• The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, Chapter VIII