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• [...] her tortures consisted of being broken on a wheel (later called Catherine wheel), but the machine broke down injuring bystanders; Catherine was beheaded.
• She only lied to the boy to keep him from hurt, and for her sin her intestines were pulled from her on a Catherine wheel.
• Sorcerers are too common; cunning men, wizards, and white witches[...]have commonly St. Catherine's wheel printed in the roof of their mouth, or in some other part about them […].
• [...] she went on, making turns and twists, flourishing her skirts, kicking higher and higher, and finally, among a volley of shouts, fell on her hands and turned head over heels in a magnificent catharine-wheel; then scrambling to her feet again, she tumbled into the arms of a young man standing in the front of the ring.