Crossword-Solution: SMEARERS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Carlo'), because of the prominent part played in it by the smearers.[240] They were popularly supposed to go about the city daubing walls, doors, furniture, choir-stalls, flowers, and articles of food with plague stuff.

Fear and physical pain extorted confessions and complicated accusations of their neighbors from multitudes of innocent people.[241] Indeed the parallel between these unfortunate smearers and no less wretched witches is a close one.

Secondly, there are shepherd-hinds and sheep-smearers, I mean master-singers by profession, men-of-business, who thank God when the _enchantress_ turns, at last, like other witches, into a grumbling _house_-cat, keeping down the vermin.

Qualified "smearers" there were in plenty--Andy and Blackmore were wood-choppers and I was an ex-pitcher and shot-putter,--but the designation of a "smear-ee" was quite another matter.