The Devil in Britain and AmericaWard and Downey. Limited, 1896 - 363 pages |
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Page 88 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy ; and he healed them.
Page 128 - In a close lane as I pursu'd my journey, I spy'da wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Page 344 - Newes from Scotland : Declaring the damnable Life of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Januarie last, 1591 ; which Doctor was Register to the Devill, that sundrie Times preached at North Baricke Kirke, to a Number of notorious Witches.
Page 125 - O! (NE sort of such as are said to bee witches, are women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles ; poore, sullen, superstitious, and papists...
Page 123 - ... part of any dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment...
Page 128 - ... with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Her eyes with scalding rheum were gall'd and red ; Cold palsy shook her head ; her hands...
Page 146 - She said she kept him fat, for she clapt her hand on her belly and said he suckt good blood from her body. " 3. Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legged greyhound, with an head like an oxe, with a long tail and broad eyes, who, when this Discoverer spoke to and bade him...
Page 123 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where any dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
Page 117 - ... rescue my body, by these means: sew up my corpse in the skin of a stag; lay it on its back in a stone coffin; fasten down the lid with lead and iron; on this lay a stone, bound round with three iron chains of enormous weight; let there be psalms sung for fifty nights, and masses said for an equal number of days, to allay the ferocious attacks of my adversaries. If I lie thus secure for three nights, on the fourth day bury your mother in the ground; although I fear, lest the earth, which has been...
Page 342 - The Impossibility of Witchcraft. Plainly proving from Scripture and Reason That there never was a Witch, and that it is both Irrational and Impious to believe there ever was.