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Daemonologia:

A Discourse on Witchcraft as it was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the Year 1621, Along with the Only Two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to be in Existence (Google eBook)
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R. Ackrill, 1882 - Witchcraft - 189 pages
  

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Interesting from a historical standpoint; somewhat boring and repetitive from a narrative standpoint. It's incredible to see the faulty logic used by otherwise intelligent people to support their ... Read full review

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Page 120 - Not far hence doth dwell A cunning man hight Sidrophel, That deals in Destiny's dark counsels, And sage opinions of the moon sells ; To whom all people, far and near. On deep importances repair ; When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out of the way; When geese and pollen are
Page 121 - And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and cut him off from among his people.
Page 120 - reigns in hogs or sheep, And chickens languish of the pip ; When yeast and outward means do fail, And have no power to work on ale; When butter does refuse to come, And love proves cross and humoursome; To him with questions, and with urine They for discov'ry flock, or curing.
Page 185 - delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected, oft they assayed Hunger and thirst constraining;
Page 86 - hath done it, for the vain pleasure of four and twenty years hath Faustus lost eternal joy and felicity. I writ them a bill with mine own blood, the date is expired : this is the time, and he will fetch me.
Page 16 - How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind. To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung ! Hence at each sound imagination glows
Page 32 - that for myself I am in religion neither a fantastic Puritan nor superstitious Papist; but so settled in conscience that I have the sure ground of God's Word to warrant all I believe, and the commendable ordinances of our English Church to approve all I practice; in which course I live a faithful Christian and
Page 111 - hath not fat enough for her porrage, or butter enough for her bread, and she hath a little help of the epilepsy, or cramp, to teach her to roll her eyes, wry her mouth, gnash her teeth, startle with her body, hold her arms and hands stiff, &c., and then
Page 15 - Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from

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FAIRFAX AND daemonologia -- qd s3-I (11): 218 -- Notes and Queries

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JSTOR: Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft
Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft. Norman E. Whitten, Jr. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 74, No. 4, 912-913. Aug., 1972. ...
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Edward Fairfax: Information and Much More from Answers.com
Fairfax, Edward, 1580?–1635, English translator. His excellent translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme liberta was published in 1600 under the title
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American Anthropologist aa 0002-7294 American Anthropological ...
American Anthropologist aa 0002-7294 American Anthropological Association 10.1525/aa.1972.74.4.02a00670 0002-7294(197208)2:74:4<912:DADOW>2.0. ...
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USL: Rare Books and Special Collections
Bibliography of holdings in the occult sciences, demonology & witchcraft from the Rare Book & Special Collections. Compiled by Neil Boness. General works ...
www.library.usyd.edu.au/ libraries/ rare/ bib-occult.html

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