The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and DemonologyAn historical and human compendium, from original sources in the world's greatest libraries, describing the witches' sabbat and pact, incubi and succubi, eyewitness reports of trials, werewolves, and vampires, sexual relations with the devil, demoniacal possession and exorcism, poltergeists, barbarous tortures, and the theological and legal theories of inquisition, witchcraft and demonology. |
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... child in a blanket previously hung in a chimney , and burning anything that should happen to fall out of the blanket . A toad was found and burned with " a flashing in the fire like gunpowder . " Amy reputedly was seen with her face ...
... child in a blanket previously hung in a chimney , and burning anything that should happen to fall out of the blanket . A toad was found and burned with " a flashing in the fire like gunpowder . " Amy reputedly was seen with her face ...
Page 384
... child's mother to make a drink . Witness Mrs. David Morris swears : The said Isobel Haldane , unrequested , came to her house and saw the child . Said " it was a changeling taken away . " Took in hand to cure it ; and to that effect ...
... child's mother to make a drink . Witness Mrs. David Morris swears : The said Isobel Haldane , unrequested , came to her house and saw the child . Said " it was a changeling taken away . " Took in hand to cure it ; and to that effect ...
Page 520
... child , " but that soon after the child changed color and died . The court did not summon the child's parents , who only later revealed that the child died because of exposure caused by neglect of the nurse . By this time the nurse was ...
... child , " but that soon after the child changed color and died . The court did not summon the child's parents , who only later revealed that the child died because of exposure caused by neglect of the nurse . By this time the nurse was ...
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