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Page 68
... sometimes by the space of one day , sometimes for two , and once they were wholly deprived of their speech for eight days together and then restored to their speech again . At other times they would fall into swoonings , and upon the ...
... sometimes by the space of one day , sometimes for two , and once they were wholly deprived of their speech for eight days together and then restored to their speech again . At other times they would fall into swoonings , and upon the ...
Page 302
... sometimes fifty blows , sometimes one hundred , yea , sometimes two or three hundred blows , that the least of them was able to strike down a strong man . And yet he did to himself no hurt . He had accused nine women of bewitch- ing him ...
... sometimes fifty blows , sometimes one hundred , yea , sometimes two or three hundred blows , that the least of them was able to strike down a strong man . And yet he did to himself no hurt . He had accused nine women of bewitch- ing him ...
Page 396
... sometimes makes the whole body so rigid and inflexible that no amount of force can bend it . Sometimes the [ possessed persons ] fall down as if dead , as if they were suf . fering from tertiary epilepsy and a vapor rushing into their ...
... sometimes makes the whole body so rigid and inflexible that no amount of force can bend it . Sometimes the [ possessed persons ] fall down as if dead , as if they were suf . fering from tertiary epilepsy and a vapor rushing into their ...
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