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hundred witches were burnt in Geneva alone, and the same was the case in other parts of Christendom,--a proof at once of the craft and power of Satan, and of the demoralization of those who had deliberately elected to become his servants and slaves
Read record →ntained the power to be inherent in any Christian man (with right disposition and following recognized and authorized rules) of casting out evil spirits; and, in consequence, declined altogether to repudiate the clear and plain records and statements of Holy S
Read record →As to the facts of Witchcraft and Necromancy, it is quite impossible to deny their existence
Read record →For example, in the year 1599, a girl named Martha Brossier, of Romorantin, in Berry, was reputed to be possessed, and excited a considerable sensation in Paris
Read record →The narrative states that she was so strong in her fits that six men or more could not hold her, but while suffering under most grievous hurrying and tortures of the body, the witch being only brought into the room, she fell asleep and slept for three hours, s
Read record →In a small but curious tractate entitled “Daimonomagia,” the effects of Witchcraft are maintained to be a disease
Read record →In the year 1697 a youth of nineteen years of age, named Richard Dugdale, excited great attention; it being generally believed that he was possessed by an evil spirit, as the direct consequence of Witchcraft
Read record →tinged, it may be, not infrequently with the exaggerated superstitions of the times, it is impossible that so many persons of all ranks and classes--the highest as well as the lowest--eye-witnesses of facts, could have been so utterly mistaken as to the Supern
Read record →“On Wednesday the 7th of this Instant March 1705, being the second day of the Assizes held at Northampton: One Ellinor Shaw and Mary Phillips[97] (two notorious Witches), were brought into court and there Arraign’d at the Bar upon several Indictments of Witchc
Read record →oners after they had been Apprehended; and that about Midnight there appeared in the Room a little white Thing about the Bigness of a Cat, which sat upon Mary Phillips’ Lap, at which time she heard her, the said Mary Phillips, say, then pointing to Ellinor Sha
Read record →The case was heard before Sir Henry Chauncey
Read record →down, but there is one very remarkable difference, which I doubt not my readers have already taken notice of, viz
Read record →As to certain of the characteristics and evidences of Witchcraft, Increase Mather in his “Cases of Conscience” writes as follows
Read record →een made, and impositions not unfrequently practised; but in the forcible words of Joseph Glanville, we should remember that “frequency of deceit and fallacy will warrant a greater care and caution in examining, and a greater scrupulosity and shyness of assent
Read record →In certain cases the subject of Witchcraft had a somewhat wide and vague meaning
Read record →One or two further remarks may be added upon the general subject
Read record →The specific features of this account are so obvious and well defined, and the account itself is so remarkably clear in all its various parts, that nothing more needs to be added, than the simple remark, that if the old and false principles of Witchcraft and N
Read record →Many persons in the present day are ready enough (as well they may be,) to become eloquent on the trivial absurdities and vulgar (too often dark and obscene) contrivances of the Witchcraft of the seventeenth century
Read record →Cyprian states that he was divinely instructed in a dream to mix a little water with the wine for the Holy Eucharist.[115] On the general subject, S
Read record →“After the strangers had taken some refreshment, and were about to depart in order to prosecute their journey, Rogers earnestly entreated the little man at once to quit his fellow-traveller
Read record →“Five months after his death, however, the Rector of the parish in which he had lived, had what he termed ‘a waking dream,’ in which he imagined that the deceased gentleman came to him in sorrow, and solemnly conjured him to obtain possession of a Will, which
Read record →Some two centuries ago, as the Head of the Family was passing by a hill near or at Crieff, he discovered a large crowd, presided over by one of the Campbells of ----, preparing to execute a witch
Read record →Second Sight, indications of the existence of which have already been given, appears to be a power or property of seeing beforehand events which are still in the future, and such sight claimed by several[145] is said to belong to many persons in Scotland
Read record →In John Aubrey’s “Miscellanies”[146] is recorded a remarkable escape from death of Dr
Read record →The second example is equally remarkable:--“A singular case of Second Sight is reported from the neighbourhood of Marlborough
Read record →not say I can give a perfect definition in this matter, which is hard to do even in known things, because the essential form is hard to be found, yet I do give a definition which may at the least give notice and make known what manner of persons they be of who
Read record →[71] “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”--Exodus xxii
Read record →For example, Asclepiades, who lived in the time of Pompey the Great, cured diseases by magic, enjoining upon his patient, in the case of the falling sickness, to bind upon his arm a Cross with a Nail driven into it
Read record →There seems no reason for doubting that, as we have already stated, they were of the nature of magic, sorcery, or witchcraft; though we cannot profess accurately to define what such terms might import
Read record →[87] It is asserted by several authorities that no less than three thousand persons were executed for Witchcraft during that dark period of heretical pravity, the Great Rebellion
Read record →discourse very rationally of her selfe & condition, a full account whereof would be too long to give; ’tis said that for these 4 or 5 dayes past (in which tyme I have not seene her) somewhat appeares to her in ye shape of a dogg
Read record →by the Assistance of these Hellish Animals they often Kill’d Men Women and Children to the great surprise of all the towns thereabouts; she further adding that it was all the Delight they had to be doing such wicked Actions and they had Kil’d by their Inchantm
Read record →However a little before they were ty’d up; at the request of the Minister, Ellinor Shaw confessed not only the Crime for which she Dyed, but openly declared before them all how she first became a Witch, as did also Mary Phillips; and being desired to say their
Read record →[104] There was a notorious sorcerer and reputed necromancer in King James the First’s reign, a certain Dr
Read record →The eclipse demon, Râhu, whose name means "the looser" or "the seizer," was one of the Asuras or demons
Read record →In the eastern districts of the North-Western Provinces there is a regular rite common to all the inferior castes that a few days before a wedding the women go in procession to the village clay-pit and fetch from there the sacred earth (matmangara), which is u
Read record →Earthquakes are also naturally an object of terror
Read record →of Adi Buddha floated on its surface
Read record →Numerous instances of the same idea have been collected by Dr
Read record →If it breaks it is a bad omen, and a new site will be selected a week afterwards
Read record →They work on much the same lines as their brethren in England, who discover springs by means of the divining rod
Read record →The water of many wells is efficacious in the cure of disease
Read record →They laughingly consented, and after removing a little earth a clear fountain gushed forth
Read record →the tank at Chakratîratha, near Nîmkhâr, marks the spot where the Chakra or discus of Vishnu fell during his contest with Asuras
Read record →On the Mâtra hill lives a Deo or demon known as Darrapât Deo
Read record →The old weather god was Indra, who wars with Vritra or Ahi, the dragon demon of drought, whom he compels to dispense the rain
Read record →Some put an axe in the open air with the edge turned up, so that the hailstones may be cut in pieces and cease falling
Read record →The same principle was laid down by Pythagoras; [200] and Herodotus [201] describes the people of Psylli marching in a body to fight the south wind which had dried up their water-tanks
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