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parties, the reformed English Church was not so much interested in identifying her crimes with sorcerers as in maintaining the less tremendous formulae of Divine right, Apostolical succession, and similar pretensions
Read record →During the ascendency of the Presbyterian party from 1640 to the assumption of the Protectorship by Cromwell, witches and witch-trials increased more than ever; and they sensibly decreased only when the Independents obtained a superiority
Read record →[144] The author of Hudibras, in the interview of the Knight and Sidrophel (William Lilly), enumerates the various practices and uses of astrology and witchcraft in vogue at this time, and employed by Court and Parliament with equal eagerness and emulation
Read record →The pious Baxter, an eyewitness, thus commemorates the event: 'The hanging of a great number of witches in 1645 and 1646 is famously known
Read record →ike John Cotta before him and others of that class, was provoked to challenge the propriety of the ordinary prosecutions, not so much from incredulity as from humanity, which revolted at the extravagance of the judges' cruelty
Read record →'Swimming' and 'pricking' were the approved modes of discovery
Read record →These marks were considered to be teats at which the demons or imps were used to be suckled
Read record →Matthew Hopkins pursued a lucrative trade in witch-hunting for some years with much applause and success
Read record →This was followed two years later by a similar protest by one Thomas Ady, called, 'A Candle in the Dark; or, a Treatise concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft: being Advice to Judges, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace and Grand Jurymen, what to do befor
Read record →nd ill-concealed scepticism of Charles II
Read record →tch all occasions to get us within their envious reach, are more constant attenders and careful spies upon the actions and inclinations of such whose genius and designs prepare them for their temptations
Read record →And if it be supposed that the imps of witches are sometimes wicked spirits of our own kind and nature, and possibly the same that have been witches and sorcerers in this life: this supposal may give a fairer and more probable account of many of the actions of
Read record →eat toad which ran up and down the hearth; and she, having a young youth only with her in the house, desired him to catch the toad and throw it into the fire, which the youth did accordingly, and held it there with the tongs; and as soon as it was in the fire
Read record →The suspicion of imposture thus raised was quickly silenced by fresh proof
Read record →The year before, a woman named Julian Coxe was hanged at Taunton on the evidence of a hunter that a hare, which had taken refuge from his pursuit in a bush, was found on the opposite side in the likeness of a witch, who had assumed the form of the animal, and
Read record →Attacks upon the superstition of varying degrees of merit were not wanting during any period of the seventeenth century
Read record →most of the Governments of Europe were now content to leave sorcerers and witches to the irregular persecutions of the people, tacitly abandoning to the mob the right of proceeding against them as they pleased, without the interference of the law, in a remote
Read record →While engaged at this work he threw down the unfinished house about their ears, to the consternation, and sometimes injury, of his vassals.[155] Some of the witnesses spoke of a great dragon encircled with flames, and an iron chair; of a vision of a burning pi
Read record →All the persuasive arguments of the examiners could not induce the witches to repeat before them their well-known tricks: because, as they affirmed, 'since they had confessed all they found all their witchcraft was gone: and the devil at this time appeared ver
Read record →Witchcraft in the English Colonies in North America--Puritan Intolerance and Superstition--Cotton Mather's 'Late Memorable Providences'--Demoniacal Possession--Evidence given before the Commission--Apologies issued by Authority--Sudden Termination of the Proce
Read record →A review of the superstitions of witchcraft would be incomplete without some notice of the Salem witches in New England
Read record →Mather received one of them into his house for the purpose of making experiments, and, if possible, to exorcise the evil spirits
Read record →As a result of this diagnosis appeared the publication of 'Late Memorable Providences relating to Witchcraft and Possession,' which, together with Baxter's 'Certainty of the World of Spirits,' a work Mather was careful to distribute and recommend to the people
Read record →On July 19 five women, and on August 19, six persons, were sent to the gallows, among whom was Mr
Read record →So ended the last of public and judicial persecutions of considerable extent for witchcraft in Christendom
Read record →The usually candid Mosheim notices, apparently with contempt, '"The World Bewitched," a prolix and copious work, in which he perverts and explains away, with no little ingenuity indeed, but with no less audacity, whatever the sacred volume relates of persons p
Read record →ocedure against witches was negative rather than positive: the enactments in the statute-books were left unrepealed, and so seemed not to altogether discountenance a still somewhat doubtful prejudice
Read record →f the prince, the proper death by burning alive was remitted to the milder sentence of beheading, and afterwards burning the corpse to ashes: for no vestige of such an accursed criminal should be permitted to remain after death
Read record →[164] Without noticing other equally notorious instances of recent years, it may be enough (to dispel any such possible illusion) to transcribe a paragraph from an account in The Times newspaper of Sept
Read record →er of the infernal arts is remembered by the higher classes of society of the present age only in their proverbial language, but it is indelibly graven in the common literature of Europe
Read record →Burton (The Lake Regions of Central Africa) for the practices of the Eastern Africans
Read record →Why are these communications so rare?
Read record →Even if genuine spirit-messages are at times received, it is highly probable that the bulk of the messages are the product of the medium's subliminal, which catches up and amplifies the original external impetus received from without
Read record →Certain it is that special adaptability and idiosyncrasy are necessary to the one on this side--this constituting, in fact, a "medium," as we understand it
Read record →When a medium goes into a trance, she throws out (symbolically) psychic "arms," or pseudopodia, much as an octopus might feel about him with his tentacled arms
Read record →The sceptic might begin by questioning the fact itself; but I think it now so well established that argument on this score is unnecessary
Read record →When a person falls asleep, he loses consciousness when en rapport with himself.[2] When he is placed in the "mesmeric" trance, he remains en rapport with the operator, and the deeper the trance, the more complete and effective this rapport is
Read record →Now, it seems plausible to suppose that, by way of analogy, the medium trance would represent a trance state induced by hypnotism from the "other side." We know that telepathic hypnotism is a fact--the numerous cases recorded by Myers and Janet being good proo
Read record →Hodgson was of the opinion that the ordinary centres were not used in the production of the automatic writing, for he said (Proceedings, xiii
Read record →"It is more than probable, it seems to me, that there exists some sort of etheric medium between mind and even organic nervous tissue, upon which the mind must act first of all
Read record →Some years ago a gentleman of my acquaintance started out with the intention of constructing a telephone by means of which it would be possible to speak directly to the spirit world!
Read record →In the second place, the exhaustion which "healers" sometimes experience when treating patients of a certain temperament can hardly be due altogether to suggestion
Read record →I gazed motionless, as though fascinated, on what was no longer vacant space
Read record →There I was, paler than usual, and greatly agitated; I walked hurriedly to and fro
Read record →It must be remembered that all these manifestations took place when the medium was in a state of induced somnambulism
Read record →Through the entranced medium instructions were given to focus a camera upon a certain chair--having first placed a shawl over the back
Read record →On a number of occasions the psychic placed her hand upon the plate, and its impression was left upon it
Read record →The hand is very large, she says, and is a right hand
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