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“The greatest discord is between the Eagle and the Dragon, for the Vultures, Eagles, Swannes and Dragons, are enemies to one another
Read record →We would here give credit to the principal works from which valuable and important matter has been selected for these pages: Whitman's Popular Superstitions; Upham's Lectures upon Witchcraft; Christian Freeman and Family Visitor; Abercrombie on the Intellectua
Read record →This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person who slept in a bed room supposed to be haunted.--Skeleton seen by moonlight.--Apparition seen by Dr
Read record →Description of fairies, habits, localities, &c.--Subterranean spirits in Wales, called Knockers.--The Brownies in Scotland.--A farmer in Ireland who was tormented by fairies.--Method taken to appease their anger.--Spenser's poem of the Fairy Queen.--Gypsies an
Read record →eaned in conversation with him.--Swedenborg's account of Sir John Franklin.--Describes his situation, blocked up by ice.--Spirits do not understand about latitude and longitude.--Description of the spirit of Socrates, his dress, &c.--Account of the emperor Ale
Read record →Opening books, tricks, fortune telling.--Practice of a lady in a clergyman's family.--Disadvantageous matrimonial alliances.--Anticipation of dreadful calamities.--Practice of Rev
Read record →Facts related by a gentleman of Maine.--Renunciation of a spirit rapper.--Murder committed at the instigation of "spirits."-- Conflicting testimony concerning John Thompson.--Experiments of Mr
Read record →rsey.--Door opened as if struck by a mallet.--Great excitement.--Glass broken, &c.--Knockings heard in New Hackensack.--Pile of lumber shaken; tables, chairs, stand, and candlestick thrown about.--Bags of salt, tin ware, and cooking utensils thrown in a heap.-
Read record →To doubt, in former times, the power of charms, and the veracity of omens, and ghost stories, was deemed little less than atheism
Read record →In the year 1832, crowds of men, women, and children flocked to the village of Waltham, a few miles from Boston, to see a ghost which was said to make its appearance towards midnight, walking to and fro in a turf meadow, declaring itself, in unearthly tones, t
Read record →A belief in the supernatural origin of dreams sometimes leads to their fulfilment
Read record →Ignorance of the influence of the imagination upon the nervous system has given rise to many superstitions
Read record →Deslon was not near the door, nor in either chamber, nor was either of the women touched, not even their pulse examined
Read record →Here, again, we behold the astonishing power of the imagination over the human system, and witness the miracles that have been performed on the ignorant and unsuspecting
Read record →Ferriar relates the case of a gentleman travelling in the Highlands of Scotland, who was conducted to a bed room which was reported to be haunted by the spirit of a man who had there committed suicide
Read record →Dewar relates the case of a lady who was quite blind, and who never walked out without seeing a little old woman, with a crutch and a red cloak, apparently walking before her
Read record →y, persons of unimpeachable veracity and known respectability, who still continue to believe the tradition, and to assert that they themselves have been auditors of the sounds described, which they declare were of such an unearthly nature as to preclude the id
Read record →We have read the account of a lady who had an illusion affecting both her sight and hearing
Read record →At that time, I was not terrified, and the light, although very brilliant, made no unpleasant impression upon my eyes
Read record →s northerly,) appeared in the air, coming up from the harbor's mouth, which lies southward from the town, seemingly with her sails filled, under a fresh gale, holding her course north, and continuing under observation, sailing against the wind, for the space o
Read record →It is probable that some Dutch vessel, proceeding slowly, quietly, and unconsciously on her voyage from Amsterdam to the New Netherlands, happened at the time to be passing through the Sound
Read record →Our vision is at all times liable to be disturbed by atmospheric conditions
Read record →There are many who believe in signs
Read record →A witch was regarded by our fathers as a person who had made an actual, deliberate, and formal contract with Satan, by which contract it was agreed that the party should become his faithful subject, and do whatever should be required in promoting his cause
Read record →Sometimes a witch, in company with others of the fraternity, is carried through the air on brooms or spits, to distant meetings or Sabbaths of witches
Read record →It was believed that Satan affixed his mark or seal to the bodies of those in allegiance with him, and that the spot where this mark was made became callous and dead
Read record →In 1692, the whole population of Salem and vicinity were under the influence of a terrible delusion concerning witchcraft
Read record →Adam Clarke, we have the following account of a circumstance that took place in the town of Freshford, county of Kilkenny, Ireland, showing the superstition prevailing in that country concerning the influence of these fairy beings: "A farmer built himself a ho
Read record →They have no brilliant sun and moon to addle the brain and poison the eye, but the gray north has its marshes, and fenny ground, and fetid mists, which produce agues, low fevers, and moping madness, and are as fatal to cattle as to man
Read record →Many books have been published, having a tendency to deceive the credulous, who suffer themselves to be guided by any thing but reason and experience
Read record →Still, he was not without "method in his madness;" and it seems evident that, with a tinge of insanity, he was also much of a knave, and probably a dupe in part to his own imposture
Read record →In our own country, the most surprising instance of imposture and delusion, perhaps, that has occurred, was that of the Cochranites, whose enormities in licentiousness made so much stir in Maine and New Hampshire a few years since
Read record →eading of the Scriptures, they were accustomed to examine carefully into these points, they would at once perceive the utter impossibility of identifying the cities mentioned in the Book of Mormon with any geographical traces which they can now make
Read record →Many are deceived in consequence of the fluency of the preachers in warning sinners
Read record →A man by the name of William Miller published a book in the year 1836, in which he undertook to show that this earth would be destroyed in the year 1843
Read record →This he does in the present case, and finds the difference to be just 45
Read record →This he considered to be a very important sign, indicating that we were on the very brink of the judgment day
Read record →These alone were said to be capable of beholding the spirit when he chose to make his appearance in the divining glass, and interpreting to and fro the questions put and answers received
Read record →Other cases not a whit less marvellous have been described by the narrators, who could not be reasoned out of their absurdity, insisting that there could be no deception in the matter, on account of the means employed, and the evident sincerity of the employés
Read record →Dickens declares it to be "the fashion, especially among people of fashion, to point with pity to a tale of modern witchcraft, to an advertisement of a child's caul, or to the bona fide certificates of cases from the takers of quack medicines, and to deplore t
Read record →Michael Weekman, in the town of Arcadia, Wayne county
Read record →Weekman soon after moved away from the house, and nothing more was heard of the rapping, or other manifestations, till it was occupied by the family of Mr
Read record →She then asked if it was a spirit, and if so to manifest it by making two distinct sounds
Read record →Upon returning to his work from supper, he used to take a basket with him, and fill it at the turf heap on his return late in the evening
Read record →But it caused a wide-spread excitement; and some, who were thought to be concerned in its projection, were prosecuted and brought before a justice for examination, although nothing was proved
Read record →As they requested, the sounds were produced; the playing of the instruments and the heavy beating of the bass drum were perfectly imitated, together with the sound of the roar of distant cannon
Read record →We find spiritual letter paper, and envelopes to enclose the same, advertised for those who wish to avail themselves of an opportunity to write to their deceased friends in the other spheres
Read record →We hope the information coming through its columns will be more reliable than the communications from some of the "rapping spirits." No dependence whatever can be placed upon them
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