Mr. Mun, rector of Stockerson in Leicestershire, had a Daughter married to one Mr Beecham, Rector of Branston in Rutland; in whose House it was frequently observed, that a Tobacco-pipe would move it self from off a Shelf at one end of the room, to another Shelf at the other end of the Room, without any Hand.
Mr. Mun visiting his Son-in-Law, took a Pipe of Tobacco in that Room, and looked for some such Motion; but a great Bible, instead of a Pipe, moved it self off from a Desk at the lower end of the Room, and cast it self into his Lap.
Whereupon he opened the Bible at Gen. 3. 15, saying, Come, Satan; I’ll shew thee thy Doom: The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent’s Head. Avoid Satan.
This Mr. Mun himself told me, when in the Sickness Year, 1665. I lieved in Stockerson-Hall. I have no reason to suspect the Veracity of a sober Man, a constant Preacher, and a good Scholar.
Thomas Woodcocke, writing a letter in July 1691, printed as part of The certainty of the Worlds of Spirits (1691) by Richard Baxter.