A Salisbury Ghost Story of 1669. The following succinct and circumstantial narration of an occurrence at Salisbury, nearly 200 years since, is recorded in a contemporaneous M.S. of the period: – Some particular circumstances concerning
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Blantyre, South Lanarkshire (1663)
The haunting of Blantyre Craig. There is a remarkable and well-authenticated tale of ghostly perambulations attached to the old buildings. The story dates from the time of the 4th Lord Blantyre and his good
Continue ReadingHrabusice, Slovakia (1666)
[Upper Hungary is now mainly Slovakia. This page suggests Kabsdorff is what is now Hrabusice.] Persecution of the Pastor of Kabsdorff. The evangelical clergyman, Gunther, of Kabsdorff, in Upper Hungary, in 1666, was greatly persecuted
Continue ReadingBleddfa, Powys (1666)
… The transporting of things out of one room into another, and striking and the like by invisible agents, minds one of Mr Lloyd’s story, as ’tis called in Mr Glanvill’s papers, whom in a
Continue ReadingBurton, Weobley, Herefordshire (1669)
The Daemon of Burton or A true relation of strange witchcrafts or incantations lately practised at Barton in the Parish of Weobley in Herefordshire. Certified in a letter from a person of credit in Hereford.
Continue ReadingNorth Tidworth (Tedworth), Wiltshire (1661)
(From the preface to Sadducismus Triumphatus: Or, A full and plain evidence. Concerning Witches and Apparitions. The Second Part. Proving (Partly by Holy Scripture, partly by a choice collection of modern relations) the real existence
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