A Dublin Instance, attested by Mr Daniel Williams, now in London. About the year 1678, I knew a young woman, who was niece to Alderman Arundel, in Dublin. In her said uncle’s house she was
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Leasingham, Lincolnshire (1679)
Relation IV. A true account, how Alice, the daughter of William Medcalfe, Yeoman, in the parish of Lessingham in Lincolnshire, was disturbed by an Apparition, with other feats of witchcraft practised upon that family, sent
Continue ReadingNewburyport, Massachusetts, United States (1679)
Haunted Houses. Formerly every village in New England could boast of one or more of these favoured tenements. I have, nevertheless, seen several of a most unchristian reputation in this respect, old, black, and unseemly,
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– About August, 1674, Mr Basil Wood Junior, Son of Basil aforesaid, living at Exeter, in Devonshire, heard the same kind of Knocking at which, being disturbed, he wrote word of it to his Father
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In 1679, the house of William Morse at Newberry in New England was strangely disquieted by a Daemon. After these troubles began he was advised to write down the particulars, of which he gave the
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Narrative of a Trial for Witchcraft, from some family papers. In the year of our Lord 1679, I, being one of his majesty’s justices of the peace, was present at the assizes, held according to
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