Strange and Wonderful News from Yowel in Surry; Giving a true and just account of one Elizabeth Burgiss, who was most strangely bewitched and tortured at a sad rate, having several great lumps of
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Spreyton, Devon (1682)
The Fourth Relation. Giving an account of the Daemon of Spraiton in the county of Devon, Anno, 1682. That which was published in May 1683, concerning the Daemon, or Daemons of Spraiton, was the extract
Continue ReadingPortsmouth, New Hampshire, USA (1682)
Another providence, no less remarkable than this last mentioned, happened at Portsmouth in New England, about the same time: concerning which I have received the following account from a worthy hand. “On June 11, 1682,
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I proceed to give an account of some other things lately happening in New England, which were undoubtedly praeternatural, and not without diabolical operation. The last year did afford several instances, not unlike unto those
Continue ReadingBampton, Oxfordshire (1689)
Spirit Rappings at Bampton, Oxfordshire, Two Hundred Years Ago. I found the following strange story in an old book published in 1689. It is entitled;- “A strange relation touching the family of one Captain Wood,
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