X. I will next insert a late fact, not far off, which when a pious, credible person related to me, I desired him to send me the true narrative in writing when he came home,
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London (1691)
XIV. There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of my hearers, who hath an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years doth
Continue ReadingErskine, Renfrewshire (1696)
The Case of Christian Shaw. Tomented by Renfrewshire Witches. In February 1697, the Scottish Privy Council held an inquiry on the case of Christian Shaw, a girl of eleven, daughter of the laird of Bargarran,
Continue ReadingDeptford, Lewisham, London (1699)
The Devil of Deptford. Being a true relation of the strange disturbances, ludicrous feats, and malicious pranks of an evil spirit in the house of Mr G. living in Back Lane at Deptford near London,
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A True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions and Actings of a Spirit, which infested the house of Andrew Mackie in Ring-Croft of Stocking, in the Parroch of Rerrick, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Scotland,
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