Witchcraft - England - Early works to 1800
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A most certain, strange, and true discovery of a vvitch : Being taken by some of the Parliament forces, as she was standing on a small planck-board and sayling on it over the river of Newbury: together with the strange and true manner of her death, with the propheticall words and speeches she used at the same time.
Date: 1643- Books
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A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Mehetabell Jones the wife of Edward Jones, and Elizabeth Pigeon the wife of John Pigeon.
Vernon, SamuelDate: Printed in the year, 1654- Books
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The kingdom of darkness: or the history of dæmons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions, disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural delusions, mischievous feats, and malicious impostures of the Devil : Containing near fourscore memorable relations, forreign and domestick, both antient and modern. Collected from authentick records, real attestations, credible evidences, and asserted by authors of undoubted verity. Together with a preface obviating the common objections and allegations of the sadduces and atheists of the age, who deny the being of spirits, witches, &c. With pictures of several memorable accidents. By R. B. Licensed and entred according to order.
Nathaniel CrouchDate: 1688- E-books
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The dreadful effects of going to conjurers. A full and true relation how one Mrs. Esther Rushway, ... after having, ... lost a considerable quantity of plate and mony, went, for finding the thief out, to enquire of an astrologer in Moorfields, ..
Date: 1708- Books
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The opinion of witchcraft vindicated : in an answer to a book intituled The question of witchcraft debated : being a letter to a friend / by R.T.
R. T.Date: 1670