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A declaration of egregious popish impostures : to with-draw the harts of his Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out of deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias VVeston a Iesuit, & diuers Romish priestes his vvicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, & examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed: taken vppon oath before his Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.
Samuel HarsnettDate: 1605
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The boy of Bilson: or, A true discouery of the late notorious impostures of certaine Romish priests in their pretended exorcisme, or expulsion of the Diuell out of a young boy, named William Perry, sonne of Thomas Perry of Bilson, in the county of Stafford, yeoman : Vpon which occasion, hereunto is premitted a briefe theologicall discourse, by way of caution, for the more easie discerning of such Romish spirits; and iudging of their false pretences, both in this and the like practices.
R. B. (Richard Baddeley)Date: 1622
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Toothache as a devil to be exorcised: ten vignettes. Ink drawing, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 643344i
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Solomon, the esoteric king : from king to magus, development of a tradition / by Pablo A. Torijano.
Pablo A. TorijanoDate: 2002
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The replie of Iohn Darrell, to the answer of Iohn Deacon, and Iohn Walker, concerning the doctrine of the possession and dispossession of demoniakes.
Darrel, John, approximately 1562-Date: 1602
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Compendio dell'arte essorcistica, et possibilità delle mirabili, et stupende operatione delli demoni, et de i malefici. Con li rimedii opportvni alle infermità maleficiali / del R.P.F Girolamo Menghi ... con vna copiosissima aggiunta dell'istesso auttore ; opera non meno gioueuole alli Essorcisti.
Menghi, Girolamo.Date: 1601
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Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture. / By Zach. Taylor.
Zachary TaylorDate: MDCXCVIII
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Onufrio, Tullio
Onufrio, TullioDate: 1630-1635Reference: MS.581
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Eliae Henrici Henckelii Ordo et methodus cognoscendi & curandi energumenos seu à Stygio cacodaemone obsessos : antehac à nemine, quantum sunt, qui de obsessis scripterunt, tradita.
Henckel, Elias Heinrich, active 1654-1688Date: 1689
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Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
Reference: 21487i
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The copy of a letter describing the wonderful woorke of God in deliuering a mayden within the city of Chester, from an horrible kinde of torment and sicknes 16. of february 1564.
Fisher, John, of ChesterDate: 23. of March 1564 [i.e. 1565]
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Jesus the healer : paradigm or unique phenomenon? / Keith Warrington.
Warrington, KeithDate: 2000
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Date: 1761Reference: MS.4252
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The admirable historie of the possession and conversion of a penitent woman. Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch and the princes of sorcerers in the country of Province, who was brought to S. Baume to be exorcised in the yeere 1610 in the moneth of November / by the authority of the Reverend father, and frier, Sebastian Michaëlis ... ; Whereunto is annexed a pneumology, or discourse of spirits ... Translated into English by W.B.
Michaelis, Sébastien, 1543?-1618. Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une penitente. EnglishDate: 1613
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A strange and wonderful relation of Margaret Gurr of Tunbridge, in Kent : shewing, how she was afflicted with devils. As also, how they entred into her, and spake in her and tempted her to kill herself; and how she was taken up by devils and witches and was flying in the ayr. Also, the marvelous cures done by Dr. Skinner in these three counties, viz. Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, the like strange cures hath scarce been done or heard of ... / Iohn Skinner, of Westram, in Kent.
Skinner, John, active 1681.Date: [1681-1684]
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Saint Benedict exorcising through prayer a man possessed by demons. Etching by G.M. Giovannini after L. Carracci.
Ludovico CarracciReference: 23929i
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Die Heilkunst in China : Krankenbeschwörung / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Limited.
Date: [1903]
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Procès verbal fait pour délivrer une fille possédée par le malin esprit à Lovviers : publié d'après le manuscrit original et inédit de la Bibliothèque Nationale / par Armand Benét ; précédé d'une introduction par B. de Moray.
Bénet, Armand Eugène, 1858-1917.Date: 1883
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Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, confess'd, and fully proved on the Surey dissenters, from the second letter of an apostate friend, to Zach. Taylor. : To which is added, A refutation of Mr. T. Jollie's Vindication of the devil in Dugdale; or, the Surey demoniack.
Zachary TaylorDate: 1699
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The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open : in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and County of Lancaster / by Zachary Taylor.
Zachary TaylorDate: MDCXCVI [1696]
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Manuale exorcismorvm : continens instrvctiones, et exorcismos ad eiiciendos è corporibus obsessis spiritus malignos. Et ad quaeuis maleficia depellenda, & ad quascumque infestationes daemonum reprimendas: / R. D. Maximiliani ab Eynatten S.T.L. canonici & scholastici Antuerpiensis inustriâ collectum: Reuerendiss. aliquot Belgii Antistivm aliorumqúe doctorum virorum iudicio recensitum & probatum.
Eynatten Maximilianus abDate: M. DC. XLVIII.[1648]
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Sinhalese devil-dancers. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.
Hardy, Norman H.Reference: 3198597i
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Flagellum dæmonum, exorcismos terribiles, potentissimos, & efficaces, remediaque probatissima, ac doctrinam singularem in malignos spiritus expellendos, facturasque, & maleficia fuganda de obsessis corporibus complectens, cum suis benedictionibus, & omnibus requisitis ad eorum expulsionem. Accessit postremo pars secunda, quæ Fustis dæmonum inscribitur ... / auctore R.P.F. Hieronymo Mengo.
Girolamo MenghiDate: 1708
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Saint Benedict curing a man possessed by a devil. Etching after L. Carracci.
Ludovico CarracciReference: 11662i
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Date: 1694Reference: MS.4248

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Toothache as a devil to be exorcised: ten vignettes. Ink drawing, 18--.

Solomon, the esoteric king : from king to magus, development of a tradition / by Pablo A. Torijano.

The replie of Iohn Darrell, to the answer of Iohn Deacon, and Iohn Walker, concerning the doctrine of the possession and dispossession of demoniakes.

Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture. / By Zach. Taylor.

Onufrio, Tullio

Eliae Henrici Henckelii Ordo et methodus cognoscendi & curandi energumenos seu à Stygio cacodaemone obsessos : antehac à nemine, quantum sunt, qui de obsessis scripterunt, tradita.

Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.

The copy of a letter describing the wonderful woorke of God in deliuering a mayden within the city of Chester, from an horrible kinde of torment and sicknes 16. of february 1564.

Jesus the healer : paradigm or unique phenomenon? / Keith Warrington.

Roman Catholic Church

Saint Benedict exorcising through prayer a man possessed by demons. Etching by G.M. Giovannini after L. Carracci.

Die Heilkunst in China : Krankenbeschwörung / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Limited.

Procès verbal fait pour délivrer une fille possédée par le malin esprit à Lovviers : publié d'après le manuscrit original et inédit de la Bibliothèque Nationale / par Armand Benét ; précédé d'une introduction par B. de Moray.

Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, confess'd, and fully proved on the Surey dissenters, from the second letter of an apostate friend, to Zach. Taylor. : To which is added, A refutation of Mr. T. Jollie's Vindication of the devil in Dugdale; or, the Surey demoniack.

The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open : in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and County of Lancaster / by Zachary Taylor.

Sinhalese devil-dancers. Colour process print after N.H. Hardy.

Saint Benedict curing a man possessed by a devil. Etching after L. Carracci.

Roman Catholic Church