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At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.
Reference: 20895i
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The devils of Loudun / [Aldous Huxley].
Aldous HuxleyDate: 1953
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Étude médicale d'une possession au XVIe siècle : Nicole Obry, dite Nicole de Vervins, 1566.
Langlet, Louis, 1883-Date: 1910
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Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.
Reference: 23937i
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M0014284: Saint Catherine of Siena delivering a possessed woman
Date: October 1955Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/127/74
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Christ heals two possessed men; in the background swine leap off a cliff. Engraving.
Reference: 23841i
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Strange news from Arpington near Bexly in Kent : being a true narrative of a young maid who was possest with several devils or evil spirits, one of which, by the prayers of a pious and religious doctor, who came to visit her, was fetcht [sic] out of her body, and appear'd in the room in the likeness of a large snake, and twisted it self about the doctors neck, whilst he was at his devotion. With an account also of other devils, which yet remain in her, and reveal several strange things, the like never heard before; of which the contents within will give you a particular account. / This narrative is attested by several persons of credit, but amongst many others, by one Mrs. Hopper.
Hopper, Mrs.Date: 1689
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Besessenheit und Hysterie : Weinsberger Gespräche zur Geschichte der Seelenheilkunde / G. Wahl, W. Schmitt (Hrsg.).
Date: 2001
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Demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England : contemporary texts and their cultural contexts / [compiled by] Philip C. Almond.
Date: 2004
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M0014690: Detail of fresco by Mezzasti depicting Saint Anthony healing a person possessed by the Devil
Date: June 1956Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/131/29
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Essai médico-historique sur les possédés de Loudun, thèse / [J. Charles Sauzé].
Sauzé, J. Charles.Date: 1839
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M0014283: Saint Benoit delivering a clerk possessed by a devil
Date: October 1955Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/127/73
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A true and most dreadfull discourse of a woman [Margaret Cooper] possessed with deuill; who in the likenesse of a headlesse beare fetcher her out of her bedd ... on the fower and twentie of May last. 1584, at Dichet in Sommersetshire.
Date: [1584?]
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Les possédés : la possession démoniaque chez les primitifs, dans l'antiquité, au Moyen-Âge, et dans la civilisation moderne / T.K. Oesterreich ; traduit de l'allemand avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par René Sudre.
Traugott Konstantin OesterreichDate: 1927
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Culture, trance and mental illness : divided consciousness in South Asia / Richard Joseph Castillo.
Castillo, Richard Joseph.Date: 1991
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Demon possession in Elizabethan England / Kathleen R. Sands.
Sands, Kathleen R.Date: [2004]
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Heads of figures in Raphael's painting of the Transfiguration of Christ. Stipple engravings by J. Godby after I.L. Goubaud after Raphael.
RaphaelDate: 1st Jan.y 1830Reference: 3069902i
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Unclean spirits : possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / D.P. Walker.
D. P. WalkerDate: 1981
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Possession, demoniacal and other : among primitive races in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times / by T.K. Oesterreich ; [trans. D. Ibberson].
Traugott Konstantin OesterreichDate: 1930
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A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell : wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.
Darrel, John, approximately 1562-Date: 1600
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A suruey of certaine dialogical discourses: vvritten by Iohn Deacon, and Iohn Walker, concerning the doctrine of the possession and dispossession of diuels : VVherein is manifested the palpable ignorance and dangerous errors of the discoursers, and what according to proportion of God his truth, every christian is to hold in these poyntes. Published by Iohn Darrell minister of the gospell.
Darrel, John, approximately 1562-Date: 1602
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The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure her possessed daughter. Etching after Francisque (J.F. Millet).
Francisque MilletDate: 1600-1699Reference: 2853405i
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The case of Saul, shewing that his disorder was a real spiritual possession, and proving ... that actual possession of spirits were generally acknowledged by the ancient writers ... First printed in the year 1777, as an appendix to A tract on the law of nature and principles of action in man. To which is added a short tract wherein the influence of demons are further illustrated by remarks on Timothy IV, 1-3 / By Granville Sharp.
Granville SharpDate: 1807
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Demonic possession and exorcism in early modern France / Sarah Ferber.
Ferber, Sarah, 1957-Date: 2004
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A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
Reference: 18581i

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At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

The devils of Loudun / [Aldous Huxley].

Étude médicale d'une possession au XVIe siècle : Nicole Obry, dite Nicole de Vervins, 1566.

Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.

M0014284: Saint Catherine of Siena delivering a possessed woman

Christ heals two possessed men; in the background swine leap off a cliff. Engraving.

Besessenheit und Hysterie : Weinsberger Gespräche zur Geschichte der Seelenheilkunde / G. Wahl, W. Schmitt (Hrsg.).

Demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England : contemporary texts and their cultural contexts / [compiled by] Philip C. Almond.

M0014690: Detail of fresco by Mezzasti depicting Saint Anthony healing a person possessed by the Devil

Essai médico-historique sur les possédés de Loudun, thèse / [J. Charles Sauzé].

M0014283: Saint Benoit delivering a clerk possessed by a devil

A true and most dreadfull discourse of a woman [Margaret Cooper] possessed with deuill; who in the likenesse of a headlesse beare fetcher her out of her bedd ... on the fower and twentie of May last. 1584, at Dichet in Sommersetshire.

Les possédés : la possession démoniaque chez les primitifs, dans l'antiquité, au Moyen-Âge, et dans la civilisation moderne / T.K. Oesterreich ; traduit de l'allemand avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par René Sudre.

Culture, trance and mental illness : divided consciousness in South Asia / Richard Joseph Castillo.

Demon possession in Elizabethan England / Kathleen R. Sands.

Heads of figures in Raphael's painting of the Transfiguration of Christ. Stipple engravings by J. Godby after I.L. Goubaud after Raphael.

Unclean spirits : possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / D.P. Walker.

Possession, demoniacal and other : among primitive races in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times / by T.K. Oesterreich ; [trans. D. Ibberson].

The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure her possessed daughter. Etching after Francisque (J.F. Millet).

Demonic possession and exorcism in early modern France / Sarah Ferber.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.