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Daimonomageia : a small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes : never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations.
Drage, William, 1637?-1669Date: 1665- Books
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The Dæmon of Burton, or, A true relation of strange witchcrafts or incantations lately practised at Burton in the parish of Weobley in Herefordshire : certified in a letter from a person of credit in Hereford.
Date: 1671- Books
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The full tryals, examination, and condemnation of four notorious witches at the assizes held at Worcester, on Tuesday the 4th of March : with the manner, how they were found guilty of bewitching several children to death, as also, their confessions, and last dying speeches at the place of execution, with other amazing particulars concerning the said witchcraft.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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The Examination and confession of certaine wytches at Chensforde in the countie of Essex : : before the Quenes Maiesties judges, the xxvi daye of July, anno 1566, at the assise holden there as then, and one of them put to death for the same offence, as their examination declareth more at large.
Date: Anno 1566.the.23.August- Books
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Great news from the west of England : being a true account of two young persons lately bewitch'd in the town of Beckenton in Somerset-shire, shewing the sad condition they are in by vomiting or throwing out of their bodies the abundance of pins, nails, pewter, brass, lead, iron, and tin to the admiration of all beholders, and of the old witch being carryed several times to a great river, into which her legs being tied, she was thrice thrown in, but each time she swam like a cork, afterwards by order from a justice of the peace she was search'd by a jury of women and such signs and marks being found about her, positive oath was given in against her so that she is committed to jayl until the next assizes.
Date: 1689- Books
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The Wonderfull discouerie of the witch-crafts of Margaret and Philip Flower, daughters of Ioane Flower, by Beuer-Castle, and executed at Lincolne, the 11. of March, 1618.
Date: [1621?]- Books
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The most wonderfull and true storie, of a certaine witch named Alse Gooderige of Stapen hill, who was arraigned and conuicted at Darbie at the Assises there : as also a true report of the strange torments of Thomas Darling, a boy of thirteene yeres of age, that was possessed by the deuill, with his horrible fittes and apparitions by him vttered at Burton vpon Trent in the countie of Stafford, and of his maruellous deliuerance.
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A tryal of witches at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the count of Suffolk on the tenth day of March, 1664 [i.e 1665] : before Sir Matthew Hale, Kt., then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer / taken by a person then attending the court.
Cullender, Rose, -1665Date: 1682- Books
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A treatise proving spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances and evidences : together with other things worthy of note / by Meric Casaubon.
Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671Date: 1672- Books
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A True account of a strange and wonderful relation of John Tonken, of Pensans in Cornwall : said to be bewitched by some women, two of which on suspition are committed to prison, he vomiting up several pins, pieces of walnut-shels, an ear of rye with a straw to it half a yard long and rushes of the same length, which are kept to be shown at the next assizes for the said county.
Date: 1686- Books
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A candle in the dark : shewing the divine cause of the distractions of the whole nation of England and of the Christian world ... / by Thomas Ady.
Ady, ThomasDate: 1655- Books
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A faithful narrative of the wonderful and extraordinary fits which Mr. Tho. Spatchet (late of Dunwich and Cookly) was under by witchcraft, or, A mysterious providence in his even unparallel'd fits : with an account of his first falling into, behaviour under, and (in part) deliverance out of them : wherein are several remarkable instances of the gracious effects of fervent prayer / the whole drawn up and written by Samuel Petto ... who was an eye-witness of a great part ; with a necessary preface.
Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711Date: 1693- Books
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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 clay pulled forth from her back, full of pins and thorns, which pricked so extreamly that she cry'd and roar'd in a vehement and out-ragious manner, to the great amazement of all the beholders : as also, how great stones as big as a mans fist were thrown at her ... and afer she came to her fathers house, the throwing of the pewter-dishes, candlesticks, and other clattering of household-goods at her, besides the displacing of a musical instrument, hanging up her grand-fathers breeches on the top of the sealing : with many more strange and miraculous things, filling the spectators with wonder and amazement.
Date: 1681- Books
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The most true and wonderfull narration of two women bewitched in Yorkshire : who coming to the assizes at York to give in evidence against the witch, after a most horrible noise, to the terror and amazement of all the beholders, did vomit forth before the judges, pins, wool and hafts of knives, &c., all which was done (to make the wonder more wonderfull) without the least drop of bloud or moisture from their mouths : also a most true relation of a young maid not far from Luyck who being bewitched in the same manner did (most incredibly) vomit forth wadds of straw, with pins a crosse in them, iron nails, needles, points, and whatsoever she had seen in the basket of the witch that did bewitch her / as it is attested under the hand of that most famous phisitian Doctor Henry Heers ; together, how it pleased God that he was afterwards recovered by the art of physick, and the names of the ingredients and the manner how to make that rare receipt that cured her.
Heer, Henri de, 1570-1636Date: 1658- Books
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Physical experiments : being a plain description of the causes, signes, and cures of most diseases incident to the body of man : to which is added a discourse of diseases proceeding from vvitchcraft / faithfully collected from ancient and modern writers, and partly experimented by William Drage.
Drage, William, 1637?-1669Date: 1668- Books
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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 vsed at the same time.
Date: 1643- Books
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News from Pannier-alley, or, A True relation of some pranks the devil hath play'd with a plaster-pot there.
Date: MDCLXXXVII [1687]- Books
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The Lord's arm stretched ovt in an answer of prayer, or, A true relation of the wonderful deliverance of James Barrow, the son of John Barrow of Olaves Southwark, who was possessed with evil spirits near two years : the diversity of means used, with the way in which he was delivered / published by me, John Barrow.
Barrow, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1664