The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand.

  • Balthasar Bekker
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1695
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Credit: The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    46 The World Bewitch a. the Sun, either becaufe he is vifible himfelf, or be* caufe the moft fecret Science of their Myfteries ac- counts him but one God, with Tiermes. There is but Ayeke and Storjunkar, who have Sratues erected to their Honour, thofe of Aijekeare of Woed, and thofe of Storjunkare of Stone. $cét. 4 * Tis upon thofe Opinions that their Di- vinations and Witchcraft are grounded, and hereup- on I can’t but make this obfervation, that by reading Scheffer, and. compating what he fays of his own, with what he has collected from other Authors, it may eafily be perceived, that the Witchcraft of the affures us from his own experience, in the following words, Chap. 12. Tho the prefent Laplanders do not having been more additied to thofe fuperflitions, of lue Bi fra B Alder from then url bythe of his Enemies. To this he adds, That they kept} Schools, in which Children are taught that Art, and that] Parents are often their Tutors in ir. That they ex-| ercife them in:it, required their affiftance, and arel prefent at the performance of thofe deteftable pra: ctices. Bur what is yet more ftrange, is, what this} Author farther relates, That the Fathers bequeath, as an Inheritance to their Children, the wicked Spirits that were in their Service, that by their help they may over- come the Demons of other Families, their Enemies. | fy) ly Dat hom gi
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