Demonology and witchcraft : with especial reference to modern spiritualism, so-called, and the doctrines of demons / by Robert Brown.
- Robert Brown
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Demonology and witchcraft : with especial reference to modern spiritualism, so-called, and the doctrines of demons / by Robert Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![and a person walking in that seemed to have on a silk night-gown, rustling and trailing along. It seemed to walk round her, then to the door, then round again; but she could see nothing. She thought, ' It signifies nothing to run away; for, whatever it is, it can run faster than me.' So she rose, put her book under her arm, and walked slowly away. After supper, she told ■what had happened to her sister Sukey (about a year older than her) in one of the chambers: who ''made quite light of it, telling her, ' I wonder you are so easily frighted : I would fain see what would frighten me.' Presently a knocking began under the table. She took the candle and looked, but could find nothing. Then the iron casement began to clatter, and the lid of a warming-pan. Next the latch of the door moved up and down without ceasing. She started up, leaped into the bed without undressing, pulled the bed-clothes over her head, and never ventured to look up until next morning. A night or two after, my sister Hetty (a year younger than my sister Molly) . . . heard one coming down the garret stairs, walking slowly by her, then going down the best stairs, then up the back stairs, and up the garret stairs; and at every step it seemed the house shook from top to bottom. In the morning she told this to my eldest sister, who told her,' you know I believe none of these things : pray let me take the candle to-night [i.e. to their father] and I will find out the trick.' The next night, how- ever, she heard the knockings herself, and opened the door, and found no one there; and when she went](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21044016_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
