The compleat wizzard; being a collection of authentic and entertaining narratives of the real existence and appearance of ghosts, demons, and spectres: together with several wonderful instances of the effects of witchcraft, etc. To which is prefixed; an account of haunted houses.

Date:
1770
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The compleat wizzard; being a collection of authentic and entertaining narratives of the real existence and appearance of ghosts, demons, and spectres: together with several wonderful instances of the effects of witchcraft, etc. To which is prefixed; an account of haunted houses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 2J ] fwered, Nothing with you. We, thinking it had been fome fervant of the houfe, went to fleep again; buc fpeaking of ic to Mr. Mom- peflon when we came down, he allured us, no one of the houfe lay that way, or had bufinefs thereabouts, and that his fervants werq not up till he called them, which was after it was day; which they confirmed, and protefted that the noife was not made by them. Another pafifage was this; my man coming to me in the morning, told me, that the horfe on which I rode was all in a fweat, and looked as if he had been rid all night. My friend and I went down and found him fo. I enquired how he had been ufed, and was affured that he had been well fed and ordered, as he ufed to be; and my lervant was always very careful about my horfe. The horfe I had had a good time, and I never knew but he was very found : But after I had rid him a mile or two very gently over a plain down, from Mr. Mompefion’s houfe, he fell lame, and having made a hard fhift to bring me home, died in two or three days; no one being able to imagine what he ailed. This feems fomething more than mere accident. I l: ,r'’ ■ ' But I go on with Mr. Mompefion’s own parti* culars. — He fays, that another time, being in the day, and feeing fome wood move that lay in the chimney of a room, as of itfelf, hp dif* C 4 t harg:d I ■ ’ iL *•