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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    charged a piflo] at it, after which they found feveral drops on the hearth, and in divers places of the flairs. For two or three nights after the difcharge of the piflol, there was a calm in the houfe, but then it came again, applying itfelf to a little child newly taken from nurfe, which it fo per¬ fected, that it would not let the poor infant reft for two nights together, nor fuffer a candle in the room, but carried them away lighted up the chimney, or threw them under the bed. It fo feared the child by leaping upon it, that for fome hours it could not he recovered out of the fright; fo that they were forced again to remove the children out of the houfe: and the following night, about twelve o clock, fome- thing came up flairs, and knocked at Mr. Mom- pefion’s door: but he lying ftill, it went up another pair of flairs to his man’s chamber, to whom it appeared {landing at his bed’s teet; the exact fhape and proportion he could not difeern, but laid, he faw a great body, with two red and glaring eyes, which, for fome time, were fixed fteaciily upon him, and at length difappeared. . Another night, ftrangers being prefent, it purr’d in the childrens bed like a cat, at which time alfo the cloaths and children were lifted up from the bed, and fix men could not