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
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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![[ 3^ ] gentlewoman, her bed fellow (who Teemed to be principally concerned) befides a maid that lay in the fame chamber. The gentlewoman before men¬ tioned being in bed with my fitter, in a chamber within that where my father and mother lay, the maid lying in another bed alone, there feemed to her, then lying awake, to be one walking in the chamber, by a noife made of a long gown, or lbme trailing garment, brufhing and fweeping up and down the room. By and by there was a noife of clattering of their fhoes, under the bed, with a fcratching and tugging of the mat, under the bed likewije ; this con¬ tinued for fome time : my fitter being awakened, heard it, fo did the maid; after this my mother being called out of the next chamber, where Ihe was up (to prepare a chymical water which required their being up all night) came in, they being in a great fright: my brother went up alfo, he being not gone to bed: a candle was brought, and the noife ceafed while they were in the chamber. Prefently after they were gone out again, and the light removed! the chamber door (which ihuts with difficulty) flew too with a great bounce, it bein°- wide open before, it fhook the room where my mother was biffied about the aforefaid prepa¬ ration. After this one of the fhoes by the bed fide was flung over the bed, with a mighty force, againft a prefs that flood on the other fide; this put them to fuch a fright again, . that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529906_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
