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® ] chamber with a light; but we were no (boner out of it, but the noife under the bed, tugging of the matt, pulling off the bed cloaths, began again; moreover, fo me thing came into the bed, which the gentlewoman faid ran upon her by decrees and feemed little and foft like a mole; upon this fhe cried out, and we came in again with a candle, then all was dill again. We retired often with the candle, and pre- fently the fame didurbance returned, together with a low whifpering noife in many places about the bed, but chiefly towards the bed’s head, which we all heard, (laying in the chamber; and removing the candle into the next room, my father and mother arofe, and there were none of us but heard «11 or mod part of this, but nothing appeared to us; the things was continually moving or flirring in fome part or other of the bed, and was commonly at the feet, were it came up at firfl: at lad it came to that boldnefs, that it would make the fame didurbance while the candle was in the chamber, if but a little fhaded behind the door, fo that we could iometimes fee the cloaths pulled and tugged ; and we frequently faw it heave and lift up the cloaths towards the feet in a little hill or rifmg, which both my brother and I clap’d our hands upon, perceiving it to move; and alfo making a little clacking noife, which cannot any more tha^, the former whif- penng](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529906_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
