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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![[ 4° ] names, to fpeak out and tell us its intent, but nothing was to be feen, nor any anfwer made. The third night’s * disturbance : the gentle¬ woman, refolved now to change her chamber, to try if the difturbance would follow. She did fo, my lifter ftiil accompanying her, my brother fat up as before, below, expecting again what would follow; the fame noife was heard this third night, as the night before above in the chamber. We had not fat long below before we were fumfnoried up with loud knocking? again; they were in the fame cafe as before, if not worfe; awhile after they were in bed in this other chamber, there was a clattering heard at the door*, prefently the fame ncife under the bed, the fame heaving of the deaths, and the fame whifpering as before; but about mid¬ night, the thing which came up into the bed before, came now fo often with fuch ungrateful flapping up and down upon her, that fhe often fhrieked and cried out: it feem’d cold, and fmooth as fhe related; and would commonly come in at her feet, and run all upon her by her fide, to her llioulder: once fhe defired me to put my hand on her back, near her jhoulder blade as feeling it, then juft come up thither; I did fo on a fudden, and there feemed a cold blaft or puff of wind to blow upon my hand juft as I clapt it on her; and one thing more remarkable was this, when the whifpering was](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529906_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
