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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![r 53 ] out, nobody knew how; the fires and billet that made ’em being thrown about the rooms: the curtains torn with their rods from the beds, and the bed’s polls pulled away; that the teafler fell down upon them, and the foot of the bed- tread cloven in two: and upon the fervants, in the truckle bed, who Jay all this time fweatino- for fear, there was firfl a little, which made them begin to fir; but before they could get out, there came a bowl as if it were of finking ditch water, down upon them, fo green, that , it made their flirts and fleets of the fame co¬ lour too. The fame night the windows were all broke, by throwing of fones; and there were mod terrible noifes in three feveral places together, to the extraordinary wonder of all who lodged near them ; nay, the very coney fealers that were abroad that night were fo affrighted* with the difmal thundering, that for bade they left their ferret (in the coney burrows) behind them, beyond Rofamond’s Well: Not- withfanding all this, one of them had the bold- nefs to afk, in the name of God, what it was; what it would have, and what they had done, , that they fttould be di fur bed in this manner: to which no anfwer was given, but the noife ceafed for a while: at length it came again, and as all of them faid, brought feven devils worfe than itfelf: whereupon one of them lighted a-candle again, and fet it between the two chambers, in the door way : on whic'fy E 3 another](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529906_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
