The history of the devils of Loudun ; the alleged possession of the Ursuline nuns, and the trial and execution of Urbain Grandier, told by an eye-witness. Translated from the original French, and edited by Edmund Goldsmid.
- Des Niau.
- Date:
- 1887-88
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of the devils of Loudun ; the alleged possession of the Ursuline nuns, and the trial and execution of Urbain Grandier, told by an eye-witness. Translated from the original French, and edited by Edmund Goldsmid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![APPENDIX II. [The following Notes are taken from Arnot's Collection of Criminal Trials in Scotland] :— 1588. u4Iison Pearson. Alison Pearson in Byre-hills, Fifeshire,* was con- victed of practising sorcery, and of invoking the Devil. She confessed that she had associated with the Queen of the Fairies for many year8,-j- and that she had friends in the Court of Elfiand, who were of her own blood. She said that William Simpson, late the King's smith, was, in the eighth year of his age, carried off by an Egyptian to Egypt, where he remained twelve years j and that this Egyptian was a giant : That the Devil appeared to her in the form of this William Simpson, who was a great scholar, and a doctor of medicine, who cured her diseases : That he has appeared to her, accompanied with many men and women, who made merry with bag-pipes, good cheer, and wine : That «Rec. of Just. 18th May 1588. + In the original it is (^ueen of Elfland.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070325_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
