The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: More wonders of the invisible world, collected by R. Calef

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W. Elliot Woodward, 1866
 

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الصفحة 34 - You are a liar ; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard ; and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.
الصفحة 95 - ... Martin, as he judged, and another came towards him. One of them said, Here he is ! but he having a Quarter-staff, made a Blow at them. The Roof of the Barn, broke his Blow; but following them to the Window, he made another Blow at them, and struck them down; yet they got up, and got out, and he saw no more of them. About this time, there was a Rumour about the Town, that Martin had a Broken Head; but the Deponent could say nothing to that.
الصفحة 40 - Proctor and his wife being in prison, the sheriff came to his house and seized all the goods, provisions and cattle that he could come at, and sold some of the cattle at half price, and killed others, and put them up for the West-Indies...
الصفحة 71 - Yea, there were Two Testimonies that GB with only putting the Fore-Finger of his Right hand into the Muzzle of an heavy Gun, a Fowling-piece of about six or seven...
الصفحة 64 - ... for extraordinary lifting, and such feats of strength as could not be done without a diabolical assistance. And for other such things he was accused, until about thirty testimonies were brought in against him; nor were these...
الصفحة 56 - ... they telling us, that we were witches, and they knew it, and we knew it, and they knew that we knew it, which made us think that it was so...
الصفحة 85 - Lords day, with the doors shut about him, he saw a black Pig approach him ; at which, he going to kick, it vanished away. Immediately after, sitting down, he saw a black Thing jump in at the Window, and come and stand before him.
الصفحة 69 - B's antipathy to prayer: and the other ordinances of God, though by his profession singularly obliged thereunto; so, there now came in against the prisoner, the testimonies of several persons, who confessed their own having been horrible witches, and ever since their confessions had been themselves terribly tortured by the devils and other witches, even like the other...
الصفحة 39 - ... to possess the people of his guilt; saying, that the devil has often been transformed into an angel of light...
الصفحة 34 - Nurse, this was remarkable that the jury brought in their verdict not guilty, immediately all the accusers in the court, and suddenly after all the afflicted out of court, made an hideous outcry, to the amazement, not only of the spectators, but the court also seemed strangely...

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