{90a} In the Salem witch mania, a similar case of levitation was reported by the Rev. Cotton Mather. He produced a cloud of witnesses, who could not hold the woman down. She would fly up. Mr. Mather sent the signed depositions to his opponent, Mr. Calef. But Calef would not believe, for, said he, 'the age of miracles is past'. Which was just the question at issue! See Beaumont's Treatise of Spirits, p. 148, London, 1705. {90b} Miracles and Modern Spiritualism, p. 7. London: Burns, 1875. {90c} Popular Tales, iv. 340. {94} The anecdote is published by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, in a letter of Lauderdale's, affixed to Sharpe's edition of Law's Memorialls. {95} See Ghosts before the Law. {96} Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 33. {100a} See many examples in Li Fiorette de Misser Santo Francesco. {100b} Ch. cxviii. {101} D. D. Home; his Life and Mission, p. 307, London, 1888. {102} Sept. 18, vol. v., 1866. {107a} See Colonel Yule's Marco Polo. {107b} Quarterly Journal of Science, July, 1871. {108a} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 146. {108b} North American Review, 1893. {108c} Proceedings S. P. R., x. 45-100; xix. 147. {109a} Incidents in my Life, i. 170. {109b} A Paris, chez la Veuve du Carroy, 1621. {110a} Folklore of China, 1876, p. 79. {110b} Op. cit., p. 74. {110c} Paris. Quarto. Black letter. 1528. The original is extremely rare. We quote from a copy once in the Tellier collection, reprinted in Recueil de Dissertations Anciennes et Nouvelles sur les Apparitions. Leloup: Avignon, 1751, vol. ii. pp. 1-87. {112} Proceedings S. P. R., xix. 186. 'C.' is a Miss Davis, daughter of a gentleman occupying 'a responsible position as a telegraphist'. The date was 1888. {114a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered. Edinburgh: Reid, 1685. Pp. 67-69. {114b} Manuscript 7170, A, de la Bibliotheque du Roi. Dissertations, ut supra, vol. i. pp. 95-129. {115} Dufresnoy, op. cit., i. 95-129. {117} Compare Bastian, Mensch., ii. 393, cited by Mr. Tylor. {118} De Materia Daemon. Isagoge, p. 539. Ap. Corn. Agripp., De Occult. Philosoph. Lyons, 1600. {122} Aubrey gives a variant in his Miscellanies, on the authority of the Vicar of Barnstaple. He calls Fey 'Fry'. {123a} The Devonshire case, 'Story of a Something,' in Miss O'Neill's Devonshire Idylls, is attested by a surviving witness. {123b} Trials of Isobell Young, 1629, and of Jonet Thomson, Feb. 7, 1643. Darker Superstitions of Scotland, p. 593. {124} Witness Rev. E. T. Vaughan, King's Langley. 1884. {125a} Segraisiana, p. 213. {125b} Crookes's Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena usually called Spiritual. 86. London: Burns (second edition). {126a} Satan's Invisible World Discovered, p. 75. {126b} A New Confutation of Sadducism, p. 5, writ by Mr. Alexander Telfair, London, 1696. {129} Primitive Culture, vol. i. 368; ii. 304.