Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predestForsyth, J. S.
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Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predest
Forsyth, J. S.
Demonology; Superstition; Witchcraft
“Andr. Martin, Servitour to the Lord of Pollock, of the age of thirty
years, or thereby, deposes, that he was present in the house of Jannet
Mathie, Pannel, when the picture of wax produced was found in a little
hole in the wall at the back of the fire—that Sir George, his sickness
did fall upon him about the eighteenth of October, or thereby—that the
picture of wax was found on the —— of December, and that Sir George his
sickness did abate and relent about the time the picture of wax was
found and discovered in Jannet Mathie’s house—that the pins were placed
in the right and left sides; and that Sir George Maxwel, of Pollock, his
pains, lay most in his right and left sides. Depones, that Sir George’s
pains did abate and relent after the finding of the said picture of wax,
and taking out the pins as is said—that the pannel, Jannet Mathie, has
been by fame and bruite a reputed witch these several years past. And
this is the truth, as he shall answer to God.—_Sic Subscribitur, Andr.
Martin._”
“Lawrence Pollock, Secretary to the Lord of Pollock, sworn and purged of
partial counsel, depones that on the —— day of December he was in the
Pannel Jannet Mathie’s house when the picture was found; and that he did
not see it before it was brought to the Pannel’s door—that Sir George
Maxwel of Pollock’s sickness did seize upon him about the 14th of
October, or thereabouts, and he did continue in his sickness or
distemper for six weeks, or thereby—that Sir George’s sickness did abate
and relent after the finding of the said picture of wax, and taking out
of the pins that were in the effigies—that by open bruit and common
fame, Jannet Mathie, and Bessie Weir, and Margery Craige, are _brandit_
to be witches. Depones, that the truth is this, as he shall answer to
God.—_Sic Subscrib._ Lawrence Pollock.”
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