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
Witchcraft proved by Texts of Scripture 225
Dr. More’s Postscript 226
The Confessions of certain Scotch Witches, taken out of
an authentic copy of their Trial at the Assizes held at
Paisley, in Scotland, Feb. 15, 1678, touching the
bewitching of Sir George Maxwell 259
Depositions of certain persons, agreeing with confessions
of the above-said witches 264
The Confession of Agnes Sympson to King James 267
The White Pater-noster 270
The Black Pater-noster 270
_Sorcery_ 272
_Sortes—Sortilegium_ 273
_Sibyls_ 282
_Talismans_ 283
_Philters, Charms, &c._ 285
_Hell_ 286
_Inquisition_ 297
Inquisition, or the Holy Office 297
_Demon_ 307
_Demonology_ 308
Derivation of the strange and hideous forms of Devils,
&c. 315
The Narrative of the Demon of Tedworth, or the
disturbances at Mr. Monpesson’s house, caused by
Witchcraft and Villainy of a Drummer 338
_The Demon of Jedburgh_ 355
_The Ghost of Julius Cæsar_ 360
The Ghosts of the slain at the Battle of Marathon 360
Familiar Spirit, or ancient Brownie 361
_Gipsies—Egyptians_ 362
_Jugglers, their Origin, Exploits, &c._ 378
_Legends, &c.—Miracles, &c._ 393
_Monks and Friars.—Saints and Hermits_ 405
Of the Hermit of the Pillar—(St. Simeon Stylites, St.
Telesephorus, St. Syncletia) 427
_Holy Relique-Mania_, &c. &c. &c. 431
PREFACE.
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