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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c. — John Shaqi

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Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.

Name: Satan's Invisible World Discovered: $b or a choice collection of modern relations, proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity. To which is now added, that marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c.
Author: Sinclair, George

Sinclair, George

Occultism; Superstition; Witchcraft

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[Illustration: SATAN’S INVISIBLE WORLD.]

  _Satan’s_
  INVISIBLE WORLD
  DISCOVERED;

  OR A CHOICE

  COLLECTION OF MODERN RELATIONS,

  PROVING EVIDENTLY,

  AGAINST THE ATHEISTS OF THIS PRESENT AGE,

  That there are

  DEVILS, SPIRITS, WITCHES, AND APPARITIONS,

  _From authentic Records, and Attestations of Witnesses
  of undoubted veracity_.

  To which is now added,
  THAT MARVELLOUS HISTORY
  OF
  MAJOR WEIR AND HIS SISTER,
  THE WITCHES OF
  BARGARRAN, PITTENWEEM, CALDER, &c.

  BY MR. GEORGE SINCLAIR,
  _Late Professor of Philosophy in the College of Glasgow_.

  LONDON:
  PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.

  1814.

_James Clarke, Printer._

CONTENTS.

  _Relation_                                                    _Page_

  1.  Touching the troubles of Sir George Maxwell                    1

  2.  Being a wonderful discovery of murder by an apparition        13

  3.  The witchcraft of Agnes Simpson                               15

  4.  Proclamation over the market cross of Edinburgh               19

  5.  A miraculous cure of a Dutch Woman                            20

  6.  Strange pranks played by the devil at Woodstock               22

  7.  An apparition appears to king James IV. and his courtiers     27

  8.  A major returns from death                                    28

  9.  Remarkable story of discovered witchcraft at Lauder           31

  10. True narrative of the drummer of Tedworth                     38

  11. A very surprising story of the devil of Glenluce              51

  12. Old mother Jackson’s witchcraft                               65

  13. King Duff, the 78 king of Scotland, bewitched                 68

  14. The apparition of Edward Avon, to his son in law              70

  15. Anent Bessie Graham                                           74

  16. The apparition of Sir George Villiers                         82

  17. Hataraick, an old Warlock                                     83

  18. The apparition of the Ghost of Mrs. Bretton                   87

  19. The servant returns to his shop, after he had been
        dead                                                        89

  20. Wonderful story of one Robert Churchman,                      91

  21. Touching Isobel Heriot                                        97

  22. Anent a Magician at Antwerp                                  104

  23. Concerning a Doctor of divinity that rose out of the
        bier,                                                      105

  24. Concerning some Drunkards destroyed by the devil             106

  25. Anent William Barton, a Warlock                              107

  26. Wonderful accident, which happened at Lyons,
        France                                                     110

  27. Marvellous prank played by the devil at Hamelen              111

  28. Strange witchcraft discovered in Monra, in Swedeland         112

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