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.Sinclair, George
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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.
Sinclair, George
Occultism; Superstition; Witchcraft
The justices having examined all witnesses in matters of fact,
touching the effigies, Sir George’s sickness, and the recovery of
his health, upon the finding of the same, considering also the bad
fame of those who were obstinate, and having confronted them with
the confessing witches, who in their faces avowed their accession,
in manner exprest in the confessions above written. Considering,
lastly, all other circumstances of their case, committed them to the
trial of a judicious inquest; who being found guilty, were condemned
to the fire to be burnt, and their effigies with them. Only Annabil,
in regard of her nonage, and the evidences she seemed to give of
her penitency, was reprieved by order of council, but to remain in
prison. In the mean time, both she and her brother John did seriously
exhort their mother to confession; and with tears, did Annabil put
her in mind of the many meetings she had with the devil in her own
house; and that a summer’s day would not be sufficient to relate
what she had seen pass between the devil and her; but nothing could
prevail with her obdured and hardened heart.
It is to be noted, the dumb girl, whose name was Janet Douglas, doth
now speak, not very distinctly, yet so as she may be understood; and
is a person that most wonderfully discovers things past, and doth
also understand the Latin tongue, which she never learned.
II.—_Being a Wonderful discovery of Murder by an Apparition._
About the year of our Lord 1632, near unto Chester in the street,
there lived one Walker, a yeoman of good estate, and a widower, who
had a young woman called Anna Walker to his kinswoman, that kept his
house, who was by the neighbours suspected to be with child; and was,
towards the dark of the evening, one night sent away with Mark Sharp,
who was a collier, or one that digged coals under ground, and who
had been born in Blackburn-hundred in Lancashire, and so she was not
heard of for a long time, and no noise or little was made about her.
In the winter time, one James Graham, being a miller, and living two
miles from the place where Walker lived, was one night alone very
late in the mill grinding corn; and about twelve or one o’clock at
night he came down the stairs, from having been putting corn in the
hopper, the mill-doors being shut, there stood a woman upon the midst
of the floor, with her hair about her head, hanging down and all
bloody, with five large wounds on her head. He being much affrighted
and amazed, began to bless himself; and at last asked her who she
was, and what she wanted? To whom she answered, “I am the spirit of
such a woman, who lived with Walker; and being got with child by
him, he promised to send me to a private place, where I should be
well look’d to, until I was brought to bed, and well recovered, and
then I should come home again, and keep his house. And accordingly,”
said the apparition, “I was one night late, sent away with one Mark
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