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
History
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
October 18. Something came into the bed-chamber, and walked up and
down, and fetching the warming-pan out of the withdrawing-room, made
so much noise, that they thought five bells could not have made more.
And October 19th, Trenchers were thrown up and down the dining-room,
and at them who lodged there; one of them being wakened, put forth
his head to see what was the matter, but had trenchers thrown at it.
October 20th. The curtains of the bed in the withdrawing-room were
drawn to and fro, and the bed-stead much shaken, and eight great
pewter dishes, and three dozen of trenchers, thrown about the
bed-chamber again. This night they also thought a whole armful of the
wood of the King’s Oak were thrown down in their chambers, but of
that in the morning they found nothing had been moved.
October 21st. The keeper of their ordinary, and his bitch lay in one
of the rooms with them, which night they were not disturbed at all.
But Oct. 22d, Though the bitch kennelled there again, to whom they
ascribed their former night’s rest, both they and the bitch were in a
pitiful taking, the bitch opening but once, and that with a whining
fearful yelp.
October 23. They had all their clothes pluck’d off them in the
withdrawing room, and the bricks fell out of the chimney into the
room.
On the 24th, They thought in the dining-room, that all the wood of
the King’s Oak had been brought thither, and thrown down close by
their bed-side; which being heard by those of the withdrawing-room,
one of them rose to see what was done, fearing indeed that his
fellow commissioners had been killed, but found no such matter.
Whereupon returning to his bed again, he found two or three dozen of
trenchers thrown into it, and handsomely covered with the bed clothes.
October 25. The curtains of the bed in the withdrawing-room were
drawn to and fro, and the bed-stead shaken as before; and in the
bed-chamber, glass flew about so thick (and yet not one lozen of
the chamber windows broken) that they thought it had rained money,
whereupon they lighted candles; but, to their grief, they found
nothing but glass.
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