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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

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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

I read of an old gentleman, an excellent justice of the peace in
England, who did always dispute against the immortality of the soul,
and its distinction from the body, and of the existence of the
spirits. No reason could convince him but palpable experience. He
being a bold man, did venture very far, and fearing nothing, used
all magical ceremonies he could to raise the devil, or a spirit, and
had a most earnest desire to meet with one, but never could do it.
But while his servant was one night drawing off his boots in the
hall, some invisible hand gave him such a clap upon the back, that it
made the hall ring again. He immediately went to the field, to try
if any spirit had called him to converse with him; but found none.
When neither rhyme nor reason could persuade him that there were
spirits, says the gentleman that debated with him, “Well, well, do
you remember the clap you received upon your back one night?” “Yes,”
said he. “Assure yourself,” said the other, “that goblin will be the
first that will welcome you into the other world.” Upon this his
countenance changed most sensibly, and was more confounded with this
than with all the philosophical or rational arguments that could have
been brought against him.

There was one Julian Cox, an English woman, apprehended for
witchcraft. The first that deponed against her was a huntsman, who
swore, That he was going out with a pack of hounds to hunt a hare.
Did start one not far from Julian Cox her house. The dogs hunted
her very close, and the third ring haunted her in vie, till at last
the huntsman perceiving the hare almost spent, and making towards
a great bush, he ran on the other side of the bush to take her up,
and preserve her from the dogs. But as soon as he laid hands on her,
it proved to be Julian Cox, who had her hands grovelling on the
ground, and her globs (as he exprest it) upward. He knowing her, was
so frighted, that his hair in his head stood on end. She was out
of breath, so that she could not speak. The dogs came up and smelt
her, but did no more. The narrative, saith my author, hath the most
authentic confirmation that human affairs are capable of, sense, and
the sacredness of an oath.




XXX.—_Anent one Spalding in Dalkeith._

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