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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

A popish officer that belonged to a court of justice, being a lawyer,
came out of curiosity to the minister’s house, to ask some questions
concerning many matters. The minister forbade him, but he would not
forbear. And after the devil had resolved him many things, anent
absent friends, private business, news, and state affairs, and
questions in law, he says to him, “Now, Sir, I have told you all you
demanded; I must tell you next what you demanded not, that at this
very same time such a man (whom he named) is taking a word of your
wife at home.” And then he discovered many secrets and foul practices
of the lawyer. And at last says, “Now, Sir, let me correct you for
being so bold as to question with the devil: you should have taken
the minister’s counsel.” Then upon a sudden the whole company saw the
lawyer drawn by the arm into the midst of the room, where the devil
whirled him about, and gave him many turns with great swiftness,
touching the ground only with his toe, and then threw him down upon
the floor with great violence; and being taken up, and carried to
his house, he lay sick, and was a long time distracted.—The last ten
or twelve days the devil threw stones about the minister’s house
continually, from morning to evening, and of so large a size, some of
them being of two or three pound weight. One of those days the public
notary Mr. Tornus, had a great stone thrown at him, which falling
at his feet, he took it up and marked it with a coal, and threw it
into the backside of the house, but presently the devil threw it at
him again; when he took it up, he found it very hot, thinking it had
been in hell since he handled it last. The next day, upon the 22d of
December, the devil went quiet away; and to-morrow after, was seen a
great viper going out of the minister’s house, which the neighbours
about seized with a pair of pinchers, and carried it all over the
town crying, “Here is the devil that’s come out of the minister’s
house.” It was found by an apothecary to be a true natural viper,
a serpent rarely seen in those countries. Compare this with the
twentieth and first relation, and you will find a notable proof of
the wonderful kindness and mercy of God to those religious ministers
and their families.




XXXII.—_Anent Margaret Wilson._

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