Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
The Mysteries of All Nations: Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws
against, and Trials of, Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions, together
with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales relating to Mythology, Days and
Weeks, Miracles, Poets and Superstition, Monarchs, Priests and
Philosophers, Druids, Demonology, Magic and Astrology, Divination, Signs,
Omens and Warnings, Amulets and Charms, Trials by Ordeal, Curses and Evil
Wishes, Dreams and Visions, Superstition in the Nineteenth Century. By
James Grant. Leith: Reid and Son, 35, Shore; Edinburgh: W. Paterson;
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1880.
Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts. By George H. Moore,
LL.D., Superintendent of the Lenox Library. Read before the American
Antiquarian Society, April 25th, 1888. Worcester: Printed for the Author.
1888.
_Scottish Review_, October, 1891, Edinburgh.
_Boston Monthly Magazine_, vol. i., p. 251.
_Congregational Quarterly_, vol. x., p. 154.
_Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_, vol. ii., p. 249; vol. vii., p. 505; vol.
xiv., p. 207.
_The Galaxy_, vol. xix., p. 358.
_Christian Examiner_, vol. xi., p. 240.
_American Monthly Review_, vol. i., p. 140.
_American Whig Review_, vol. iii., p. 60.
_North American Review_, vol. cvi., p. 176.
_New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. xiii., p. 193.
_Southern Review_, N.S., vol. iii., p. 306.
_The Hesperian_, vol. i., p. 191.
_Congregational Review_, vol. ix., p. 201.
_Harper’s Magazine_, vol. lxix., p. 99.
_Magazine of American History_, vol. xiv., p. 458.
_New Englander_, vol. xliv., p. 788.
THE END.
BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The old writers and the old maps probably meant mosquitoes when they
said ‘Here be Divells.’
[2] ‘A Discourse of the Subtill Practises of Deuilles by Witches and
Sorcerers,’ etc. By G. Gyfford. Lond., 1587.
[3] Chap. iv.
[4] ‘The Discouerie of Witchcraft, etc., by Reginald Scot, Esq{re},’ 1584,
p. 377.
[5] ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock; or, a True Narrative of the Several
Apparitions, the Frights and Punishments, inflicted upon the Rumpish
Commissioners Sent thither, to Survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to
His Majestie.’ London; printed in the year 1660.
[6] ‘The Woodstock Scuffle; or Most Dreadfull Apparitions that were lately
seene in the Mannor-House of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the great Terror
and Wonderful Amazement of all there, that did Behold them.’ 1649.
[7] ‘Palpable Evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft, in an Account of the
Fam’d Disturbance by the Drummer, in the House of M. Mompesson, etc.’
London, 1668.
[8] The writer was the Rev. Joseph Glanville, M.A., F.R.S., Chaplain in
Ordinary to King Charles II., Rector of the Abbey Church, Bath, and a
Prebendary of Worcester.
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