Lectures on Witchcraft: Comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem, in 1692Carter and Hendee, 1831 - 300 Seiten |
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... prayer , invoking the interposition of the Divine Being , to deliver them from the snares and dominion of Satan . Mr Par- ris invited the neighboring ministers to as- semble at his house and unite with him in devoting a day to solemn ...
... prayer , invoking the interposition of the Divine Being , to deliver them from the snares and dominion of Satan . Mr Par- ris invited the neighboring ministers to as- semble at his house and unite with him in devoting a day to solemn ...
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... prayer and addresses from the most influential ministers of the vicinity , who were decided in countenancing and active in promoting them . The afflicted , as they were called , did not rest with merely accus- ing their victims of ...
... prayer and addresses from the most influential ministers of the vicinity , who were decided in countenancing and active in promoting them . The afflicted , as they were called , did not rest with merely accus- ing their victims of ...
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... prayers , and tears and sufferings of its pious fathers to God and the church . While the delusion was spreading over the colony , its operations were going on with tremendous efficacy in Salem , and the neigh- boring towns ; additions ...
... prayers , and tears and sufferings of its pious fathers to God and the church . While the delusion was spreading over the colony , its operations were going on with tremendous efficacy in Salem , and the neigh- boring towns ; additions ...
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... prayers to the Lord on my behalf , and send us a joyful and happy meeting in heaven . My mother , poor woman , is ... prayer was heard . Her Christian penitence and heroic fortitude were reward- ed . A temporary illness prevented her ...
... prayers to the Lord on my behalf , and send us a joyful and happy meeting in heaven . My mother , poor woman , is ... prayer was heard . Her Christian penitence and heroic fortitude were reward- ed . A temporary illness prevented her ...
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... prayer , we were blind- folded and our hands were laid upon the af- flicted persons , they being in their fits , and falling into their fits at our coming into their presence , as they said ; and some led us and laid our hands upon them ...
... prayer , we were blind- folded and our hands were laid upon the af- flicted persons , they being in their fits , and falling into their fits at our coming into their presence , as they said ; and some led us and laid our hands upon them ...
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Seite 237 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Seite 160 - It may please your grace to understand that witches and sorcerers within these few last years are marvellously increased within your grace's realm. Your grace's subjects pine away, even unto the death ; their colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is benumbed, their senses are bereft. I pray God they never practise further than upon the subject.
Seite 216 - In short, when I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions, or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as witchcraft; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.
Seite 148 - Daphnim. 95 has herbas atque haec Ponto mihi lecta venena ipse dedit Moeris, nascuntur plurima Ponto; his ego saepe lupum fieri et se condere silvis Moerim, saepe animas imis excire sepulcris atque satas alio vidi traducere messis.
Seite 203 - God having appointed that secret supernatural sign, for trial of that secret unnatural crime : so that it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom, that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...
Seite 84 - It cost the Court a wonderful deal of trouble, to hear the testimonies of the sufferers ; for when they were going to give in their depositions, they would for a long time be taken with fits that made them uncapable of saying any thing. The chief judge asked the prisoner, who he thought hindered these witnesses from giving their testimonies? And he answered, "He supposed it was the devil." That honourable person replied, " How comes the devil then to be so loath to have any testimony borne against...
Seite 237 - Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations ; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask you. 1 Witch. Speak. 2 Witch. Demand. 3 Witch. We'll answer, i Witch. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters
Seite 244 - In June next ensuing, a great thunder-storm arose out of the north-west after which (the hemisphere being serene) about an hour before sun-set, a SHIP of like dimensions with the aforesaid, with her...
Seite 98 - ... you are a liar; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.
Seite 160 - There in a gloomy hollow glen she found A little cottage, built of stickes and reedes In homely...