Letters on Demonology and WitchcraftJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 338 ページ Partial Contents: Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind; Belief in the Immortality of the Soul; Situations of excited passion in humanity which teach men to wish or apprehend Supernatural Apparitions; Story of Somnambulism; Witches and the Bible; Creed of Zoroaster; Law of the Romans against Witchcraft; Roman customs survive the fall of their Religion; Correspondence between Northern and Roman Witches; Fairy Superstition; Elves; Those who dealt in fortune-telling, mystical cures by charms; Immediate Effect of Christianity on Articles of Popular Superstition; Prosecution of Witches and Sorcerers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... reason should be able to form any rational or precise conjecture concerning the desti- nation of the soul when parted from the body ; but the conviction that such an indestructible es- sence exists , the belief expressed by the poet in ...
... reason should be able to form any rational or precise conjecture concerning the desti- nation of the soul when parted from the body ; but the conviction that such an indestructible es- sence exists , the belief expressed by the poet in ...
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... reason to suspect would wilfully deceive him . He affirmed to Captain S , with the deepest obtestations , that the spectre of the mur- dered man appeared to him almost nightly , took him from his place in the vessel , and , according to ...
... reason to suspect would wilfully deceive him . He affirmed to Captain S , with the deepest obtestations , that the spectre of the mur- dered man appeared to him almost nightly , took him from his place in the vessel , and , according to ...
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... reason to believe that such cases are nu- merous , and that they may perhaps arise , not only from the debility of stomach brought on by excess in wine or spirits , which derangement often sensibly affects the eyes and sense of sight ...
... reason to believe that such cases are nu- merous , and that they may perhaps arise , not only from the debility of stomach brought on by excess in wine or spirits , which derangement often sensibly affects the eyes and sense of sight ...
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... reason is totally in- adequate to combat the effects of my morbid imagina- tion , and I am sensible I am dying , a wasted victim to an imaginary disease . " The medical gentleman listened with anxiety to his patient's statement , and ...
... reason is totally in- adequate to combat the effects of my morbid imagina- tion , and I am sensible I am dying , a wasted victim to an imaginary disease . " The medical gentleman listened with anxiety to his patient's statement , and ...
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... reason for vouching as a fact , though , for certain reasons , we do not give the names of the parties . Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet , who had filled , while living , a great station in the eye of the public , a ...
... reason for vouching as a fact , though , for certain reasons , we do not give the names of the parties . Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet , who had filled , while living , a great station in the eye of the public , a ...
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62 ページ - In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
44 ページ - The doubling storm roars thro' the woods, The lightnings flash from pole to pole, Near and more near the thunders roll, When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, Kirk-Alloway seem'd in a bleeze, Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
52 ページ - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
148 ページ - At morning and at evening both, You merry were and glad, So little care of sleep...
149 ページ - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
62 ページ - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch6d roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
215 ページ - Having taken the suspected witch, she is placed in the middle of a room upon a stool or table, cross-legged, or in some other uneasy posture; to which, if she submits not, she is then bound with cords; there she is watched, and kept without meat, or sleep, for the space of four and twenty hours.
328 ページ - I was only nineteen or twenty years old, when I happened to pass a night in the magnificent old baronial castle of Glammis, the hereditary seat of the Earls of Strathmore. The hoary pile contains much in its appearance, and in the traditions connected with it, impressive to the imagination. It was the scene of the murder of a Scottish king of great antiquity ; not, indeed, the gracious Duncan, with whom the name naturally associates itself, but Malcolm II. It contains also a curious monument of the...
328 ページ - I began to consider myself as too far from the living, and somewhat too near the dead. We had passed through what is called the King's Room, a vaulted apartment, garnished with stags...