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cause_n	child_n	husband_n	wife_n	1,655	5	6.9646	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44509	An account of what happen'd in the kingdom of Sweden in the years 1669, and 1670 and upwards In relation to some persons that were accused for witches; and tryed and executed by the Kings command. Together with the particulars of a very sad accident that befel a boy at Malmoe in Schonen in the year, 1678. by the means of witchcraft, attested by the ablest and most judicious men of that town. Both translated out of High-Dutch into English, By Anthony Horneck D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2817; ESTC R216940	19,188	42

were bewitched or ready to be carried away by Imps This happens in all consternations and our fears make us see that which unbyassed Eyes cannot perceive and of this a Gentleman who was an Ear-witness gave me this instance of a Ministers Child of his acquaintance not far from Stockholm who being told and assured by his Wife that the Child was carried to Blockula every night and convey'd back into his bed again resolved to sit up with the Boy and see whether any Devil durst be so bold as to snatch him out of his arms The Child went to Bed and between twelve and one of the Clock at night began to groan in his sleep and seemed to shiver a little at the sight whereof the Mother began to weep and mourn thinking that the Child was just going to be snatcht away but her Husband smiling at the Conceit and pleading with her that the Childs laying his arms out of Bed might be the cause of these symptomes took the Child in his arms and there kept him till towards two or three of the Clock but no Spirit came or medled with him yet was his Wife so possessed with the conceit or fear of transportation that his strongest Arguments could scarce make her believe the contrary and the same person a near Relation of the aforesaid Envoy added how much malice and ill nature was able to effect whereof he gave this example which himself saw and could testifie the truth of viz. how in the year 1676. at Stockholme a young Woman accused her own Mother of being a Witch and swore positively that she had carried her away at night whereupon both the Judges and Ministers of the Town exhorted her to Confession and Repentance But she stifly denied the Allegations pleaded Innocence and though they burnt another Witch before her face and lighted the fire she her self was to burn in before her yet she still justified her self and continued to do so to the last and continuing so was burnt She had indeed been a very bad Woman but it seems this crime she was free from for within a fortnight or three weeks after her Daughter which had accused her came to the Judges in open Court weeping and howling and confessed that she had wronged her Mother and unjustly out of a spleen she had against her for not gratifying her in a thing she desired had charged her with that Crime which she was as innocent of as the Child unborn whereupon the Judges gave order for her execution too There is no publick Calamity but some ill people will serve themselves of the sad Providence and make use of it for their own ends as Thieves when a House or Town is on fire will steal and filch what they can yet as there is no Fable but hath some Foundation in History so when wicked people make use of such Arguments against the persons they hate it 's a sign there was such a thing that gave them occasion to fix the calumny and had not such things been done before they could not have any colour for their Villany I could add a known passage that happen'd in the year 1659. at Crossen in Silesia of an Apothecary's Servant The chief Magistrate of that Town at that time was the Princess Elizabeth Charlotta a person famous in her generation In the Spring of the year one Christopher Monigk a Native of Serbest a Town belonging to the Princes of Anhalt Servant to an Apothecary died and was buried with the usual Ceremonies of the Lutheran Church A few days after his decease a Shape exactly like him in face clothes stature meen c. appeared in the Apothecaries Shop where he would set himself down and walk sometimes and take the Boxes Pots Glasses off of the Shelves and set them again in their places and sometimes try and examine the goodness of the Medicines weigh them in a pair of Scales pound the Drugs with a mighty noise in a Mortar nay serve the people that came with their Bills to the Shop take their Money and lay it up safe in the Counter in a word do all things that a Journey-man in such cases uses to do He looked very ghastly upon those that had been his fellow Servants who were afraid to say any thing to him and his Master being sick at that time of the Gout he was often very troublesome to him would take the Bills that were brought him out of his hand snatch away the Candle sometimes and put it behind the Stove At last he took a Cloak that hung in the Shop put it on and walked abroad but minding no body in the Streets went along entred into some of the Citizens Houses and thrust himself into company especially of such as he had formerly known yet saluted no body nor spoke to any one but to a Maid servant whom he met hard by the Church-yard and desired to go home to his Masters house and dig in a Ground-chamber where she would find an inestimable Treasure but the Maid amazed at the sight of him sounded whereupon he lift her up but left such a mark upon her Flesh with lifting her that it was to be seen for some time after The Maid having recovered her self went home but fell desperately sick upon 't and in her sickness discovered what Monigk had said to her and accordingly they digged in the place she had named but found nothing but an old decayed Pot with a Haematites or Blood-Stone in it The Princess hereupon caused the young Mans body to be digged up which they found putrified with purulent Matter flowing from it and the Master being advised to remove the young Mans Goods Linnen Clothes and things he left behind him when he died out of the House the Spirit thereupon left the House and was heard of no more And this some people now living will take their Oath upon who very well remember they saw him after his decease and the thing being so notorius there was instituted a publick Disputation about it in the Academy of Leipsig by one Henry Conrad who disputed for his Doctors Degree in the University And this puts me in mind of an Apothecary at Reichenbach in Silesia about fifteen years ago I had it from a very credible Witness who after his death appeared to divers of his acquaintance and cryed out that in his life time he had poisoned several Men with his Drugs Whereupon the Magistrates of the Town after consultation took up his Body and burnt it which being done the Spirit disappeared and was seen no more But if the Stories related in the preceding Book are not sufficient to convince Men I am sure an example from beyond Sea will gain no credit It 's enough that I have shewn Reasons which may induce my Reader to believe that he is not imposed upon by the following Narrative and that it is not in the nature of those Pamphlets they cry about the Streets containing very dreadful News from the