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A36504 Daimonomageia a small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes : never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations. Drage, William, 1637?-1669. 1665 (1665) Wing D2117; ESTC R37769 35,637 43

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