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cause_n	ghost_n	holy_a	spirit_n	3,926	5	5.5026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43992	A Collection of modern relations of matter of fact concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people to which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God in preserving us from the malice and power of evil angels, written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale, upon occasion of a tryal of several witches before him.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1693 (1693)	Wing H224; ESTC R23402	48,262	74

at Ratle's door about Twi-light or Day-gate and I gave two Shillings of this Mony for two Pecks of Barly Pease and Wheat mix'd to Will. Parkley He told me if I would kill Mrs. Alice Corbet I should never Want He twitches me at the Heart as if it were drawn together with Pincers I have I confess a Witch-pap which is Sucked by the Unclean Spirit This Sucking lasteth from Supper-time till after Cock-crowing The Devil did bid me deny to Mr. Wellfet that he was sent by me I had a purpose to practice Witchcraft when I begg'd a piece of Cloth and Black-hood I confess that I did by this Evil Spirit kill Dick Warren which was done by my wicked Heart and wicked Eyes If I had not employ'd this wicked Spirit I had not hurt him I lent Lancelot Harrison eight Shillings of the ten Shillings the Devil gave me I did forsake God because I promised the Devil to serve him The Devil bid me not to tell of Doll Bilby This is the full Confession of Alice Huson in her own words suited to the Questions I propounded to her being spoken to my self so I testifie Timothy Wellfet Vicar of Burton Agnes A horrible Relation of a Trumpeter his Wife and Daughter Debauched by a Wicked foul Spirit Transcribed from a Letter written by a very Intelligent Person in Holland A Trumpeter who had served the Prince in his Wars upon his return from the War finding many Executed for Witchcraft in that Country absented himself and hid himself He being miss'd and they knowing no reason for his Absconding enquiry was made after him supposing he might hav been guilty of some evil Action or other Theft or Adultery c. But found nothing against him However they continued their Enquiry till at last they found where he was and told him he must go to the Prince Whereupon he cried out I am a Dead Man And being asked what was the matter He said he was a Witch and must Die. To the Prince he was brought before whom to the amazement of him and all Men for none suspected him in the least he confessed that one day walking in the Wood he had met in a By Walk a very handsom Woman with whom entring into Discourse he endeavoured to perswade her to submit to his Will which at last she yielded to and when he had satisfied himself with her she Transformed her self into a hideous Shape and told him Now he was from that time forward his but made him many Promises c. He being thus Engaged said he had a Wife and wished her in the same Condition This Caco-Daemon replied he should take no care for that matter he would effect it and thus He should pretend a necessity of going from Home all of a sudden and tell his Wife that there would come to find him a Gentleman a good Friend of his in the War and that he was sorry he could not stay to receive him as he would desiring her if he came before he returned to make as much of him as she could possible as being his singular Friend He being gone this pretended Gentleman some time after came in very good Equipage attended with a Servant enquired for her Husband seemed sorry for his Absence But she doing her Errand as her Husband had ordered her and shewing him great Kindness he propounded to her the having his Will upon her and she consenting he enjoyed her not only but her Daughter also of about Eleven or twelve Years Old to whom then he appeared as to her Husband And then her Husband returned and found it so From that time forward certain power to hurt Cattle as I remember only was imparted to them And the Man was continually accosted and compelled to continue his Commerce with his Succuba and the Woman and her Daughter with their Incubus with whom the first Commerce was strangely Delightful but ever after cold and painful to them These things having Confess'd and being very penitent they desired to die and were accordingly Executed But because they had not hurt Mankind and were so Penitent instead of being Burn'd they were Beheaded The Prince would fain have saved the Girl because of her Youth and used all Endeavours to deliver her from the Spirit but could not effect it the Girl crying out several times that he now was committing Uncleanness with her crying out and desiring rather to die than to live so and be subject to that foul Spirit any longer and accordingly was Executed as her Father and Mother were A Relation of a Dutch Boy Possessed by a German Spirit Being an Extract of two Letters the first of the 12 of Febbruary 1690. S. V. WE have here a strange Case of a Youth about Fifteen Years old that has been of a quiet and orderly Conversation and was bred up to Reading and Praying who is Possessed and as the Spirit it self says through him is actuated by three of them who were sent to him by three divers Witches which he publickly named I my self have entred the Lists with the Ghost who at last tho very unwillingly Answered and speaks as good High Dutch as is spoken in Austria which the Lad could never speak I was very sharp in my Assault and he as strenuously opposed When he departs it is with a great Noise and the Lad lyes a good while as in a deep Swoon till recovered by application of fit Remedies and then he prays devoutly which while Possessed he cannot do and when the Spirits forsake him in part which sometimes they do for a whole sometimes for half a day he works at his ordinary Labour which is Weaving Linen that being the Trade he is Learning He is of a Meek Spirit but in his Fits three Men have enough to hold him The Spirit says very confidently that he has leave from the Old Man in Heaven Thus he calls God and will not easily be brought to use that word not to leave the Lad till the Witches have received their Punishments and that he was compelled by that Old Man in Heaven to discover the Witches and their wicked Works all which he has done and upon it the Inquest was made which otherwise no body would have thought of In fine it is so strange and incomprehensible a thing that 't is not to be expressed insomuch that if I had not been an eye Witness and throughly examined the Affair I could never have believed it The Second Letter of the 24th of April S. V. 1690. NOw again something of the Possessed Lad Our Discourse went upon these five things 1. Of the great Omnipotency of the true God and his sole Government over all things both Visible and Invisible 2. Of the glorious Merits of Christ his Sufferings and thereby overturning of the Powers of Hell And consequently 3. Of the Limited and in it self powerless Power of the Devils c. Of their Orders and Qualities among themselves 4. Of the great Power of the Holy Ghost dwelling in a true Believer and Pious Soul 5. Of the Name of this particular Spirit that speaks out of the Possessed Lad his Authority and the cause of