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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

themselves so full sometimes that they are forced to spew by the way which spewing is found in several Gardens where Colworts grow and not far from the houses of those Witches It is of a yellow colour like Gold and is called Butter of Witches The Lords Commissioners were indeed very earnest and took great pains to perswade them to shew some of their Tricks but to no purpose for they did all unanimously confess that since they had confessed all they found that all their Witchcraft was gone and that the Devil at this time appeared to them very terrible with Claws on his Hands and Feet and with Horns on his Head and a long Tail behind and shewed to them a Pit burning with a Hand put out but the Devil did thrust the person down again with an Iron-fork and suggested to the Witches that if they continued in their Confession he would deal with them in the same manner The abovesaid Relation is taken out of the Publick Register where all this is related with more Circumstances And at this time through all the Countrey there are Prayers weekly in all Churches to the end that Almighty God would pull down the Devils Power and deliver those poor Creatures which have hither to groaned under it An Account of what happen'd to a Boy at Malmoe in Schonen in the year 1678. supposed to be done by Witchcraft and attested by the ablest and most Judicious Men of that Town HAving in the Preface to the foregoing Narrative taken notice of the Swedish Envoy Extraordinary it may not be unsuitable to the Subject these Papers treat of to give the World an Account of a very strange Passage which the said Envoy hath taken very great pains to satisfie himself in and of which he hath the publick Testimony of the Town where it was done by him No longer ago than in the year 1678. an Alderman or Senator's Son of Malmoe in Schonen a City belonging to the King of Sweden the Boy being then about Thirteen years of age his Name Abraham Mechelburg going to School one Morning as the custom is in that place about Six of the Clock stay'd there till Eight and then went home for his Breakfast which when he had eaten he was going back to School again when just before the Door close by the lowermost Step there lay a little Bundle of Linen Rags which the Lad out of curiosity took up and open'd but found nothing in it but partly Pins some crooked some laid across some without points partly broken Horse-nails and Nails without heads partly Horse-hair and such trash which when it answered not his expectation he rent asunder and threw away Some few days after the Boy fell ill and continued so for some time no Physician being able to guess what ailed him At last he began to void little Stones at the Orifice of the Penis which by degrees came forth bigger and bigger some were perfect Pebles of all sorts of colours and in process of time there came forth great uneven Stones like pieces of Rocks as if they were broken off of a greater Stone whereof the Envoy hath two by him One given him by the Father of the Boy and the other by the Kings Chirurgeon both which I have thought fit to give the Reader the dimensions of Before the Stones came forth there was a strange motion in his Belly as if something were alive in it the Stones seemed to crack within and something they heard as if a great Stone were violently broken and at this time he felt the greatest pain When the Stones were ready to come forth the Penis was drawn in so deep that the Standers by could not perceive any thing of it and after that it dropt those prodigious Stones which seem rather to be fetch'd from Quarries than produced by any Saline or Nitrous Matter in the Body The Stone I have given the Figure of is of a reddish colour with some grains of white in it heavy and such as lie in common Roads and Highways When the Stones came forth the Boy felt no pain the pain being most upon him when the Stones within seem'd to crack and a little before and the Fit was then so violent that four or five Men were forced to hold him The Boy in the mean while slept well at Night eat and drank as heartily as ever discomposed at no time but when the Fit of voiding these Stones was coming upon him This lasted two years The Parents had the Boy pray'd for at Church and instantly besought God at home whenever any of those Fits came upon him to turn the Stream and to stop the Devils Power The Boy is now as well as ever rides abroad and doth all things as he used to do before this accident befel him The Envoy spoke both with the Father and the Boy and tells me they are no indigent People but well to pass and Persons of very good Reputation in the Town of Malmoe While this misfortune lasted the King of Sueden being then but a little way off sent some of his Chirurgeons to the place to know the truth thereof who were by when the Lad voided very strange Stones at the Orifice of the Penis and gave the King an account of it One of them to be throughly satisfied held his hand under the Penis after it was drawn in and there dropt a very odd Stone broad and angular into his hand The Envoy being upon the place last year enquired of all People whom he thought might not be very credulous who unanimously bore witness of the thing and upon his request gave him the following Account which I have translated out of the Original A. H. BE it known that during the Years 1678. and 1679. a very wonderful thing happened in this City of Malmoe to one of the Aldermen of the Town his name John Mechelburg and his Wife 's Abla Kruthmeyer for God having blessed them with three Sons one of them Abraham by name a Boy at this time aged about sixteen years hath been very strangely afflicted with a praeternatural voiding of Stones insomuch that during the space of those two years he hath through the Virga of the Penis voided several hundreds of Stones great and small which being weighed together weighed no less than One and twenty pound Averdu-poise some weighing 6 some 7. some 8. some 9 ounces full of Angles and much like pieces of a Rock that 's broken by force or instruments fit for that purpose These broken Stones sometimes came forth at the Boys mouth sometimes he voided them by siege and the Parents of the Child have confidently assured us that before this misfortune the Boy had been sick several weeks together and kept his Bed during which sickness something was seen moving in his Body as if it had been some live thing After this Sickness there appeared the Stones aforesaid The first that came forth exceeded not the bigness of half a Pea but in a short time