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A35568 A treatise proving spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances and evidences together with other things worthy of note / by Meric Casaubon.; Of credulity and incredulity in things natural, civil, and divine Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671. 1672 (1672) Wing C815; ESTC R21714 218,874 336

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