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A81077	The kingdom of darkness: or the history of dæmons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions, disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural delusions, mischievous feats, and malicious impostures of the Devil Containing near fourscore memorable relations, forreign and domestick, both antient and modern. Collected from authentick records, real attestations, credible evidences, and asserted by authors of undoubted verity. Together with a preface obviating the common objections and allegations of the sadduces and atheists of the age, who deny the being of spirits, witches, &c. With pictures of several memorable accidents. By R. B. Licensed and entred according to order.	R. B., 1632?-1725?; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing C7342; ESTC R224752	121,198	192

that at the end of Mr. John T●●masons Psalter and hath been continually used in the houses in the same Town where that young man lived and no doubt this Spirit found it there or was present when it was read and could therefore repeat it it being no new thing for him to speak the word of God for he made use of Davids Psalms against Gods own Son St. Matth. 4.6 Afterward he told the young man that he should say this Prayer the first time he came to Church first on the threshold of the Church door with his face turned from the Church commanding him to bid the people say this Prayer also and admonish them to amend their lives and leave off their cursing and swearing and desist from all other sins whereby God would appease his anger Having said thus to the Lad as he was going he added Rise be thou whole and sin no more and so departed from him through the roof hole of the house Five days after he appeared the second time before it was clear day as the Lad was sitting in his bed and sung the twenty third Psalm My Shepherd is the living Lord The young man had a strong inclination to go abroad though he saw nothing and putting on his cloths he went out of the house where he saw in the South-west the Heavens open and one coming down from thence who at length came and stood by him in the yard with a Priests habit on which reached down to his feet the habit being red and white with a red cross on the back and told him He should not at all doubt but he came from G●● and therewith left him hastily ascending to the place from whence he came Next Sunday night Jan. 27. ●e appeared to him the third time as he lay awake in the same form as at first and asked him if he had declared what he had commanded The young man answered yes He replyed Not so earnestly as it ●●ght to have been done inquiring withal whether he ●ad not seen some Signs in the Heavens The Lad answered That he had seen no Signs but other people ●ad seen two Suns in the Heavens Samuel Powelson Eclender Anderson Sineve Jonas Daughter and others of Eldivig witnessed in Court they had seen these Suns He then said They did look indeed like Suns though they were not but a Sign that they should begin to keep Holiday or Sunday from the time they saw the true Sun arise which was on Saturday half an hour past twelve in the afternoon and that the Sermon which was ●●eached on Sunday should be preached on Saturday in the afternoon and that when they rowed out to Church they should sing My Shepherd is the living Lord And 〈◊〉 the Lad was going to wake his Father-in-Law who then lay in the bed with him he departed as before through the hole of the Chimney Next night Jan. 28. he appeared to him the fourth time being awake as before The young man asked him who he was He answered That he was St. John 〈◊〉 lay in the bosom of Jesus at the Lords Supper and 〈◊〉 no more but vanished away as formerly He 〈◊〉 to him the fifth time in the night presently after Mr. Hellison the Minister was gone to visit his Congregation and asked the Lad if he had declared to the Minister what he had commanded him The young man replyed yes adding That the Mi●●●ter thought it very strange that he should appear to him who was so great a sinner Whereto the pretended St. John answered That the Lord had given many 〈◊〉 and giveth yet many that are not so plain and ●●●fest as to be understood of all The news of these Apparitions became publick all over the Countrey and many ignorant people put 〈◊〉 faith therein whereupon I sent for this young man and examined him earnestly admonishing him that he should renounce all such delusio●● but he still persisted in affirming that all was rea● which he had related So that his fame was spread all over the Islands and in all Congregations the Vulgar gave great credit to his Visions especially Servants for the sake of this New Holyday which many diligently observed but yet could not refra●● from swearing and cursing to which they were as much exhorted as to the other and added many more Visions and Stories than were true and used divers Arguments to justifie the truth of them whereby many simple Persons were seduced from the truth of the Holy Scriptures and the commands of Christ and rise up against their Teachers as it happened to me among the rest I therefore sent to every Pastor in the Countrey a true Copy of the young mans confession adding my censure of the falsity of them thereto that they might read the● in the Pulpit and admonish their Hearers to 〈◊〉 in believing the Infallible Word of God and 〈◊〉 seek another way of worshipping him than what is contained therein At length it happened that this Spiritual Person this Inlightned Soul who had su●● wonderful Revelations fell the next year by the inducement of that unclean Spirit into the sin of Fornication This struck a great damp into his adm●rers who then began to believe that it was only a white Devil that had communicated these things to this young Prophet Therefore I referr'd the great scandal and disturbance he had given to the Congregations to the Reverend Dr. J. Swaning Archbishop of Zealand in writing from whom I rece●ed Orders by the Kings Command that I should publickly reprove and admonish the said Jacob Oluffson out of the word of God and likewise upon his declaring himself sincerely penitent should absolve him for the same and represent to the people their great error Which was done accordingly 〈◊〉 St. John Baptists day 1668. whereby God be ●●ased this design of the evil Spirit was defeated and all this emotion supprest so that nothing of it ●●th been since observed Ibidem p. 385. LVII IOHN of Hemback in Germany was carried by his 〈◊〉 Mother who was a Witch to one of those Night ●eetings where Witches Assemble and Meet the De●● and because he had learned to play on the Pipe he was commanded by her to strike up and to get into 2 Tree that they might the better hear the Mu●●● Which he doing and looking upon the Dancers ●ow odd and rediculous they were in their motion and gestures being struck with admiration at the Novelty of the matter suddenly burst out into these words Good God what a Mad Company have we ●ere Which was no sooner uttered but down 〈◊〉 John pipe and all and hurt his shoulder with the tumbling cast who when he called to the Company to help him found himself alone for they were all vanished John of Hemback told what had happened but the people knew not what to make of it till some of that wicked Crew who danced to his pipe were apprehended upon other suspitions as Cathar●●● Praevotia Kelvers Orilla and others who made

before Judge Coniers at Chelmsford July 25. 1645. whereof fourteen were hanged and an hundred more detained in several Prisons in Suffolk and Essex Ibidem p. 22. LXXV NEither were other Countys free from this Hellish contagion many being discovered in Huntingtonshire of whom I shall only give you the confessions of two of the Chief Elizabeth Weed of great Catworth in that County Widdow being examined before Robert Bernard and Nicholas Pedley Esquires Justices of the Peace March 31. 1646. said That about 21 years before as she was one night going to bed there appeared to her 3 Spirits one like a young man the other 2 in the shape of Puppies one white and the other black He that was in the form of a youth spoke to her and demanded Whether she would deny God and Christ which she agreed to The Devil then offered her to do what mischief she should require of him provided she would covenant he should have her Soul after 21 years which she granted She confest further That about a week after at ten a clock at night he came to her with a paper asking whether she were willing to seal the Covenant she said she was then he told her it must be done with her bloud and so prickt her under the left arm till it bled with which he scribled and immediately a great lump of flesh rise on her arm in the same place which increased ever since After which he came to bed and had carnal knowledg of her then and many times afterward The other two Spirits came into the bed likewise and suckt upon other parts of her body where she had Teats and that the name of one was Lilly and the other Priscill One of which was to hurt Man Woman or Child and the other to destroy what Cattel she desired and the young man was to lye with her as he did often And saith that Lilly according to the Covenant did kill the Child of Mr. Henry Bedell of Catworth as she required him to do when she was angry though she does not now remember for what and that about two or three days before she sent him to kill Mr. Bedell himself who returned and said he had no power and that another time she sent the same Spirit to hurt Edward Musgrave of Catworth who likewise returned saying he was not able And that she sent her Spirit Priscill to kill two Horses and two Cows of Mr. Musgraves and Thomas Thorps in that Town which was done accordingly And being askt when the one and twenty years would be out she said To the best of her remembrance about Low Sunday next Being further demanded why she did so constantly resort to Church and to hear the Sermons of Mr. Pool the Minister she said She was well pleased with his preaching and had a desire to be rid of that unhappy burthen which was upon her Witches of Huntington p. 2. LXXVI THE other was one John Winnick of Molesworth in Huntingtonshire who being examined April 11. 1646. before the aforesaid Justices Confessed that about twenty nine years before he being then a Batchelor lived with one Bateman an Inn-keeper at the George in Thropston who was likewise a Farmer at which time he losing a purse with seven shillings in it much suspected one of the Family But the Fryday after being in the Barn making up Hay about noon he fell a swearing cursing and raging wishing that some Wise Body or Wizzard would help him to his Purse and Money again when there presently appeared to him a Spirit black and shaggy with paws like a Bear but no bigger than a Rabbit The Spirit asked him what he ailed to be so sorrowful who answered that he had lost a Purse and Money and knew not how to come by it again The Spirit replyed If you will forsake God and Christ and fall down and worship me for your God I will help you to your Purse and Money again To which he consented and thereupon fell down on his knees and held up his hands Then the Spirit told him that to morrow about the same time he should find his Purse upon the floor where he was making up the Hay and that he would come himself too John Winnick promised the Spirit to meet him there and receive it and would then again worship him And accordingly at the time perfixt he went to the place and found his purse on the floor which having opened he found the seven shillings therein As he was looking into it the Devil again appeared to him and said There is your Purse and Money in it and then Winnick fell down on his knees and said My Lord and God I thank you The Spirit at this time brought with him two other Spirits one like a white Cat and the other like a grey Rabbit both for shape bigness and colour and while he was upon his knees the Bear Spirit spoke to him saying You must worship these two Spirits as you worship me and take them also for your Gods. Whereupon he directed his Body toward them and called them his Lords and Gods. Then the Bear Spirit told him That when he died he must have his Soul whereunto he yielded He likewise told him that they must suck his Body to which he consented but they did not suck at that time The Bear Spirit promised him he should never want Victuals The Cat Spirit that it would hurt Cattle when he would desire it And that like a Rabbit that it would hurt whoever he commanded it The Bear Spirit further told him that it must have some of his bloud wherewith to seal the Covenant whereunto he consented and then it leapt upon his shoulder and prickt him on the head from whence it took bloud after which all three vanisht away Next day about noon these Spirits came to him while he was in the Field and told him they were come to suck of his Body which they did accordingly in the places where upon his being apprehended the marks were found and from that time they came constantly once in twenty four hours sometimes by day but most commonly by night And being demanded what mischief he caused any of his Spirits to do he answered never any only he sent his Bear Spirit to Mr. Says Servant of Molseworth to provoke her to steal Victuals for him out of her Masters house which she did and he received the same The Confessions of these two Persons being so clear and their cursed confederacy with Satan hereby fully discovered they were punisht according to their demerits Ibidem p. 4. LXXVII COrnelius Agrippa the great Magician going one day out of Town from Lorain in Flanders where he dwelt left the Keys of his study with his Wife strictly charging her to let no body go in till his return but it happened that the same day a friend and companion of his came to the house and having long had a desire and curiosity to see some of this Negromancers books

says Apolonius Whose Vessels of Gold and Silve● are these and the rich furniture of the room are they thine No says Menippus they are my Brides for I have nothing in the world that I can call my own but only this shewing his Philosophers gown you will find 〈◊〉 the end replies Apolonius that all these goodly shows come from Tantalus garden and that they are meer dreams and illusions At which the company were much disturbed but he still affirmed that there was no reality in any thing and that the Bride was only an old Hag or Evil Spirit who delighted only in filthiness and laciviousness and then destroy her Lovers Whereat the Witch began to say soft and fair friend be not so Chollerick I defy thee and all such doting Philosophers In the mean time the Golden Cups and Flagons began to melt away and vanish as Apolonius had declared the Cook Pages and all the seeming Attendants disappeared and the Hag her self began to intreat Apolonius not to compel her to discover what she was But he grew the more earnest against her and urged the matter so strongly to her that at length she confessed she was a wicked Spirit and no Bride and that her design was to make Menippus fat and then destroy him after which she vanisht out of sight Camer Hist Medit. p. 263. XXIII A Gentleman of Bavaria of a Noble Family was so greived for the death of his Wife that abandoning all consolation he betook himself to a solitary life At length when this his sorrow continued without measure or end his wife appeared to him in the night told him that she had indeed once finished the course of her natural life but yet by his importunity she was again restored back and was commanded to use his society yet longer but upon condition that they should again be married and that for the future he should abstain from all railing and blasphemous words whereunto he was formerly accustomed and for which cause he had been deprived of her and that she must again presently depart this life as soon as he should utter one word of this Nature These terms being agreed to by the husband she took care of his houshold as formerly but was all the while of a sad and pale countenance But some years after her husband coming home in drink and giving his Maid some hard words in anger more than became a sober man his wife went from the bed to the Cupboard to fetch some fruit for him and there left her cloaths standing at the Chest where the Apples were kept without any body in them and was never seen more This I have heard affirmed faith my Author by many Persons of credit but whether it may be reckoned a good or evil Spirit I shall not determine Hist Spectus p. 38. XXIV NOT far from Torga in Italy a Nobleman walking in the Feilds to refresh himself met one in the habit of a Gentleman but was really a Daemon who complementing him told him he was out of imployment and would very gladly serve him Who thinking him fit for his business receives him into his service and makes him Master of his Horse This Nobleman was a very impious Person and lived chiefly by robbery and plundering Passengers and had now got a Servant very fit for his purpose One time when he was going a Journey he commended one of his Horses to his special care in his absence the Master being gone this excellent Servant conveighs the Horse up into a very high Tower a his return the Horse hearing his Masters voice put his head out of the battlements of the Tower neighing aloud The Master much wonders and asks who it was that carried up his Horse thither the good servant answers It was he that had so carefully performed his Masters commands and knew no place safor for him than there where he could neither run away nor be stoln but yet pretended he could not so easily fetch him down as he carried him up so that they were constrained to let down the Horse from the Tower with ropes It happened afterward that those whom this Nobleman had plundred pursued him in order to bring him to justice for his crimes when this servant cryes out Master make your escape and presently pulls something out of his budget whereby he stopt the course of the Horses that followed him and he thereby got away At length he was taken and thrown into Prison where he implores his Servants assistance who appears and tells him that being fast bound in fetters he could not now free him The Master is very urgent and at last his Servant tells him he will do his endeavour therein but says he if I set you at liberty it shall be upon condition that you stir not your hands nor make any signs of defence Whereupon the Evil Spirit brings him out of the Prison with his chains and fetters on and carries him a great height into the Air who being amazed and afraid cryed out O Eternal God whither am I going Hereupon the Devil immediately casts him down into a watry marshy place and then hastning home to his wife bids her go and help out her husband who was stuck fast in the ●enns bound in chains After which he vanisht away Ibid. p. 43. XXV IN the City of Athens there was a very handsome house which no body would take nor dwell in because it had the report of being haunted and that in the night there was a Spirit walked in it drawing a Chain and making a noise seeming sometimes afar off and otherwhile very near After which there would appear a great old man with his flesh worn away having a long beard his hair standing an end and all tangled fetters on his feet and a chain at his hands which he would always be shaking Those that formerly dwelt at the house could never rest quietly in the night but grew heavy and pensive and soon after fell sick and died for in the very day time though they saw not the Spirit yet were so terrified with the thoughts of it that they imagined it always in their sight and the ringing of the chains still sounded in their ears whereby their fear continued without intermission Upon which the house stood long empty though bills were put on it and all other means used to induce people to inhabit it At the same time Athenodorus the Philosopher came to Athens who seeing this house offered at so small a rent thought there was something in it and would needs know the Mystery when he was informed of the whole matter he was the more desirous to buy it and at night took possession of it causing a bed to be made for him in one of the Chambers toward the street and providing pen ink and paper and a Lamp well lighted he ordered his Servants to withdraw into a back room of the house This done he setled himself very seriously to writing and study that his

Dunghill she gave it her Mother who put it into hot water and after took it out and rub'd it on Rutterkin her Cat and bid him go upwards and afterward buried it in the yard and said a mischief light on him but he will mend again She confessed also that her Mother and she and her Sister contrived so to bewitch the Earl and his Countess that they might have no more Children for turning her out of the Castle at which her Mother was so inraged that she swore dreadfully to be revenged Her malice increasing because she thought the Earl did not take her part against one Peak who had abused her whereupon they took Wooll out of the bed the Lady had given her and a pair of Gloves of the Earls and put them into warm water mingled with bloud stirring it together and then taking them out rubb'd them on Rutterkin her Imp saying The Lord and the Lady should have more Children but it would be long first She likewise confest that she brought her Mother a piece of the Lady Katherines Handkercher and her Mother put it in water and rubb'd it on her Spirit bidding him fly and go whereupon he whined and cryed mew at which she said That Rutterkin had no power over the Lady Katherine to hurs her She also acknowledged that she had two Familiar Spirits sucking on her one white and the other black and spotted the white suckt under her breast and the black in the lower parts of her body When she first entertained them she promised them her Soul and they covenanted to do all the mischief she commanded them Lastly she confessed that Jan. 30. four Devils appeared to her in Lincoln Jayl about twelve a Clock at night one standing at her bed-side with a black head like an Ape and spoke to her but the words she could not understand at which she was very angry because he spoke not plainer that she might know his meaning the other three were Rutterkin little Robin and Spirit and that she never feared she should lose her life nor suspected their treachery till that time About the same time Joan Willimot of Goadby a Witch was examined by Sir Henry Hastings and Dr. Fleming Justices in Leicestershire about the murder of Henry Lord Ross who declared that Joan Flower told her the Earl of Rutland had dealt badly by her and had put away her Daughter and though she could not have her will of my Lord himself yet she had sped my Lords Son and had stricken him to the heart She further confessed that to her own knowledge my Lords Son was struck with a white Spirit and that she can cure those who send to her and that some reward her for her pains and or others she takes nothing Acknowledging that she had a Spirit which she called Pretty given her by William Berry of Langholm in Rutlandshire to whom she was a servant three years and that when her Master gave it her he bid her open her mouth and he would blow a Fairy into her which should do her good and accordingly he blowed into her mouth and soon after there came a Spirit out of her mouth which stood on the ground in the form of a woman who asked her to give her Soul to her which she then promised by the instigation of her Master She said she never hurt any body but helpt divers who were bewitcht and that her Spirit came to her weekly giving her an account who were thus afflicted and that the night before it came like a woman mumbling somewhat she could not understand And being asked whether she were not in a dream she affirmed she was awake as much as at that instant Another time her Spirit told her there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her Soul to the Devil and that her Spirit did then appear in a more hideous form than it had formerly done and much urged her to give it something though but a piece of her Girdle saying it had taken great pains for her but she refused to give it any thing She said further that John Pachet whose child was bewitcht to death might have had it alive if he would have sought help in time and that Pachets Wife had an evil thing within her which would make an end of her which she knew by her Girdle and accordingly she died soon after And that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in Leicestershire a Shepherd had a Spirit like a Mouse which went into his Body at the time he contracted to give his Soul to the Devil after which if he lookt maliciously upon any thing it received hurt thereby and that he had a mark on his left arm which was cut away of which her own Spirit inform'd her before he left her Upon a second Examination she confest that Joan Flower and her Daughter Margaret met together about a week before their apprehension in Black-borrow Hill and went thence to Joan Flowers house where she saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owl and one of them suckt her right ear as she thought and Joan told her that her Spirits had promised she should neither be hanged nor burnt and then took up some earth and spit upon it working it with her Fingers and put it into her purse saying Though she could not hurt the Lord himself yet she had sped his Son who is dead Another Witch called Ellen Green of Stathorn in Leicestershire was examined about that time by the same Justices who confessed that Joan Willimot abovenamed came to her about six years since and perswaded her to forsake God and betake her self to the Devil to which she consented who then called two Spirits one like a young Cat which she named Puss and the other in the shape of a Mole which she called Hiff Hiff who instantly came and Willimot going away left them with her after which they leapt on her shoulder the Kitling sucking her neck under her right ear and the Mole under her left in the same place After which she sent the Kitling to a Baker in the Town who had called her Witch and struck her bidding it go and bewitch him to death and the Mole she sent to Ann Daws of the same Town upon the same errand because she had called her Witch Whore and Jade and within a Fortnight after they both died After which she sent them to destroy two Husbandmen named Willison and Williman who died both in ten days These four she murdered while she dwelt at Waltham When she removed to Stathorn where she now dwelt upon a difference between her and one Pachets Wife a Yeoman there Joan Willimot called her to go and touch Pachets Wife and Child which she did touching the Woman in bed and the Child in the Midwives arms and then sent her Spirits to bewitch them to death the woman languished a month before she died but the Child lived only till next day after she had touched

Spirit struck her on 〈◊〉 side as she sate with such violence that she spit Blo●●● after it The Minister of the Parish coming afterward to the house sent her over to Gote in the Isle of Osteroe from which time they have perceived nothing of any Spirit or disturbance Ibidem p. 163● LII THE same Author gives this following Relation ● It happened about fifty years ago that them lived a Tenant called Simon Simonson in the ancient Bishops House of Kirkeloe whereunto belongs a little Island under Sandoe called Hode whereon Oxe● feed Winter and Summer There was found on this Island an Oxe which did not belong to the Farmer nor to any man of the Countrey therefore the Bayliff challenged the propriety of it in the Kings name and commanded the Farmer to bring him the said Oxe which he prepared to do he with all his Servants taking a great deal of pains before they could overcome him and lay him bound in the boat Which at length they did and departed from the I●●and in very calm weather yet was he and all his people carried away by the Oxe or rather the Devil 〈◊〉 that shape and never more heard of The Boat wherein they were came back empty safe and whole wi●h all the oars to land so that there was no sign at 〈◊〉 they could perish in any other manner Further 〈◊〉 the Countreyman had taken with him into the 〈◊〉 three of his own Oxen which were found swim●●ing in the Sea near the Boat and taken up a 〈◊〉 This happened as is well known to all understanding old people in the year 1617. Ibidem p. 351. LIII THE following account is likewise given by this Author Whilst Mr. Taalle was Minister in 〈◊〉 it happened that one of his Parishioners was ●●ned away He was a young man who was just 〈◊〉 to be married all things being prepared for that ●●pose and the Minister arrived the Saturday be 〈◊〉 at the Parish when the Bridegroom was sud●●ly missing they sent people to look after him 〈◊〉 he could no where be found The Minister defind his Friends to be satisfied for he was certain he 〈◊〉 come again which he did at last and related That the Spirit which led him away appeared in the 〈◊〉 of a very beautiful woman richly clothed who 〈◊〉 him to forsake her whom he designed to ●●rry and to consider how ugly his Mistriss was in ●●parison of her and what fine apparel she had 〈◊〉 declared likewise that he saw the men who sought 〈◊〉 him and that they went very near him but 〈◊〉 not see him and that he heard them calling in and yet had not power to answer them but that 〈◊〉 she could by no arguments perswade him to ●●sent to her desire he was again set at liberty and ●●arped home Ibidem p. 35. LIV. ANother Relation this Author gives Mr. Era●mus Ganting Minister of Waagoe whose Son Mr. John Erasmusson was my Predecessor in Thorshever his daughter named Christine being young went one summers day in the absence of her Father to play in the Fields with her other young Brothers and Sisters As they were playing there came to them a 〈◊〉 running in the grass fluttering with her wings and the Children running after the Duck this Girl ran before them and coming behind an house after the Duck they saw neither of them any more neither knew what was become of the Child whereupon the Father being come home and hearing it was very much troubled seeking after her with great care but could hear of her no where At last he sought the assistance of Heaven by prayers and invocations and going again into the Field made a more strict sear●h though to no purpose Eight days after she was 〈◊〉 he found her unhurt and warm lying asleep wrap● with her headcloth about her head upon a rock above an hundred fathoms high just at the brint 〈◊〉 it He took her home with him but when she 〈◊〉 to her self she could give no accoont of the mat●● saying only That a great man carried her away wh●● she thought had been her Father When she came t● years she was of a weak understanding yet was maried in the Countrey and had many Children She died a few years since her mother and three 〈◊〉 being yet living Idem Ibid. LV. OUR Daenish Historian Saxo Grammaticus said the same Author is much blamed by Forreign Writers for having amongst other things inserted in his History some accidents that seem incongruous to reason especially how King Hading was led away under the Earth by a Spirit in the figure o● a woman and yet came back again It may likewise chance that the Ingenious Reader will blame me as relating Fables but I know certainly what I write did happen though we cannot comprehend it by reason of which as I have already given some Instances I shall now add a few more of the same kind In 1665. it happened that a Farmers daughter in Kalsoe 〈◊〉 marriageable Maid went in the evening from her 〈◊〉 and was lost so that she was never found since Neither was there any likelyhood she should be ●●owned the Sea being far from the House and she never having discovered any Melancholy thoughts which should induce her to destroy her self Likewise not many years since one Jonas Soideman in Ser●●ag in this Countrey was kept by Spirits in a Mountain for the space of seven years and at last came back but lived afterwards in great fear and perturbation of mind lest they should again take him away so that he was forced to be watcht in the night upon that account and at length out of dread there 〈◊〉 he removed from thence to Bergen in Norway ●●d about thirty years since it happened that a woman of Westmans Haven in Stremoe was carried away who yet by the earnest prayers of the Congregation was found again the eight day after she was lost but 〈◊〉 and yet warm lying in the midst of an high●ay Ibidem p. 257. LVI THE last Relation this Author gives is as follows Satan hath sometimes endeavoured by special ●●ons and Learning to seduce the Inhabitants of these Islands from the true word of God For it happened in 1667 that Jacob Oluffson being then at 〈◊〉 in Osterne in the twenty fourth year of his age January 7. fell sick and kept his bed a fortnight and Jrenery 20. The fourteenth day of his disease being 〈◊〉 at night as he lay asleep there came one into 〈◊〉 with shining garments whereat he wak't and ●●●ceived him in that Shape in the bed by him the 〈◊〉 appearing full of Splendor He gave the young ●an a serious salutation asking him where his pain was whereunto the young man answered nothing afterward he stroked him with his hand along the breast and round about whereby this young man was presently healed He then enjoined him to say a Prayer thrice every day pronouncing the Prayer three times to him whereby the young man learnt it instantly it was