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A55138 A pleasant treatise of witches their imps, and meetings, persons bewitched, magicians, necromancers, incubus, and succubus's, familiar spirits, goblings, pharys, specters, phantasms, places haunted, and devillish impostures : with the difference between good and bad angels, and a true relation of a good genius / by a pen neer the covent of Eluthery. Pen neer the Covent of Eluthery. 1673 (1673) Wing P2564; ESTC R9332 44,947 136

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