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The impossibility of witchcraft, : plainly proving, from scripture and reason, that there never was a witch; and that it is both irrational and impious to believe there ever was. In which the depositions against Jane Wenham, lately try'd and condemn'd for a witch, at Hertford, are confuted and expos'd

Wenham, Jane, -1730Witchcraft

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The displaying of supposed witchcraft : wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy : but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters Shares 1 topic The displaying of supposed witchcraft : wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy : but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters Shares 1 topic The Tipperary (or Clonmel) witch case : [transcripts of newspaper reports &c. concerning Bridget Cleary, burned as a witch, and the trial of her husband and neighbours for murder, in 1895] Shares 1 topic Witch stories Shares 1 topic
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.m THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF. WITCHCRAFT, * • ' Plainly proving, From Scripture and ^teafon, That there never was a WITCH- and that it is both Irrational and Im¬ pious to believe there ever was. In which the DEPOSITIONS fane illeHijam, Lately Try’d and Condemn’d for a WITCH, at Hertford \ are Confuted and Expos’d.

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