item: #1 of 6
          id: 12890
      author: Spalding, Thomas Alfred
       title: Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works
        date: None
       words: 42682
      flesch: 66
     summary: Names of greater devils. Of the twenty devils mentioned by Shakspere, four only belong to the class of greater devils.
    keywords: account; act; belief; day; devils; evidence; footnote; form; god; gods; good; hamlet; hand; harsnet; iii; influence; king; life; macbeth; man; men; mind; opinion; people; period; play; possession; power; present; question; scot; second; shakspere; sisters; spirits; subject; thought; time; witchcraft; witches; words; work; world
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 14461
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
        date: None
       words: 109923
      flesch: 51
     summary: A woman, supposed to be the victim of the male sorcerer at the bar, vomited pins in quantities, and those straight, differing from the crooked pins usually produced at such times, and less easily concealed in the mouth. Stewart, who was first apprehended, acknowledged that Margaret Barclay, the other suspected person, had applied to him to teach her some magic arts, in order that she might get gear, kye's milk, love of man, her heart's desire on such persons as had done her wrong, and, finally, that she might obtain the fruit of sea and land.
    keywords: account; accused; apparition; appearance; author; belief; believe; case; character; charge; children; church; circumstances; confession; country; course; court; crime; day; death; degree; devil; england; evidence; existence; fairies; fairy; faith; family; footnote; form; friend; general; ghost; god; good; hand; house; human; imagination; influence; instances; james; john; kind; king; knowledge; lady; law; length; life; long; lord; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; new; night; occasion; patient; people; period; persons; place; power; present; purpose; reason; satan; scotland; scottish; sense; sorcery; species; spirits; state; story; subject; superstition; time; trial; truth; way; witchcraft; witches; woman; world; years
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 29412
      author: Calmet, Augustin
       title: The Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.
        date: None
       words: 194433
      flesch: 67
     summary: This is a kind of momentary resurrection, or revival; for whereas the other dead persons spoken of in Scripture have lived, drank, eaten and conversed with other men after their return to life, as Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha,[450] and the son of the widow of Shunem, resuscitated by Elisha.[451] These appeared during a certain time, in certain places, in certain circumstances; and appear no more as soon as they have been impaled, or burned, or have had their heads cut off. In the same place he quotes Heraclius, who says that the Nasamones, people of Africa, pass the night by the tombs of their near relations to receive oracles from the latter; and that the Celts, or Gauls, do the same thing in the mausoleums of great men, as related by Nicander. Lucan says[173] that the magicians, by their spells, cause thunder in the skies unknown to Jupiter; that they tear the moon from her sphere, and precipitate her to earth; that they disturb the course of nature, prolong the nights, and shorten the days; that the universe is obedient to their voice, and that the world is chilled as it were when they speak and command.[174] They were so well persuaded that the magicians possessed power to make the moon come down from the sky, and they so truly believed that she was evoked by magic art whenever she was eclipsed, that they made a great noise by striking on copper vessels, to prevent the voice which pronounced enchantments from reaching her.[175] These popular opinions and poetical fictions deserve no credit, but they show the force of prejudice.[176]
    keywords: acts; air; ancient; angels; animals; apparitions; author; bed; bishop; blood; bodies; body; book; cause; chapter; christ; church; circumstances; contrary; country; day; days; dead; death; demon; devil; doubt; earth; effects; end; eyes; fact; father; fire; footnotes; form; general; ghosts; girl; god; going; good; grave; greeks; ground; hand; head; history; holy; house; imagination; instances; jesus; john; kind; king; left; letter; lib; life; living; lord; magic; magicians; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; moment; nature; near; night; noise; number; opinion; order; people; permission; persons; place; possessed; possession; power; prayers; presence; present; priest; prince; read; reality; reason; return; sabbath; secret; sorcerers; souls; speak; spectre; spirit; state; subject; things; thought; time; town; truth; vampires; water; way; wished; witches; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 37111
      author: Fitz-Gerald, S. J. Adair (Shafto Justin Adair)
       title: The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
        date: None
       words: 21289
      flesch: 86
     summary: What_ is the matter with you, Mr Zankiwank? A Trip to Fable Land Well, said the Zankiwank as he swallowed another jam tart, I think we had better start on our travels at once.
    keywords: birds; bletherwitch; children; course; day; fairies; flowers; garden; good; illustration; jackarandajam; land; love; maude; round; sleep; song; sweet; things; time; train; want; way; weather; willie; zankiwank
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 40686
      author: Conway, Moncure Daniel
       title: Demonology and Devil-lore
        date: None
       words: 269095
      flesch: 68
     summary: Shakespeare ascribes to Cæsar a suspicion of leanness-- Yond' Cassius hath a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Such men have so long left the Church familiar to the French peasantry that any representation of their temptations and trials would be out of place among the marionettes.
    keywords: account; adam; ages; ahriman; air; angels; animal; bear; beauty; beings; belief; beneath; bible; black; blood; body; book; burning; case; cat; century; certain; chapter; character; chief; children; christian; church; come; common; country; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deities; deity; demons; devil; divine; dog; doubt; dragon; earth; egypt; england; english; europe; eve; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; family; father; faust; fear; feet; fiery; figure; find; fire; following; form; ghost; god; gods; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; hell; hindu; history; holy; house; human; idea; india; jehovah; jesus; jews; job; kind; king; knowledge; land; law; left; legend; life; light; like; lilith; living; long; look; lord; love; man; mankind; meaning; means; men; mephistopheles; mind; monster; moon; moral; mother; mountain; myth; mythology; names; nature; near; new; north; number; order; origin; paradise; people; period; picture; place; power; present; priests; prince; race; read; reason; red; regions; religion; round; sacrifice; satan; says; science; sea; sense; serpent; set; shape; sin; snake; son; soul; spirit; stone; story; sun; superstition; sword; terror; thee; theology; theory; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; truth; universe; vision; war; water; way; white; wife; wild; witches; wolf; woman; words; work; world; worm; worship; years
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 43651
      author: Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
       title: Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
        date: None
       words: 49155
      flesch: 64
     summary: Though the first half of the seventeenth century is so barren with respect to _witchcraft_, yet it should be noticed that during that period we come across frequent notices of ghosts, apparitions, devils, &c., which forces us to the conclusion that the increase of the belief in such subjects at that time was almost entirely due to the advent of the Cromwellian settlers and the Scotch colonists in Ulster; indeed the beliefs of the latter made the Northern Province a miniature Scotland in this respect. But when once the suspicion of _witchcraft_ arose the ejection of such an extraordinary collection of miscellaneous articles followed quite as a matter of course--it would, so to speak, have been altogether against the rules of the game for the girl to have got rid of anything else at that particular date.
    keywords: account; belief; bishop; case; century; chapter; children; co.; country; court; dame; day; death; devil; doubt; england; florence; following; god; hand; history; house; ireland; irish; james; john; king; lord; maid; man; mary; matter; men; newton; night; people; period; persons; place; present; sorcery; spirit; things; time; trial; way; witchcraft; witches; woman; words; years
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