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共 26 段- But it is not only private life alone, or that tenor of thou
- The phantom with the crutch was only a species of machinery,
- These also appear such natural causes of alarm, that we do n
- In another passage, the practices of those persons termed wi
- It must be noticed, however, that this great event had not t
- Notwithstanding this inferiority on the part of the powahs,
- [Footnote 15: Eyrbiggia Saga, in "Northern Antiquities."]
- From this it will appear that there were originals enough in
- The circumstances attending the disappearance of Merlin woul
- On the 8th November, 1576, Elizabeth or Bessie Dunlop, spous
- At Auldearne, a parish and burgh of barony in the county of
- In this passage the bishop plainly shows the fairies maintai
- Such were the obstacles arising from the vanity of philosoph
- Proceeding to a yet more close attack, the Commissioners, on
- The existence of witchcraft was, no doubt, received and cred
- It was in vain that this unhappy creature endeavoured to ave
- It may be noticed that times of misrule and violence seem to
- The following instance of such illegal and inhuman proceedin
- In many of the Scottish witches' trials, as to the descripti
- [Footnote 74: Sinclair's "Satan's Invisible World Discovered
- Margaret Barclay, wife of Archibald Dein, burgess of Irvine,
- Sir John Clerk, a scholar and an antiquary, the grandfather
- Dr. Lamb, patronised by the Duke of Buckingham, who, like ot
- Our mariner had in his youth gone mate of a slave vessel fro
- The belief of the spectators that such scenes of disturbance
- One story is told of a doctor of physic walking into the fie