 | Cotton Mather - Religion - 1862 - 320 pages
...Afflicting people, by Conveying Pius and Xails into them. His Opinion was, that the Devil in Witchcrafts, did Work upon the Bodies of Men and Women, upon a Natural Foundation ; and that he did Extraordinarily afflict them, with such Distempers as their Bodies were most subject... | |
 | Witchcraft - 1866 - 358 pages
...Afflidbing people, by Conveying Pins and Nails into them. His Opinion was, that the Devil in Witchcrafts, did Work upon the Bodies of Men and Women, upon a Natural Foundation ; and that he did Extraordinarily' afHict them, with fuch Diftempers as their Bodies were moft fubje6t... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...bewitched ; and said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pius were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was that the Devil in such cases did work upon the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1881 - 402 pages
...same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into them, with needles and nails ; and he thought that the Devil, in such cases, did work upon the bodies of men and women by a natural inundation." An experiment was made by Sergeant Kelynge and several other gentlemen, as... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1883 - 430 pages
...bewitched ; and said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into...bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation, . . . for he conceived that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but what they call the... | |
 | Witchcraft - 1883 - 332 pages
...knowledge, gave it as his deliberate opinion that the girls were bewitched, every one of them, and that " the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies...foundation (that is), to stir up and excite such humours super.ibounding in their bodies to a great excess, whereby he did in an extraordinary manner afflict... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Church of England - 1883 - 460 pages
...bewitched ; and said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into...needles and nails. And his opinion was that the Devil iu such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation, . . . for he conceived... | |
 | Emma Marshall - Authors, English - 1885 - 334 pages
...needles and nails. I say, further, that I believe that the Devil, ever ready to work mischief doth work upon the bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation. I would say, that he doth so stir up and excite such humours, superabounding in their bodies to a great... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1885 - 424 pages
...needles and nails. I say, further, that I believe that the Devil, ever ready to work mischief doth work upon the bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation. I would say, that he doth so stir up and excite such humours, superabounding in their bodies to a great... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton, Lawrence Godkin - Medical jurisprudence - 1894 - 670 pages
...bewitched, and said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into...foundation (that is) to stir up and excite such humours superaboundiug iu their bodies to a great extent, whereby he did in an extraordinary manner afflict... | |
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... he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched; and said, that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pins were,... 
