 | Matthew Arnold - Protestantism - 1924 - 430 pages
...afflicting persons by conveying pins into them, aud crooked, as these pins were, with needles and nails. Aud his opinion was that the Devil in such cases did work...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... | |
 | William P Dunn - 1950 - 193 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...foundation, (that is) to stir up, and excite such humors superabounding in their bodies to a great excess, whereby he did in an extraordinary manner... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1904 - 882 pages
...said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same ways of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them,...foundation, that is, to stir up and excite such humours superaboonding in these bodies to a great excess, whereby he did in an extraordinary manner afflict... | |
 | Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - History - 1997 - 308 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...with Needles and Nails. And his Opinion was, That the Devi! in such cases did work upon the Bodies of Men and Women, upon a Natural Foundation, (that is)... | |
 | Jeremy Schmidt - History - 2007 - 244 pages
...Browne testified during a witch trial in 1 664 that the victims of the accused were indeed bewitched, that "the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation," and that physical disorder itself could be "heightened to a great excess by the subtlety of the devil."18... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - Books - 1866 - 610 pages
...persons as in this case, by conveying crooked pins into them with needles and nails. He further affirmed that the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women upon a natural foundation (that IB), to stir up and excite such humours super abounding in their bodies to a great excess, whereby... | |
 | 1877 - 198 pages
...lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persone, by conveying pina into them, and crooked as these pins were, with needles and nails. And bis opinion WHS, That the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural... | |
 | Medicine - 1907 - 790 pages
...bewitched; and said that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who use the very same way of afflicting persons by conveying pins into them, and crooked pins, as there were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was that the devil in such cases did work... | |
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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,... 
