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Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S.…
Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts, in a dialogue between S. & B. / By P.E. and J.A.
printed by William Bradford for Hezekiah Usher, 1692
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
S. They are bewitched, and therefore not possessed; there are seven signs of one bewitched, and six of these agree in them.
B. I dispute not that; though I find some to be very confused in this point: but supposing them bewitched, they may be possessed too: and it is an ordinary thing for a possession to be introduced by a bewitching, as there are many instances in History do confirm.
S. 'But they have their fits by times and are out of them again.
B. And yet they may be possessed. Such as were possessed by Devils, on the records of the Gospel History, were so.
S. But there is no Symptom on them, which may not well agree to one that is bewitched, and not possessed.