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BUT is New-England, the only Christian Country, that hath undergone such Diabolical Molestations? No, there are other Good people, that have in this way been harassed; but none in Circumstances more like to Ou•s, than the people of God, in Sweedland. The story is a very famous one; and it comes to Speak English by the Acute Pen of the Excellent and Renowned Dr. Horneck. I shall only Single out a few of the more Memorable passages therein Occurring; and where it agrees with what happened among ourselves, my Reader shall understand, by my inserting a Word of every such thing in Black Letter.

BUT is New-England, the only Christian Countrey, that hath undergone such Diabolical Molestations? No, there are other Good people, that have in this way been harassed; but none in Circumstances more like to Ou•s, than the people of God, in Sweedland. The story is a very •amous one; and it comes to Speak English by the Acute Pen of the Excellent and Renowned Dr. Horneck. I shall only Single out a few of the more Memorable passages therein Occuring; and where it agrees with what happened among ourselves, my Reader shall understand, by my inserting a Word of every such thing in Black Letter.

I. It was in the Year 1669. and 1670. That at Moira in Sweedland, the Devils by the help of Witches, committed a most horrible outrage. Among other Instances of Hellish Tyranny there exercised, One was, That Hundreds of their Children, were usually in the Night fetched from their Lodgings, to a Diabolical Rendezvous, at a place they called, Blockula, where the Monsters that so Spirited them, Tempted them all manner of Ways to ⟨p. 148⟩Associate with them. Yea, such was the perilous Growth of this Witchcraft, that Persons of Quality began to send their Children into other Countries to avoid it.

I. It was in the Year 1669. and 1670. That at Mo•ra in Sweedland, the Devils by the help of Witches, committed a most horrible outrage. Among other Instances of Hellish Tyranny there exercised, One was, That Hundreds of their Children, were usually in the Night fetcht from their Lodgings, to a Diabolical Rendezvouz, at a place they called, Blockula, where the Monsters that so Spirited them, Tempted them all manner of Ways to