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A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight

A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight

by of Edinburgh David Webster

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Compiler
Webster, David, of Edinburgh
Title
A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight With an Original Essay on Witchcraft
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Subject
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
eBook-No.
41928
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41928
Release Date
January 27, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A Collection OF RARE AND CURIOUS TRACTS ON WITCHCRAFT AND THE SECOND SIGHT; — CONTENTS.
  2. 2.AN ORIGINAL ESSAY ON WITCHCRAFT.
  3. 3.News from Scotland:
  4. 4.TO THE READER.
  5. 5.TRUE DISCOURSE
  6. 6.ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE FOREGOING TRANSACTIONS,
  7. 7.ADVERTISEMENT.
  8. 8.EXTRACTS FROM KING JAMES'S DAEMONOLOGIE, CONCERNING SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT .
  9. 9.AN ANSWER OF A LETTER FROM A Gentleman in Fife, TO A NOBLEMAN
  10. 10.AN ANSWER OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN FIFE, &c.
  11. 11.AN ACCOUNT OF AN HORRID AND BARBAROUS MURDER,
  12. 12.A JUST REPROOF TO THE FALSE REPORTS and UNJUST CALUMNIES, IN THE FOREGOING LETTERS.
  13. 13.A COPY OF THE
  14. 14.TRIAL OF ISOBEL ELLIOT, AND NINE OTHER WOMEN.
  15. 15.THE CONFESSIONS OF HELEN TAYLOR IN EYEMOUTH, AND MENIE HALYBURTON IN DIRLTON , ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT, 1649. WITH THE DECLARATION OF JOHN KINCAID, PRICKER. COPIED FROM THE ORIGINALS .
  16. 16.THE CONFESSIOUN OF HELENE TAILZEAR.
  17. 17.THE DEPOSITION OF MENIE HALIBURTOUN.
  18. 18.THE DECLARATION OF JOHN KINCAID.
  19. 19.THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM COKE AND ALISON DICK, FOR WITCHCRAFT.
  20. 20.MINUTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SESSION OF TORRYBURN, IN FIFESHIRE, CONCERNING WITCHCRAFT . WITH THE CONFESSION OF LILLIAS ADIE.
  21. 21.MINUTES, &c.
  22. 22.ΔΕΤΤΕΡΟΣΚΟΠΙΑ OR A BRIEF DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE SECOND SIGHT; COMMONLY SO CALLED.
  23. 23.THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
  24. 24.A SHORT ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
  25. 25.ΔΕΤΤΕΡΟΣΚΟΠΙΑ; OR, A BRIEF DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE SECOND SIGHT, Commonly so Called . — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's note:

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