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In certain old books you shall find strange mention of witches,

warlocks, succubae, spirits, daemons, and a thousand other powers

of darkness, whose pronounced vocation was the plague of poor

humanity Within these books you ether with many learned disquisitions

upon the same, and most minute and particular descriptions of

witch-reat offence against laws

human or divine, he was said to be possessed of a daemon--that is

to say, he becah, and by

which, the evil rought; thus, when in due season he caed, tortured, or burned, it was inflicted not so much as a

punishment upon him, the man, as to exorcise, once and for all,

the devil which possessed him

In these material, common-sense days, we are wont to smile the

superior snorance

of our forefathers; yet life is oeth up and down in the world, spirits, daemons, and the