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1. The displaying of supposed witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy : but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters

Author(s):: Webster, John, 1611-1682, author
Publication:: London : Printed by J.M. and are to be sold by the booksellers in London, 1677
Subject(s):: Witchcraft
Deception
Delusions

2. An essay on demonology, ghosts and apparitions, and popular superstitions: also, an account of the witchcraft delusion at Salem, in 1692

Author(s):: Thacher, James, 1754-1844
Publication:: Boston : Carter and Hendee, 1831
Subject(s):: Superstitions
Witchcraft
Delusions
Quackery