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  Grands Voyages Part XIII leaf with the engraving of the encounter, c.1627. Scan

  Old World Auctions ·from Richard Whitbourne's Mermaid in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland (1610)
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  The de Bry engraving of Whitbourne's strange creature, an artist's interpretation. Scan

  Theodor de Bry, via Memorial University ·from Richard Whitbourne's Mermaid in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland (1610)
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  Richard Whitbourne encounters a Strange Creature in Newfoundland, engraving from de Bry's America, 1628. An artist's interpretation made from the text. Scan

  Matthäus Merian, from Theodor de Bry's America (1628), via Memorial University of Newfoundland ·from Richard Whitbourne's Mermaid in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland (1610)
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  Plaque to Richard Whitbourne in Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador. Scan

  from Richard Whitbourne's Mermaid in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland (1610)

  RIS 5 SN Se ~'==5" SIRRICHARD WHITBOURNE ~~ ~~ Active in the Newfoundland trade and fishery from 1579, this Devonshire mariner and merchant was an early advocate‘ of colonization. He was commissioned by the High Court of Admiralty ~ in 1615 to investigate conflicts between fishermen and settlers, ~ …

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  Manuscript page 36 of the 1619 inquiry Scan

  Lilly Library / 1762 Archive ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)

  Dic. que Andes C. O. Oración en la que de guiarse donando este momento. Ae auer apreciado la guerilla de canona ma. de bien y de apuesta se feliz 3 mandos tanto han con el batajo y de facade de fuerza guan godado alii crescer del alma bo. de Apere penso al muerto else guo con Cultura de la mima. Cuc…

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  The Sta. Lucia wells at Caysasay Scan

  from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Manuscript page 8 of the 1619 inquiry Scan

  Lilly Library / 1762 Archive ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)

  Regimenes jurat. On forma ami ad eliter mausonis notaria de que basan le afficio fiel y le domine de corno a Pedra Los altos que se reducen de bien Toda Niridal sin aninad. Muster de Vilien Nilso y Experiminado y se le orden del cano do. Do La Pauite On Niridal. Do avuallad y Corinum nomo Dua e do. …

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  Replica statue of Our Lady of Caysasay at Lobo Church, Batangas Scan

  from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Manuscript page 4 of the 1619 inquiry Scan

  Lilly Library / 1762 Archive ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  The image of Our Lady of Caysasay, pine wood, about 27.2 cm, early 17th century Scan

  Photo: Glenn Inocencio, Cultural Center of the Philippines ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Manuscript page 3, the commission for the inquiry Scan

  Lilly Library / 1762 Archive ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Manuscript page 1 of the Información del gran milagro del pueblo de Caysasay, 1619 Scan

  Lilly Library / 1762 Archive ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Church fresco of Juan Maningcad catching the image, later artwork Scan

  Eric Jam, own work ·from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  The Church of Caysasay, Taal, Batangas Scan

  from The spring apparitions of Our Lady of Caysasay (1611)
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  Portrait of Pierre du Moulin Scan

  Wikimedia Commons ·from The Devil of Mâcon (L'Antidémon de Mascon) (1612)
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  Title page of The Devill of Mascon (Oxford, 1658) Scan

  from The Devil of Mâcon (L'Antidémon de Mascon) (1612)

  LANTIDEMON DE MASCON, OV LA RELATION PVRE ET simple des principales choses qui ont elle faires & dites par vn Demon il ya quelques annees dans la ville de Macon en la maison du S. PERREAVD. OPPOSERS A PLVSIVERS FAVSSETZE qui en ont cours ci dusant le nom du Diablo de Mafcon, comme celle qui ont cour…

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  Facsimile of Juan Moreno's 1687 deposition, folios 17v-18 Scan

  Archivo General de Indias, via UC Santa Cruz ·from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)

  Dona misura. Ligue ella fue tan querente quae unpastieren los Velhots Crossellos y Corona decaden fue tan grande la tierra quae uno quid sin Chavo que pasa por mido de la muga La fuerte y venna santa bien a quella U. y pisaura me de la labiata y mora de la tierra y venna desgraba abuña Al luna desgu…

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  Devotional photograph of the statue of Our Lady of Charity at the El Cobre basilica Scan

  from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)
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  Facsimile of Juan Moreno's 1687 deposition, folios 12v-13 Scan

  Archivo General de Indias, via UC Santa Cruz ·from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)

  Mercurio dela Jamaica Cuiy Nilsson pilote y fuerte propiedad sobre propiedad lo siguiente que lequimado Como tellaña, desordre es nacimiento que cada día ropa venida Día: guiseliana bien Minero Negro desordre nacimiento debe el lugar Ligue fíli Caguan debe el lugar y que debe de cada de ocunna y Cin…

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  Rev. Ángel Andrés González saying Mass at La Ermita, Miami, 25 February 2024 Scan

  Marta Lavandier / AP ·from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)
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  Facsimile of Juan Moreno's 1687 deposition, folios 13v-14 Scan

  Archivo General de Indias, via UC Santa Cruz ·from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)

  la della Sollena blando con Marmona la mas Sollena blando destro con frances armas destro Marmona destro sign y dedujo de los y dedujo destro consecrados conma Catho pana la la della Sollena y dedujo destro Catho francia Oraen Oraen Catho sobre la delpima del liqueque quers des consecrados lequeduva…

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  Juan Gonzalez at his home altar in El Cobre, 10 February 2024 Scan

  Ramon Espinosa / AP ·from The Finding of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre: the Three Juanes at Nipe Bay (1612)
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  Portrait of Thomas Morton, 1637, St John's College. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Enthusiasm Delineated (engraved 1761, unpublished), the earlier state of the same plate. Scan

  William Hogarth; British Museum ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  Thomas Morton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who exposed the fraud. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys; St John's College, Cambridge ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762). A shoeblack vomiting hobnails and iron staples is often identified as the Boy of Bilston. Scan

  William Hogarth; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891 ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)

  CREDULITY, SUPERSTITION and FANATICISM. AMEDLEY. Believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they are of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World. Design'd and Engraved by Wm Hogarth. Published as the Act directs March 9th 15th 1762.…

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  Portrait of Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, the Lady in Blue (artwork) Scan

  Marfa Public Radio ·from The Lady in Blue: the Jumano delegation at Isleta and Sor María de Ágreda (1629)
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  Illustration of the Gévaudan wolf, a related case Scan

  John Knifton's blog ·from The Bête du Cinglais: the man-eater of the Forest of Cinglais, Normandy, 1632-1633 (1632)
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  Period engraving of a monstrous beast, dated 1632 on Commons; its link to the Cinglais case is unverified Scan

  Author unknown, via Gallica (BnF) ·from The Bête du Cinglais: the man-eater of the Forest of Cinglais, Normandy, 1632-1633 (1632)
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  "Perhaps Cinglais", an illustrative picture from John Knifton's blog Scan

  John Knifton's blog ·from The Bête du Cinglais: the man-eater of the Forest of Cinglais, Normandy, 1632-1633 (1632)
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  Contemporary 1634 print of the execution of Urbain Grandier at Loudun, reproduced in Legué (1880) Scan

  Unknown artist; Gallica/BnF via G. Legué ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)

  POVRTRAICT REPRESENTANT AV VIE L'EXECVTION FAICTE A LOVDVN EN LA ERSONNE DE VRBAIN GRANDIE R Préftre Curé de S. Pierre & Chanoine de l'Eglise de Saint-Étienne Croix dut lieu, atreint & conduaincu des Crimes de facrilege. Magie, fortilege, maléfice & possession : bruslé tout vif, par Arreilles Iuges …

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  Satirical engraving of the judges of the Loudun devils, about 1752 Scan

  Anonymous; BnF Estampes, Collection Hennin ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  The alleged pact with the devil used at Grandier's trial, page 1, in backwards Latin Scan

  Unknown ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  The execution of Urbain Grandier, an 1886 illustration Scan

  Victor Armand Poirson, in Figuier, Les Mystères de la science ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  Father Surin driving out the demon Isaacarum, an imagined scene from 1886 Scan

  Victor Armand Poirson, in Figuier, Les Mystères de la science ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  Grandier's alleged devil's pact as reproduced in Soldan and Heppe, Geschichte der Hexenprozesse (1911) Scan

  Soldan/Heppe, 3rd edition, vol. 2 ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)

  blutig erschien und die Teufel, obgleich mit großem Wider streben, für die Transsubstantiation Zeugnis ablegten. Der Pater Lactantius starb in Verzweiflung und Raserel; seiner Stelle übernahm der Jesuit Surin die Exorzismen Zahlreiche Schriften erschienen zur Erbauung des Publikums Davina inayilogue…

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  Portrait of Urbain Grandier, date and origin unknown Scan

  Unknown ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  Grandier burned alive at Loudun, a 1701 book illustration from Ludolff's Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt Scan

  Attributed to Caspar Luyken, published by Johann David Zunner; Rijksmuseum ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  Manuscript record of the interrogation of Jeanne des Anges during exorcism, 13 and 14 February 1637 Scan

  Archives nationales (France), AE/II/818 (K//114/22/1) ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)

  CORONA DE MADRID 1821 information faire de办事 par nous. Jean Marie de lausanne d'Albert Conn ord du lieu y est consenti de faire pour la fustiture par la fustiture de M. Andruhy b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. b. …

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  The alleged pact, page 2, with the demons' signatures, as reproduced in the Dictionnaire infernal (1826) Scan

  Collin de Plancy, Dictionnaire infernal ·from The Loudun possessions and the burning of Urbain Grandier (1632)
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  Manuscript of John Winthrop's journal, volume 1 (1630 to 1636). Does not contain the 1639 entry. Scan

  Massachusetts Historical Society ·from James Everell's "great light" over the Muddy River, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1638/39) (1639)
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  Manuscript of John Winthrop's journal, volume 3 (1644 to 1649), which records the 1644 Boston lights. Scan

  Massachusetts Historical Society ·from James Everell's "great light" over the Muddy River, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1638/39) (1639)
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  The 1640 engraving of Our Lady of Luxembourg, Consolatrix Afflictorum, the print Mechel Schrouse recognised in her vision Scan

  Unknown artist, 1640 ·from The Kevelaer apparition: Hendrick Busman's voice and Mechel Schrouse's vision of a lighted shrine, 1641 to 1642 (1641)
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  The Marienbasilika in Kevelaer, 2019 Scan

  from The Kevelaer apparition: Hendrick Busman's voice and Mechel Schrouse's vision of a lighted shrine, 1641 to 1642 (1641)
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  The Gnadenkapelle in Kevelaer with the image, 2019 Scan

  from The Kevelaer apparition: Hendrick Busman's voice and Mechel Schrouse's vision of a lighted shrine, 1641 to 1642 (1641)
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  Erika Rutert's 1989 bronze statue of Hendrick Busmann on Busmannstraße, Kevelaer Scan

  Michael Kramer, 2011 ·from The Kevelaer apparition: Hendrick Busman's voice and Mechel Schrouse's vision of a lighted shrine, 1641 to 1642 (1641)
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  A nun's habit, from René Tiron, Histoire et costumes des ordres religieux (1845); illustration only Scan

  René Tiron ·from The Louviers Possessions: Madeleine Bavent and the Possessed Nuns of Louviers (1642)
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  The Exorcism of Madeleine Bavent in 1643, a 17th-century sketch reproduced in Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within Scan

  Creator unknown ·from The Louviers Possessions: Madeleine Bavent and the Possessed Nuns of Louviers (1642)
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  A drawing showing Protestant settlers attacked by Catholics on Portadown Bridge during the 1641 Irish Rebellion. Shows the massacre, not the apparition. Scan

  Hulton Archive/Getty Images ·from The Portadown Bridge Apparition: the Woman in the River Bann (1643)
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  Jesse Talbot's 19th-century painting Vision of the Phantom Ship, 1647 Scan

  Jesse Talbot; New Haven Historical Society via Wikimedia Commons ·from The Ghost Ship of New Haven: the Great Shippe apparition, 1647 (1647)