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  Landscape near Glenluce Scan

  Dr Mark Jardine blog ·from The Devil of Glenluce: the poltergeist in weaver Gilbert Campbell's house, Glenluce, 1654 (1654)
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  Mompesson's letter to William Creed, 6 December 1662, page 1 (Bodleian MS Ballard 1) Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Mompesson's letter to William Creed, 6 December 1662, page 4 (Bodleian MS Ballard 1) Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Mompesson's letter to William Creed, 6 December 1662, page 3 (Bodleian MS Ballard 1) Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Frontispiece of Saducismus Triumphatus, 3rd edition, 1700: the devil drumming over the house Scan

  from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Endorsement on Mompesson's 1662 letter (Bodleian MS Ballard 1) Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Mompesson's letter to William Creed, 6 December 1662, page 2 (Bodleian MS Ballard 1) Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Drummer of Tedworth sketch, 1837, from Legends and Miracles and Other Curious and Marvellous Stories of Human Nature Scan

  James Elimalet Smith ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Illustration from Glanvill's account of the Drummer of Tedworth Scan

  Images reproduced courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries ·from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Historical illustration of the Drummer of Tedworth Scan

  from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Historical illustration of the Drummer of Tedworth Scan

  from The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662) (1662)
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  Devotional image of Our Lady of Laus Scan

  from Our Lady of Laus: the apparitions to Benoîte Rencurel (1664 to 1718) (1664)
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  The shrine of Notre-Dame du Laus Scan

  from Our Lady of Laus: the apparitions to Benoîte Rencurel (1664 to 1718) (1664)
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  Erasmus Francisci's 1680 engraving: Erscheinung einer Seeschlacht in der Luft, gesehen bei Stralsund von sechs Personen im Jahr 1665 Scan

  Deutsche Fotothek / SLUB Dresden ·from The 1665 Air Battle of Stralsund and the Dark Disc over St. Nicholas Church (1665)
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  1665 engraving of the ships in the sky over Stralsund, made from the written description Scan

  Unknown author ·from The 1665 Air Battle of Stralsund and the Dark Disc over St. Nicholas Church (1665)
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  The complete 1665 Leipzig illustrated broadside Von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen Lufft-Kriege und Schiff-streite, with the engraving above the text Scan

  from The 1665 Air Battle of Stralsund and the Dark Disc over St. Nicholas Church (1665)

  Zondem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen Lufft. Kriege und Schiffstreite/ So in diesem 1665. Jahre nach Christi Geburt/den 8. April/umb 2. Vhr nach Wittage/ gey der vornehmen See und Handels-Stadt/Stralsund/oben am Hinmel gefchehen;und aldavon 6.nam- hafftigen Fischern/in richtigen Augenschein genomme…

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  Engraved portrait of Rev. Samuel Willard, frontispiece of A Compleat Body of Divinity (1726) Scan

  Artist unknown ·from The Possession of Elizabeth Knapp (1671)
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  Valvasor's copper engraving of Krinck, 1689, about 17 years after the exhumation Scan

  Johann Weichard Valvasor ·from Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa (1672)
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  Kringa in 2022, probably the memorial plaque Scan

  Richard Auffrey, Passionate Foodie ·from Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa (1672)
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  The modern village of Kringa Scan

  Valamar ·from Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa (1672)
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  Kringa today Scan

  Central Istria Tourist Board (as credited by Total Croatia News) ·from Jure Grando, the štrigon of Kringa (1672)
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  The illustration from the London broadsheet of the giant squid stranded at Dingle in 1673 Scan

  Francis Smith, London, c. 1674 ·from The Dingle "wonderful fish or beast": a giant squid stranded in County Kerry, 1673 (1673)

  A true Relation of a strange Monster that lately was by a Storm, driven a shore at Dingle-I-coth in the County of Kerry in Ireland, with Letters Teftimonial, under the hands of credible Eye-witnesses. To Mr. John Wickins at the Mearmaid in Millstreet, London. Oving Friend, I heard of this following …

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  The Apparitions chapel of the Visitation monastery in Paray-le-Monial, 12 August 2019 Scan

  Krzysztof Golik (Tournasol7) ·from The Sacred Heart apparitions to Margaret Mary Alacoque, Paray-le-Monial (1673)
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  Old artwork of the Theotokos and St Job above the monastery as the battle rages below, a depiction of the legend Scan

  Unknown author, via Wikimedia Commons ·from The Pochaiv apparition: the Mother of God over the besieged monastery, 1675 (1675)
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  Feast icon of the Pochaiv Mother of God Scan

  Orthodox Church in America ·from The Pochaiv apparition: the Mother of God over the besieged monastery, 1675 (1675)
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  Nykodym Zubrytsky's 1704 engraving of the siege and the heavenly figures over the walled monastery Scan

  Nykodym Zubrytsky; reproduced from З української старовини (Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1991), p. 97; original in the Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw ·from The Pochaiv apparition: the Mother of God over the besieged monastery, 1675 (1675)
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  Title page of The Mowing-Devil (1678) with its woodcut of the devil mowing oats in rings Scan

  Anonymous, 1678 ·from The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678) (1678)

  The Mowing - Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford - Shire. Blinding Time Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaintims with a Poor Awerer, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats, upon the Mower's asking too much, the Farmer wrote, That the Devil should Mow it, rather than He. And so it fell out,…

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  The 1678 Mowing-Devil pamphlet Scan

  Patrick Gross, UFOs at Close Sight ·from The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678) (1678)

  The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford-shire. Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half-Acrees of Oats, upon the Mower's asking too much, the Farmer wore, That the Devil could Mow is, rather than He. And to it fell out, that th…

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  The 1679 edition, Strange newes out of Hartfordshire and Kent Scan

  Patrick Gross, UFOs at Close Sight ·from The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678) (1678)

  STRANGE NEWES, OUT OF Hartford-shire, AND KENT. 1. An Account of a Mowing-Devil: being a True Relation of a Farmer who bargain with a poor Bower, about the Cutting down Three half Acres of Oats; upon the Mower's taking too much, the Farmer warns That the Devil should move it, rather than be. And so …

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  The Mowing-Devil title page and woodcut Scan

  Folger Shakespeare Library ·from The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678) (1678)

  The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford-shire. Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats; upon the Mower's asking too much, the Far- mer fwore, That the Devil should Mow it, rather than He: And so it fell out, that…

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  Detail of the woodcut: the devil with a scythe, concentric rings and flames Scan

  Folger Shakespeare Library ·from The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678) (1678)
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  An account of the first UFO sighting in Ireland, 1679 (€1,750): the pamphlet offered for sale by De Búrca Rare Books Scan

  The Irish Times / De Búrca Rare Books ·from Poinstown phantom ship and chariot (1679)
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  The Miera River at Liérganes with the statue of the fish-man Scan

  Aglaya72 (Armando González Alameda) ·from The Fish-man of Liérganes (El Hombre Pez de Liérganes) (1679)
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  The fish-man statue at Liérganes Scan

  Alex J. Judkins/Twitter ·from The Fish-man of Liérganes (El Hombre Pez de Liérganes) (1679)
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  Title page of George Sinclair's Satan's Invisible World Discovered (1685), from the 1871 facsimile Scan

  George Sinclair ·from The Coltheart Haunting of Mary King's Close (1680)

  Satans Invisible WORLD DISCOVERED; OR, A Choice Collection of Modern Relations, proving evidently against the Saduces and Atheists of this present Age, that there are Devils, Spirits, Witches, and Apparitions, from Authentick Records, Attestations of Famous Witnesses, and undoubted Verity. To all wh…

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  Mary King's Close as it appears today Scan

  Photograph courtesy of The Continnuum Group ·from The Coltheart Haunting of Mary King's Close (1680)
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  Marker for John Mason, whose proprietary land claim shaped the island's politics. Scan

  New England Historical Society ·from Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire (1682)

  MASON'S PATENT New Hampshire, as granted by authority of the English Crown to Captain John Mason in 1629, was bounded on the west and north by a curved line 60 miles distant from the sea. The course of this proprietary boundary, called the "Masonian Curve", coincides with the nearby town line betwee…

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  An early New Castle home. Scan

  New England Historical Society ·from Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire (1682)
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  "The Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H." A house or illustration; not confirmed to be the Walton house. Scan

  New England Historical Society ·from Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire (1682)
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  Story image for the Spreyton tale on Legendary Dartmoor (place or illustration) Scan

  Legendary Dartmoor ·from The Demon of Spreyton (1682)
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  Contemporary flyer: the shrouded wolf in Leicht's old home, frightening the tenants. Scan

  Unknown; copy hosted by Bizzarro Bazar ·from The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685) (1685)
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  Broadsheet of 1685 showing the hanged wolf with severed snout, glued human hair and flesh-coloured clothing. Scan

  Unknown author; from Wolfgang Schild, Die Geschichte der Gerichtsbarkeit ·from The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685) (1685)
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  Broadsheet of 1685: the wolf caught in the well, killed by peasants, dressed in human clothes and hanged. Scan

  Unknown author; scan from Wolfgang Schild (Callwey, 1980) ·from The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685) (1685)

  Waarhaftige Begebenheit! Mit einem Verbannten Wolff; welcher im 1685 fern Jahr im Marggrafthum Onolzbach etliche Kinder Weggetragen und ge, fressen, lezlich den g Octobris in einen brümen zu Neüses, beij Eschen, bath gefangen, undertödet; so daim: dieser figür nach, aufgehangen Worden,…

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  Historical illustration of a wolf pit trap, for context only; not this wolf. Scan

  Deutsche Fotothek df_tg_0007825 ·from The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685) (1685)
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  Period engraving of the wolf in a shroud; may duplicate the Begegnung im Haus flyer. Scan

  from The Wolf of Ansbach, the hanged Werewolf of Neuses (1685) (1685)
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  Crossford towards the Mains, the site of the 1686 visions today Scan

  © Lairich Rig ·from Crossford Boat phantom armies on the River Clyde (1686) (1686)
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  Portrait said to be Rev. Samuel Parris; identification unconfirmed Scan

  Artist unknown; Massachusetts Historical Society per Commons ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Samuel Parris archaeological site, May 6, 2006 Scan

  Matthias J. Schoenhofer ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Page from A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore; content not verified Scan

  from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  "The House Where Witchcraft Started" from Kimball's 1892 Witchcraft Illustrated; misidentified, it shows a 1734 addition Parris never lived in Scan

  Henrietta D. Kimball, 1892 ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)