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  • Lisa Delrio -- Thanks for the pep talk -- looks like I need to try it again.

    Saved by red beans and rice | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • Delrio, of Boguets, and other writers learned in sorcery; but they fail in their account of succubi.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Much better it were for such patients that are so troubled, to endure a little misery in this life, than to hazard their souls 'health for ever, and as Delrio counselleth,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Formicarium, Delrio, Wierus, etc. But could not get one that mentioned water-babies.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • A female might pretend to believe that she had communicated with and was pregnant by a god, the explication of Delrio being very favorable to the assumption.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • When Lord Evandale reluctantly brought himself to communicate these doubts to the chaplain, in order to obtain his opinion, he could only obtain a long lecture on demonology, in which, after quoting Delrio and Burthoog and De

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Delrio, by far the most learned of all the writers on demonology, vigorously assails Rickius, the only notable

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • Both parties assume that the persons of witches exhibit a preternatural levity — Delrio admitting that something less than fourteen or fifteen pounds was the actual weight which popular belief throughout

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • Unless, then, we suppose Delrio to have been the dupe of some singular and unaccountable delusion on this point, the typanitic affections of the _convulsionnaires_ will not account for the anti-gravitating phenomena ascribed to medieval witchcraft.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • Divination by the crystal is a well-known mediæval practice; and from the accounts of it which Delrio and others have handed down it appears to have resembled, in some remarkable particulars, the method now in use among the soothsayers of Cairo.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

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