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  • Yet as Isaac went forwarde, the Diuell appeared to hym agayne in the lykenesse of an other frendlye person, and forbade hym as before.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Sawyer, the witch of Edmonton, 1621, was taught by the Devil; 'He asked of me to whom I prayed, and I answered him to Iesus Christ, and he charged me then to pray no more to Iesus Christ, but to him the Diuell, and he the

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • In the second place come the Sorcerers and Sorceresses, who are people of a middle condition, and these performe the same kind of adoration with the former, kneeling vpon the ground, but not prostrating themselves as doe the other; although they kisse the hands and feet of the Diuell as the first likewise doe.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • 'Some bring their cursed Sorcery vnto their wished end, by sacrificing vnto the Diuell some liuing creatures, as _Serres_ likewise witnesseth, from the confession of Witches in _Henry_ the fourth of

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Next they goe and worship the Diuell who is seated in a Throne like a Prince.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Diuell co [~m] aundeth them that they shall acknowledge him for their god, cal vpõ him, pray to him, and trust in him. —

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • [Exit.] 888: That such a craftie Diuell as is his Mother

    Cymbeline (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • _Which Doctor was regester to the Diuell_ that sundry times preached at

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

  • Item, the said _Agnis Tompson_ confessed that the Diuell being then at

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

  • Prophane and against all Theologie: the Diuell in his likenes? as vnappeirant, that either God would permit him to come in the shape of his Saintes (for then could neuer the Prophets in those daies haue bene sure, what Spirit spake to them in their visiones) or then that he could fore-tell what was to come there after; for Prophecie proceedeth onelie of GOD: and the Devill hath no knowledge of things to come.

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

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