About This Book
A collection of contemporary relations and attestations recounts alleged encounters with devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions drawn from court records, witness testimony, and popular report. Presented as individual narratives, the pieces describe supposed bewitchments, spectral visitations, miraculous cures, confessions, and prosecutions, alongside folk prayers and charms used to combat maleficence. Several extended episodes detail how communities investigated suspicious events and identified alleged practitioners, while other entries record isolated uncanny happenings and their social consequences. The compilation conveys the period’s explanatory framework for misfortune through reported incidents rather than systematic analysis.
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