An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1705
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t f Unhappy Man! What can I fay, I do? How lead my Life ? thus reftlefs to purlue, Still flying Nature, which altho' by chance, May now, and then tie glance, Strait , 'Proteus like , in thoufimd fhapes ftieVdreft, So mocks my Toyle, and frets my penfive Bread. We read of Pentheus, that upon his getting upon a Tree, and making himlelf a Spe&ator of the hidden Sa¬ crifices of Bacchus, he was ftruck with filch a kind of fury , that all things feem'd double to him; two Suns and two Thebes orefented themfelves to a his fight; lo that when he was halt* ing to Thebes, prefently feeing anc - ther 'Thebes, he was drawn back : a- 1 thus he was continually carry ecS m and fro, in a reftlefs Condition . . \ ; ;■ ■' f prefent m’ a lit-