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Anonymous 236A man from Goswell Street, London who is the brother-in-law of Anonymous 224, a bewitched woman. Anonymous 236 is allegedly able to capture the evil spirit that has bewitched Anonymous 224 in a stone bottle that hung above the fire, after which he hears a roaring noise coming from the bottle.(6)During the Three Years time that this poor Woman continued in this lamentable condition, she was visited by divers, and several things were applied unto her; and, as tis usual in the Tooth-ach, every one hath a particular Medicine, so in that concourse of people there could not but be many advisers, some to this thing, and some to another, but none that did her any good; till her Brother-in-Law, at whose House she lay, being satisfied that her Affliction proceeded from the malice of the Devils Instruments, on Thursday last being the 13th of this Instant Just 1678. and sitting by a good Fire all alone in the Womans Chamber, he phansied the Evil Spirit to be got into a Stone-Bottle that hung over the Fire; and [damaged text] hours observation, heard with [damaged text] rid noise and roaring, as if a [damaged text] had bellowed all at once[.]()