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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
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Joan Willimott alleges during her examination that she has a spirit named Pretty, given to her three years prior while in the service of William Berry in Langholme. She claims that Berry asked her to open her mouth and blew into her "Fairy which should doe her good." The spirit emerged from her mouth in the form of a woman and asked for her soul, which she gave readily at Berry's urging.(E3v)

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1615   Langholme  Rutland  Rutlandshire  England 
1957

Robert Potter Jr. is allegedly bewitched by Mary Sterling; he dies within a month.(http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=341126)

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1645   Langholme  Rutland  Rutlandshire  England 
2380

In the house of Mr. Beecham, the rector of Branston, "it was frequently observed, that a Tobacco-pipe would move it self from off a Shelf at one end of the Room, to another Shelf at the other end of the Room." This was done without any visible help or source. (155)

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1665 Branston  Braunston-in-Rutland  Rutland  Rutland  England 
2381

Upon hearing of a "pipe of tobacco" which mysteriously "would move it self off a Shelf at one end of the Room, to another Shelf at the other end of the Room," without any visible help in the home of Mr. Beecham, the rector of Braunston-in-Rutland, Mr. Mun, the rector of Stockerson in Leicestershire, came to visit. He "took a Pipe of Tobacco in that Room," but instead of the pipe moving, "a great Bible [...] moved it self off from a Desk at the lower end of the Room, and cast it self into his Lap." The Bible opens to Genesis 3.15, where it says, "Satan; I'll shew thee they Doom: The See of the Woman shall break the Serpent's Head. Avoid Satan."(155)

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1665 Branston  Braunston-in-Rutland  Rutland  Rutland  England