ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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476 | William Perry starts having extreme fits after an encounter with an old woman when he was on his way home from school. His fits are so violent that two or three people cannot hold him down.(46)
Appears in:
B., R.. The Boy of Bilson. London: 1622, 46
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1622 | Bilson | Bilston | West Midlands | Staffordshire | England |
480 | William Perry has a fit lasting three days. After drinking holy water, he vomits pins, wool, knotted thread, rosemary, walnuts, feather, and then regains his speech.(48)
Appears in:
B., R.. The Boy of Bilson. London: 1622, 48
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1622 | Bilson | Bilston | West Midlands | Staffordshire | England |
482 | William Perry is determined to have faked his possession for attention and gifts.(55)
Appears in:
B., R.. The Boy of Bilson. London: 1622, 55
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1622 | Bilson | Bilston | West Midlands | Staffordshire | England |
1698 | Joyce Dovey, finding that her Keeper (who had evidently been keeping a written record of her torments), had some kind of written record about her, "fell upon him very violently, and would have taken the paper from him, but he contended with her very toughly." (3-4)
Appears in:
Dalton, James. A Strange and True Relation of a Young Woman Possest with the Devill, by name Joyce Dovey. London: 1647, 3-4
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1622 | Bewdley | Bewdley | Worcestershire | Worcestershire | England |