The History of Witchcraft in Europe. Брэм Стокер

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10 Morax or Foraij 36 Ipos or Ayporos 36 Naberius or Cerberus 19 Glasya Labolas or Caacrinolaas 36 Zepar 26 Bileth 85 Sitri or Bitru 60 Paimon 20 Belial none Bune 30 Forneus 29 Ronoue 19 Berith 26 Astaroth 40 Foras or Forcas 29 Furfur 26 Marchosias 30 Malphas 40 Vepar or Separ 29 Sabnacke or Salmac 50 Sidonay or Asmoday 72 Gaap or Tap 36 Shax or Scox 30 Procell 48 Furcas 20 Murmur 30 Caim 30 Raum or Raim 30 Halphas 26 Focalor 3 Vine none Bifrons 26 Gamigin 30 Zagan 33 Orias 30 Valac 30 Gomory 26 Decarabia or Carabia 30 Amduscias 29 Andras 30 Andrealphus 30 Ose none Aym or Haborim 26 Orobas 20 Vapula 36 Cimeries 20 Amy 36 Flauros 20 Balam 40 Allocer 36 Vuall 37 Saleos none Haagenti 33 Phœnix 20 Stolas 26

      ‘Note that a legion is 6666, and now by multiplication count how manie legions doo arise out of euerie particular,’

      Or a grand total of 14,198,580 devils, not including their commanders.

      How many of these fall to the share of England? I know not, but they were very active in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in the seventeenth. They seem to us, nowadays, to have frittered away their energies in attending on witches, in entering into divers persons and tormenting them, and in making senseless uproars and playing practical jokes. Let us take about half a dozen of these latter. Say, for argument sake, that they are not very abstruse or intellectual reading; at all events, they are as good as the modern stories of spiritual manifestations, and are as trustworthy.

      Chapter III.

       Table of Contents

      ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock’—Metrical Version—Presumed Genuine History of ‘The Just Devil of Woodstock.’

      ‘The

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