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Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity

To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c

by George Sinclair

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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First published in 1685

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Occultism and esotericism, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “witches” in the title, “witches” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “witches”· in title
    • “witches”· in subtitle
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “witches”· in edition title
    • “witches”· in edition subtitle
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and wellcome matched “Demonology” and “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Demonology”· via Open Library
    • “demonology”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Demonology”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and wellcome matched “Apparitions” and “apparitions”. Retained metadata contains “Apparitions” in the title, “Apparitions” in the subject metadata, and “Apparitions” in the edition title.

    • “Apparitions”· via Open Library
    • “apparitions”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Apparitions”· in title
    • “Apparitions”· in subject
    • “Apparitions”· in edition title

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To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

4 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; (12mo)

1814London : Printed for the Booksellers; Printed for the BooksellersEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Scanner: scribetteu10
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL17649187W
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