The compleat wizzard; being a collection of authentic and entertaining narratives of the real existence and appearance of ghosts, demons, and spectres: together with several wonderful instances of the effects of witchcraft, etc. To which is prefixed; an account of haunted houses
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- First published:
- 18th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
304 pages ; (8vo)
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, and Witchcraft and folk magic.
Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.
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Retained metadata contains “demons” in the title and “demons” in the edition title.
- “demons”· in title
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Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and wellcome matched “Ghosts” and “ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “haunted” in the title, “Ghosts” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
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- “Ghosts”· in title
- “haunted”· in title
- “Ghosts”· in subject
- “Ghosts”· in edition title
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1770-01-01T00:00:00Z | London : T. Evans | English | — | Public digitized item |
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- internet-archive:b30529906
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