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The Hartford-shire wonder. Or, Strange news from vvare

being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton the danghter [sic] of Thomas Stretton, of ware in the county of Hartford, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof with many other remarkable things taken from her own mouth and confirmed by many credible witnesses

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  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Witchcraft and folk magic

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Witchcraft, England, Stretton, Jane

Provenance

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject

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being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton the danghter [sic] of Thomas Stretton, of ware in the county of Hartford, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof with many other remarkable things taken from her own mouth and confirmed by many credible witnesses

Open Library record

1669printed for John Clark at the Bible and Harp in West-Smith-Field near the Hospital GateEnglish—No ebook

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openlibrary-edition:OL15423513M
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