Demonologia; or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions. Credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology ... witchcraft, &c / By J.S. F[orsyth].

  • Forsyth, J. S.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Demonologia; or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions. Credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology ... witchcraft, &c / By J.S. F[orsyth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    circumstances, he has authenticated by giving the names of persons and places ; and the account was written for the great festival immediately insti- “tuted in honour of this translation. He informs us of the miraculous manner by which they were so fortunate as to discover the body of this bishop, and the different plans that were concerted to carry it off; with the itinerary of the two monks who ac- companied the holy remains ; during which they were not a little cheered in their long and hazar- dous journey by:visions and miracles. - Another has written a history of what he terms the translation of the relics of St. Majean to the monastery of Villemagne. Translation is, in fact, only a softened expression for the robbery com- mitted on the relics of the saints, by two monks who carried them off secretly, to enrich their mo- nastery; and they did not stick at any artifice, or lie, to achieve their undertaking. 'They imagined every thing was permitted to get possession of these fragments of mortality, which now had be- come such an important branch of commerce. They even regarded their possessors with a hos- tile eye. Such was the religious opinion from the ninth to the twelfth century. Our Canute com- missioned his agent at Rome to purchase St. Au- gustine’s arm for one hundred talents of silver and one of gold! amuch greater sum, observes Gran- ger, than the finust statue of antiquity would then have sold for. Another monk describes a strange act of devotion, attested by several contemporary writers. When the saints did not readily comply U