Witchcraft At The Lamb Inn Bristol by Henry Durbin

Witchcraft At The Lamb Inn Bristol

by Henry Durbin

Vance Harvey Publishing, 1971, [First Edition], Limited to 1000 copies, hardcover cloth, guilt titles 

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'These 60 pages reproduce an account (and some related correspondence) of an incident that occurred to two female children of Richard Giles in December of 1761. The children were repeatedly visited by `night spirits' that marked their bodies and disturbed their clothes and their sleep. Durbin, a devout christian supposedly witnessed some of these events first hand. (The text uses the Old English `f' where we prefer an `s.

A facsimile reprint of "A Narrative of Some Extraordinary Things that Happened to Mr. Richard Giles's Children, at the Lamb, without Lawford's-Gate, Bristol, Supposed to be the Effect of Witchcraft"  printed in 1800, along with a new introduction by historian, R. A. Gilbert.'