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Updated: June 11, 2025
Not so was another person who was equally active, ninety years earlier. Bovet, in his Pandaemonium , gives an account of the Demon of Spraiton, in 1682. His authorities were 'J. G., Esquire, a near neighbour to the place, the Rector of Barnstaple, and other witnesses. The 'medium' was a young servant man, appropriately named Francis Fey, and employed in the household of Sir Philip Furze.
During the early eighties John Brinley, Henry Hallywell, and Richard Bovet launched their little boats into the sea of controversy. Brinley was a bold plagiarist of Bernard, Hallywell a logical but dull reasoner from the Bible, Bovet a weakened solution of Glanvill. We turn now from the special literature of witchcraft to a sketch of the incidental evidences of opinion.
For us the topic is rather akin to mythology, and 'folk-psychology, as the Germans call it. We are interested, as will be shown, in a most curious question of evidence, and the value of evidence. It will again appear that the phenomena reported by Glanvill, More, Sinclair, Kirk, Telfair, Bovet, are identical with those examined by Messrs.
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