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Greatrakes declared that he was present at the trial, and that an awl would not penetrate the stool on which the unlucky enchantress was made to stand: a clear proof of guilt. Here, then, we have the second phenomenon which interested the circle at Ragley; the flying about of stones, of Bibles, and other movements of bodies. Among the guests at Ragley, as we said, was Dr.
Woodward's pardon for having, without the slightest intention of offence to him, done so. You will recollect that he himself expressed an anxiety to hear it." "All I say upon the subject," observed the Pythagorean, "is simply this, that Pythagoras himself could not have cured me of the rheumatism as my friend Valentine Greatrakes has done."
Stubbe, 'I observed in his eyes and meene a vivacitie and spritelinesse that is nothing common'. This Miraculous Conformist was the younger son of an Irish squire, and a person of some property. After the Restoration and not before Greatrakes felt 'a strong and powerful impulse in him to essay' the art of healing by touching, or stroking.
In the seventeenth century one Valentine Greatrakes seems to have been the center of such excitements and reported healings as Alexander Dowie and others in our own time and it is finally through the healer rather than the saint or the king or shrine or relic that we approach the renaissance of mental and faith healing in our own time.
At length Barney's countenance assumed an expression of such honest sincerity and feeling that Greatrakes was at once struck by it, and he kept his eye steadily fixed upon him. "Sir," said Barney, "I understand you are a distinguished gentleman and a magistrate besides?" "I am certainly a magistrate," replied Greatrakes; "but what is your object in asking the question, my good fellow?"
"No," said Greatrakes, "I cannot pass it by. In this business it is essential that I should know it." "Ay," replied Barney, "but maybe you have some treacherous design in it, and that you are goin' to take the part of the wealthy scoundrel against the poor man; and even if you did, you wouldn't be the first magistrate who did it." Greatrakes looked keenly at him.
"Barney," said he, "I shall watch the sick bed, and nurse my brother Charles tonight, in order, if possible, to sustain him until Greatrakes cures him to-morrow." "Ah, it's you that is the affectionate brother," replied Barney, who had read deliberate murder in his countenance. "But," he exclaimed, after Woodward had gone, "if you watch him this night, I will watch you.
He then gave him a description of Woodward's having poured the poison or at least what he suspected to be such into the drink which was usually left at the bedside of his brother, and of its effect upon the dog. Greatrakes, on hearing this, drew up his horse, and looking Barney sternly in the face, asked him, "Pray, my good fellow, did Mr. Woodward ever injure or offend you?"
He resisted the impulse, till one of his hands having become 'dead' or numb, he healed it by the strokes of the other hand. From that moment Greatrakes practised, and became celebrated; he cured some diseased persons, failed wholly with others, and had partial and temporary success with a third class.
Valentine Greatrakes will be here to-morrow, and will cure Charles, as he cured Alice Goodwin, and then we will have them married; for if he recovers I am determined on it, and will abide no opposition from any quarter. Indeed, Harry, your mother is now willing that they should be married, and is sorry that she ever opposed it.
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