Girls of
twelve or thirteen are usually implicated in these affairs. Hetty was
probably several years older.
{220} 30th January, 1717.
{221} Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus, 1726. Preface to part ii.,
Mompesson's letters.
{222} Gentleman's Magazine, November, December, 1872.
{223} This happened, to a less degree, in the Wesley case, and is not
uncommon in modern instances. The inference seems to be that the
noises, like the sights occasionally seen, are hallucinatory, not
real. Gentleman's Magazine, Dec., 1872, p. 666.
{229} S.P.R. Proceedings, vol. xii., p. 7.
{232} Demon Possession in China, p. 399. By the Rev. John L. Nevius,
D.D. Forty years a missionary in China. Revel, New York, 1894.
{233a} Translated from report of Hsu Chung-ki, Nevius, p. 61.
{233b} Nevius, pp. 403-406.
{234} Op. cit., p. 415. There are other cases in Mr. Denny's
Folklore of China.
{239a} The Great Amherst Mystery, by Walter Hubbell. Brentano, New
York, 1882. I obtained some additional evidence at first hand
published in Longman's Magazine.
{239b} The sources for this tale are two Gaelic accounts, one of
which is printed in the Gael, vol.
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