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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
296
{95b}
From
a
memorandum,
made
by
General
Birch
Reynardson,
of
an
oral
communication
made
to
him
by
Sir
John
Sherbrooke,
one
of
the
two
seers.
{101}
This
is
an
old,
but
good
story.
The
Rev.
Thomas
Tilson,
minister
(non-conforming)
of
Aylesford,
in
Kent,
sent
it
on
6th
July,
1691,
to
Baxter
for
his
Certainty
of
the
World
of
Spirits.
The
woman
Mary
Goffe
died
on
4th
June,
1691.
Mr.
Tilson's
informants
were
her
father,
speaking
on
the
day
after
her
burial;
the
nurse,
with
two
corroborative
neighbours,
on
2nd
July;
the
mother
of
Mary
Goffe;
the
minister
who
attended
her,
and
one
woman
who
sat
up
with
her--all
"sober
intelligent
persons".
Not
many
stories
have
such
good
evidence
in
their
favour.
{103}
Phantasms,
ii.,
528.
{111}
"That
which
was
published
in
May,
1683,
concerning
the
Daemon,
or
Daemons
of
Spraiton
was
the
extract
of
a
letter
from
T.
C.,
Esquire,
a
near
neighbour
to
the
place;
and
though
it
needed
little
confirmation
further
than
the
credit
that
the
learning
and
quality
of
that
gentleman
had
stampt
upon
it,
yet
was
much
of
it
likewise
known
to
and
related
by
the
Reverend
Minister
of
Barnstaple,
of
the
vicinity
to
Spraiton.
Having
likewise
since
had
fresh
testimonials
of
the
veracity
of
that
relation,
and
it
being
at
first
designed
to
fill
this
place,
I
have
thought
it
not
amiss
(for
the
strangeness
of
it)
to
print
it
here
a
second
time,
exactly
as
I
had
transcribed
it
then."--
BOVET.
{118}
Shchapoff
case
of
"The
Dancing
Devil"
and
"The
Great
Amherst
Mystery".
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