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... its internal rooms and halls . At first , she seemed to enter a splendid hall , on the ceiling of which were painted the half - moon and many stars . Then a door conducted her to a great saloon , which 36 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... its internal rooms and halls . At first , she seemed to enter a splendid hall , on the ceiling of which were painted the half - moon and many stars . Then a door conducted her to a great saloon , which 36 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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Joseph Ennemoser Mary Botham Howitt. a door conducted her to a great saloon , which was of an oval shape , like the building . Round the hall , at about a foot from the walls , stood eighteen beds or couches for the sick , or rather for ...
Joseph Ennemoser Mary Botham Howitt. a door conducted her to a great saloon , which was of an oval shape , like the building . Round the hall , at about a foot from the walls , stood eighteen beds or couches for the sick , or rather for ...
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... doors of houses and temples , on tombs , and in the streets in great numbers , and thence σrpopaíos , the door - keeper , the Latin index , the German touch - stone ( Hermes had turned the treacherous Battus into a black stone . ) The ...
... doors of houses and temples , on tombs , and in the streets in great numbers , and thence σrpopaíos , the door - keeper , the Latin index , the German touch - stone ( Hermes had turned the treacherous Battus into a black stone . ) The ...
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... door ; whereupon he astonished his congre- gation by a full account of his adventure from the pulpit . We see from this the perfect agreement with the history of the witch trials ; only here the convulsive paroxysms are by no means so ...
... door ; whereupon he astonished his congre- gation by a full account of his adventure from the pulpit . We see from this the perfect agreement with the history of the witch trials ; only here the convulsive paroxysms are by no means so ...
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... door to the devil . Thus , for in- stance , St. Jerome himself ( Opp . T. iv .; which compare with Horst's Dæmonomagie , i . 55 ) , in the fifth century , had often , from his lively temperament , to fight with the devils in an ...
... door to the devil . Thus , for in- stance , St. Jerome himself ( Opp . T. iv .; which compare with Horst's Dæmonomagie , i . 55 ) , in the fifth century , had often , from his lively temperament , to fight with the devils in an ...
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