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• A true and strange relation of a boy,: who was entertained by the devill to be servant to him with the consent of his father, about Crediton in the west, and how the devill carried him up in the aire, and shewed him the torments of Hell, and some of the cavaliers there, and what preperation there was made for Goring and Greenvile against they came. Also how the cavaliers went to robbe a carrier, and how the carrier and his horses turned themselves into flames of fire. With a coppie of a letter from Maior Generall Massie, concerning these strange and wonderfull things, with a certaine box of reliques and crucifixes found in Tiverton church. (London : Printed by J.H., 1645), by Edward Massey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Divell in Kent, or His strange delusions at Sandwitch.: (London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeer M DC XLVII. [1647]), by Thomas Lipeat (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel (London: J. Windet for J. Wolfe, 1599), by Samuel Harsnett (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft As it Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the year 1621, Along With the Only two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to be in Existence (Harrogate: R. Ackrill, 1882), by Edward Fairfax, ed. by William Grainge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Discourse of Witchcraft, As it Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax of Fuystone in the County of York, in the Year 1621: From the Original Copy Written With His Own Hand (ca. 1858), by Edward Fairfax, ed. by Richard Monckton Milnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true relation of the grievous handling of William Sommers of Nottingham being possessed with a devill shewing how he was first taken and how lamentable from time to time he was tormented and afflicted / published by John Darrel ... (Printed at London : by Tho. Harper, 1641), by John Darrel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Most fearefull and strange nevves from the bishoppricke of Dvrham being a true relation of one Margret Hooper of Edenbyres neere the river Darwent in the said bishoppricke : who was most fearfully possessed and tormented with the devill as also in what ugley shape he first appeared unto her how lamentabley she was handled with this evill spirit and at last how wonderfully the Lord delivered her : affirmed by these cridible witnesses there present November the fifteenth 1641, Stephen Hooper, Iohn Hooper, Iohn Gley, Alexander Eglestone, Anthony Westgarth, Alice Egleston and divers others. (London : Printed for Iohn Thomas, 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Prey pluckt out of the mouth of the lion. Or, An account of some passages of providence concerning Thomas Sawdie, &c. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year MDCLXIV. [1664]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• ,The detection of a popish cheat, or, A true account of the invention and discovery of the story of a boys conversing with the devil, which has lately occasioned so much noise and so many reports. (Printed in Dublin and reprinted at London : [s.n.], 1696) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Quakers dream: or the Devil's pilgrimage in England: being an infallible relation of their several meetings, shreekings, shakings, quakings, roarings, yellings, howlings, tremblings in the bodies, and risings in the bellies: with a narrative of their several arguments, tenets, principles, and strange d ctrine [sic]: the strange and wonderful satanical apparitions, and the appearing of the Devil unto them in the likeness of a black boar, a dog with flaming eye, and a black man without a head, causing the dogs to bark, the swine to cry, and the cattel to run, to the great adminration of all that shall read the same. (London, : Printed for G. Horton, and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange, 1655) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true discourse concerning the certaine possession and dispossession of 7 persons in one familie in Lancashire, which also may serve as part of an answere to a fayned and false discoverie which speaketh very much evill, aswell of this, as of the rest of those great and mightie workes of God which bee of the like excellent nature. / by George More, minister and preacher of the worde of God, and now (for bearing witnesse vnto this, and for iustifying the rest) a prisoner in the Clinke, where he hath continued almost for the space of two yeares.. ([Middelburg : Printed by Richard Schilders], 1600), by George More (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Begone Satan! (1935), by Carl Vogl, trans. by Celestine Kapsner (HTML at EWTN)
• Strange Newes, Out of Hartford-Shire and Kent (claimed original publication is London: Printed for R. G., 1679; this copy apparently printed later) (multiple formats at Google)
• Demon possession and allied themes; being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times (F. H. Revell company, 1896), by John L. Nevius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des diables de Loudun, ou, De la possession des religieuses ursulines, et de la condamnation [&] du suplice d'Urbain Grandier curé de la même ville. (Chez Abraham Wolfgang, près de la bourse, 1693), by Aubin and Des Niau, (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soeur Jeanne des Anges, supérieure des Ursulines de Loudun (XVIIe siècle) Autobiographie d'une hystérique possédée (Aux Bureaux du Progrès médical [etc.], 1886), by sœur Jeanne des Anges, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Gabriel Legué, and Bibliothèque municipale de Tours (page images at HathiTrust)
• Occult Japan; or, The way of the gods; an esoteric study of Japanese personality and possession (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demonic possession in the New Testament. (T. & T. Clark, 1902), by William Menzies Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urbain Grandier et les possédées de Loudun (Librairie d'Art de Ludovic Baschet, 125, Boulevard Saint-German, 125, 1880), by Gabriel Legué and Charles Barbier (page images at HathiTrust)
• De antiquorum daemonismo capita duo : commentatio philologica ... (Typis Lipperti et sociorum, 1909), by Julius Tambornino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation sur une épidémie d'hystéro-démonopathie épidémie (A. Delahaye, 1863), by A. Constans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le diable, ses paroles, son action dans les possédés d'Illfurt (Alsace) : d'après les documents historiques (Arthur Savaète, 1921), by Paul Sutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die besessenheit. (Wendt & Klauwell, 1921), by Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (page images at HathiTrust)
• De daemoniacis in historia evangelica : dissertatio exegetico-apologetica quam exaravit (Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1913), by Johannes Smit (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of Saul, shewing that his disorder was a real spiritual possession ... First printed in the year 1777, as an appendix to A tract on the law of nature and principles of action in man. To which is added, a short tract wherein the influence of demons are further illustrated by remarks on I Timothy iv. 1-3. (Printed by W. Calvert for Vernor and Hood [etc.], 1807), by Granville Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• De antiquorum daemonismo capita duo (s.n., 1909), by Julius Tambornino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tres días con los endemoniados; la España desconocida y tenebrosa. (Editorial Cenit, 1929), by Alardo Prats (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the demoniacs of the New Testament. (Printed by R. Taylor and Co., and sold by J. Johnson, 1805), by Hugh Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The extraordinary affliction, and gracious relief of a little boy; supposed to be the effects of spiritual agency. Carefully examined, and faithfully narrated, with observations on demoniac possession, and animadversions on superstition. (Williams, 1822), by James Heaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de Nicole de Vervins d'après les histoires contemporains et témoins oculaires; ou, Le triomphe du Saint Sacrement sur le démon à Laon en 1566. (H. Plon, 1863), by Joseph Roger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les démoniaques dans l'art (Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1887), by J. M. Charcot and Paul Richer (page images at HathiTrust)
• De daemoniacis in historia Evangelica. Dissertatio exegetico-apologetica ... (Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1913), by Johannes Smit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu; ou Histoire des diables de Loudun, de la possession des religieuses ursulines, et de la condamnation & du suplice d'Urbain Grandier curé de la même ville. (Aux dépens d'Etienne Roger, 1716), by b. ca. 1655 Aubin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Procès verbal fait pour délivrer une fille possédée par le malin esprit à Lovviers : publié d'après le manuscrit original et inédit de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Aux bureaux du Progrès Médical, 1883), by Armand Eugène Bénet and B. de Moray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demonism verified and analyzed (The author;, 1922), by Hugh Watt White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chez Satan : pages a l'index : possession (s.n.], 1913), by René Schwaeblé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satans Macht und Mirken in zwei besessenen Kindern. (W. Eckmann, 1921), by Paul Sutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunted house, a true ghost story being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire Dominion as the great Amherst mystery ("Daily News", 1879), by Walter Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• De antiquorum daemonismo, scripsit Julius Tambornino. (A. Töpelmann, 1909), by Julius Tambornino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demon possession and allied themes : being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times (Fleming H. Revell, 1896), by John L. Nevius, Frank F. Ellinwood, Henry William Rankin, and William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Way of the gods (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1894), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Straunge newes out of Sommersetshire. (Robbins, 1886), by Ernest Edward Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les possédées noires. (Impr. Schiller, 1894), by Henry Meige and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Névroses et possessions diaboliques. (Bloud et Barral, 1898), by Ch. Hélot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barbe Buvée en religion, soeur Sainte-Colombe et la prétendue possession des Ursulines d'Auxonne (1658-1663) (Paris, 1895), by Samuel Garnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demon possession and allied themes; being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times (F. H. Revell company, 1894), by John Livingston Nevius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soeur Jeanne des Anges supérieure des ursulines de Loudun (XVIIe siècle) : autobiographie d'une hystérique possédée d'après le manuscrit inédit de la Bibliothèque de Tours [ms. 1197] (Aux Bureaux du Progrès medical, 1886), by mère Jeanne des Anges, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Gabriel Legué, and Bibliothèque municipale de Tours (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prayers to expel the evil spirits. (J.S. Paluch Co., 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoiren einer Besessenen (R. Lutz, 1911), by sœur Jeanne des Anges and Hanns Heinz Ewers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Demonic possession in the New Testament : its relations, historical, medical, and theological (T. & T. Clark, 1902), by William Menzies Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Triomphe du Saint Sacrement (Plon, 1863), by Joseph Roger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A critical dissertation concerning the words daímon and daimónion : occasion'd by two late enquiries into the meaning of demoniacks in the New Testament (London : Printed for J. Crokatt, 1738., 1738), by John Swinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the demoniacs of the New Testament. (London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor, 1818., 1818), by Hugh Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards vindicating the literal sense of the demoniacks : in the New Testament. (Printed by J. Bettenham, and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1737), by Thomas Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• A strange and true relation of a young woman possest with the Devill, by name Joyce Dovey ... with a particular of her actions, and how the evill spirit speakes within her, giving fearefull answers unto those ministers and others that come to discourse with her / as it was certified in a letter from Mr. Iames Dalton unto Mr. Tho. Groome ... ; also A letter from Cambridge, wherein is related the late conference between the Devil ... and one Ashbourner, a scholler of S. Johns Colledge ... (Imprinted at London : by E.P. for Tho. Vere ..., 1647), by James Dalton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Quakers shaken, or, A discovery of the errours of that sect by John Gilpin, of the town of Kendale in Westmoreland, who was once one of the said sect, and afterwards by Gods grace left the same ; attested by the major and pastour of Kendale, and diverse others. (Printed at London, and re-printed at Edinburgh : [s.n.], 16[55]), by John Gilpin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Strange news from Arpington near Bexly in Kent being a true narrative of a young maid who was possest with several devils or evil spirits, one of which, by the prayers of a pious and religious doctor, who came to visit her, was fetcht out of her body and appear'd in the room in the likeness of a large snake, and twisted it self about the doctors neck whilst he was at his devotion : with an account also of other devils which yet remain in her, and reveal several strange things, the like never heard before, of which the contents within will give you a particular account / this narrative is attested by several persons of credit, but amongst many others by one Mrs. Hopper ... (London : Printed for R. G., 1679), by Mrs Hopper (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of the boy of Bilson, or, A true and particular relation of the imposter Susanna Fowles wife of John Fowles, of Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, who pretended her self to be posses'd with the Devil : giving an exact account of the beginning, progress, conferences, discovery, commitment, confession, &c. of the said imposter / the whole being writ and attested by Robert Howson, clerk, Captain John Ponsey, and Mr. Nicholas Wade, who were frequently with her during the time of her pretended possession, and before whom she made the confession herein contained, as also by a great number of clergy, both conformists and nonconformists mentioned in the following narrative. (London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock ..., MDCXCVIII [1698]), by Robert Howson, John Ponsey, and Nicholas Wade (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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