A sad, amazing and dreadful relation of a farmer's wife, near Wallingford in Barkshire : who abusing her husband, for selling cor[n] cheap to the poor, and wishing, the dev[il] might thrash, the next day found him thrashing in the barn, and was by him thrown o[n] the mow, remaining there in a pitious manne[r] not to be removed, feeding on the ears o[f] corn, and refusing all other food. With her description of the devil; ho[w] he vanished from her, and a great quantit[y] of corn he had thrashed was found black an[d] burned.

Format:

• Book

Series:

• Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Devil--Early works to 1800.
• Devil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by J.W., 1697.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Cropped and tightly bound with some loss of text.
• Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2041:13) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) S226A.

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