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A

RELATION

OF THE

Strange Witchcraft

Discovered in the

Village Mohra in Swedeland,

Taken out of the publick Register of the Lords Commissioners appointed by his Majesty the King of Sweden to examine the whole business, in the Years of our Lord 1669. and 1670.

The News of this Witchcraft coming to the King's Ear, his Majesty was pleased to appoint Commissioners, some of the Clergy, and some of the Laity, to make a Journey to the Town aforesaid, and to examine the whole business; and accordingly the Examination was ordered to be on the 13th of August; and the Commissioners met on the 12th, instant, in the said Village, at the Parson's House, to whom both the Minister and several people of fashion complained with tears in their Eyes, of the miserable condition they were in, and therefore begg'd of them to think of some way, whereby they might be delivered from that Calamity. They gave the Commissioners very strange Instances of the Devil's Tyranny among them; how by the helpof