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Demon Possession in Elizabethan England (Hardcover, New)
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Demon Possession in Elizabethan England (Hardcover, New)
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In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near
her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that
precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness,
loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling. Mylner's was
the first of several cases during the reign of Elizabeth I of
England that were interpreted as demon possession, a highly
emotional experience in which an afflicted person displays behavior
indicating a state of religious distress. To most Elizabethans,
belief in Satan was as natural as belief in God, and Satan's
affliction of mankind was clearly demonstrated in the physical and
spiritual distress displayed by virtually every person at some
point in his or her life. This book recounts 11 cases of
Elizabethan demon possession, documenting the details of each case
and providing the cultural context to explain why the diagnosis
made sense at the time. Victims included children and adults,
servants and masters, Catholics and Protestants, frauds and the
genuinely ill. Edmund Kingesfielde's wife, possessed by a demon who
caused her to hate her children and to contemplate suicide, was
cured when her husband changed his irreverent tavern sign
(depicting a devil) for a more seemly design. Alexander Nyndge,
possessed by a Catholic demon that spoke with an Irish accent, was
cured by his own brother through physical bondage and violence.
Agnes Brigges and Rachel Pindar, whose afflictions included
vomiting pins, feathers, and other trash, were revealed as frauds
and forced to confess publicly, their parents being imprisoned for
complicity in the fraud. All these cases attest to a powerful need
to ascribe some moral significance to humansuffering. Allowing the
sufferer to externalize and ultimately evict the "demon" as the
cause of his or her affliction bestowed some measure of hope--no
mean feat in a world with such widespread human distress.
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