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DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT. 341
Other Mystic Arts independent of Witchcraft—Astrology—Its
Influence during the l&th and 11 th Centuries—Base Ignorance
of those who practised it—Lilly's History of his Life and
Times—Astrologers' Society—Dr. Lamb—Dr. Forman—
Establishment of the Royal Society—Partridge—Connexion of
Astrologers with Elementary Spirits—Dr. Dun—Irish Super¬
stition of the Banshie—Similar Superstition in the Highlands
—Brownie—Ghosts—Belief of Ancient Philosophers on that
Subject—Enquiry into the respect due to such Tales in Modern
Times—Evidence of a Ghost against a Murderer—Ghost of
Sir George Villiers—Story of Earl St. Vincent—of a British
General Officer—of an Apparition in France—of the Second
Lord Lyttelton—of Bill Jones—of Jarvis Matcham—Trial of
two Highbinders for the Murder of Sergeant Davis, discovered
by a Ghost—Disturbances at Woodstock, anno 1649—Impos¬
ture called the Stockwell Ghost—Similar case in Scotland’—