The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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[ 1 essential Saltes

[ 2the lyke Method like

[ 3 BORELLUS Pierre BorelPetrus Borellius1620 1671

John

Dorfman 1989 Cotton Mather Magnalia

Christi Americana Cotton Mather

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Chapter I: A Result and a Prologue

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[Prospect Street ]

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[ 1Stampers Hill]

[ 2Olney Court]

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[ 1 the wave of vampirism ]

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[ 2Orne]

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[ the Athenaeum

Providence

Athenaeum 1753

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[ 2 the double-bayed brick facade double-bayed

[ 3 smaller wooden houses with narrow, heavy-columned Doric porches

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[Prospect Terrace Prospect Terrace Park

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[ 1Jenckes Street ]

[ 2Benefit Street ]

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[ 4the young Charles could picture them as they were when the street

was new, and red heels and periwigs set off the painted pediments whose signs of

wear were now becoming so visible.

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[ 2the Golden Ball Inn ]

[ 3 Meeting Street]

[ 4the successive Gaol Lane ]

[ 5 the Providence Gazette and Country-Journal ]

[ 6 First Baptist Church of 1775]

[ 7 Gibbs steeple]

[ 8its proud East India days

[ 9Doubloon

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[ 1 the Great Bridge]

[ 2 Christian Science

[ 3 Providence Indiamen Providence EastIndiamen

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[ daughter of Mrs. Eliza, daughter to Capt. James Tillinghast ]

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[the Museum at Fraunces TavernFraunces Tavern

Chapter II: An Antecedent and a Horror

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[ 2 chymist chemist

[ 3 the Philosopher's Stone

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Paracelsus1493-1541

Agricola1494-1555 Georg PawerAgricola

De Re Metallica

Van Helmont1579-1644

Sylvius1614-1672

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Glauber1604-1670

Boyle1627-1691

The Sceptical Chymist

Boerhaave1668-1738

Becher1635-1682

Stahl1659-1734

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Hermetica

Hermes Trismegistus

Hermetica

Corpus Hermeticum

Mesnard's edition ]

the Turba Philosophorum

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Geber's Liber InvestigationisGeber 13

Liber

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Artephius's Key of WisdomArtephius 12

Key of Wisdom

Zohar

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Peter Jammy's set of Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus13

Peter Jammy

Raymond Lully's Ars Magna et Ultima in Zetsner's edition Raymond

Lull

Ars Magna et Ultima Ars Generalis

UltimaZetsner

Roger Bacon's Thesaurus ChemicusRoger Bacon

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Thesaurus Chemicus

Fludd's Clavis AlchimiaeFludd Robert Fludd

Clavis Alchimiae

Trithemius's De Lapide PhilosophicoTrithemius JohannesTrithemius

De Lapide

Philosophico

[ 3 Qanoon-e-Islam the Customs of the Moosulmans of India

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[ 4in the province of the Massachussetts-Bay.

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[ 2 supercargo

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[ 2Market Parade]

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Methodist]

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[ 2 His Majesty]

[ 3Namquit Point]

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[ 1 stack chimney chimney stacks

[ 2 There were voices of a sort that neither Weeden nor Smith had ever

heard before despite their wide knowledge of foreign parts, and many that they did

seem to place as belonging to this or that nationality.

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Limoges

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[ 2 the Cathedral Limoges Cathedral]

[ 3the Sign of the Goat]

[ 4or whether the Dark Man of the Haute Vienne had spoken the Three Words.

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[ 2Presbyterian-LanePresbyterian

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Dr. Benjamin West

Rev. James Manning

Stephen Hopkins

John Carter

all four of the Brown brothers, John, Joseph, Nicholas, and Moses,

Dr. Jabez Bowen

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Joseph Wanton

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[ 2 Certainely, there was Noth'g but ye liveliest Awfulness in that which H.

rais'd upp from What he cou'd gather onlie a part of. ]

[ 3 ye VII. Booke of ye Necronomicon that you recommende]

[ 4 Magnalia of ------Magnalia Christi Americana]

[ 5Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shal not wish to Answer, ]

[ 6Ben Zariatnatmik ]

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[ 7Roman Wall

[ 8Sylvanus Cocidius Sylvanus

Mars CocidiusCocidius

[ 9will be oblig'd for ye lend'g of ye MS. you speak of.]

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Waaaahrrrrr-

R'waaahrrr

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DEESMEES JESHET BONE DOSEFE DUVEMA ENITEMOSS

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[Mirandola Giovanni Pico della Mirandola1463-1494

Oration on the Dignity of Man

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THE KING THAT WAS NOT Althazar Runazar

he must not even have ever been.

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["Pox on that ------, but he had no business to laugh while he screamed.

'Twas as though the damn'd ------ had some'at up his sleeve. For half a crown I'd burn

his ------ home.']

Chapter III: A Search and an Evocation

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[ 1 the Essex Institute]

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[ 3one Amity How declared at a session of August 8th before Judge Gedney

Amity How ]

[ 4Mr. G. B. (Rev. George Burroughs) on that Nighte putt ye Divell his

Marke upon Bridget S., Jonathan A., Simon O., Deliverance W., Joseph C., Susan P.,

Mehitable C., and Deborah B. ]

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[ 1 Prouidence, I. May (Ut. vulgo)I. May

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To.commonlyas is commonly]

[ 2 due Respects and earnest Wishes to Him whom we serve for yr eternall

Power. ]

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key]

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[ 9 Uerse]

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If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my

change come.

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[ Sir, I am yr olde and true ffriend and Servt. in Almousin-Metraton.

Almousin AlmouzinGrand Grimoire

Metraton Metatron

C.

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[Journall and Notes of Jos: Curwen, Gent., of Providence-Plantations, Late

of Salem. Late of Salem

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[ 1To Him Who Shal Come After, & How He May Gett Beyonde Time & ye

Spheres. ]

[ 2 Edw: Hutchinson, Armiger Hutchinson

Armiger ]

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[ 2 Martineco Martinica Martinique ]

[ 3Surinam]

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[ 5 Shendsoy and Humhums]

[ 6 Cyttles]

[ 7 Pannes]

[ 8 SABAOTHLord of Sabaoth

SABAOTH

[ 9 Mr. H. in TransylvaniaTransylvania ]

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Per Adonai Eloim, Adonai Jehova,

Adonai Sabaoth, Metraton On Agla Mathon,

verbum pythonicum, mysterium salamandrae,

conventus sylvorum, antra gnomorum,

daemonia Coeli Gad, Almousin, Gibor, Jehosua,

Evam, Zariatnatmik, veni, veni, veni.

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[<>

Per

Adonai Eloim, Adonai Jehova,Adonai SabaothGod

Adonai my lordmaster

God Eloim Elohim Jehova Jehovah

God Adonai Sabaoth Lord of Sabaoth

God Yahweh Sabaoth

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Metraton

On

God

Agla AGLAAtah Gibor Le-

olam AdonaiAthah gabor

leolah, adonai

Mathon

verbum pythonicum/

mysterium salamandraesalamandrae

salamanders

conventus sylvorum conventus sylvorum

sylvarum

antra gnomorum antra gnomorum

gnome

daemonia

Coeli/

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GadGod

Levi Gad

AlmonsinGibor, Jehosua God Grand

GrimoireThe Key of Solomon

Evam God

ZariatnatmikGrand Grimoire God

veni, veni, veni.]

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DIES MIES JESCHET BOENE DOESEF DOUVEMA ENITEMAUS

[ its thunderous remoteness]

Yi-nash-Yog-Sothoth-he-lgeb-fi-throdog

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Chapter IV: A Mutation and a Madness

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[ 2Steeles Conscious Lovers Richard Steele 1722 ]

[ 3Epenetus Olney]

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[ the Brava PortugueseBrava

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[ 3 for there was no Neede to keep the Guards in Shape and eatg off their

Heads]

[ 4 Nephren-Ka nai Hadoth ]

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Chapter V: A Nightmare and a Cataclysm

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[ 1Grecian kylikes Grecian kylixes

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[ 3 SabaothLord of Sabaoth

Sabaoth

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Yai ngngah, Yog-

SothothAye, engengah, Yogge-Sothotha

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YAI NGNGAH,

YOG-SOTHOTH

HEELGEB

FAI THRODOG

UAAAH!

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cryptic chamber bore no print or mark of any world but this.

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Corvinus necandus est. Cadaver aq(ua) forti dissolvendum, nec aliq(ui)d

retinendum. Tace ut potes.

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[ With profoundest sympathy, and exhortations to fortitude, calmness, and

resignation.]

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[what have ye found, and what dye

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PER ADONAI ELOIM, ADONAI JEHOVA, ADONAI SABAOTH, METRATON. . . .

[ cabbalistic motions]

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OGTHROD AIF

GEBLEEH

YOG-SOTHOTH

NGAHNG AIY

ZHRO!

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