Talk about suspension of critical thought

1675.
 Superstitious Belief and Practice

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venged of her brother who had wronged her [her being Catherine Sands]

in parting of her father' goods, and gear ; she was brought under the Devil's

service ,  who appeared to her in the likeness of a Gentleman.

And in the first place caused her renounce Christ and her

Baptism, and give her self over both soul and body to his

service by laying one ot her hands to the Crown of her head

and the other to the sole of her foot & Isabel Inglis 

confest that ...

 the Devil . . . caused her resign her self to him ... in the way and manner confessed by Catherine Sands

And further confessed that her spirits name was

Peter Drysdale

and her name which he gave her

is Serjeant....