The Mysteries of All Nations

The Mysteries of All Nations, by James Grant, covers the rise and progress of superstition, laws against and trials of witches, and ancient and modern delusions, together with strange customs, fables and tales. The full title also names mythology, days and weeks, miracles, poets and superstition, monarchs, priests and philosophers, druids, demonology, magic and astrology, and divination. The text reports that, according to Josephus, the expulsion was brought about by the use of a certain root sealed up in a wrapper and held under the afflicted person's nose while the name of Solomon and words prescribed by him were pronounced.

The text says that even if these assertions are set aside as fables, we cannot deny that the Jews were at an early period addicted to magical arts. One story says the lady's corpse was conveyed to a distant place of sepulchre, and that at midnight an apparition of the lady glided through the kitchen. The text says Adam Donald, the prophet of Bethelnie, a contemporary of Lizzie M'Gill, stood high in Aberdeenshire as a seer.