Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1851-02-06
From the Boston Courier. Ha
The New Hampshire Steno Throwing
Spirit Of l6D8. a. n

To tell strange feats Of Daemons, here own:
Strange. but most true they are, even to Dram
Tho Sadduceans cry, 'tis all Shan. R.C.
This is an age of Scepticism. Incred.
Utility is the humor of it. No one believes
anything that is not palpable to his sen.
ses of feeling and sight, and some are
even so far gone in their adhesion to the
Pyrrhonian doctrine, that they begin to
doubt whether they have senses or not.
Neither Andrew jackson Davis nor Mr..
Leroy Sunderland, though one reveals
his own actual personal experience, and
the other exhibits the most astonishing
power over the physical faculties of man
has power to convert thu aAtiSon of unbe'
levers. Humbug! Humbug! is still the
cry. l feel constrained to raise my fee.
bic voice against this soul>destroying in>
fidelity; and to let my readers know that
the mysterious rappings and all the mir
acles wrought by Mesmerism and Riolo.
gy. are less than nothing compared with
events that happened more than a cen.
fury ago, the evidence of which is nc
more to be questioned than the univer,
sally recognized dogma, that person Of
dark complexion cannot breathe in the
atmosphere north of .thirty.six thirty
which, If aGy one doubt, let him be "an.
Athena maranatha."
1t is presumed that few, if any of those
who take the pains to read these papers
have ever heard Of the Stone throwing
Devil. Let such open their eyes and re.
ceive instruction, if wisdom through that
entrance be not quite shut out
In the year one thousand six hundred
and ninsty-sight. there was printed and
published in London, quarto volume, o.
which the following is the title, to wit -
LrrHoBoLrA. or the Stone throwing Devil
Being an Exact and True account 10y
way Of JournaD of the various Actions o
Internal Spirits. or Devils Lncarnate
witches. or both /; and the great Distur
bance and Amusement they gave te
George WaItOn's Family, at q place call.
ed Great Island in the Province of lNeu
Hampshire in New England. chiefly in
Throwing about 10y an Invisible Hand)
otones. bricks. Brick6ats, OF all sizes, with
several other things. as Hammers. Mauls.
Iron Crascs. Spits and other Domestic
Utensils, as came into their HelIish minds
and this for the space of Quarter OF a
Year.-By r. @. Esq, who was So
journer in the same Family the whole
lime. and an Ocular witness of these
Diabolick Inventions. The Contents
hereof being manifestly known to the In>
habi;ants Of that Province, and persons
OF other Provinces, and is upon Record in
his Majesties Council Court held in that
Province" #..
According to the Record. as stated
above. the 'Litoboly' began ON Sun
day evening. when two maids, grand
children of Mr.. Walton, affirmed that as
they were standing in the porch chamber
window, they saw person putting out q
hand out of the hall window as throwing
stones towards the porch On Monday
night, 'about the hour il first began,
stones were thrown in the kitchen and
down the chimney. one Captain Barefoot
of the Council for that Province. being
present. On Tuesday night. Eve or six
stones were thrown into the maids cham.
Der. near the kitchen. the glass windows
broke in three sssO places, and one Of the
maids hit a. she lay. But this was NOT
the only prank which the Devil played
that evening for. not only the maids but
two young men in the house. heard an
odd dismal sort Of whistling. whersupon
the young men ran out with tho intent 10
take the Stone-thFowing Devil. but the
Devil was Too sharp for them. They
saw nothing and heard rs lt were the
tTampling Of young COLT. Stones were
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