Witchcraft: or The art of fortune-telling unveiled: from the low ambition of the celebrated Mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer. (1805)
Pinchbeck, William Frederick · Boston : Printed for the author · leaf 84
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Fortune-telling · Magic
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