Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, And Vienna: in the Years 1777, 1778, And 1779 1
Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, And Vienna: in the Years 1777, 1778, And 1779 1
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall
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Wemuft be content therefore I believe to refolve it into German credulity or fuperftition, and. congratulate ourfelvea on our fuperibrity to fuch puerile terrors. . \ The ftory no fooner fpread through Dref- den, than the Erleftor ^xprefled his difap- probation; of fuch fcene3, and iffued his pe- lemptory injunQdooa not to repeat .them. Schrepfer foon retired to his native city, Leipfic. ; ; where his fame accompanied him, ^nd drew dfter him .a. crowd of difciples or votaries. To them he contin...ued to give, as is fQufideotly ail^rted hQre> oumieroDs and L V aftonifhing COURT OFt.BIRLINS ETC. 293 taftonifliing proofs of his fupernatui'al poweh ibme of which 1 have heard related ; but> after the fpecimen that* I have detailed, all others would beat once tedious. and fuper- fluous. Schrepfer did not long enjoy his- celebrity, and his death is not the leaft ex- traordinary part of hishiftory. Three gen- tlemen, whom he had in fome meafure ini- tiated into his myfteries ; for he profefled to inftru6l in the fcience of magic ; were prort mifed by him an- exhibition more wonderful than any at which they had yet affifted* For this purpofe they attended him into the wood of Rofendaal, wjbich is at a fmall dif^ tance without the gates of Leipfic.
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