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A strange incident involving an alleged demon or poltergeist, this is perhaps the most famous historical event in Glenlus. It will be discussed below
Glenlus it is a modest old village in Scotland with a population of only 635 people. A 4-storey stone castle and a small church remained here from the old days. This place is typical of rural Scotland and everything is very calm, quiet and measured.
This incident has survived to this day thanks to the records of a Scottish mathematician, engineer and specialist in demonology. George Sinclairwho lived in the 17th century. In those days, such a combination of "hobbies" did not surprise anyone, because many scientists were interested in the occult.
In 1654, there was a weaver named Gilbert Campbell … He had a family, children and he led the most ordinary village life until a beggar vagrant knocked on his house Alexander Agnew.
Agnew wandered about all the surrounding parishes and begged for alms in the houses. It was considered very impolite to refuse him, but the Campbells themselves were very poor and they had no extra money. Therefore, they gave nothing to the beggar.
Agnew was furious at leaving empty-handed. He started cursing the Campbell family out loud and then left. And a few days later, strange things began to happen at the Campbells' home.
At first, Campbell found that his weaving equipment began to break frequently or parts of it were lost and found in unexpected places. Someone cut the threads as if with scissors, and the Campbell family denied their sacrament. The weaver soon suspected the beggar's intrigues, but could not find anything that would indicate his participation in the events.
Then the Campbells began to often hear an intelligible, thin whistle, similar to the one made by small glass whistles. It was not possible to determine where the whistle came from, just as it was not possible to find the whistle itself.
Days, weeks, months passed, and all these events in the Campbell house continued, gradually increasing in intensity. Someone started throwing stones into the house, and then the family began to find their clothes cut. Even more frightening was the fact that new cuts were found on the clothes while the clothes were in public.
At some point, the sheets from the Campbells beds began to pull out of the sleeping people as if by themselves at night, and the drawers of the dressers began to open and close.
Finally, the head of the family decided on what terrorizes them - he named this creature The vile devil (Foul Fiend) and decided that it was the offended beggar who brought him to the Campbells. Here is what George Sinclair writes about this further in his book:
“Around the middle of November, the Nefarious Devil launched new and unusual attacks, throwing stones at doors, windows and chimney.
This made Gilbert Campbell go to the parish priest, John Scott, and reveal to him the events from which he had suffered so far, without telling anyone. He also told his friends and some neighbors about this. After that, his trouble increased. He found that his jacket, pants and hat were cut while he was wearing them, as well as his coat, shoes and scarf.
At night, something pulled all the bedding off them, leaving their bodies naked. Then chests and chests of drawers began to open and all the things from them were pulled out. Parts of the working tools were again taken away and hidden in the most secret crevices and holes of the house, where they could only be found with great difficulty."
When the priest and neighbors found out about the devilry in the weaver's house, they began to advise the Campbells to leave their house and go to live somewhere else. But the weaver decided to stay. Then he was offered to at least send small children away, but even then he refused for some reason.
Meanwhile, the unknown force began to act more violently. Family members were pricked in their sleep with needles, pushed, tripped, and then strange sudden fires occurred in the house several times. The priest came and read prayers, but this only angered the invisible entity more. However, this also provoked her to start contact with a person:
“On Monday, February 12th, family members began to hear a voice speaking to them, but could not pinpoint where it was coming from. However, from evening until midnight, there were many empty conversations with the Devil, and many idle and daring questions were asked. due Fear of God, which should have been on their souls in such rare and unusual trials.
The minister, learning of this, went to the house on Tuesday, accompanied by several gentlemen, who, after the end of the prayer, heard a voice saying from under the bed in the proper village dialect: "If you do not know the witches of Glenlus, I will name them to you," and thus gave the names of four or five individuals who were included in the ominous report.
When it turned out that one of these "witches" had died long ago, the Devil replied, "It's true, she's been dead for a long time, but her Spirit lives with us in the World." The messenger of the church answered him, saying: "The Lord will reproach you, Satan, and will silence you, we should not receive any information from you, no matter how blasphemy people may be exposed; you are just trying to seduce this family, because the kingdom of Satan is not divided against yourself."
Then the most indecent quarrel occurred between the Devil and the minister, and both of them began to beat each other with the texts of the Holy Scriptures; and visiting a saintly person was not beneficial, since all irritable phenomena did not disappear.
The devil began with new attacks and, taking the prepared meat that was in the house, sometimes hid it in the pits near the door frames, and sometimes hid it under the bed, and sometimes among the blankets of the bed and under the sheet, and finally carried it away completely so that there was nothing left but bread and water to live on.
After that, he applied his anger and cruelty to all family members, tired them at night, moving and moving around the house, so that they could not rest from the noise that lasted all August after that. Then the Devil got worse and started with terrible roars and terrifying voices so that no one could sleep in the house at night."
It gradually became apparent that the Devil was especially active around Campbell's son, a boy named Tom. The boy claimed to have heard the Devil speak to him and ordered him to leave the house, otherwise the house would have burned to the ground.
The frightened family sent the boy to live in the minister's house for a while, after which the apparitions stopped, but when he returned, everything continued. When a minister of the church came to the Campbell house again, the Devil began to talk to him and when asked who he was, he replied that he was not the Devil, but "an evil spirit who came from the bottomless pit of Hell."
All these strange events continued in the Campbells house for several more years, gradually dying out in their intensity, until they completely disappeared. Sinclair believes that the Devil was chased away by the priest's many spells.
Researchers of anomalous phenomena consider this story to be completely true, paying special attention to the figure of the beggar Alexander Agnew. This man really existed and, moreover, was considered the first person in the history of Scotland who publicly denied the existence of God. For which he was eventually hanged in 1656.
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