Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

The Period

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

The Period

FOR convenience, the masculine offender is in in demonology classed under the female designation. According to Michelet and other…

The Period: June

The "Whereas at this day there is no ordinary nor condigne punishment provided against the wicked offences of conjurations or invocations…

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