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JOHANN WEYER, WITCHES, DEVILS, AND DocToRS IN THE RENAISSANCE 304-12 (George Mora & Benjamin Kohl eds. & 10hn Shea trans., Medieval & Renaissance Text & Studies 1991) (1S83), and generally in HUXLEY, supra note 11. In England and America, possession often occurred in the households of Puritans. THoMAS, supra note 7, at 481. One commentator argues that possession occurred among women who experienced crises regarding conversion. GoDBEER, supra note 8, at 114-1S
30. There is no direct evidence of the piety practiced in the Gunter household, although during her fits at Oxford Anne did ask to receive the sacrament. She also requested that her brother-in-law, Thomas Holland, the regius professor of divinity, first give a sermon, noting
