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Satan's Last Hurrah! Demonic possession and the end of the hunt

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Dec 5, 201937:02Society & Culture

The Devil was loose in Scotland possessing frightened youngsters - or was he? Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman find what our historians think was going on

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