Vice in its Proper Shape / Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several / Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals / Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.
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18th Century, American Fiction
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Excerpt from Vice in its Proper Shape / Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several / Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals / Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.:
...bodies, and sometimes into those of beasts and birds, or even insects; and that they hereby change their residence either to their advantage or disadvantage, according to their good or ill behaviour in their preceding state of existence. This singular opinion still prevails in some part of the Eastindies; and that to such a degree that they make it criminal to put any animal to death: "For how do you know, say they, but in killing a sheep, a bird,...