Lukins was 44, had originally trained as a tailor, but for some years had apparently been subjected to fits of an alarming nature. He uttered strange animal sounds, barked like a dog, argued with himself in different voices, and behaved in a violent manner. Some claimed he was a victim of witchcraft. He himself claimed that he had been fine until one day when he was performing an old mummers play at Christmas time when he had felt a “Divine slap” which felled him to the ground and left him possessed by demons.
George died in 1805 and had been reduced to begging in the streets to survive. He had been in and out of the hospital with a bad leg and hydrocondriacal affections. Hydrocondriacal affectionsis defined as pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health.
Was George possessed by 7 demons or was he a con artist? Read and you be the judge.
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