Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
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[London] :: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,
1651.
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Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
Demonology -- Early works to 1800.
Occultism -- Early works to 1800.
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"Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62395.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
Pages
The fift Book.
OF transformations, ridiculous examples brought by the adver∣saries for the confirmation of their foolish doctrine.
Pag. 66.
Absurd reasons brought by Bodin, & such others, for confirmation of transformations.
pag. 71.
Of a man turned into an asse, and re∣turned againe unto a man by one of Bodins witches: S. Augustines opinion thereof.
pag. 72.
A summarie of the former fable, with a refutation thereof, after due ex∣amination of the same.
pag. 74.
That the body of a man cannot be tur∣ned into the body of a beast by a witch, is proved by strong reasons, scriptures, and authorites.
pag. 75.
The witchmongers objections con∣cerning Nebuchadnezzar answer∣red, and their error concerning Ly∣canthropia consuted.
pag. 77.
A speciall objection answered concer∣ning transportations, with the con∣sent of diverse writers thereupon.
pag. 78.
The witchmongers objection concer∣ning the history of Iob answered.
79.
What severall sorts of witches are mentioned in the scriptures, & how the word witch is there applied.
pag. 82.
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