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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Title: 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.
Author: Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
Publication: [London] :: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,; 1651.
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Subject terms: Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.; Demonology -- Early works to 1800.; Occultism -- Early works to 1800.
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A charme to be said each morning by a witch fasting, or at least before she go abroad.

THe fire bites, the fire bites, the fire bites; Hogs turd over it, hogs turd over it, hogs turd over it; The father with thee, the sonne with me, the holy ghost between us both to be: ter. Then spit over one shoulder, and then over the other, and then three times right forward.