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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- 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 May 21, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To the Honorable, mine especiall good Lord, S.
Roger Manwood Knight, Lord chief Baron of her Majesties Court of the Eschequer. -
To the right worshipfull Sir
Thomas Scot, Knight,&c. -
To the right worshipful his loving friends, Master Doctor
Coldwell Deane ofRochester, and Master DoctorRead-man Arch-deacon ofCanturbury, &c. - To the Readers.
- The forreign Authors used in this Book.
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The discovery of Witchcraft.
- The first Book.
- The second Book.
- The thrid Book.
- The fourth Book
- The Fift Book.
- The sixt Book.
- The seventh book.
- The eight book.
- The ninth Booke.
- The tenth Book.
- The eleventh Book.
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The Twlfeth Book.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
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CHAP. IX.
- A Charme against shot, or a wastecote of proof.
- Against the falling evill.
- A popish periapt or charme, which must never be said, but carried a∣bout one, against theeves.
- Another amulet.
- A papistical charme.
- A charme found in the canon of the masse.
- Other papisticall charmes.
- A charme of the holy crosse.
- Furthermore as followeth.
- A charme taken out of the Primer.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
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CHAP. XIV.
- For the falling evill.
- Against the biting of a mad dog.
- Against the biting of a Scorpion.
- Against the toothach.
- A charme to release a woman in travel.
- To heale the Kings or Queens evil, or any other sorenesse in the throte.
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A charm read in the Romish church, upon Saint Blazes day, that will fetch a thorne out of any place of ones body, a bone out of the throte, &c. Lect.
3. - A Charme for the head-ach.
- A charme to be said each morning by a witch fasting, or at least before she go abroad.
- Another charme that witches use at the gathering of their medicin∣able herbs.
- An old womans charme, wherewith she did much good in the countrey, and grew famous thereby.
- Another like charme.
- A charme to open locks.
- A charme to drive away spirits that haunt any house.
- A pretty charme or conclusion for one possessed.
- Another for the same purpose.
- Another to the same effect.
- Another charme or witch-craft for the same.
- A charme for the bots in a horse.
- A charm against vineger.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
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CHAP. XVII.
- Counter-charms against these and all other witchcrafts, in the say∣ing also whereof witches are vexed, &c.
- A charm for the choine cough.
- For corporall or spiritual rest.
- Charmes to find out a theefe.
- Another way to find out a theefe that ahht stolne any thing from you.
- To put out the theeves eye.
- Another way to find out a thiefe.
- A Charme to find out or spoile a theefe.
- Saint Adelberts curse or charme against theeves.
- Another inchantment.
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CHAP. XVIII.
- To spoile a thiefe, a witch, or any other enemie, and to be delivered from the evil.
- Coarmes against a qu tidian ague.
- For all manner of agues intermittent.
- Periapts, characters, &c. for agues, and to cure all diseases, and to de∣liver from all evill.
- More charmes for agues.
- For a bloody flux, or rather an issue of bloud.
- Cures commenced and finished by witchcraft.
- Another witchraft or knavery, practised by the same Chirurgian.
- Another experiment for one bewitched.
- Otherwise.
- A knack to know whether you be bewitched, or no, &c.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
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The thirteenth Book.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIV.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. XVII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
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CHAP. XXIIII.
- To convey money out of one of your hands into the other by legierdemain.
- To convert or transubstantiate money into counters, or counters into money.
- To put one testor into one hand, and another into the other hand, and with words to bring them together.
- To put one testor into a strangers hand, and another into your own, and to con∣vey both into the strangers hand with words.
- How to do the same or the like seat otherwise.
- To throw a piece of money away, and to find it again where you lost.
- With words to make a groat or a testor to leap out of a pot, or to run along upon a table.
- To make a great or a testor to sink through a table, and to vanish out of a hand∣kercher very strangely.
- A notable trick to transforme a counter to a groat.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
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CHAP. XXXIII.
- To eat a knife, and to fetch it out of any other place.
- To thrust a Bodkin into your head without hurt.
- To thrust a Bodkin through your tongue, and a knife through your arme; a pitifull sight, without hurt or danger.
- To thrust a piece of lead into one eye, and to drive it about (with a flick) be∣tween the skin and flesh of the forehead, untill it be brought to the other eye, and there thrust out.
- To cut half your nose asunder, and to heal it again presently without any salve.
- To put a ring through your cheek.
- To cut off ones head, and to lay it in a platter, &c. which the jugglers call the decollation of Iohn Baptist.
- To thrust a dagger or bodkin into your guts very strangely, and to recover im∣mediately.
- To draw a cord through your nose, mouth or hand, so sensible as is wonder∣full to see.
- The conclusion, wherein the reader is referred to certain patternes of instru∣ments wherewith divers feats here specified are to be executed.
- The xiiii. Book.
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The xv. Booke.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIIII.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. XVII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
- CHAP. XXIV.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
- CHAP. XXXIV.
- CHAP. XXXV.
- CHAP. XXXVI.
- CHAP. XXXVII.
- CHAP. XXXVIII.
- CHAP. XXXIX.
- CHAP. XL.
- CHAP. XLI.
- CHAP. XLII.
- THE xvj. Booke.
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A Discourse upon divels and spirits, and first of Philosophers opinions, also the
manner of their reasoning hereupon ; and the same confuted.- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IIII.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIV.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
- CHAP. XXIIII.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
- CHAP. XXXIIII.
- The summe of every chapter con∣tained in the sixteene books of this discovery, with the discourse of divels and spirits annexed thereunto.