The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.

For the Falling-Evill.

TAke the sick man by the hand, and whisper these words softly in his Ear, I conjure thee by the Sun and Moon, and by the Gospel of this day deli∣vered by God to Hubert, Giles, Cornelius, and John, that thou rise and fall no more. Otherwise, Drink in the night at a Spring water out of a skull of one that hath been slain: Otherwise, Eat a Pig killed with a knife that slew a man. Otherwise as followeth.

Ananizapta ferit mortem, dum laedere quaerit, Est mala mors capta, dum dicitur Ananizapta: Ananizapta Dei nunc miserere mei.

Englished by Abraham Fleming:

Ananizapta smiteth death, Whiles harm intendeth he, This word Ananizapta say, And death shall captive be, Ananizapta O of God. Have mercy now on me.