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.
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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.
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Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
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London :: Printed for Andrew Clark ...,
1665.
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Witchcraft.
Magic.
Demonology.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62397.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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For a bloody Flux, or rather an Issue of blood.
TAke a cup of cold water, and let fall thereinto three drops of the same blood,* 1.1 and between each drop say a Pater noster, and an Ave, then drink to the Patient, and say, who shall help you? The Patient must answer St. Mary. Then say you, St. Mary stop the Issue of blood. Otherwise, Write upon the Patients forehead with the same blood, Consummatum est. Otherwise, say to the Patient, Sanguis mane in te, sicut fecit Christus in se; Sanguis mane in tua vena, sicut Christus in suapoena; Sanguis mane fixus, sicut Christus quando fuit crucifixus. Otherwise, as followeth.
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In the blood of Adam death was taken ✚In the blood of Christ it was all to shaken ✚And by the same blood I do thee charge,That thou do run no longer at large.
Otherwise, Christ was born at Bethelem, and suffered at Jerusalem where his blood was troubled. I command thee by the Vertue of God, and through the help of all Saints, to stay even as Jordan did, when John baptised Christ Jesus; In nomine Patris ✚ & Flii ✚ & Spiritus sancti ✚. Otherwise, Put thy nameless sin∣ger in the Wound, and make therewith three Crosses upon the Wound, and say five Pater nosters, five Aves, and one Credo, in the honour of five Wounds. O∣therwise, Touch that part and say, De latere ejus exivit sanguis & aqua! Other∣wise, In Nomine Patris ✚ & Filii ✚ Spiritus sancti ✚ &c. Chimratchara, sarite, confirma, consona, Imohalite, Otherwise, Sepa ✚ sepagoga ✚ sta sanguis in Nomine Patris ✚ podendi ✚ & Filii ✚ podera ✚ & Spiritus sancti ✚ pandorica ✚ pax tecum, Amen.
Notes
* 1.1
He must an∣swer by none other, for she perhaps hath the curing thereof by Pa∣tent.