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.

To make a little Ball swell in your hand till it he very great.

TAke a very great Ball in your left hand, or three indifferent big Balls, and shewing one or three little Balls, seem to put them into your said left hand, concealing (as you may well do) the other Balls which were therein before: then use words, and make them seem to swell, and open your hand, &c. This play is to

be varied a hundreth wayes: for as you find them all under one Candlestick, so may you go to a stander by, and take off his Hat or Cap, and shew the Balls to be there, conveying them thereinto, as you turn the bottom upward.