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.

About this Item

Title
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.
Author
Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
Publication
London :: Printed for Andrew Clark ...,
1665.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Witchcraft.
Magic.
Demonology.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62397.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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 13, 2024.

Pages

CHAP. XIII.

The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear.

WHen you will have any Spirit, you must know his Name and Office; you must also fast, and be clean from all pollution, three or four days before; so will the Spirit be the more obedient unto you. Then make a Circle, and call up the Spirit with great intention, and holding a ring in your hand, rehearse in your own name, and your companions (for one must alwayes be with you) this Prayer following, and so no Spirit shall annoy you, and your purpose shall take effect. And note how this agreeth with Popish Charmes and Conjurations.

In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the ✚ Father ✚ and the Son ✚ and the Holy Ghost ✚ holy Trinity and unspeakable Unity, I call upon thee, that thou mayst be my salvation and defence, and the protection of my body and soul, and of all my goods; through the virtue of thy holy Cross, and through the vertue of thy passion, I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ, by the merits of thy blessed Mother S. Mary, and of all thy Saints, That thou give me Grace and Divine power over all the wicked Spirits, so as which of them soever I do call by name, they may come by and by from every coast, and accomplish my will, that they neither be hurtful nor fearful unto me, but rather obedient and diligent about me. And through thy virtue streightly commanding them, let them fufil my commande∣ments. Amen.

Page 239

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabbaoth, which wilt come to judge the quick and the dead, thou which art Α and Ω, first and last, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Ioth, Aglanabrath, El, Abiel, Anathiel, Amazim, Sedomel, Grayes,* 1.1 Heli, Messias, Tolimi, Elias, Ischiros, Athanatos, Imas, By these thy holy Names, and by all other I do call upon thee, and beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ, by thy Nativity and Baptism, by thy Cross and Passion, by thine Ascension, and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, by the bitterness of thy soul when it departed from the body, by thy five wounds, by the blood and water which went out of thy body, by thy virtue, by the Sacrament which thou gavest thy Disciples the day before thou sufferedst, by the holy Trinity, and the inseparable Unity, by blessed Mary thy Mother, by thine Angels, Arch-Angels, Prophets, Patriarchs, and by all thy Saints, and by all the Sacraments which are made in thine honour, I do worship and beseech thee, to accept these prayers, Conjurations, and words of my mouth, which I will use. I require thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that thou give me thy virtue and power over all thine Angels (which were thrown down from heaven to deceive mankind) to draw them to me, to tie and bind them, and also to loose them, to gather them together before me, and to com∣mand them to do all that they can, and that by no means they contemn my voyce, or the words of my mouth; but that they obey me and my sayings, and fear me. I beseech thee by thine Humanity, Mercy and Grace, and I require thee Adony, Amay, Horta, Vegedora, Mitai, Hel, Suranat, Yston, Ysesy, and by all thy holy Names, and by all thine holy He-Saints, and She-Saints, by all thine Angels, and Archangels, Powers, Dominions, and Virtues, and by that name that Solomon did bind the Devils, and shut them up, Elbrach, Evanher, Agle, Goth, Ioth, Othie, Venoch, Nabrat, and by all thine holy Names which are written in this book, and by the virtue of them all, that thou enable me to congregate all thy Spirits thrown down from heaven,* 1.2 that they may give me a true answer of all my demands, and that they satisfie all my requests, without the hurt of my body or soul, or any thing else that is mine, through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world with∣out end.

Oh Father Omnipotent, oh wise Son, oh holy Ghost, the searcher of hearts, oh you three in persons, one true Godhead in substance, which didst spare Adam and Eve in their sins; and oh thou Son, which dyedst for their sins a most filthy death, sustaining it upon the holy cross; oh thou most merciful, when I flie unto thy mercy, and beseech thee by all the means I can, by these the holy Names of thy Son; to wit, Α and Ω, and all other his Names, grant me thy Virtue and Power, that I may be able to cite before me, thy Spirits which were thrown down from heaven, and that they may speak with me, and dispatch by and by without delay, and with a good will, and without the hurt of my body, soul, or goods, &c. as is contained in the book called Annulus Solomonis.

Oh great and eternal vertue of the highest, which through disposition, these being called to judgement, Vachoon, Stumulamaton, Esphares, Tetra∣grammaton, Olioram, Cryon, Esytion, Existion, Eriona, Onela, Bra∣sim, Noym, Messias, Soter, Emanuel, Sabboth, Adonay, I worship thee, I invocate thee, I implore thee with all the strength of my mind, that by thee, my present Prayers, Consecrations, and Conjurations be hollowed; and where∣soever wicked Spirits are called in the virtue of thy names, they may come toge∣ther from every coast, and diligently fulfil the will of me the Exorcist. Fiat, fiat, fiat, Amen.

Notes

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.