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 13, 2024.
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CHAP. XX.
An Experiment following, of Citrael, &c. Angeli diei Dominici.
Michael. ☉
Gabriel. ☽
Samael. ♂
Raphael. ☿
Sachiel. ♃
Anael. ♀
Cassiel. ♄
SAy first the Prayers of the Angels every day, for the space of seaven dayes, O ye glorious Angels written in this square, be you my coadjutors and helpers in all questions and demands, in all my business, and other causes, by him which shall come to judge both the quick and the dead, and the world by fire. O Angeli glo∣riosi in hac quadra scripti, estote coadjutores & auxiliatores in omnibus quaestionibus & interrogationibus, in omnibus negoti∣is, caeterisque causis per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos & mortuos & mundum per ignem.
Say this Prayer fasting, called* 1.1 Regina linguae. ✚ Lemae ✚ Solmaac ✚ El∣may ✚ Gezagra ✚ Raamaasin ✚ Ezierego ✚ Mial ✚ Egziephiaz ✚ Iosamin
In the Name of the most pitifulliest and mercifulliest God of Israel and of Pa∣radise, of Heaven and of Earth, of the Seas and of the Infernals, by thine Omnipotent help I may perform this work, which livest and reignest ever one God world without end, Amen.
O most strongest and mightiest God, without beginning or ending, by thy clemency and knowledge, I desire that my questions, work, and labour may be fully and truly ac∣complished through thy worthyness, good Lord, which livest and reignest ever one God world without end, Amen.
O holy, patient, and merciful great God, and to be worshipped, the Lord of all wis∣dom, clear and just; I most heartily desire thy holiness and clemency, to fulfil, perform and accomplish this my whole work, through thy worthiness and blessed power, which livest and reignest ever one God, Per omnia saecula saeculorum, Amen.