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 May 21, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To the Honorable, mine especial good Lord, Sir
ROGER MANWOOD Knight, Lord Chief Baron of HerMAJESTIES Court of theExchequer. -
To the Right Worshipful, Sir
THOMAS SCOT Knight,&c. -
To the Right Worshipful his loving Friends, Master Doctor
Coldwell Dean ofRochester; AND Master DoctorReadman Archdeacon ofCanterbury, &c. - To the READERS.
- A Catologue of AUTHORS used in this Book.
- THE DISCOVERY OF Witchcraft. BOOK I.
- BOOK II.
- BOOK III.
- BOOK IV.
- BOOK V.
- BOOK VI.
- BOOK VII.
- BOOK VIII.
- BOOK IX.
- BOOK X.
- BOOK XI.
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BOOK XII.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
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CHAP. IX.
- A Charm against Shot, or Wastecoat of Proof.
- Against the Falling-Evill.
- A Popish Periapt or Charm, which must never be said, but carried about one, against Theeves.
- Another Amulet.
- A Papistical Charm.
- A Charm found in the Canon of the Mass.
- Other Papistical Charms.
- A Charm of the Holy-Cross.
- A Charm taken out of the Primer.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
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CHAP. XIV.
- For the Falling-Evill.
- Against the biting of a Mad-Dog.
- Against the biting of a Scorpion.
- Against the Tooth-ach.
- A Charm to release a Woman in Travel.
- To heal the Kings or Queens Evil, or any other soreness in the Throat.
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A Charm in the
Romish Church, upon SaintBlazes day, that will fetch a Thorn out of any place of ones body, a bone out of the Throat,&c. Lect. 3. - A charm for the Head-ach.
- A Charm to be said each morning by a Witch fasting, or at least before she go abroad.
- Another Charm that Witches use at the gathering of their Medicinable Herbs.
- An old Womans Charm, wherewith she did much good in the Countrey, and grew famous thereby.
- Another like Charm.
- A Charm to open Locks.
- A Charm to drive away Spirits that haunt any House.
- A pretty Charm or Conclusion for one Possessed.
- Another for the same purpose.
- Another to the same effect.
- Another Charm or Witchcraft for the same.
- A Charm for the Bots in a Horse.
- A Charm against Vinegar.
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CHAP. XV. The Inchanting Serpents and Snakes; Objections answered concerning the same; fond reasons why Charms take effect therein. Mahomets Pigeon. Miracles wrought by an Ass atMemphis inAegypt. - CHAP. XVI.
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CHAP. XVII.
- Counter-charms against these and all other Witchcrafts, in the saying also whereof Witches are vexed, &c.
- A Charm for the chin Cough.
- For corporal or spiritual Rest.
- Charms to find out a Thief.
- Another way to find out a Thief that hath stoln any thing from you.
- To put out the Thiefs eye.
- Another way to find out a Thief.
- A Charm to find out or spoil a Thief.
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Saint
Adelberts Curse or Charm against Thieves. - Another Inchantment.
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CHAP. XVIII.
- To spoil a Thief, a Witch, or any other Enemy, and to be delivered from the evil.
- A notable Charm or Medicine to pull out an Arrow-head, or any such thing that stick∣eth in the flesh or bones, and cannot otherwise be had out.
- Charms against a quotidian Ague.
- For all manner of Agues intermittent.
- Periapts, Characters, &c. for Agues, and to cure all Diseases, and to deliver from all evil.
- More Charms for Agues.
- For a bloody Flux, or rather an Issue of blood.
- Cures commenced and finished by Witchcraft.
- Another Witchcraft or Knavery practised by the same Chirurgion.
- Another Experiment for one bewitched.
- Otherwise.
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A Knack to know whether you be Bewitched or no,
&c.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
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BOOK XIII.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIV.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. XVII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
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CHAP. XXIV.
- To Convey Money out of one of your hands into the other by Legierdemain.
- To convert or transubstantiate Money into Counters, or Counters into Money.
- To put one Testor into one hand, and another into another hand, and with words to bring them together.
- To put one Testor into a strangers hand, and another into your own, and to convey both in∣to the strangers hand with words.
- How to do the same or the like feat otherwise.
- To throw a piece of Money away, and to find it again where you list.
- With words to make a Groat or a Testor to leap out of a Pot, or to run alongst up∣on a Table.
- To make a Groat or a Testor to sink through a Table, and to vanish out of a Hand∣kercher very strangely.
- A notable trick to transform a Counter to a Groat.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
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Chap. XXXIV.
- To Eat a Knife, and to fetch it out of any other place.
- To thrust a Bodkin into your Head without hurt.
- To thrust a Bodkin through your Tongue, and a Knife through your Arm; a pitiful sight, without hurt or danger.
- To thrust a piece of Lead into one Eye, and to drive it about (with a stick) between the skin and flesh of the fore-head, until it be brought to the other Eye, and there thrust out.
- To cut half your Nose asunder, and to heal it again presently without any Salve.
- To put a Ring through your Cheek.
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To cut off ones Head, and to lay it in a Platter,
&c, which the Jugglers call the decolla∣tion ofJohn Baptist. - To thrust a Dagger or Bodkin into your Guts very strangely, and to recover immediately.
- To draw a Cord through your Nose, Mouth, or Hand, so sensible as is wonderful to see.
- The Conclusion, wherein the Reader is referred to certain Patterns of Instruments where∣with divers Feats here specified are to be executed.
- Here follow patterns of certain Instruments to be used in the former juggling knacks.
- BOOK XIV.
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BOOK XV.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIV.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. XVII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
- CHAP. XXIV.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
- CHAP. XXXIV.
- CHAP. XXXV.
- CHAP. XXXVI.
- CHAP. XXXVII.
- CHAP. XXXVIII.
- CHAP. XXXIX.
- CHAP. XL.
- CHAP. XLI.
- CHAP. XLII.
- CHAP. XLIII.
- CHAP. XLIV.
- CHAP. XLV.
- CHAP. XLVI.
- CHAP. XLVII.
- CHAP. XLVIII.
- CHAP. XLIX. Cardanus
- CHAP. L.
- CHAP. LI.
- BOOK XVI.
- The Contents of the Chapters in the Sixteen Fore-going BOOKS.
- title page
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A DISCOURSE CONCERNING Devils and Spirits.
BOOK I. - CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
- CHAP. VII.
- CHAP. VIII.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
- CHAP. XII.
- CHAP. XIII.
- CHAP. XIV.
- CHAP. XV.
- CHAP. XVI.
- CHAP. XVII.
- CHAP. XVIII.
- CHAP. XIX.
- CHAP. XX.
- CHAP. XXI.
- CHAP. XXII.
- CHAP. XXIII.
- CHAP. XXIV.
- CHAP. XXV.
- CHAP. XXVI.
- CHAP. XXVII.
- CHAP. XXVIII.
- CHAP. XXIX.
- CHAP. XXX.
- CHAP. XXXI.
- CHAP. XXXII.
- CHAP. XXXIII.
- CHAP. XXXIV.
- BOOK II.
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The Contents of the Chapters in
The Discourse concerning Devils and Spirits.