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.

BOOK. XIII.

• CHAP. I. THe signification of the Hebrew word Hartumin, where it is found writ∣ten in the Scriptures, and how it is diversly translated: whereby the objection of Pha∣raohs Magitians is afterwards answered in this book; also of natural magick not evill in it selfe Page. 163.
• CHAP. II. How the philosophers in times past travel∣led for the knowledge of natural Magick, of Solomons knowledge therein, who is to be called a natural Magician, a distinction thereof, and why it is condemned for witch∣craft. Page. 164.
• CHAP. III. VVhat secrets do lie hidden, and what is taught in natural Magick, how Gods glory is magnified therein, and that it is nothing but the work of nature. Page. 165.
• CHAP. IV. VVhat strange things are brought to pass by natural magick ibid.
• CHAP. V. The incredible operation of waters, both standing and running; of wels, lakes, rivers, and of their wonderful effects Page. 166.
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• CHAP. VI. The vertues and qualities of sundry pre∣cious stones; of cosening Lapidaries, &c. Page. 166.
• CHAP. VII. VVhence the precious stones receive their operations, how curious Magitians use them and of their seales. Page. 168
• CHAP. VIII. The sympathy and antipathy of natu∣ral and elementary bodies declared by di∣vers examples of beasts, birds, plants, &c. Page. 170.
• CHAP. IX. The former matter proved by many ex∣amples of the living and the dead. Page. 171
• CHAP. X. The bewitching venome contained in the body of an harlot, how her eye, her tongue, her beauty and behaviour bewitcheth some men: of bones and hornes yielding great vertue. Page. 172
• CHAP. XI. Two notorius wonders, and yet not mar∣velled at. Page. 173
• CHAP. XII. Of illusions, confederacies, and legier∣demain, and how they may be well or ill u∣sed. ibid.
• CHAP. XIII. Of private confederacy, and of Bran∣dons Pigeon. Page. 174
• CHAP. XIV. Of publick confederacy, and whereof it consisteth. Page. 175
• CHAP. XV. How men have been abused with words of equivocation, with sundry examples thereof. ibid.
• CHAP. XVI. How some are abused with natural ma∣gick, and sundry examples thereof when illusions is added thereunto; of Jacobs pied sheep, and of a black Moore. Page. 176
• CHAP. XVII. The opinion of witchmongers, that di∣vels can create bodies, and of Pharaohs ma∣gicians. ibid.
• CHAP. XVIII. How to produce or make monsters by art of magick, and why Pharaohs magici∣ans could not make lice. Page. 177
• CHAP. XIX. That great matters may be wrought by this art, when princes esteem and maintain it: of divers wonderful experiments, and of strange conclusions in glasses; of the art per∣spective, &c. Page. 178
• CHAP. XX. A comparison betwixt Pharaohs magi∣cians and our witches, and how their cun∣ning consisted in juggling knacks. Page. 179
• CHAP. XXI. That the serpents and frogs were truly presented, and the water poisoned indeed by Jannes and Jambres; of false prophets, and of their miracles; of Balaam asse. Page. 180
• CHAP. XXII. The art of juggling discovered, and in what points it doth principally consist. Page. 181
• CHAP. XXIII. Of the ball, and the manner of le∣geir-demain therewith, also notable feats with one or divers balls. 182 To make a little ball swell in your hand till it be very great. ibid. To consume (or rather to con∣vey) one or many bals into nothing. 183 How to rap a wag upon the knuckles. ibid.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of conveyance of money. ibid. To convey money out of one of your hands into the other by legierdemain. ibid. To convert or transubstantiate money into counters, or counters into money. 184. To put one te∣stor into one hand, and another in∣to the other hand, with words to bring them together. ibid. To put one testor in∣to a strangers hand, and another into your own, and to convey both into the strangers hand with words. ibid. How to do the same or the like feat otherwise. ibid. To throw a piece of money away, and to find it again where you list. ibid. With words to make a groat or a testor to leap out of a pot, or to run along upon a table. 185. To make a groat or a testor to sink through a table, and to vanish out of a handkercher very strongly, ibid. A notable trick to transform a counter to a groat. ibid.
• CHAP. XXV. An excellent feat to make a two-pen∣ny peece lye plain in the palme of your hand and to be passed from thence when you list. 186. To convey a testor out of ones hand that holdeth it fast. ibid. To throw a piece of money into a deep pond, and to fetch it again from whence you list. ibid. To convey one shilling being in one hand into another, holding your armes abroad like a rod. ibid. How to rap a wag on the knuckles. Page. 187
• CHAP. XXVI. To transforme any one small thing into any other form by holding of paper. ibid.
• CHAP. XXVII. Of cards, with good cautions how to avoid cosenage therein: special rules to convey and handle the cards, and the manner and order how to accomplish all dif∣ficult and strange things wrought by cards. ibid. How to deliver out four aces, and to convert them into four knaves. 188. How to tell one what card he seeth in the bottom, when the same card is shuffled into the stock. ibid. Another way to do the same, having your self indeed never seen the card. 189. To tell one without confederacy what card he thinketh. ibid.
• CHAP. XXVIII. How to tell what card any man thin∣keth; how to convey the same into a kernel of a nut or cheristone, &c. and the same a∣gain into ones pocket; how to make one draw the same or any card you list, and all under one device, ibid.
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• CHAP. XXIX. Of Fast or Loose, how to knit a hard knot upon a Handkercher, and to undo the same with words, 190. A notable feat of Fast or Loose, namely, to pull three Bead-stones from off a Cord, while you hold fast the ends thereof, without removing of your hand. ibid.
• CHAP. XXX. Juggling knacks by Confederacy, and how to know whether one cast Cross or Pile by the ringing. 191. To make a shoal of Goslings draw a Timber-log. ibid. To make a Pot or any such thing standing fast on the Cubboord, to fall down thence by vertue of words. ibid. To make one Dance naked. ibid. To transform or alter the colour of ones Cap, or Hat. ibid. How to tell where a stolen Horse is become. ibid.
• CHAP. XXXI. Boxes to alter one grain into ano∣ther, or to consume the Grain or Corn to no∣thing. 192. How to convey (with words or charms) the Corn contained in one Box into another. ibid. Of another Box to convert Wheat into Flower with words, &c. ibid. Of divers petty Juggling knacks. Page. 193
• CHAP. XXXII. To burn a Thred and to make it whole again with the ashes thereof, ibid. To cut a Lace asunder in the midst, and to make it whole again, ibid. How to pull Laces innumerable out of your mouth, of what colour or length you list, and never any thing seen to be therein. Page. 194
• CHAP. XXXIII. How to make a Book, wherein you shall shew every leaf therein to be white, black, blue, red, yellow, green, &c. ibid.
• CHAP. XXXIV. Desperate or dangeroous Juggling knacks, wherein the simple are made to think, that a silly Juggler with words can hurt and help, kill and revive any crea∣ture at his pleasure: and first to kill any kind of Pullen, & to give it life again. 195. To eat a Knife, and fetch it out of any other place. ibid. To thrust a Bodkin into your head without hurt. 196. To thrust a Bodkin through your tongue, and a knife through your arm, a pitiful sight, with∣out hurt or danger, ibid. To thrust a piece of Lead into ones Eye, and 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, ibid. To cut half your Nose asunder, and to heal it again presently without any salve. ibid. To put a Ring through your cheek. ibid. To cut off ones head, and to lay it in a Platter, &c. which the Juglers call the Decolla∣tion of John Baptist. 197. To thrust a Dagger or Bodkin into your guts very strangely, and to recover immediately. ibid. To draw a Cord through your nose, mouth or hand, so sensible as it is wonderful to see. 198. The Conclusion, wherein the Reader is referred to certain patterns of Instruments wherewith divers feats here specified are to be executed. ibid.