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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Subject terms
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 6, 2024.
Pages
BOOK II.
CHAP. I. WHat Testimonies and Witnesses are allowed to give evidence against reputed Witches, by the report and allowance of the Inquisitors themselves, and such as are special writers herein. Page. 11
CHAP. II. The order of Examination of Witches by the Inquisitors. ibid.
CHAP. III. Matters of evidence against Witches. Page. 13
CHAP. IV. Confessions of Witches, whereby they are condemned. Page. 14
CHAP. V. Presumptions, whereby Witches are con∣demned. ibid.
CHAP. VI. Particular Interrogatories used by the Inquisitors against Witches. Page. 15
CHAP. VII. The Inquisitors tryal of Weeping by Conjuration. Page. 16
CHAP. VIII. Certain cautions against Witches, and of their tortures to procure Confession. ibid.
CHAP. IX. The fifteen Crimes laid to the charge of Witches, by Witchmongers, specially by Bo∣din, in Demonomania. Page. 18
CHAP. X. A Confutation of the former surmised Crimes patched together by Bodin, and the only way to escape the Inquisitors hands. Page. 19
CHAP. XI. The Opinion of Cornelius Agrippa concerning Witches, of his pleading for a poor woman accused of Witchcraft, and how he convinced the Inquisitors. Page. 20
CHAP. XII. What the fear of death and feeling of torments may force one to do, and that it is no marvel though Witches condemn themselves by their own Confessions so ty∣rannically extorted. Page. 21
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