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 VI.
CHAP. I. THe Exposition of this Hebrew word Chasaph, wherein is answered the Objection contained in Exod. 22. to wit, Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live, and of Simon Magus, Act. 8. Page. 63
CHAP. II. The place of Denteronomie Expounded, wherein are recited all kind of Witches; also their opinions confuted, which hold that they can work such miracles as are impu∣ted unto them. Page. 64
CHAP. III. That women have used poysoning in all ages more then men, and of the inconveni∣ence of poysoning. Page. 66
CHAP. IV. Of divers poysoning practices, otherwise called Veneficia, committed in Italy, Ge∣nua, Millen, Wittenberge, also how they were discovered and executed. Page. 67
CHAP. V. A great objection answered concerning this kind of Witchcraft called Veneficium. Page. 68
CHAP. VI. In what kind of confections that Witch∣crafty, which is called Veneficium, consist∣eth: of Love-cups, and the same confuted by Poets. ibid.
CHAP. VII. It is proved by more credible Writers, that Love-cups rather ingender death through venom, than love by art; and with what toys they destroy Cattel, and procure love. Page. 69
...CHAP. VIII. J. Bodin triumphing against J. Wier, overtaken with false Greek, and false in∣terpretation thereof. Page. 70
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