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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55138	A pleasant treatise of witches their imps, and meetings, persons bewitched, magicians, necromancers, incubus, and succubus's, familiar spirits, goblings, pharys, specters, phantasms, places haunted, and devillish impostures : with the difference between good and bad angels, and a true relation of a good genius / by a pen neer the covent of Eluthery.	Pen neer the Covent of Eluthery.	1673 (1673)	Wing P2564; ESTC R9332	44,947	136

A Pleasant TREATISE OF Witches Their Imps and Meetings Persons bewitched Magicians Necromancers Incubus and Succubus's Familiar Spirits Goblings Pharys Specters Phantasms Places Haunted and Devillish Impostures WITH The difference between Good and Bad Angels and a true Relation of a good GENIUS By a Pen neer the Covent of ELUTHERY LONDON Printed by H. B. for C. Wilkinson at the Black Boy in Fleetstreet and Tho. Archer and Tho. Burrell under St. Dunstans-Church 1673. TO THE READER THere is an inward Inclination and desire of Knowledge gentle Reader which hath moved many grave Learned Authors amongst the rest of their inquiries to search into the Nature of those things which because they are beyond the reach of common capacity seem to the vulgar Fables only and Poetical Fictions Amongst the rest of those things there is nothing hath been more cry'd down by some and upheld by others nothing has had more Defendants on either side than the possibility of man's having familiarity with Demons This general Curiosity drew me in among the rest that were ignorant of such matters and caused me for my own Recreation as well as Satisfaction to allot some spare hours to a stricter inquiry into these things but their scope being so large and so far extended so many Arguments stand on the one side so many on the other that I fell short of any just determination Nevertheless like that Merchant that misses sometimes his designs yet alwayes comes home well laden I have found many things by the way and fill'd this small Treatise with the Pith and Marrow of above a hundred Antient and Modern Authors whose pleasant Relations have not only been delightful to my self in their Collection but have wrought so effectually on the Ears of some that have heard but two or three of them that not through any desire of mine but by their frequent and earnest intreaties I have used these means to satisfie them and to present thee with this compendious Treatise and that thy Acceptance of it may be kind according to my desires you shall find nothing here of those Vulgar Fabulous and Idle Tales that are not worth the lending an ear to nor of those hideous Sawcer-eyed and Cloven-Footed Divels that Grandams affright their children withal but only the pleasant and well-grounded discourses of the Learned as an object adequate to thy wise understanding Farewel Index CHAP. I. The manner of the Witches Profession CHAP. II. Their Imps and Meetings CHAP. III. Persons Bewitched CHAP. IV. Magicians and Negromancers CHAP. V. Incubus and Succubus CHAP. VI. Familiar Spirits Goblings and Pharies CHAP. VII Specters and Phantasms CHAP. VIII Places Haunted CHAP. IX Divellish Impostures CHAP. X. An admirable and true Process of a Woman that wrought Miracles by the help of the Divel CHAP. XI The horrid end of witches and Negromancers CHAP. XII The difference between good and bad Spirits and the true Relation of a good Genius A Pleasant Treatise of WITCHES c. CHAP. I. The manner of the Witches Profession INcoherent various and deceitful will all the Institutions of Satan appear whether we consider him in his ambiguous Oracles deceiving the Heathen World in his subtilty to create himself a worship and followers so obedient as to sacrifice their of-springs to him but more especially in his seducing some poor miscreants so far as to contract a bargain with them for their bodies and souls for ever Such are persons St. Chrisost. lib. de provid ad Stag. Monac perversly instituted in Religion envious malicious and distrusting Gods mercyes who to satisfie their unreasonable desires in those things they could not otherwise perform have hearkened to his flatteries renounced their Faith and made themselves his slaves and subjects Nevertheless to make his worship become more solemn and his servants tye the greater many horrible and detestable ceremonies are perform'd at their first reception the summ of all is this The Wizards and Witches being met in a place and time appointed where the Devil appears to them in humane shape admonisheth them to be faithful promises them success and length of life they that are present recommend the Novice to him and the Devil if the party will renounce the Christian Faith the Sacraments and tread upon the Cross gives him his hand adding moreover that this is not alone sufficient but that he will have an homage also containing that he give himself to him body and soul for ever and bring as many as possibly he may into the same societ●…y furthermore that he prepare himself certain Oyntments This we inquisitors say the Authors of a Book called Malleus Maleficarum know being fully informed by a young Witch Another marryed youth is said to have confessed to Peter Judge in Boltingen after this manner That the rest of the society on Sunday before the water was consecrated brought the new Disciple into the Church where he denyed his faith c. and promised homage to his little Master for so they call him Magisterulum and no otherwise then he drinks out of a Bottle presently which being done he begins to conceive something of his Profession and is confirmed in the principall Rites of it Manlius writes concerning their abominable profession that in the Year 1553. two Witches sto●…e a Child from their neighbour kild it cut it in pieces and put it into a Kittle to boil when the sorrowful Mother looking for her Infant came by chance into the house and found the limbs thereof horribly consumed For which abominable Fact the Authors of it were burnt having first in their torture confessed this part of their horrible profession Two other Witches are reported by Spranger to have kild the one forty Children unchristned the other an infinite number and R. P. P. Valdarama the Spaniard relates that in Germany were taken eight Witches who confessed to have murthered One hundred forty five Children in the making their Oyntments CHAP. II. Of their familiar Imps and their meetings THey are likewise reported by the same Author to have each of them a Spirit or lmp attending on and assigned to them which never leave those to whom they are subject but assist and render them all the service they command These give the Witches notice to be ready on all Solemn appointments and meetings which are ordinarily on Tuesday or Wednesday night and then they strive to separate themselves from the company of all other Creatures not to be seen by any and night being come they strip themselves naked and anoint themselves with their Oyntments Then are they carryed out of the house either by the Window Door or Chimney mounted on their Imps in form of a Goat Sheep or Dragon till they arrive at their meeting place whither all the other Wizards and Witches each one upon his Imps are also brought Thus brought to the designed place which is sometimes many hundred miles from their dwellings they find a great number of others arrived there by the same means who before