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A62395	Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.	1651 (1651)	Wing S943; ESTC R19425	465,580	448

the weather is faire and cleer Cardanus derideth these and such like fables and setteth downe his judgement therein accordingly in the sixteenth booke De rerum ver These conjurors and coseners forsooth will shew you in a glasse the theefe that hath stolne any thing from you and this is their order They take a glasse-viall full of holy water and set it upon a linnen cloth which hath been purified not onely by washing but by sacrifice c. On the mouth of the viall or urinall two olive-leaves must be laid acrosse with a little conjuration said over it by a child to wit thus Angele bone angele candide per tuam sanctitatem meamque virginite●em ostende mihi furem with ●hree Pater noste●s three Aves and betwixt either of them a crosse made with the naile of the thombe upon the mouth of the viall and then shall be seen angels ascending and descending as it were motes in the sunne-beames The theefe all this while shall suffer great torments and his face shall be seen plainly even as plainly I beleeve as the man in the moone For in truth there are toies artificially conveyed into glasse which will make the water bubble and devises to make images appeare in the bubbles as also there be artificial glasses which will shew unto you that shall looke thereinto many images of divers formes and some so small and curious as they shall in favour resemble whomsoever you think upon Looke in John Bap. Neap for the confection of such glasses The subtilties hereof are so de●ected and the mysteries of the glasses so common now and their cosenage so well knowne c. that I need not stand upon the particular confutation hereof Cardanus in the place before cited reporteth how he tried with children these and divers circumstances the whole illusion and found it to be plaine knavery and cosenage Another way to find out a theefe that ahht stolne any thing from you GO to the sea-side and gather as many pebles as you suspect persons for that matter carry them home throw them into the fire bury them under the threshold where the parties are like to come over There let them lie three dayes and then before sun rising take them away Then set a porrenger full of water in a circle wherein must be made crosses every way as many as can stand in it upon the which must be written Christ overcometh Christ reigneth Christ commandeth The porrenger also must be signed with a crosse and a form of conjuration must be pronounced Then each stone must be thrown into the water in the name of the suspected And when you put in the stone of him that is guilty the stone will make the water boile as though glowing iron were put thereinto Which is a meere knack of legierdemaine and to be accomplished divers waies To put out the theeves eye Reade the seven psalmes with the Letany and then must be said a horrible prayer to Christ and God the father with a curse against the theefe Then in the middest of the step of your foote on the ground where you stand make a circle like an eye and write thereabout certain barbarous names and drive with a coopers hammer or addes into the middest thereof a brazen naile consecrated saying Iustus es Domine et justa judicia tua Then the thiefe shall be bewraied by his crying out Another way to find out a thiefe STick a paire of sheeres in the rind of a sive and let two persons set the top of each of their forefingers upon the upper part of the sheeres holding it with the sive up from the ground steddily and aske Peter and Paul whether A. B. or C. hath stolne the thing lost and at the nomination of the guilty person the sive will turne round This is a great practise in all countries and indeed a very bable For with the beating of the pulse some cause of that motion ariseth some other cause by slight of the fingers some other by the wind gathered in the ●ive to be staid c. at the pleasure of the holders Some cause may be the imagination which upon conceit at the naming of the party altereth the common course of the pulse As may well be conceived by a ring held steddily by a thred betwixt the finger and the thombe over or rather in a goblet or glasse which within short space will strike against the side thereof so many strokes as the holder thinketh it a clocke and then will stay the which who so proveth shall find true A Charme to find out or spoile a theefe OF th●s matter concerning the apprehension of theeves by w●●ds I will ci●e one charme called S. Adelberts curse being both for length of words sufficient to wery the reader and for substantiall stuffe comprehending all that appertaineth unto blasphemous speech or cursing allowed in the church of Rome as an excommunication and inchantment Saint Adelberts curse or charme against theeves BY the authority of the omnipotent Father the Sonne and the holy ghost and by the holy virgine Mary mother of our Lord Jesu Christ and the holy angels and archangels and S. Michael and S. John Baptist and in the behalfe of S. Peter the apostle and the risidue of the apostles and of S. Stephen and of all the martyrs of S. Sylvester and of S. Adelbert and all the confessors and S. Alegand and all the holy virgins and of all the saints in heaven and earth unto whom there is given power to bind and loose we do excommunicate damne curse and bind with the knots and bands of excommunication and we do segregate from the bounds and lists of our holy mother the church all those theeves sacrilegious persons ravenous catchers doers counsellers coadjutors male or female that have committed this theft or mischiefe or have usurped any part thereof to their owne use Let their share be with Dathan and Abiran whom the earth swallowed up for their such and pride and let them have part with Iudas that betrayed Christ Amen and with Pontius Pilat and with them that said to the Lord Depart from us we will not understand thy wayes let their children be made orphanes Cursed be they in the field in the grove in the woods in their houses barnes chambers and beds and cursed be they in the court in the way in the towne in the castle in the water in the church in the churchyard in the tribunall place in battell in their abode in the market place in their talke in silence in eating in watching in sleeping in drinking in feeling in sitting in kneeling in standing in lying in idlenesse in all their worke in their body and soule in their five wits and in every place Cursed be the fruit of their womb● and cursed be the fruit of their lands and cursed be all that they ha●e Cursed be their heads their mouthes their nostrels their noses their lips their jawes their teeth their eyes

to nothing ibid. How to convey with words or charmes the corn contained in one boxe into another pag. 240. Of another boxe to convert wheat into flower with words c. ibid. Of diverse petty juggling knackes ibid. Tr burne a thred and to make it whole againe with the ashes thereof pag. 241. To cut a lace asunder in the middest and to make it whole again ibid. How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth of what colour or length you li●t and never any thing seen to be therein pag. 242. How to make a book wherein you shall shew every leaf therein to be white black blew red yellow green c. ibid. Desperate or dangerous juggling knacks wherein the simple are made to think that a seely juggler with words can hurt and help kill and revive any creature at his pleasure and first to kill any kind of pullen and to give it life again pag. 244. To eat a knife and to fetch it out of any other place ibid. To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt ibid. To thrust a bodkin through your tongue and a knife through your arme a pitiful sight without hurt or danger pag. 245. To thrust a piece of lead into one eye and drive it about with a stick between the skin and flesh of the forehead until it be brought to the other eye and there thrust out ibid. To cut halfe your nose asunder and to heal it again presently without any salve ibid. To put a ring through your cheeke pag. 246. To cut off ones head and to lay it in a platter c. which the iuglers call the decollation of Iohn Baptist. ibid. To thrust a dagger or bodkin into your guts very strangely and to recover immediatly pag. 247. To draw a cord through your nose mouth or hand so sensible as it is wonderfull to see ibid. The conclusion wherein the reader is referred to certaine patterns of instruments wherewith diverse feats here specified are to be executed pag. 248. The xiiii Book OF the art of Alcumystry of their words of art and devises to bleare mens eies to procure credit to their profession Pag. 249. The Alcumysters drift the Canons yeomans tale of alcumystical stones and waters pag. 250. Of a yeoman of the country cousened by an Alcumyst pag. 254. A certaine king abused by an Alcumist and of the kings foole a prety jest pag. 252. A notable story written by Erasmus of two Alcumysts also of longation and curtation ibid. The opinion of divers learned men touching the ●●lly of Alcumystry pag. 260. That vaine and deceitfull hope is a great cause why men are seduced by this alluring art and ●hat their labours therein are bootlesse c. pag. 261. A continuation of the former matter with a conclusion of the same p 262. The xv Book THe exposition of Iidoni and where it is found whereby the whole art of consuration is deciphered Pag 265. An inventary of the names shapes powers government and effects of divels and spirits of their severall s●igniorities and degrees a strange discourse worth the reading p. 266. The houres wherein poincipall divels may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt p. 277. The sorme of adjuring or citing of the spirits aforesaid to arise and appeare pag 278. A confutation of the manifold vanities contained in the precedent chapters specially of commanding of devils pag. 279. The names of the planets their characters together with the twelve signes of the zodiake their dispositions aspects and government with other observations pag. 281. The twelve signes of the zodiake their characters and denominations c. ibid. Their dispositions or inclinations 282. The disposition of the planets pag. 282. The aspects of the planets ibid. How the day is divided or distinguished p. 283. The division of the day and the planetary regiment pag. 283 The division of the night and the planetary regiment ibid. The characters of the angels of the seven dayes with their names of figures seales and periapts pag. 284. An experiment of the dead pag. 285. A licence for Sibylla to go and come by at all times pag. 290. To know of treasure hidden in the earth ibid. This is the way to go invisible by these three sisters of fairies pag 291. An experiment of Citrael c. angeli di●i dominici pag. 292. The seven angels of the seven dayes with the prayer called Regina linguae ibid. How to inclose a spirit in a crystall stone pag. 293. A figure or type proportionall shewing what form must be observed kept in making the figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a spirit in crystal is to be accomplished c. pag. 295. An experiment of the spirit Bealphares pag. 296. The two and twentieth Psalme pag. 299. This psalme also following being the fifty one psalme must be said three times over c. ibid. To bind the spirit Bealphares and to lose him again pag. 300. A licence for the spirit to depart pag. 301 A type or figure of the circle for the master and his fellowes to sit in shewing how and after what fashion it should be made pag. 302. The making of the holy water pag. 303. To the water say also as followeth ibid. Then take the salt in thy hand and say putting it into the water making in the manner of a crosse pag. 304 Then sprinkle upon any thing and say as followeth ibid. To make a spirit to appear in a crystall ibid. An experiment of the dead pag 305. Now the Pater noster Ave and Credo must be said and then the prayer immediately following pag. 306. A bond to bind him to thee and to thy N●as followeth pag. 307 This bond following is to call him into your crystall stone or glass c. pag 309. Then being appeared say these words following pag. 310 A licence to depart ibid. When to talk with spirits and to have true answers to finde out a theefe pag. 311. To speak with spirits ibid. A confutation of conjuration especially of the raising binding and dismissing of the divell of going invisible and other lewd practises ibid. A comparison between popish exorcists and other conjurors a popish conjuration published by a great doctor of the Romish church his rules and cautions pag 313. A late experiment or cousening conjurati●n practised at Orleance by the Franciscane Fryers how it was detected and the judgement against the authors of that comedie pag 315. Who may be conjurors in the Romish Church besides priests a ridiculous definition● of superstision what words are to be used and not used in exorcismes rebaptisme allowed it is lawfull to conjure any thing differences between holy water and conjuration pag. 317. The seven reasons why some are not rid of the divell with all their popish conjurations why there were no cōjurors in the primitive church and why the divell is not so so●ne cast out of the bewitched as of the possessed pag. 319. Other grosse absurdities of