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A62397	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.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Discourse concerning the nature and substance of devils and spirits.	1665 (1665)	Wing S945A; ESTC R20054	529,066	395

twice called he answered nothing but the third time he answered and the other with a lowder voyce commanded him that when he came to Palodes he should tell them That the great God Pan was departed Whereat every one was astonyed as Epitherses affirmed And being in consultation what were best to do Thamus concluded that if the wind were high they must pass by with silence but if the weather were calme he must utter that which he had heard But when they came to Palodes and the weather calme Thamus looking out toward the land cryed aloud that the great God Pan was deceased and immediately there followed a lamentable noise of a multitude of people as it were with great wonder and admiration And because there were many in the ship they said the fame thereof was speedily brought to Rome and Thamus sent for by Tiberius the Emperor who gave such credit thereto that he diligently inquired and asked who that Pan was The learned men about him supposed that Pan was he who was the son of Mercury and Penelope c. Eusebius saith That this chanced in the time of Tiberius the Emperour when Christ expelled all Devils c. Paulus Martius in his Notes upon Ovids Fasti saith that this voyce was heard out of Paxe that very night that Christ suffered in the year of Tiberius the nineteenth Surely this was a merry jest devised by Thamus who with some confederates thought to make sport with the passengers who were some asleep and some drunk and some other at play c. whiles the first voice was used And at the second voyce to wit when he should deliver his message he being an old Pilot knew where some noise was usual by means of some Eccho in the Sea and thought he would to the astonishment of them accomplish his device if the weather proved calm Whereby may appear that he would in other cases of tempests c. rather attend to more serious business then to that ridiculous matter for why else should he not do his errand in rough weather as well as in calm or what need he tell the Devil thereof when the Devil told it him before and with much more expedition could have done the errand himself But you shall read in the Legend a fable an Oracle I would say more authentick for many will say that this was a prophane story and not so canonical as those which are verified by the Popes authority and thus it is written A Woman in her travel sent her Sister to Diana which was the Devil in an Idol as all those Oracles are said to be and willed her to make her Prayers or rather a request to know of her safe delivery which thing she did But the Devil answered Why prayest thou to me I cannot help thee but go pray to Andrew the Apostle and he may help thy sister c. Lo this was not only a gentle but a godly Devil pittying the Womans case who revealing his own disability enabled S. Andrew more I know some Protestants will say That the Devil to maintain Idolatry c. referred the Maid to S. Andrew But what answer will the Papists make who think it great piety to pray unto Saints and so by consequence a honest courtesie in the Devil to send her to S. Andrew who would not fail to serve her turn c CHAP. V. The judgements of the ancient Fathers touching Oracles and their abolishment and that they be now transferred from Delphos to Rome THe opinions of the Fathers That Oracles are ceased by the coming of Christ you shall find in these places following to wit Justinus Indialogis adversus Judaeos Athanasius De humanitate verbi Augustine De Civitate Dei Eusebius lib. 7. cap. 6. Item lib. 5. cap. 1.8 Rupertus in Joan. lib. 10.12 Plutarch De abolitione oraculorum Pliny lib. 30. Natural Historiae Finally Athanasius concludes That in times past there were Oracles in Delphos Boeotia Lycia and other places but now since Christ is preached unto all men this madness is ceased So as you see that whatsoever estimation in times past the ancient Fathers conceived by hearsay of those miraculous matters of Idols and Oracles c. they themselves refuse now not only to bear witness of but also affirm That ever since Christs coming their miracles have been stopped For the ceasing of the knaveries and cosening devices of Priests I see no authority of Scripture or ancient Father but rather the contrary to wit that there shall be strange illusions shewed by them even unto the end And truly whosoever knoweth and noteth the order and devices of and in Popish Pilgrimages shall see both the Oracles and their conclusions remaining and as it were transferred from Delphos to Rome where that adulterous generation continually seeketh a sign though they have Moses and the Prophets yea even Christ and his Apostles also c. CHAP. VI. Where and wherein Coseners Witches and Priests were wont so give Oracles and to work their feats THese cosening Oracles or rather Oraclers used I say to exercise their feats and to do their miracles most commonly in Maids in Beasts in Images in Dens in Cloysters in dark holes in Trees in Churches or Churchyards c. where Priests Monks and Fryers had laid their plots and made their confederacies aforehand to beguil the world to gain money and to add credit to their profession This practice began in the Oaks of Dodona in the which was a wood the Trees thereof they say could speak And this was done by a knave in a hollow-tree that seemed sound unto the simple people This Wood was in Molossus a part of Greece called Epyrus and it was named Dodonas Oracle There were many Oracles in Aegypt namely of Hercules of Apollo of Minerva of Diana of Mars of Jupiter and of the Ox Apys who was the son of Jupiter but his image was worshipped in the likeness of an Ox. Latona who was the Mother of Apollo was an Oracle in the City of Bute The Priests of Apollo who alwayes counterfeited fury and madness gave Oracles in the Temple called Clarius within the City of Colophon in Greece At Thebes in Boeotia and also in Loebadia Trophonius was the chief Oracle At Memphis a Cow at Corinth an Ox called Mineus in Arsinoe a Crocodile in Athens a Prophet called Amphiaraus who indeed dyed at Thebes where they say the earth opened and swallowed him up quick At Delphos was the great Temple of Apollo where Devils gave Oracles by maids as some say though indeed it was done by Priests It was built upon Parnassus hill in Greece And the defenders of Oracles say that even as rivers oftentimes are diverted to another course so likewise the spirit which inspired the chief Prophets may for a time be silent and revive again by revolution Demetrius saith That the spirits which attended on Oracles waxed weary of the peoples curiosity and importunity and for shame forsook the Temple But

as trouble private houses and are set to oversee Cross-wayes and Cities Larvae are said to be spirits that walk only by night Genii are the two Angels which they supposed were appointed to wait upon each man Manes are the spirits which oppose themselves against men in the way Daemones were feigned gods by Poets as Jupiter Juno c. Virunculi terrei are such as was Robin Good-fellow that would supply the office of Servants specially of Maids as to make a fire in the morning sweep the house grind Mustard and Malt draw Water c. these also rumble in houses draw latches go up and down stairs c. Dii geniales are the gods that every man did sacrifice unto at the day of their birth Tetrici be they that make folk afraid and have such ugly shapes which many of our Divines do call Subterranei Cobali are they that follow men and delight to laugh with tumbling juggling and such like toyes Virunculi are Dwarfs about three handfuls longs and do no hurt but seem to dig in minerals and to be very busie and yet do nothing Guteli or Trulli are spirits they say in the likeness of women shewing great kindness to all men and hereof it is that we call light women trulls Daemones montani are such as work in the minerals and further the work of the labourers wonderfully who are nothing afraid of them Hudgin is a very familiar Devil which will do no body hurt except he receive injury but the cannot abide that nor yet be mocked he talketh with men friendly sometimes visibly and sometimes invisibly There go as many tales upon this Hudgin in some parts of Germany as there did in England of Robin Good-fellow But this Hudgin was so called because he alwayes wore a Cap or a Hood and therefore I think it was Robin Hood Fryer Rush was for all the world such another fellow as this Hudgin and brought up even in the same School to wit in a Kitchin in so much as the self same tale is written of the one as of the other concerning the Skullion which is said to have been slain c. for the reading whereof I referr you to Fryer Rush his story or else to John Wierus De praestigiis Daemonum There were also Familiares Daemones which we call Familiars such as Socrates and Caesar were said to have and such as Feats sold to Doctor Burcot Quintus Sertorius had Diana her self for his familiar and Numa Pompilius had Aegeria but neither the one nor the other of all these could be preserved by their familiars from being destroyed with untimely death Simon Samareus boasted that he had gotten by Conjuration the soul of a little child that was slain to be his familiar and that he told him all things that were to come c. I marvel what priviledge souls have which are departed from the body to know things to come more than the Souls within Mans Body There were spirits which they called Albae mulieres and Albae Sybillae which were very familiar and did much harm they say to women with child and to suckling children Denmus as a Devil is worshipped among the Indians in Calecute who as they think hath power given him of God to judge the Earth c. his Image is horribly pictured in a most ugly shape Thevet saith that a Devil in America called Agnan beareth sway in that Country In Ginnie one Grigrie is accounted the great Devil and keepeth the Woods these have Priests called Charoibes which prophesie after they have lien by the space of one hour prostrate upon a wench of twelve years old and all that while say they he calleth upon a Devil called Hovioulsira and then cometh fourth and uttereth his prophesie For the true success whereof the people pray all the while that he lieth groveling like a lecherous knave There are a thousand other names which they say are attributed unto Devils and such as they take to themselves are more ridiculous than the names that are given by others which have more leisure to devise them In little Books containing the cosening possessed at Maidstone where such a wonder was wrought as also in other places you may see a number of counterfeit Devils names and other trish trash CHAP. XXII Of the Romans chief gods called Dii selecti and of other Heathen gods their Names and Offices THere were among the Romans twenty idolatrous gods which were called Dii selecti sive electi chosen gods whereof twelve were male and eight female whose names do thus follow Janus Saturnus Jupiter Genius Mercurius Apollo Mars Vulcanus Neptunus Sol Orcus and Vibar which were all he-gods Tellus Ceres Juno Minerva Luna Diana Venus and Vesta were all she-gods No man might appropriate any of these unto himself but they were left common and indifferent to all men dwelling in one Realm Province or notable City These Heathen Gentiles had also their Gods which served for sundry purposes as to raise Thunder they had Statores Tonantes Feretrii and Jupiter Elicius They had Cantius to whom they prayed for wise children who was more apt for this purpose than Minerva that issued out of Jupiters own brain Lucina was to send them that were with childe safe delivery and in that respect was called the mother of Childwives Opis was called the mother of the Babe new born whose image women with child hanged upon their girdles before their bellies and bare it so by the space of nine moneths and the Midwife alwayes touched the child therewith before she or any other layed hand thereon If the child were well born they sacrificed thereunto although the mother miscarried but if the child were in any part unperfect or dead c. they used to beat the image into powder or to burn or drown it Vagianus was he that kept their children from crying and therefore they did alwayes hang his picture about Babes necks for they thought much crying in youth portended ill fortune in age Cuninus otherwise Cunius was he that preserved as they thought their children from misfortune in the Cradle Ruminus was to keep their dugs from corruption Volumnus and his wise Volumna were gods the one for young men the other for maids that desired marriage for such as prayed devoutly unto them should soon be marryed Agrestis was the god of the fields and to him they prayed for fertility Bellus was the god of War and warriers and so also was Victoria to whom the greatest Temple in Rome was built Honorius was he that had charge about Inkeepers that they should well intreat Pilgrimes Berecinthia was the mother of all the gods Aesculanus was to discover their mines of Gold and Silver and to him they prayed for good success in that behalf Aesculapius was to cure the sick whose Father was Apollo and served to keep weeds out of the Corn. Segacia was to make seeds to grow Flora preserved the Vines from frosts

and Latine Poets all together to be sleighted in this particular for many verities are inter-woven with their fictions they speak of vocal Forrests as Dodona of Talkative Rivers as Seamander of sensitive Fountains as Arethusa Menippa and Aegle Which more credible Historians have partly confirmed in the Relation of Dodona asserting that the trees do seem to speak by reason of the various Apparitions Phantasms that attend the Forrest And also in the Story of the River Scamander which is sayd at this day to afford plenty of spectres and prophetical Spirits that have nightly conversation with the Turkish Sailers coming by that way with Gallyes into the Mediterranean 21. The like is reported of a Castle in Norweigh standing over a Lake wherein a Satyr appeareth sounding a Trumpet before the death of any Souldier or Governour belonging to the same t is sayd to be the Ghost of some murdered Captain that hath become so Fatal and Ominous to his Successors But with more probability may be called a Spectre proper to the place according to the Constellation 22. And it hath been the conjecture of eminent speculators that from the Loins of such arise the numerous brood of Elves Faeryes Lycanthropi And Pigmyes sometimes visible sometimes invisible in Green-Land and the adjacent rocks where they have no concomitants but bears and scurvy-grass to mix and make merry withal except they pass from thence to the Northern parts of America where they shall find their off-spring adored for Gods and Goddesses by the ignorant Inhabitants about new Albion and as far South as Mexico as is amply related in the discourses of Drake Cortes and Purchas concerning the conquest and discovery of these Territoryes 23. By Apparitions upon the water many have been tempted to leap into the Sea in pursuit thereof till they were drowned of which spectres there is a sort called by Psellus Ordales who do appear like Ducks or other Water fouls till they by fluttering upon the water do entice their followers to pursue them so farr that many perish in the attempt which doth greatly delight these faithless Spirits who as we have said before do long to accompany their Astral Spirits after their decease An Example of this kinde I my self knew besides the numerous relations I have had from the mouths of others which confirm the opinions of the antient Magicians concerning these water Spirits that of all the rest they are the most deceitful and dangerous like the flattering Seas and swift gliding Torrents that when they have wonn any thing to admire and sound them do carry them violently into the abysse of their own Element 24. But we will leave the waters and insist a little on the nature of Igneous or Fiery Spirits that inhabit the Mountains in Hecla Aetna Propo Champ and Poconzi Where the Courts and Castles of these puissant Champions are kept The opinion of some is That they are not Astral but Infernal Spirits and D●mned Souls that for a term of years are confined to these burning Mountains for their Iniquities Which opinion although it be granted yet we may assert That for the most part the apparitions sounds noices clangors and clamors that are heard about the Mountan Hecla in Island and other places are the effects of separated Starry beings who are neither capable of good nor evill but are of a middle vegetative nature and at the dissolution of the Media Natura shall be again reduced into their primary Aether 25. And from natural Causes it may be easily demonstrated That there is great Correspondence betwixt such substances and the Element of fire by reason of the Internal Flagrat and Central Life proceeding from the Quintessence or one only Element which upholds them in Motion Life and Nourishment As every natural and supernatural being is upheld and maintain'd out of the self-same root from whence it had its original or rise So the Angels feed upon the Caelestial Manna The Devils of the fruits of Hell which is natural to their appetite as trash for swine the Astral beings of the source of the stars the Beasts Birds or Reptiles of the fruits of the Earth and the gas of the Air the fishes of the blass of the Water But more particularly every thing is nourished by its Mother as Infants at the Breast either by exhausting or fomentation 26. Such Spirits are very officious in the burnings of Towns or Cole-pits delighting much to dance and exult amidst the flames and become Incendiaries worse then the material Cause of the Combustion often tempting men in drukenness to burn their own Houses and causing Servants carelesly to sleep that such unlucky accidents may happen As the Story of Kzarwilwui a Town in Poland doth confirm which was reduced to ashes by three of these pestilentious Animals called Saggos Broundal and Baldwin who after many open Threatnings for six months together that they would destroy the City and Citizens did on a dark and stormy night set all on fire on a suddain in twenty or thirty several places which irrecoverably destroyed the Inhabitants 27. As for the nourishment of fiery Spirits it is radical heat and the influence of the Aery Region their sport and pastime consisteth for the most part in tumbling and fooling one with another when the flames are most impetuous and violent in the Mountains And it is likewise credited by some that their office is to cruciate and punish some Evil Livers retaining and tormenting their Souls or Astral Spirits for many years after the Bodies decease which is too empty a notion to be hearkened unto by any that are well informed of their natures 28. Neither is it to be wondered at that they are so much delighted with the fiery quality in regard of their affinity and appropriation with infernal spirits whose state and being is altogether damnable and deplorable for although they have not the ability of attaining either the Heavenly or Infernal quality by reason that they are utterly voyd of the innermost Center and may be rather called bruits then rational Animals yet because they belong to the outermost principle such is their innate Affinity and Unity with the dark World or infernal Kingdome that they do often become the Devils Agents to propagate his works upon the face of the Earth 29. By the Instigations of infernal Spirits they are often sent to terrifie men with nocturnal visions in the likeness of monstrous Beasts or Ghosts of their deceased Friends They are moreover often abetted to tempt and provoke melancholy people to execute themselves besides innumerable wayes they have of executing the pleasures of iniquous Spirits through malicious Instigations and secret Stratagems projected by them to the destruction of mortal men especially when the work to be effected by the Devil is too too hard for his subtle and spiritual nature to bring to pass because the same belongs to the Astral source or outward principle to which

there be a great number of lyes contained in M. Mal. and J. Bodin And if this be well weighed and conceived it beateth down to the ground all those Witchmongers arguments that contend to wring witching miracles out of this place For they disagree notably some denying and some affirming that Serpents may be bewitched Nevertheless because in every point you shall see how Popery agrees with Paganism I will recite certain Charms against Vipers allowed for the most part in and by the Church of Rome as followeth I conjure thee O Serpent in this hour by the five holy wounds of our Lord that thou remove not out of this place but here stay as certainly as God was born of a pure Virgine Otherwise I conjure thee Serpent In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus sancti I command thee Serpent by our Lady S. Mary that thou obey me as wax obeyeth the fire and As fire obeyeth water that thou neither hurt me nor any other Christian as certainly as God was born of an immaculate Virgine in which respect I take thee up In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Ely lash eiter ely lash eiter ely lash eiter Otherwise O Vermine thou must come as God came unto the Jews Otherwise L. Varius saith that Serpens quernis frondibus contracta that a Serpent touched with Oak-leaves dieth and stayeth even in the beginning of his going if a feather of the bird Ibis be cast or thrown upon him and that a Viper smitten or hot with a reed is astonied and touched with a beechen branch is presently numme and stiffe Here is to be remembred that many use to boast that they are of S. Pauls race and kindred shewing upon their bodies the prints of Serpents which as the Papists affirm was incident to all them of S. Paul's stock Marry they say herewithal that all his kinsfolks can handle Serpents or any poyson without danger Others likewise have as they brag a Katharine-wheel upon their bodies and they say they are kin to S. Katharine and that they can carry burning-coals in their bare-hands and dip their said hands in hot scalding liquor and also go into hot Ovens Whereof though the last be but a bare jest and to be done by any that will prove as a bad fellow in London had used to do making no tarriance at all therein yet there is a shew made of the other as though it were certain and undoubted by anointing the hands with the juyce of Mallows Mercury Urine c. which for a little time are defensatives against the scalding liquors and scorching fires But they that take upon them to work these mysteries and miracles do indeed after rehearsal of these and such like words and Charms take up even in their bare hands those Snakes and Vipers and sometimes put them about their necks without receiving any hurt thereby to the terror and astonishment of the beholders which naturally both fear and abhorre all Serpents But these Charmers upon my word dare not trust to their Charms but use such an Inchantment as every man may lawfully use and the lawful use thereof may bring to pass that they shall be in security and take no harm how much soever they handle them marry with a woollen rag they pull out their teeth before-hand as some men say but as truth is they weary them and that is of certainty And surely this is a kind of Witchcraft which I term private confederacy Bodin saith that all the Snakes in one Countrey were by Charms and Verses driven into another Region perhaps he meaneth Ireland where S. Patrik is said to have done it with his holiness c. James Sprenger and Henry Institor affirm that Serpents and Snakes and their skins exceed all other creatures for Witchcraft insomuch as Witches do use to bury them under mens thresholds either of the house or stalls whereby barrenness is procured both to woman beasts yea and that the very earth and ashes of them continue to have force of fascination In respect whereof they wish all men now and then to dig away the earth under their thresholds and to sprinkle holy water in the place and also to hang boughs hallowed on Midsummer-day at the stall door where the Cattel stand and produce examples thereupon of Witches lies or else their own which I omit because I see my Book groweth to be greater than I meant it should be CHAP. XVI Charms to carry Water in a Sieve to know what is spoken of us behind our backs for bleer eyes to make seeds to grow well of Images made of Wax to be rid of a Witch to hang her up notable authorities against waxen Images a Story bewraying the Knavery of waxen Images LEonardus Vairus saith that there was a Prayer extant whereby might be carried in a Sieve Water or other Liquor I think it was clam clay which a crow taught a maid that was promised a cake of so great quantity as might be kneaded of so much Flour as she could wet with the Water that she brought in a Sieve and by that means she clam'd it with Clay and brought in so much Water as whereby she had a great Cake and so beguiled her Sisters c. And this Tale I heard among my Grannams Maids whereby I can decipher this Witchcraft Item by the tingling of the Ear men heretofore could tell what was spoken of them If any see a Scorpion and say this word Bud he shall not be stung or bitten therewith These two Greek Letters π and A written in a Paper and hung about ones neck preserve the party from Bleereyedness Cummin or Hempseed sown with cursing and opprobrious words grow the faster and the better Berosus Anianus maketh Witchcraft of great Antiquity for he saith that Cham touching his Fathers naked Member uttered a Charm whereby his Father became emasculated or deprived of the Powers generative A Charm teaching how to hurt whom you list with Images of Wax c. MAke an Image in his name whom would hurt or kill of new Virgin wax under the right Arm-poke whereof place a Swallows heart and the liver under the left then hang about the neck thereof a new thred in a new Needle pricked into the member which you would have hurt with the rehearsal of certain words which for the avoiding of foolish superstition and credulity in this behalf is to be omitted And if they were inserted I dare undertake they would do no harm were it not to make fools and catch Gudgins Otherwise Sometimes these Images are made of Brass and then the hand is placed where the foot should be and the foot where the hand and the face downward Otherwise For a greater mischief the like Image is made in the form of a man or woman upon whose head is written the certain Name of the party and on his or her ribs these words Ailif casyl zaze hit mel meltat then the same must

proved by many Examples of the living and the dead AND as we see in Stones Herbs c. strange operation and natural love and dissention so do we read that in the Body of a Man there be as strange Properties and Vertues natural I have heard by credible report and I have read many grave Authors constantly affirm That the wound of a man murthered reneweth bleeding at the presence of a dear friend or of a mortal Enemy Divers also write that if one pass by a murthered body though unknown he shall be stricken with fear and feel in himself some alteration by nature Also that a woman above the age of fifty years being bound hand and foot her clothes being upon her and laid down softly into the water sinketh not in a long time some say not at all By which experiment they were wont to try Witches as well as by Ferrum candens which was to hold hot iron in their hands and by not burning to be tryed Howbeit Plutarch saith that Pyrrhus his great Toe had in it such natural or rather divine vertue that no fire could burn it And Alberius saith and many other also repeat the same Story saying that there were two such children born in Germany as if that one of them had been carried by any house all the doors right against one of his sides would fly open and that vertue which the one had in the left side the other Brother had in the right side He saith further that many saw it and that it could be referred to nothing but to the propriety of their bodies Pompanatius writeth that the Kings of France do cure the disease called now the Kingsevil or Queensevil which hath been alwayes thought and to this day is supposed to be a miraculous and a peculiar gift ard a special grace given to the Kings and Queens of England Which some refer to the propriety of their persons some to the peculiar gift of God and some to the efficacy of words But if the French King use it no worse then our Princess doth God will not be offended thereat for her Majesty only useth godly and divine Prayer with some Alms and referreth the cure to God and to the Physitian Plutarch writeth that there be certain men called Psilli which with their mouths heal the bitings of Serpents And J. Bap. Neap. faith that an Olive being planted by the hand of a Virgin prospereth which if a Harlot do it withereth away Also if a Serpent or Viper lie in a hole it may easily be pulled out with the left hand where as with the right hand it cannot be removed Although this Experiment and such like are like enough to be false yet are they not altogether so impious as the miracles said to be done by Characters Charms c. For many strange properties remain in sundry parts of a living Creature which is not universally dispersed and indifferently spread through the whole body as the eye smelleth not the nose seeth not the ear tasteth not c. CHAP. X. The bewitching Venom contained in the body of an Harlot how her Eye her Tongue her Beauty and Behaviour bewitcheth some men of Bones and Horns yielding great vertue THE Vertue contained within the body of an Harlot or rather the venom proceeding out of the same may be beheld with great admiration For her eye infecteth enticeth and if I may so say bewitcheth them many times which think themselves well armed against such manner of people Her tongue her gesture her behaviour her beauty and other allurements poison and intoxicate the mind yea her company induceth impudency corrupteth virginity confoundeth and consumeth the bodies goods and the very souls of men And finally her body destroyeth and rotteth the very flesh and bones of mans body And this is common that we wonder not at all thereat nay we have not the course of the Sun the Moon or the Stars in so great admiration as the Globe counterfeiting their order which is in respect but a Bable made by an Artificer So as I think if Christ himself had continued long in the execution of miracles and had left that power permanent and common in the Church they would have grown into contempt and not have been esteemed according to his own saying A Prophet is not regarded in his own Countrey I might recite infinite properties wherewith God hath indued the body of man worthy of admiration and fit for this place As touching other living creatures God hath likewise for his Glory and our behoof bestowed most excellent and miraculous gifts and vertues upon their bodies and members and that in several and wonderful wise We see that a bone taken out of a Carps head stancheth blood and so doth none other part besides of that Fish The bone also in a Hares foot mitigateth the Cramp as none other bone nor part else of the Hare doth How precious is the bone growing out of the forehead of a Unicorn if the horn which we see grow there which is doubted and of how small account are the residue of all his bones At the excellency whereof as also at the noble and innumerable venues of Herbs we muse not at all because it hath pleased God to make them common unto us Which perchance might in some part assist Jannes and Jambres towards the hardning of Pharaohs heart But of such secret and strange operations read Albert. De mineral cap. 1.11 17. Also Marsilius Ficinus cap. 1. lib. 4. Cardan de rerum varietate J. Bap. Neap de Magia Naturali Peucer Wier Pompanatius Fernelius and others CHAP. XI Two notorious Wonders and yet not marvelled at I Thought good here to insert two most miraculous matters of the one I am Testis oculatus an Eye-witness of the other I am so credibly and certainly informed that I dare and do believe it to be very true When Mr. T. Randolph returned out of Russia after his Embassage dispatched a Gentleman of his Train brought home a monument of great accompt in nature and in property very wonderful And because I am loth to be long in the description of Circumstances I will first describe the thing it self which was a piece of earth of a good quantity and most excellently proportioned in Nature having these qualities and vertues following If one had taken a piece of perfect Steel forked and sharpned at the end and heated red hot offering therewith to have touched it it would have fled with great celerity and on the other side it would have pursued gold either in Coin or Bulloin with as great violence and speed as it shunned the other No Bird in the Air durst approach near it no Beast of the Field but feared it and naturally fled from the sight thereof It would be here to day and to morrow twenty miles of and the next day after in in the very place it was the first day and that without the help

teach shew and declare unto me and to my friends at all hours and minutes both night and day the truth of all things both bodily and ghostly in this world whatsoever I shall request or desire declaring also unto me my very name And this I command in your part to do and to obey thereunto as unto your own Lord and Master That done they will call a certain spirit whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round Crystal Then put the Crystal between the two circles and thou shalt see the Crystal made black Then command them to command the spirit in the Crystal not to depart out of the Stone till thou give him licence and to fulfill thy will for ever That done thou shalt see them go upon the Crystal both to answer your requests and to tarry your licence That done the spirits will crave licence and say Go ye to your place appointed of Almighty God in the Name of the Father c. And then take up thy Crystal and look therein asking what thou wilt and it will shew it unto thee Let all your Circles be nine foot every way and made as followeth Work this work in ♋ ♏ or ♓ in the hour of the ☽ or ♃ And when the spirit is inclosed if thou fear him bind him with some bond in such sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this our Treatise A Figure or Type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the Figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. 2 alanta ● 3 Thamaor 1 itrael 4 Ifalaur 5 itrami North South Est West Agla el ya Panthon ✚ dextera dm̄i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dm̄i fecit unt●le ✚ dextera dm̄i exalfa●tine ✚ dextera d̄mi fect virtute ✚ Messias Emanuel Alpha et ω CHAP. XXII An Experiment of Bealphares ✚ ✚ ✚ Homo sacarus museo lomeas cherubozca ✚ The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farr from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same Psalm as it is to be found in the Book This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same Psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the blood-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo Ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God Almighty as thou warnedst by thine Angel the three Kings of Cullen Jasper Melchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem Jasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high King of all the world Jesus Gods Son of Heaven the second Person in Trinity being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven Empress of Hell and Lady of all the world at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings that they should take another way for dread of peril that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightiful mercy bless us now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evil and thy holy Angel defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the Throne of Heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hills and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meek God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this Spirit invocated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helie ✚ Helion ✚ essejere ✚ Deus eternus ✚ Eloy ✚ clemens ✚ Heloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Deus exercituum Adonay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ berax ✚ anepheneton ✚ Deun ineffabilis ✚ Sodoy ✚ Dominatoz Dominus ✚ on fortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we besiech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek Prayers which we unworthy do offer unto thy Divine Majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy Holy Spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee maybe ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ Homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Musceolameus ✚ cherubozca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the Girdle about thee the circle made bless the Circle with holy Water and sit down in the midst and read this Conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exercise and conjure Baalphares the practiser and preceptor of this Art by the maker of Heavens and of Earth and by his vertue and by his unspeakable Name Tetragrammaton and by all the holy Sacraments and by the holy Majesty and Deity of the living God I conjure and exorcise thee Bealphares by the vertue of all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the most truest and speciallest Name of your Master that you do come unto us in fair form of man or woman-kinde here visibly before this circle and not terrible by any manner of wayes This circle being our tuition and protection by the merciful goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that you do make answer truly without craft or deceit unto all my demands and questions by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to loose him again NOw when he is appeared bind him with these words which follow * I conjure thee Bealphares by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost and by all the holy company in Heaven and by their vertues and powers I charge thee Bealphares that thou shalt not depart out of my sight nor yet to alter thy bodily shape that thou art appeared in nor any power shalt thou have of our bodies or souls earthly or ghostly but be obedient unto me and to the words of my

The fift under the Earth The sixt sort are Lucifugi that is such as delight in darkness and are scant indued with sense and so dull as they can scarse be moved with Charms or Conjurations The same man saith That some Devils are worse than other but yet that they all hate God and are enemies to man But the worser moity of Devils are Aquei Subterranei and Lucifugi that is watery under the Earth and shunners of light Because saith he these hurt not the souls of men but destroy mens bodies like mad and ravening beasts molesting both inward and outward parts thereof Aquei are they that raise tempests and drown Seafaring men and do all other mischiefs on the water Subterranei and Lucifugi enter into the Bowels of men and torment them that they poss●ss with the phrinsie and the falling evill They also assault them that are miners or pioners which use to work in deep and dark holes under the earth Such Devils as are earthy and airy he saith enter by subtilty into the minds of men to deceive them provoking men to absurd and unlawful affections But herein his Philosophy is very unprobable for if the Divel be earthy he must needs be palpable if he palpable he be must needs kill them into whose bodies he entereth Item if he be of earth created then must he also be visible and untransformable in that point for Gods creation cannot be annihilated by the creature So as though it were granted that they might add to their substance matter and form c. yet it is most certain that they cannot diminish or alter the substance whereof they consist as not to be when they list spiritual or to relinquish and leave earth water fire air or this and that element whereof they are created But howsoever they imagine of water air or fire I am sure earth must alwayes be visible and palpable yea and air must alwayes be invisible and fire must be hot and water must be moist And of these three latter bodies specially of water and air no form nor shape can be exhibited to mortal eyes naturally or by the power of any creature CHAP. IV. More absurd Assertions of Psellus and such others concerning the actions and passions of Spirits his definition of them and of his experience therein MOreover the same Author saith That Spirits whisper in our minds and yet not speaking so lowd as our ears may hear them but in such sort as our souls speak altogether when they are dissolved making an example by lowd speaking afar off and a comparison of soft whispering neer at hand so as the Devil entreth so neer to the mind as the Ear need not hear him and that every part of a Devil or Spirit seeth heareth and speaketh c. But herein I will believe Paul better then Psellus or his Monk or the Monks Devil For Paul saith If the whole body were an eye where were hearing If the whole body were hearing where were smelling c. Whereby you may see what accord is betwixt Gods Word and Witchmongers The Papists proceed in this matter and say That these Spirits use great knavery and unspeakable bawdery in the breach and middle parts of man and woman by tickling and by other lecherous devices so that they fall jump in judgment and opinion though very erroneously with the foresaid Psellus of whose doctrine also this is a parcel to wit That these Devils hurt not Cattel for the hate they bear unto them but for love of their natural and temperate heat and moisture being brought up in deep dry and cold places Marry they hate the heat of the Sun and the Fire because that kind of heat dryeth too fast They throw down stones upon men but the blows thereof do no harm to them whom they hit because they are not cast with any force for saith he The Devils have little and small strength so as the stones do nothing but fray and terrifie men as scare-crows do Birds out of the Corn-fields But when these Devils enter into the pores then do they raise wonderful tumults in the body and mind of man And if it be a subterrene Devil it doth writhe and bow the possessed and speaketh by him using the spirit of the Patient as his instrument But he saith that when Lucifugus poss●ss●th a man he maketh him dumb and as it were dead and these be they that are cast out saith he only by F●sting and Prayer The same Psellus with his mates Bodin and the penners of M. Mal. and others do find fault with the Physitians that affirm such infirmities to be curable with diet and not by inchantments saying That Physitians do only attend upon the body and that which is perceiveable by outward sense and that as touching this kind of divine Philosophy they have no skill at all And to make D●vels and Spirits seem yet more corporal and terrene he saith That certain Devils are belonging to certain Countries and speak the language of the same Countries and none other some the Assyrian some the Chaldaean and some the Persian tongue and that they feel stripes and fear hurt and specially the dint of the Sword in which respect Conjurors have Swords with them in their Circles to terrifie them and that they change shapes even as sodainly as men do change colour with blushing fear anger and other moods of the mind He saith further That there be brute beasts among them and yet Devils and subject to any kind of death insomuch as they are so foolish as they may be compared to Flies Fleas and Worms who have no respect to any thing but their food not regarding or remembring the whole from out of whence they came last Marry Devils compounded of Earth cannot often transform themselves but abide in some one shape such as they best like and most delight in to wit in the shape of Birds or Women and therefore the Greeks call them Neidas Nereidas and Dreidas in the feminine gender which Dreidae inhabited as some write the Islands beside Scotland called Druidae which by that means had their denomination and name Other Devils that dwell in dryer places transform themselves into the masculine kind Finally Psellus saith They know our thoughts and can prophesie of things to come His definition is That they are perpetual mindes in a passible body To verifie these toyes he saith That he himself saw in a certain night a man brought up by Aletus Lybius into a Mountain and that he took an hearb and spat thrice into his mouth and anointed his eyes with a certain Ointment so as thereby he saw great troops of Devils and perceived a Crow to flie into his mouth and since that hour he could prophesie at all times saving on Good-friday and Easter-sunday If the end of this tale were true it might not only have satisfied the Greek Church in keeping the day of Easter together with the Church

believed by many to Germinate and procreate one another so likewise are the infernal Spirits capable of multiplication in their power and essence according to their Orders Ranks and Thrones by means of the strong imagination in a Witch or malevolous person earnestly desiring their assistance 4. Not that the Spirits or Devils so begotten do any whit add or contribute to the number in general for as they are capable of increasing into distinct and separated substances so are they likewise again contracted and as it were annihilated when the force of that Imagination is gone which was the cause of their production The nature of a spirit whither heavenly or hellish being to dilate or contract themselves into as narrow compass as they please so that in a moment they can be as big in circumference as an hundred worlds and on a sodain reduce themselves to the compass of an atome 5. Neither are they so much limited as Tradition would have them for they are not at all shut up in any separated place but can remove millions of miles in the twinkling of an eye yet are they still where they were at first for out of their own element or quality they can never come go whither they will they are in darkness and the cause is within them not without them as one whose mind is troubled here in England can remove his Carcase from the place where it was before but should he go to the utmost bounds of the Earth he cannot leave his perplexed and tormented minde behind him 6. As for the shapes and various likenesses of Devils It is generally believed that according to their various capacities in wickedness so their shapes are answerable after a Magical manner resembling spiritually some horrid and ugly monsters as their conspiracies against the power of God were high and monstrous when they fell from Heaven for the condition of some of them is nothing but continual horrour and despair others triumph in firie might and pomp attempting to pluck God from out of his Throne but the quality of Heaven is shut from them that they can never find it which doth greatly add to their torment and misery 7. But that they are materially vexed and scorched in flames of fire is inferiour to any to give credit to who is throughly verst in their nature and existence for their substance is spiritual yea their power is greater then to be detain'd or tormented with any thing without them doubtless their misery is sufficiently great but not through outward flames for their Bodies are able to pierce through Wood and Iron Stone and all Terrestrial things Neither is all the fire or fewel of this World able to torment them for in a moment they can pierce it through and through But the infinite source of their misery is in themselves and is continually before them so that they can never enjoy any rest being absent from the presence of God which torment is greater to them then all the tortures of this world combin'd together 8. The wicked souls that are departed this life are also capable of appearing again and answering the Conjurations of Witches and Magicians for a time according to Nagar the Indian and the Pythagoreans And it cannot be easily conceived that their torment is much different stom the rest of the Devils for the Scripture saith every one is rewarded according to their works And that which a man sows that he shall reap Now as the damned Spirits when they lived on earth did heap up vanity and load their souls with iniquity as a treasure to carry with them into that Kingdom which sin doth naturally lead into so when they are there the same abominations which here they committed do they ruminate and feed upon and the greater they have been the greater is the torment that ariseth before them every moment 9. And although these Infernal Spirits are open Enemies to the very means which God hath appointed for mans salvation yet such is the degenerate and corrupted mind of mankind that there is in the same an itching after them for converse and familiarity to procure their assistance in any thing that their vain imagination suggesteth them with to effect which they inform themselves in every Tradition of Conjuration and Exorcism as also in the names natures and powers of Devils in general and are ever restless till their souls be totally devoted to that accursed and detestable nature which is at enmity with God and goodness 10. Now to proceed in the description of these Infernal Spirits and separated Daemons or Astral Beings as also of those in the Angelical Kingdom they that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven are either Angels which are divided into their degrees and orders or else the righteous souls departed who are entred into rest And it cannot be but that the life of Angels and Souls departed is the same in Heaven as also the food that nourisheth them and the fruits that spring before them Nor is it possible for any how expert so ever in Magical Arts to compel either of them of what degree soever they be to present themselves or appear before them Although many have written large Discourses and Forms of Convocation to compel the Angels unto communication with them by Magical Rites and Ceremonies 11. It may indeed be believed that seeing there are infinite numbers of Angels they are also imployed for the glory of God and protection of mankind but not subject to Conjurations And that they accompany many righteous men Invisibly and protect Cities and Countries from Plagues War and infestings of wicked Spirits against which Principalities and Powers of Darkness it is their place to contend and war to the confusion of the Kingdom of Darkness 12. But such Spirits as belong to this outward World and are of the Elemental quality subject to a beginning and ending and to degrees of continuance These may be solicited by Conjurations and can also inform Magicians in all the secrets of Nature yet so darkly because they want the outward organ that it is hardly possible for any that hath fellowship with them to learn any manual operation perfectly and distinctly from them 13. Many have insisted upon the Natures of these Astral Spirits some alledging That they are part of the faln Angels and consequently subject to the torments of Hell at the last Judgment Others That they are the departed souls of men and women confined to these outward Elements until the Consummation Lastly others As Del rio Nagar the Indian Magician and the Platonists affirm That their nature is middle between Heaven and Hell and that they reign in a third Kingdom from both having no other judgment or doom to expect for ever 14. But to speak more nearly unto their natures they are of the source of the Stars and have their degrees of continuance where of some live hundreds some thousands of years Their

discovery thereof by reason that we know not certainly of what Orders they were that Fell. The opinion of most men is That of every Order many fell But those that better know the nature of the Heavenly Hierarchies have sufficiently proved That of any Ranck or Order none can fall unless all do follow Therefore with more reason may it be judged That before the Devils fell the Hierarchy of Heaven did consist of three Rancks or Orders to wit the Order of Vriel of Michael of Lucifer That of Lucifer is totally in Hell The other which is under Michael is the dominion of Heaven The last which is Vriels are more in the dominion of this third principle of the Stars having the Planets in their dominion with the influences thereof 35. So that the foregoing Catalogue transcribed by the Author of this Discovery is utterly feigned and fictitious because it makes these many sorts of Devils to have Dominion over several Legions in several distinctions of Seraphims Powers Thrones Dominations Cherubims c. Whereas the whole Kingdom of Hell consists but of one only Hierarchy which is that of Lucifer and his Legions reduced by their exorbitances into that Lacrymable posture wherein they now are and shall be for ever Which Doctrine seriously weigh'd will prove the attempts of Conjurers and Magicians to be utterly vain and their forms of Invocation vanity and falshood 36. Their number may be thought upon more narrowly if we consider that they consist of one Hierarchy and no more yet must we confess that the limit is not to be put thereunto because their nature is to Germinate and Multiply as they please contracting and dilating themselves according to the force of their imaginative powers and faculties But although this be granted yet there is a setled number of Devils that varyeth not Though of Damned Souls the number is numberless and unfathomable yet as to their extent of room or place it is never the more because of their multitude they being able to truss a thousand Legions into the carcass of a man As for the opinions of Authors they are various it is believed by some That the Starrs are answerable to their number others speak of the Sands upon the Sea-shore however it be this is certain They are even innumerable in respect of humane Capacities 37. Their Natures are now to be considered as they belong to the hellish source or quality In themselves they rest nor neither are they capable of the length or shortness of time nor of the alternate courses of day and night The wickedness which they committed in this life are their continual torment which do Magically gnaw and corrode them rising and boyling up perpetually within them all the refrigeration which they have is by intercourse when the height of Wickedness begins to stirr them in blasphemies against God and towring up above heaven and goodness in their adulterated Imaginations which is unto them as sport and pastime with one another and lasteth such a space as with us makes up forty minutes Neither doth this any whit advantage them but rather adds to their torment for pain discontinued is the greater neither would vexation be vexation if it had no respite or forbearance That the contrary might be also manifest Nam contraria juxta se posita majus elucescunt Yet is their torment exceedingly different so that the torment of one in respect of another is but a Dream or Phansie I mean amongst the Damned Souls and not the Devils for the pain and sorrow of the Devils is greater then the greatest of the lost Souls by many thousand degrees according to the course of nature and reason for that which falls highest suffers most and optima corrupta fiunt pessima 38. But wonderful and manifold are the torments which all in general of the Infernal troops do suffer according to the various lusts they reigned in whilst they lived upon the earth The cruel Murtherers that died in the boyling source of blood and envy their torment is the greatest they are continually Murthering in their imaginations and seeking like dreaming men to do what the want of the Organ will not suffer them for according to the saying of the wisest upon this Subject this is the torment and misery of all the Damned That they are continually wishing and woulding and in wouldings they generate Ideas and representations which are the species of their continual aggravations and deceiving phansies 39. Those that were buryed in Lust and Gluttony Drunkenness and Lasciviousness are also in miserable torments yet much inferiour to the first they are continually imagining their former pleasures in the Magia as in a dream which when they wake torments them cruelly they are often hanging stabbing and mangling themselves for love and perpetually sinking down in sorrow and despair if they were such as died in love or in the height of their Astral affections leaving behind them a heap of desires and lusts which are the only cause of all their torment And we may well compare the passions of Melancholy persons or such as in Deserts Woods and Mountains pine away for love of Women unto their torments which indeed being the trouble of the mind are absolutely the greatest and heaviest that the source or property of this World affordeth I mean the perturbations of the minde in general 40. Such souls in whom the boyling source of Anger and Rage hath had a dwelling or receptacle if they depart unmortified do also enter into a most dreadful kind of torment which continually ariseth as a biting Worm and hungry fire to double and accumulate the excess of despair upon them if they have much domineered therein whilst they lived in this World Also these that reigned in Pride and Envy are ever seeking to pluck God from his Throne and towring up in their Imaginations as men that dream still seeking for the Kingdom of heaven to insult and boast therein but the quality thereof is utterly occult and estranged from them so that they can never finde taste hear nor see it though it be through and through with their own peculiar principle This adds perpetually to their misery and ariseth at times with horrible pangs and gnawings like the irksome and vexatious pains and aches subject to Mans body which cease a while and then begin to shoot and ake by intercourse as the Gowt Tooth-ach Head-ach Convulsion Gripings and the Stone 41. Thus their torments are in brief described but indeed the capacity of Man is not able to reach the description of their cruel miseries and continual pangs which they contracted upon themselves for every faculty is sufficiently plagued The Sence of Hearing is disturb'd with harsh and rugged sounds which are as an antipathy to that Organ as rough and scraping sounds externally offend the ears and set the teeth on edge by affecting the tender fibres of the same Their Sight is likewise cruelly offended and