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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

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