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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

cursed be their Elbows cursed be their Hands and their Fingers cursed be both the Nails of their hands and feet cursed be their Ribs and their Genitals and their Knees cursed be their Flesh cursed be their Bones cursed be their Blood cursed be the Skin of their Bodies cursed be the Marrow in their Bones cursed be they from the Crown of the Head to the sole of the Foot and whatsoever is betwixt the same be it accursed that is to say their five Senses to wit their Seeing their Hearing their Smelling their Tasting and their Feeling Cursed be they in the holy Cross in the Passion of Christ with his five Wounds with the effusion of his Blood and by the milk of the Virgin Mary I conjure thee Lucifer with all thy Souldiers by the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost with the Humanity and Nativity of Christ with the Vertue of all Saints that thou rest not day nor night till thou bringest them to destruction either by drowning or hanging or that they be devoured by wild Beasts or burnt or slain by their Enemies or hated of all men living And as our Lord hath given Authority to Peter the Apostle and his Successors whose place we occupy and to us though unworthy That whatsoever we binde on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever we loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven so we accordingly if they will not amend do shut from them the Gates of Heaven and deny unto them Christian Burial so as they shall be buried in Asses Leaze Furthermore cursed be the ground wherein they are buried let them be confounded in the last day of Judgement let them have no conversation among Christians nor be houseled at the hour of Death let them be made as dust before the face of the wind and as Lucifer was expelled out of heaven and Adam and Eve out of Paradise so let them be expelled from the day-light Also let them be joyned with those to whom the Lord saith at the Judgment Go ye cursed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels where the worm shall not die nor the fire be quenched And as the candle which is thrown out of my hand here is put out so let their works and their soul be quenched in the stench of Hell-fire except they restore that which they have stoln by such a day and let every one say Amen After this must be sung In media vita in morte sumus c. This terrible curse with Bell Book and Candle added thereunto must needs work wonders howbeit among Thieves it is not much weighed among wise and true men it is not well liked to them that are robbed it bringeth small relief the Priests stomach may well be eased but the goods stoln will never the sooner be restored Hereby is bewrayed both the malice and folly of Popish Doctrin whose uncharitable impiety is so impudently published and in such order uttered as every sentence if opportunity served might be proved both heretical and diabolical But I will answer this cruel curse with another curse far more mild and civil performed by as honest a man I dare say as he that made the other whereof mention was lately made So it was that a certain Sir John with some of his company once went abroad a jetting and in a Moon-light Evening robbed a Millers Weir and stole all his Eels The poor Miller made his moan to Sir John himself who willed him to be quiet for he would so curse the Thief and all his Confederates with Bell Book and Candle that they should have small joy of their Fish And therefore the next Sunday Sir John got him to the Pulpit with his Surplice on his back and his Stole about his neck and pronounced these words following in the audience of the people All you that have stoln the Millers Eeles Laudate Dominum de Coelis And all they have consented thereto Benedicamus Domino Lo saith he there is sauce for your Eeles my Masters Another Inchantment CErtain Priests use the hundred and eighth Psalm as an Inchantment or Charm or at leastwise saying that against whomsoever they pronounce it they cannot live one whole year at the uttermost CHAP. XVIII A Charm or Experiment to find out a Witch IN die dominico sotularia juvenum axungia seu pinguedine porei ut moris est pro restauratione fieri perangunt and when she is once come into the Church the Witch can never get out until the searchers for her give her express leave to depart But now it is necessary to shew you how to prevent and cure all mischiefs wrought by these Charms and Witchcrafts according to the opinion of M Mal. and others One principal way is to nail a Horse-shoe at the inside of the outmost threshold of your House and so you shall be sure no Witch shall have power to enter thereinto And if you mark it you shall find that rule observed in many Countrey-houses Otherwise Item the triumphant title to be written crosswise in every corner of the house thus Jesus ✚ Nazarenus ✚ Rex ✚ Judaeorum ✚ Memorandum you may joyn herewithal the Name of the Virgin Mary or of the four Evangelists or Verbum caro factum est Otherwise Item in some Countries they nail a Wolfs head on the door Otherwise Item they hang Scilla which is either a Root or rather in this place garlick in the roof of the House for to keep away Witches and Spirits and so they do Alicium also Otherwise Item Perfume made of the gall of a black Dog and his blood besmeared on the posts and walls of the House driveth out of the doors both Devils and Witches Otherwise The House where Herba betonica is sown is free from all mischiefs Otherwise It is not unknown that the Romish Church allowed and used the smoak of Sulphur to drive Spirits out of their houses as they did Frankincense and Water hallowed Otherwise Apuleius faith that Mercury gave to Ulysses when he came neer to the Inchantress Circe an herb called Verbascum which in English is called Mullein or Tapsus barbatus or Longwoort and that preserved him from the Inchantments Otherwise Item Pliny and Homer both do say that the Herb called Moly is an excellent herb against Inchantments and say all that thereby Ulysses escaped Circes her Sorceries and Inchantments Otherwise also diverse wayes they went to work in this case and some used this Defensive some that Preservative against Incantations And herein you shall see not only how the Religion of Papists and Infidels agree but also how their Ceremonies and their Opinions are all one concerning Witches and Spirits For thus writeth Ovid touching that matter Térque senem flammâ ter aquâ ter sulphuro lustrat Englished by Abraham Fleming She purifies with fire thrice Old hoary-headed Aeson With water thrice and sulphur thrice As she thought meet in reason Again the same Ovid

same with the sweat of his brows and nevertheless hath the best hand and conveyance I think of any man that liveth this day Neither do I speak as they say without Book herein For if time place and occasion serve I can shew so much herein that I am sure Bodin Spinaeus and Vairus would swear I were a Witch and had a familiar Devil at Commandement But truly my study and travel herein hath only been employed to the end I might prove them fools and find out the fraud of them that make them fools as whereby they may become wiser and God may have that which to him belongeth And because the manner of these juggling conveyances is not easily conceived by discourse of words I have caused to be set down divers forms of Instruments used in this Art which may serve for patterns to them that would throughly see the secrets thereof and make them for their own private practices to try the event of such devices as in this Tract of Legierdemain are shewed Where note that you shall find every Instrument that is most necessarily occupied in the working of these strange feats to bear the just and true number of the page where the use hereof is in ample words declared Now will I proceed with another cosening point of Witchcraft apt for the place necessary for the time and in mine opinion meet to be discovered or at the least to be defaced among deceitful Arts. And because many are abused hereby to their utter undoing for that it hath had passage under the protection of learning whereby they pretend to accomplish their works it hath gone freely without general controlment through all Ages Nations and People Here follow patterns of certain Instruments to be used in the former juggling knacks To pull three Bead-stones from off a Cord while you hold fast the ends thereof without removing of your hand To draw a Cord through your Nose Mouth or Hand which is called the Bridle To be instructed in the right use of the said Bead-stones read pag. 190. 191. As for the Bridle read pag. 198. To thrust a Bodkin into your Head and through your Tongue c. The hithermost is the Bodkin with the Bowt the middlemost is the Bodkin with the hollow haft the furthermost is the plain Bodkin serving for shew To be instructed and taught in the right use and ready practice of these Bodkins read pag. 196. To thrust a Knife through your Arm and to cut half your Nose asunder c. The middlemost knife is to serve for shew the other two be the Knives of device To be ready in the use and perfect practice of these Knives here portrayed see pag. 196. To Cut off ones Head and to lay it in a Platter which the Jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist The form of the plancks c. The order of the action as it is to be shewed What order is to be observed for the practising hereof with great admiration read pag. 197 198. BOOK XIV CHAP. I. Of the Art of Alchymistry of their words of Art and devices to blear mens Eyes and to procure credit to their Profession HEre I thought it not impertinent to say somewhat of the Art or rather the craft of Alchymistry otherwise called Multiplication which Chaucer of all other men most lively deciphereth In the bowels hereof doth both Witchcraft and Conjuration lie hidden as whereby some cosen others and some are cosened themselves For by this mystery as it is said in the Chanons mans prologue They take upon them to turn upside down All the Earth between Southwark and Canterbury town And to pave it all of silver and gold c. But ever they lack of their conclusion And to much folk they do illusion For their stuffe slides away so fast That it makes them beggers at the last And by this craft they do never win But make their purse empty and their wits thin And because the practicers hereof would be thought wise learned cunning and their crafts Masters they have devised words of Art Sentences and Epithets obscure and confections so innumerable which are also compounded of strange and rare simples as confound the capacities of them that are either set on work herein or be brought to behold or expect their conclusions For what plain man would not believe that they are learned and jolly fellows that have in such readiness so many mystical terms of Art as for a taste their subliming amalgaming englutting imbibing incorporating cementing retrination terminations mollifications and indurations of bodies matters combust and coagular ingots tests c. Or who is able to conceive by reason of the abrupt confusion contrariety and multitudes of drugs simples and confections the operation and mystery of their stuffe and workmanship For these things and many more are of necessity to be prepared and used in the execution of this indeavour namely orpiment sublimed Mercury Iron squames Mercury crude groundly large Bole Armoniack Verdigreece Horace Boles Gall Arsenick Sal Armoniack Brimstone Salt Paper burnt Bones unslaked Lime Clay Salt-Peter Vitriol Saltartre Alcalie Sal preparat Clay made with Horse-dung Mans-hair Oil of Tartre Allum Glass Wort Yest Argol Refagor Gleir of an eye Powders Ashes Dung Piss c. Then have they Waters corrosive and lincal Waters of Albification and Water ru●ifying c. Also Oils Ablutions and Metals fusible Also their Lamps their Urinals Discensories Sublimatories Alembecks Viols Crossets Cucurbits Stillatories and their Furnace of Calcination also their soft and subtle fires some of Wood some of Coal composed specially of Beech c. And because they will not seem to want any point of cosenage to astonish the simple or to move admiration to their enterprizes they have as they affirm four spirits to work withal whereof the first is Orpiment the second Quick-silver the third Sal-Armoniack the fourth Brimstone Then have they seven celestial Bodies namely Sol Luna Mars Mercury Saturn Jupiter and Venus to whom they apply seven terrestrial bodies to wit Gold Silver Iron Quick-silver Lead Tin and Copper attributing unto these the operation of the other specially if the terrestrial bodies be qualified tempered and wrought in the hour and day according to the feats of the celestial bodies with more like vanity CHAP. II. The Alchymisters drift the Chanons Yeomans Tale of Alchymistical Stones and Waters NOw you must understand that the end and drift of all their works is to attain unto the composition of the Philosophers Stone called All●er and to the stone called Titanus and to Magnatia which is a Water made of the four Elements which they say the Philosophers are sworn neither to discover nor to write of And by these they mortifie Quicksilver and make it malleable and to hold touch hereby also they convert any other metal but specially Copper into Gold This Science forsooth is the secret of secrets even as Solomon's Conjuration is said among the Conjurers to be

the first order in the astringency are appeased and provoked when the fumes are put upon a Tripod in the hour of Saturn according to the Planetary division These Fumigations make these Spirits appear like old men with promiss beards and meager looks like Serpents Cats Wolves Badgers Panthers like old Men in Armour like Trumpeters in many ranks and divisions 12. For Spirits under Jupiter they take Lignum Aloes Ashen-Keys Benjamin Storax Peacocks-feathers and Lapis Lazuli mixing the same with the blood of a Stork a Swallow or a Hart the brains being also added The fumes are kindled in Jupiters hour and in a place appropriate to his nature And by this sacrifice the Spirits of the next order are called up like glorious Kings with many attendants and mighty pomp with Heralds before them and Ensign-bearers Trumpeters Guards and all sorts of musical Instruments 13. They make Fumigations unto such Spirits of the order of Powers as are under Mars in the Planetary division with Aromatick Gum Bdellium Euphorbium Load-stone Hellebore white and black and an addition of Sulphur to make them into an Amalgama with Man's blood and the blood of a black Cat which mixtures are said to be exceeding magical so that without any other addition they say this fumigation is able of it self to make such Spirits to appear before the Exorcist at their appearance they come with weapons brandishing and shining Armour being terrible in their looks yet of power inferiour to the Spirits of Saturn though they can likewise shew themselves as Lions Wolves Tygers Bears and all other cruel or ravenous Beasts 14. They do likewise unto the Spirits under Sol being of the order of Thrones Suffumigate Saffron Musk Laurel Cinnamon Ambergriece Cloves Myrrhe and Frankincense Musk and the Balsamick Tree mixed up together with the brain of an Eagle and the blood of a white Cock being made up like Pills or little Balls and put upon the Tripod their appearances are Castles Gardens Mountains Rivers Fisher-men Hunters Reapers Dogs Sheep Oxen and other domestick Beasts 15. Under Venus are the Spirits of the sixth order in the Powers their appearances are very stately like the nature of the Planet like Courtiers Ladies Princes Queens Infants Children and fragrant smells The fumigations appropriate unto them are Roses Coral Lignum Aloes and Sperma Ceti made up with Sparrows brains and blood of Pidgeons to be fumigated with a Song 16. Mercury sendeth Horsemen Fishers Labourers Priests Students Servants c. Also Foxes Serpents Dogs Hares Hyena's Hydra's and other Monstrous Animals unto him they fumigate Frankincense Mastick Cinkfoyl incorporated with the brain of a Fox and the blood of a Mag-Pye 17. Spirits under Luna are like Ghosts and shadows very gastly to behold though in humane shape sometimes male sometimes female Fumigations are offered unto them of Frogs dryed white Poppy-seed Bulls Eyes Camphire and Frankincense incorporated with Gooses blood and the menstruous blood of Women 18. These are the divisions of fumigations neither can it be denyed but that in many Ceremonies of this kind there is great inherent virtue according to the Doctrines of Sympathy and Antipathy whereby every thing is drawn by its like in the Idea whither by words or actions according to the saying In verbis herbis lapidibus latet virtus so that the Ceremonies and Charms with other circumstances used by Magicians are doubtless prevalent to the accomplishment of that work which they undertake to wit The calling up and Exorcizing of Infernal Spirits by Conjurations CHAP. VII Being the Conclusion of the Whole wherein divers antient Spells Charms Incantations and Exorcisms are briefly spoken of 1. BEsides what the Author hath set down there be many other Spells and Charms which Tradition hath left unto Posterity being many of them effectual for the thing intended by them as in the precedent Chapter is set down wherein the Orders of Fumigations are described Besides there are Magical Characters attributed to the Planets whereof Telesms Periapts Amulets and Philters are composed by buryings writings bindings engravings alligations c. to effect various purposes in Astrological hours To conquer Enemies cure diseases overturn Cities stop Inundations render bodies Invulnerable and the like which are all effected by medium's of this kind with the assistance of Imagination 2. Yet are there many natural Compositions which have very stupendious effects of themselves without assistance of Superstition for the commixtion of things is of two-fold force or vertue First When the Celestial vertues are duly disposed in any natural body so that in one thing are couched various Influences of superiour Powers The second is from Artificial mixtures and Compositions of natural things amongst themselves in a certain proportion to agree with the Heavens under certain Constellations This proceeds from the correspondence of natural things amongst themselves whereby things are effected even unto admiration as Agrippa declares Cap. 35. lib. 1. 3. And as unto every Planet certain fumigations are ascribed so unto such Spirits as are under them certain Places are adopted for the Ceromonies of Conjuration which Magicians chose when they set upon their works of Darkness Unto Saturn are ascribed dark melancholy Places Vaults Tombes Monasteries empty Houses Dens Caves Pits Unto Jupiter Theaters Schools Musick houses Judgment seats To Mars Fields where Battels have been fought Bake-houses Glass-houses Shambles Places of Execution To Sol Palaces Mountains Meddows Sunshine Groves and upper Rooms To Venus Fountains Meadows Gardens and the Sea-shore Unto Mercury all publick places belonging unto Cities To Luna Wildernesses Woods Rocks Forrests Ships High-wayes c. 4. In like manner are Spells and Charms adapted to the thing which they must effect according to the matter form and place of their composition as for the procuring of Love they bury Rings Ribbons Seals Pictures Looking-Glasses c. in Stews Baths Beds that in such places they may contract some Venereal faculty When they gather Herbs or other Ingredients they chuse the hour and place when such Planets have Dominion as are over these Herbs which they collect ever remembring to turn their faces to the East or South when Saturnine Martial or Jovial Herbs are gathered because their Principal houses are Southern signs for Venereal Mercurial or Lunary herbs they must look towards the West or North because their houses are chiefly Northern signs Yet in any Solar or Lunar operations the body of the Sun and Moon must be respected in the operation 5. Colours are also much regarded amongst Magicians according to the Planet as black leaden brown unto Saturn saphire vernal green purple golden unto Jupiter red burning violet bloody and iron colours unto Mars golden saffron scarlet c. unto the Sun white fair green ruddy pleasant mixed colours unto Venus Mercury and Luna In like manner they ascribe colours unto the twelve Houses and according to the Planets have also certain compositions for fire

that produce wonderful operations as Lamps of Serpents skins will make Serpents to appear Oyl that hath stood under Grapes being lighted presenteth the Chamber full of Grapes Centaury and the Lapwings blood makes people seem like Gyants and in the open air will make the Stars seem to move up and down in the Elements The fat of a Hare lighted in a Lamp will cause Women to be exceeding merry and facetious And Candles composed of things that are Saturnine raise terrours and melancholy in the party that lights them and in those that are lighted by them 6. Such wonderful effects have natural things being fitted unto their Hours and Constellations as also when they are used to prove such effects as the nature of the things doth produce of it self though in a weaker degree To raise Tempests Magicians burn the Liver of a Camaelion on the house top To cause strange sights they hang the Gall of an Ox over their Beds to bring Apparitions and Spirits they make a strange fume of a Mans Gall and the Eyes of a black Cat Which Agrippa saith he hath often made experience of There is also a strange Magical Candle described amongst Chymical Authors which being lighted foretells the death of the party to whom it belongs The manner thereof is thus They take a good quantity of the venal blood luke-warm as it came out of the vein which being Chymically prepared with Spirit of Wine and other Ingredients is at last made up into a Candle which being once kindled never goes out till the death of the party whose blood it is composed of for when he is sick or in danger it burns dim and troubled and when he is dead it is quite extinguished of which Composition a Learned man hath wrote an intire Tractate De Biolychnio or The Lamp of Life 7. But to proceed to the nature of Characters Sigils and other Ceremonies we find that not only such as pretend to command over all sorts of Spirits but also they that do make Compacts and have sold themselves unto him do make use of such which instance is sufficient to prove what a wise man hath asserted that although Evil Spirits have so blinded Mens Eyes as to make them believe they are defended by such Ceremonies and that these Characters are as Munitions against the Devils malignancy Yet these very Characters Sigils Lamins c. are Compacts themselves which the Devils did at first cunningly disguise with strange Repetitions in uncouth Language 8. So that we have grounds to believe that none is able absolutely without Compact to call up any Spirit But that whosoever hath pretended to be famous in the Art of Magick or Conjuration hath to himself unknown compacted with and worshipped the Devil under strange Repetitions and mystical Characters which to him seemed to have effects quite contrary to what they really had 9. Neither is this to be admired that without the Knowledge or Consent of the Magician a Contract is made with Evil Spirits when we consider the magical strength of Words and Characters which of themselves can cure Diseases pull down infect save destroy charm and inchant without the Parties assistance either in knowledge of the Cause or in belief of the Consequence or Effect 10. But on the contrary I could instance a multitude of Examples of such as have spent much time in Conjurations to no purpose still attempting by Exorcisms and Defensive Prayers to conjure a Spirit or cause Personal Appearances with severe Imprecations and powerful Charges and yet notwithstanding have never attain'd their purpose nor at any time heard or seen any Beeing which may be called Spectre or Apparition 11. Which is nothing wonderful if we minde the sympathy of things in Nature how each desires its like and hunteth after it as the Loadstone draws Iron the male coveteth the female the evil after the evil and the good after the good which is seen in wicked Men and their Association in Birds and Beasts of prey while on the contrary the Lamb delights not in the Lyon nor the Sheep in the society of the Wolf neither doth the nature which is totally depraved and estranged from God care to be forced or drawn compulsively by another contrary nature viz. innocent just and harmless 12. Neither doth it consist with natural reason That Evil Spirits should affect the society of those that are their Enemies who make use of the dreadful and holy Names of God in Conjurations to call them up whereas they are rather antidotes against Apparations as may be seen in various Examples of holy Men who by Prayers and Exorcisms have banished Evil Spirits in all Ages which is also further evident in that the very form of Dispossessing and Exorcising is made up of divers Prayers and Defensive Blessings against the obnoxious influences of Infernal Spirits 13. Therefore though I would be far from describing an undenyable course of Conjuring Spirits or of causing Apparitions Yet this I must assert conclusively from what is before alledged That if any thing would be called or wrought upon it must be with something which is of its own nature as a bait to catch or tempt it for in catching Birds Beasts or Fishes such esculents as are properly for these Animals are made use of to allure them neither can mankinde command them by any threats to come into his custody 14. How much less is mankind able to compel the Infernal Spirits the very least of which Kingdom is able if let loose to exterminate a thousand lives and utterly over-turn poor mortals and their doings as various by-past accidents can evince But whosoever hath compacted with them for body soul and works such they are at unity with and unto such they appear for the advancement of their Kingdom in the destruction of others for they are grafted into them and incorporated into their very heart and soul which unavoidably becomes their wages when the body falls away 15. Yet many wayes there be by Images Telesms and Amulets which have little or no dependance upon Conjuration or the strength thereof being rather effectual from sympathetical Causes as many natural conclusions prove And Paracelsus speaks of a way by the Image of any Bird or Beast to destroy that Animal though at a distance so by hair fat blood excrements excrescences c. of any Animal or Vegetable the ruin or cure of that thing may be effected 16. Which is seen in the Armary Unguent and the Sympathetical Powder In the instance of divers Histories of such as used Waxen Images composed in divers postures and under certain Constellations whereby several have been tormented and macerated even unto death and according to the punishment or torment which the Magician intends to afflict accordingly do they dispose the hour of the Composition and the posture or semblance of the Image 17. For if a malitious minded Witch intends to consume and pine away the Life or Estate