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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

lunatique passion and stancheth blood Mephis as Aaron and Hermes report out of Albertus Magnus being broken into powder and drunk with water maketh insensibility of torture Hereby you may understand that as God hath bestowed upon these stones and such other like bodies most excellent and wonderful vertues so according to the abundance of humane superstitions and follies many ascribe unto them either more vertues or other than they have other boast that they are able to adde new qualities unto them And herein consisteth a part of Witchcraft and common cousenage used sometimes of the Lapidaries for gains sometimes of others for cousening purposes Some part of the vanity hereof I will here describe because the place serveth well therefore And it is not to be forgotten or omitted that Pharaohs Magicians were like enough to be cunning therein Nevertheless I will first give you the opinion of one who professed himself a very skilful and well experimented Lapidary as appeareth by a Book of his own penning published under this title of Dactylotheca and as I think to be had among the Booksellers And thus followeth his assertion Evax rex Arabum fertur scripsisse Neroni Qui post Augustum regnavit in orbe secundus Quot species lapidis quae nomina quive colores Quaeque sit his regio vel quanta potentia cuique Ocultas etenim lapidum cognoscere vires Quorum causa latens effectus dat manifestos Egregium quiddam volumus rarumque videri Silicet hinc solers medicorum cura juvatur Auxilio lapidum morbos expellere docta Nec minus inde dari cunctarum commodarerum Autores perbibent quibus haec perspecta feruntur Nec dubium cuiquam debet falsumque videri Quin sua sit gemmis divinitus insita virtus Englished by Abraham Fleming Evax an old Arabian King is named to have writ A Treatise and on Nero's grace to have bestowed it Who in the World did second raign after Augustus time Of pretious Stones the sundry sorts their names and in what clime And Countrey they were to be found their colours and their hue Their privy power and secret force the which knowledge true To understand their hidden cause most plain effects declare And this will we a noble thing have counted be and rare The skilful care of leeches learn'd is aided in this cases And hereby holpen and are taught with aid of stones to chase Away from men such sicknesses as have them in a place No less precise commodities of all things else thereby Are ministred and given to men if Authors do not lie To whom these things are said to be most manifestly known It shall no false or doubtful case appear to any one But that by heavenly influence each precious Pearl and Stone Hath in his substance fixed force and vertue largely sown Whereby it is to be concluded that Stones have in them certain proper vertues which are given them of a special influence of the Planets and a due proportion of the Elements their substance being a very fine and pure compound consisting of well tempered matter wherein is no gross mixture as appeareth by plain proof of India and Aethiopia where the Sun being orient and meridional doth more effectually shew his operation procuring more precious Stones there to be ingendered than in the Countries that are Occident and Septentrional Unto this opinion do divers ancients accord namely Alexander Peripateticus Hermes Evax Bocchos Zoroastes Isaac Judaeus Zacharias Babylonicus and many more beside CHAP. VII Whence the precious Stones receive their Operations how curious Magicians use them and of their Seals CUrious Magicians affirm that these Stones receive their vertues altogether of the Planets and heavenly bodies and have not only the very operation of the Planets but sometimes the very Images and impressions of the Stars naturally ingraffed in them and otherwise ought alwayes to have graven upon them the similitudes of such Monsters Beasts and other devices as they imagine to be both internally in operation and externally in view expressed in the Planets As for example upon the Achaete are graven Serpents or venemous Beasts and sometimes a man riding on a Serpent which they know to be Aesculapius which is the Celestial Serpent whereby are cured they say Poysons and stingings of Serpents and Scorpions These grow in the River of Achates where the greatest Scorpions are ingendred and their noisomeness is thereby qualified and by the force of the Scorpions the Stones vertue is quickened and increased Also if they would induce love for the accomplishment of Venery they inscribe and express in the Stones amiable embraceings and lovely countenances and gestures words and kissings in apt figures For the desires of the mind are consonant with the nature of the Stones which must also be set in Rings and upon Foils of such metals as have affinity with those Stones through the operations of the Planets whereunto they are addicted whereby they may gather the greater force of their working As for example They make the Images of Saturn in Lead of Sol in Gold of Luna in Silver Marry there is no small regard to be had for the certain and due times to be observed in the graving of them for so are they made with more life and the influences and configurations of the Planets are made thereby the more to abound in them As if you will procure love you must work in apt proper and friendly Aspects as in the hour of Venus c. to make debate the direct contrary order is to be taken If you determine to make the Image of Venus you must expect to be under Aquarius or Capricornus for Saturn Taurus and Libra must be taken heed of Many other observations there be as to avoid the infortunate seat and place of the Planets when you would bring a happy thing to pass and specially that it be not done in the end declination or heel as they term it of the course thereof for then the Planet mourneth and is dull Such Signs as ascend in the day must be taken in the day if in the night they increase then must you go to work by night c. For in Aries Leo and Sagittary is a certain Triplicity wherein the Sun hath dominion by day Jupiter by night and in the twilight the cold Star of Saturn But because there shall be no excuse wanting for the faults espied herein they say that the vertues of all Stones decay through tract of time so as such things are not now to be looked for in all respect as are written Howbeit Jannes and Jambres were living in that time and in no inconvenient place and therefore not unlike to have that help towards the abusing of Pharaoh Cardane saith that although men attribute no small force unto such seals as to the seal of the Sun Authorities Honours and Favours of Princes of Jupiter Riches and Friends of Venus Pleasures of Mars Boldness of Mercury

Diligence of Saturn Patience and enduring of Labour of Luna Favour of people I am not ignorant saith he that Stones do good and yet I know the seals or figures do none at all And when Cardane had shewed fully that Art and the folly thereof and the manner of those terrible prodigious and deceitful figures of the Planets with their Characters c. he saith that those were deceitful inventions devised by Coseners and had no vertue indeed nor truth in them But because we spake somewhat of Signets and Seals I will shew you what I read reported by Vincentius in suo speculo where making mention of the Jasper-stone whose nature and property Marbodeus Gallus describeth in the Verses following Jaspidis esse decem species septemque feruntur Hic multorum cognoscitur esse colorum Et multis nasci perhibetur partibus orbis Optimus in viridi translucentique celore Et qui plus soleat virtutis habere probatur Caste gestatus febrem fugat arcet hydropem Adpositusque juvat mulierem parturientem Et tutamentum portanti creditur esse Nam consecratus gratum facit atque potentem Et sicut perhibent phantasmata noxia pellit Cujus in argento vis fortior esse putatur Englished by Abraham Fleming Seven kinds and ten of Jasper-stones reported are to be Of many colours this is known which noted it by me And said in many places of the world for to be seen Where it is bred but yet the best is through shining green And that which proved is to have in it more vertue plaste For being born about of such as are of living chaste It drives away their Ague fits the Dropsie thirsting dry And put upon a woman weak in travel which doth lie It helps assists and comforts her in pangs when she doth cry Again it is believ'd to be a safegard frank and free To such as wear and bear the same and if it hallowed be It makes the parties gracious and mighty too that have it And noisom fancies at they write that meant not to deprave it It doth displace out of the mind The force thereof is stronger In Silver if the same be set and will endure the longer But as I said Vincentius making mention of the Jasper-stone touching which by the way of a Parenthesis I have inferred Marbodeus his Verses he saith that some Jasper-stones are found having in them the lively image of a natural man with a shield at his neck and a spear in his hand and under his feet a Serpent which Stones so marked and signed he preferreth before all the rest because they are Antidotaries or Remedies notably resisting poyson Other some also are found figured and marked with the form of a man bearing on his neck a bundle of herbs and flowers with the estimation and value of them noted that they have in them a faculty or power restrictive and will in an instant or moment of time stanch blood Such a kind of Stone as it is reported Galen wore on his finger Othersome are marked with a Cross as the same Author writeth and these be right excellent against inundations or overflowings of waters I could hold you long occupied in declarations like unto these wherein I lay before you what other men have published and set forth to the world chusing rather to be an Academical discourser than an universal determiner but I am desirous of brevity CHAP. VIII The Sympathy and Antipathy of Natural and Elementary Bodies declared by divers Examples of Beasts Birds Plants c. IF I should write of the strange effects of Sympathia and Antipathia I should take great pains to make you wonder and yet you would scarce believe me And if I should publish such conclusions as are common and known you would not regard them And yet Empedocles thought all things were wrought hereby It is almost incredible that the grunting or the wheeking of a little Pig or the sight of a simple Sheep should terrifie a mighty Elephant and yet by that means the Romans did put to flight Pyrrhus and all his Hoast A man would hardly believe that his Cocks comb or his crowing should abash a puissant Lion but the experience hereof hath satisfied the whole world Who would think that a Serpent should abandon the shadow of an Ash c. But it seemeth not strange because it is common that some man otherwise hardy and stout enough should not dare to abide or endure the sight of a Cat. Or that a draught of drink should so overthrow a man that never a part or member of his body should be able to perform his duty and office and should also so corrupt and alter his senses understanding memory and judgement that he should in every thing saving in shape become a very Beast And herein the Poets experiment of Liquor is verified in these words following sunt qui non corpora tantum Verum animas etiam valeant mutare liquores Englished by Abrabam Fleming Some Waters have so powerful been As could not only bodies change But even the very minds of men Their operation is so strange The friendly society betwixt a Fox and a Serpent is almost incredible how loving the Lizzard is to a man we may read though we cannot see Yet some affirm that our Newt is not only like to the Lizzard in shape but also in condition From the which affection towards a man a spaniel doth not much differ whereof I could cite incredible Stories The Amity betwixt a Castrel and a Pigeon is much noted among Writers and specially how the Castrel defendeth her from her enemy the Sparrow-hawk whereof they say the Dove is not ignorant Besides the wonderful operation and vertue of herbs which to repeat were infinite and therefore I will only refer you to Matthoelus his Herbal or to Dodonaeus There is among them such natural accord and discord as some prosper much the better for the others company and some wither away being planted near unto the other The Lilly and the Rose rejoyce in each others neighbour-hood The Flag and the Fernbush abhorr each other so much that the one can hardly live besides the other The Cucumber loveth water and hateth oyl to the death And because you shall not say that herbs have no vertue for that in this place I cite none I am content to discover two or three small qualities and vertues which are affirmed to be in herbs marry as simple as they be Jannes and Jambres might have done much with them if they had had them If you prick out a young Swallows eyes the old Swallow restoreth again their sight with the application they say of a little Celandine Zanthus the Author of Histories reporteth that a young Dragon being dead was revived by her Dath with an herb called called Balim And Juba saith that a man in Arabiae being dead was revived by the vertue of another herb CHAP. IX The former Matter