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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

speak more wisely than so For a temporal judge saith not to the hangman I give thee leave to hang this offender but commandeth him to do it But the maintainers of Witches omnipotency say Do you not see how really and palpably the Devil tempted and plagued Job I answer first that there is no corporal or visible Devil named nor seen in any part of that circumstance secondly that it was the hand of God that did it thirdly that as there is no community between the person of a Witch and the person of a devil so was there not any conference or practise between them in this case And as touching the communication betwixt God and the Devil behold what Calvin saith writing or rather preaching of purpose upon that place whereupon they think they have so great advantage When Satan is said to appear before God it is not done in some place certain but the Scripture speaketh so to apply it self to our rudeness Certainly the Devil in this and such like cases is an instrument to work Gods will and not his own and therefore it is an ignorant and an ungodly saying as Calvin judgeth it to affirm that God doth but permit and suffer the Devil For if Satan were so at his own liberty saith he we should be overwhelmed at a sudden And doubtless if he had power to hurt the body there were no way to resist for he would come invisibly upon us and knock us on the heads yea he would watch the best and dispatch them whilest they were about some wicked act If they say God commandeth him no body impugneth them but that God should give him leave I say with Calvin that the Devil is not in such favour with God as to obtain any such request at his hands And whereas by our Witchmongers opinions and arguments the Witch procureth the Devil and the Devil asketh leave of God to plague whom the Witch is disposed there is not as I have said any such corporal communication between the Devil and a Witch as Witchmongers imagine Neither is God moved at all at Satans sute who hath no such favour or grace with him as to obtain any thing at his hands But M. Mal. and his friends deny that there were any Witches in Jobs time yea the Witchmongers are content to say that there were none found to exercise this art in Christs time from his birth to his death even by the space of thirty three years If there had been any say they they should have been there spoken of As touching the authority of the book of Job there is no question but that it is very canonical and authentick Howbeit many Writers both of the Jews and others are of opinion that Moses was the Author of this book and that he did set it as a looking-glass before the people to the intent the children of Abraham of whose race he himself came might know that God shewed favour to others that were not of the same line and be ashamed of their wickedness seeing an uncircumcised Painime had so well demeaned himself Upon which argument Calvin though he had written upon the same saith that forasmuch as it is uncertain whether it were Res gesta or Exempli gratia we must leave it in suspense Nevertheless saith he let us take that which is out of all doubt namely that the holy Ghost hath indited the book to the end that the Jews should know that God hath had a people alwayes to serve him throughout the World even of such as were no Jews nor segregated from other nations Howbeit I for my part deny not the verity of the story though indeed I must confess that I think there was no such corporal interlude between God the Devil and Job as they imagine neither any such real presence and communication as the Witchmongers conceive and maintain who are so gross herein that they do not only believe but publish so palpable adsurdities concerning such real actions betwixt the Devil and man as a wise man would be ashamed to read but much more to credit As that S. Dunstan lead the Devil about the house by the nose with a pair of pinsors or tongs and made him rore so lowd as the place rung thereof c. with a thousand the like fables without which neither the art of Popery nor of Witchcraft could stand But you may see more of this matter elsewhere where in few words which I thought good here to omit least I should seem to use too many repetitions I answer effectually to their cavils about this place CHAP. IX What several sorts of Witches are mentioned in the Scriptures and how the word Witch is there applyed BUt what sorts of Witches soever M. Mal. or Bodin say there are Moses spake only of four kinds of impious Coseners or Witches whereof our Witchmongers old women which dance with the Fairies e. are none The first were Praestigiatores Pharaonis which as all Divines both Hebrews and others conclude were but Coseners and Juglers deceiving the Kings eyes with illusions and sleights and making false things to appear as true which nevertheless our Witches cannot do The second is Mecasapha which is she that destroyeth with poyson The third are such as use sundry kinds of Divinations and hereunto pertain these words Kasam Onen Ob Idoni The fourth is Habar to wit when Magicians or rather such as would be reputed cunning therein mumble certain secret words wherein is thought to be great efficacy These are all Coseners and Abusers of the people in their several kinds But because they are all termed of our translators by the name of Witches in the Bible therefore the lyes of M. Mal. and Bodin and all our old Wives tales are applyed unto these names and easily believed of the common people who have never hitherto been instructed in the understanding of these words In which respect I will by Gods grace shew you concerning the signification of them the opinion of the most learned in our age specially of Johannes Wierus who though he himself were singularly learned in the tongues yet for his satisfaction and full resolution in the same he sent for the judgement of Andraeas Massius the most famous Hebrician in the World and had in it such sense and order as I mean to set down unto you And yet I give you this note by the way that Witchcraft or Inchantment is diversly taken in the Scriptures sometimes nothing tending to such end as it is commonly thought to do For 1 Sam. 15.23 it is all one with Rebellion Jesabel for her idolatrous life is called a Witch Also in the new Testament even S. Paul saith the Galathians are bewitched because they were seduced and led from the true understanding of the Scriptures Item sometimes it is taken in good part as the Magicians that came to worship and offer to Christ and also where Daniel is said to

eased of the pains in Purgatory Are they all gone into Italy because Masses are grown dear here in England Mark well this illusion and see how contrary it is unto the Word of God Consider how all Papists believe this illusion to be true and how all Protestants are driven to say it is and was Popish illusion Where be the Spirits that wandered to have burial for their bodies For many of those walking Souls went about their business Do you not think that the Papists shew not themselves godly Divines to preach and teach the people such doctrine and to insert into their Divine Service such fables as are read in the Romish Church all Scripture giving place thereto for the time You shall see in the lessons read there upon S. Stevens day that Gamaliel Nicodemus his kinsman and Abdias his son with his friend S. Steven appeared to a certain Priest called Sir Lucian requesting him to remove their bodies and to bury them in some better place for they had lien from the time of their death until then being in the reign of Honorius the Emperor to wit four hundred years buryed in the field of Gamaliel who in that respect said to Sir Lucian Non mei solummodo causa solicitus sum sed potius pro illis qui mecum sunt that is I am not only careful for my self but chiefly for those my friends that are with me Whereby the whole course may be perceived to be a false practice and a counterfeit vision or rather a lewd invention For in Heaven mens souls remain not in sorrow and care neither study they there how to compass and get a worshipful burial here in earth If they did they would not have foreslowed it so long Now therefore let us not suffer our selves to be abused any longer either with Conjuring Priests or Melancholical Witches but be thankful to God that he hath delivered us from such blindness and error CHAP. XLIX Cardanus Opinion of strange Noises how counterfeit Visions grow to be credited of Popish Appearances of Pope Boniface CArdanus speaking of Noises among other things saith thus a noise is heard in your house it may be a Mouse a Cat or a Dog among dishes it may be a counterfeit or a theif indeed or the fault may be in your ears I could recite a great number of Tales how men have even forsaken their houses because of such apparitions and noises and all hath been by meer and rank knavery And wheresoever you shall hear that there is in the night season such rumbling and fearful noises be you well assured that it is flat knavery performed by some that seemeth most to complain and is least mistrusted And hereof there is a very Art which for some respects I will not discover The Devil seeketh dayly as well as nightly whom he may devour and can do his feats as well by day as night or else he is a young Devil and a very bungler But of all other coseners these Conjurers are in the highest degree and are most worthy of death for their blasphemous impiety But that these Popish Visions and Conjurations used as well by Papists as by the Popes themselves were mere cosenages and that the tales of the Popes recited by Bruno and Platina of their magical devices were but plain cosenages and knaveries may appear by the History of Bonifacius the eight who used this kind of inchantment to get away the Popedom from his predecessor Coelestinus He counterfeited a voyce through a Cane-reed as though it had come from Heaven perswading him to yield up his Authority of Popeship and to institute therein and Bonifacius a worthy man otherwise he threatned him with damnation and therefore the fool yielded it up accordingly to the said Bonifacius An. 1264. of whom it was said He came in like a Fox lived like a Woolf and dyed like a Dog There be innumerable examples of such Visions which when they are not detected go for true stories and therefore when it is answered that some are true tales and some are false until they be able to shew forth before your eyes one matter of truth you may reply upon them with this distinction to wit visions tryed are false visions undecided and untryed are true CHAP. L. Of the noise or sound of Eccho of one that narrowly escaped drowning thereby c. ALas how many natural things are there so strange as to many seem miraculous and how many counterfeit matters are there that to the simple seem yet more wonderful Cardane telleth of one Comansis who coming late to a Rivers side not knowing where to pass over cryed out alowd for some body to shew him the Foord who hearing an Eccho to answer according to his last word supposing it to be a man that answered him and informed him of the way he passed through a River even there where was a deep whirl-pool so as he hardly escaped with his life and told his friends that the Devil had almost perswaded him to drown himself And in some places these noises of eccho are far more strange than other specially at Ticinum in Italy in the great hall where it rendereth sundry and manifold noises or voyces which seem to end so lamentably as it were a man that lay a dying so as few can be perswaded that it is the eccho but a a Spirit that answereth The noise at Winchester was said to be a very miracle and much wondering was there at it about the year 1569. though indeed a meer natural noise ingendered of the wind the concavity of the place and other instrumental matters helping the sound to seem strange to the hearers specially to such as would add new reports to the augmentation of the wonder CHAP. LI. Of Theurgie with a Confutation thereof a Letter sent to me concerning these matters THere is yet another Art professed by these cosening Conjurors which some fond Divines affirm to be more honest and lawful than Necromancy which is called Theurgie wherein they work by good Angels Howbeit their Ceremonies are altogether Papistical and Superstitious consisting in cleanliness partly of the mind partly of the body and partly of things about and belonging to the body as in the skin in the apparel in the house in the vessel and housholdstuffe in Oblations and Sacrifices the cleanliness whereof they say doth dispose men to the contemplation of heavenly things They cite these words of Esay for their authority to wit Wash your selves and be clean c. In so much as I have known divers superstitious persons of good account which usually washed all their Apparel upon conceits ridiculously For uncleanliness they say corrupteth the air infecteth man and chaseth away clean sprits Hereunto belongeth the Art of Almadel the Art of Paul the Art of Revelations and the Art of Notary But as Agrippa saith the more divine these Arts seem to the ignorant the more damnable they be But their false