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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

whole again BY a device not much unlike to this you may seem to cut asunder any Lace that hangeth about ones neck or any Point Girdle or Garter c. and with Witchcraft or Conjuration to make it whole and closed together again For the accomplishment whereof provide if you can a piece of the Lace c. which you mean to cut or at the least a pattern like the same one inch and a half long and keeping it double privily in your left hand betwixt some of your fingers neer to the tips thereof take the other Lace which you mean to cut still hanging about ones neck and draw down your said left hand to the bought thereof and putting your own piece a little before the other the end or rather middle whereof you must hide betwixt your fore-finger and thumb making the eye or bought which shall be seen of your own pattern let some stander by cut the same asunder and it will be surely thought that the other Lace is cut which with words and frotting c. you shall seem to renew and make whole again This if it be well handled will seem miraculous How to pull Laces innumerable out of your mouth of what colour or length you list and never any thing seen to be therein AS for pulling Laces out of the mouth it is somewhat a stale jest whereby Jugglers gain money among Maids selling Lace by the yard putting into their mouths one round bottom as fast as they pull out another and at the just end of every yard they tie a knot so as the same resteth upon their teeth then cut they off the same and so the beholders are double and treble deceived seeing as much Lace as will be contained in a Hat and the same of what colour you list to name to be drawn by so even yards out of his mouth and yet the Juggler to talk as though there were nothing at all in his mouth CHAP. XXXIII How to make a Book wherein you shall shew every leaf therein to be white black blew red yellow green c. THere are a thousand jugglings which I am loth to spend time to describe whereof some be common and some rare and yet nothing else but deceit cosenage or confederacy whereby you may plainly see the Art to be a kind of Witchcraft I will end therefore with one devide which is not common but was specially used by Claruis whom though I never saw to exercise the feat yet am I sure I conceive aright of that invention He had they say a Book whereof he would make you think first that every leaf was clean white Paper then by vertue of words he would shew you every leaf to be painted with Birds then with Beasts then with Serpents then with Angels c. the device thereof is this Make a Book seven inches long and five inches broad or according to that proportion and let there be 49. leaves to wit seven times seven contained therein so as you may out upon the edge of each leaf six notches each notch in depth half a quarter of an inch and one inch distant Paint every fourteenth and fifteenth page which is the end of every sixt leaf and the beginning of every seventh with like colour or one kinde of picture Cut off with a pair of sheers every notch of the first leaf leaving only one inch of Paper in the uppermost place uncut which will remain almost half a quarter of an inch higher than any part of that leaf Leave another like inch in the second place of the second leaf clipping away one inch of Paper in the highest place immediately above it and all the notches below the same and so orderly to the third fourth c. so as there shall rest upon each leaf one only inch of paper above the rest One high uncut inch of Paper must answer to the first directly in every seventh leaf of the Book so as when you have cut the first seven leaves in such sort as I first described you are to begin in the self same order at the eight leaf descending in such wise in the cutting of seven other leaves and so again at the fifteenth to 21 c. until you have passed through every leaf all the thickness of your Book Now you shall understand that after the first seven leaves every seventh leaf in the Book is to be painted saving one seven leaves which must remain white Howbeit you must observe that at each Bumleaf or high inch of Paper seven leaves distant opposite one directly and lineally against the other through the thickness of the Book the same page with the page precedent so to be painted with the like colour or picture and so must you pass through the Book with seven several sorts of colours or pictures so as when you shall rest your thumb upon any of those Bumleaves or high inches and open the Book you shall see in each page one colour or picture throughout the Book in another row another colour c. To make that matter more plain unto you let this be description hereof Hold the Book with your left hand and betwixt your fore-finger and thumb of your right hand slip over the Book in what place you list and your thumb will alwayes rest at the seventh leaf to wit at the Bumleaf or high inch of Paper from whence when your Book is strained it will fall or slip to the next c. Which when you hold fast and open the Book the beholders seeing each leaf to have one colour or picture with so many varieties all passing continually and directly through the whole Book will suppose that with words you can discolor the leaves at your pleasure But because perhaps you will hardly conceive hereof by this description you shall if you be disposed see or buy for a small value the like Book at the Shop of W. Brome in Pauls-Churchyard for your further instruction * There are certain feats of activity which beautifie this Art exceedingly howbeit even in these some are true and some are counterfeit to wit some done by practice and some by confederacy * There are likewise divers feats Arithmetical and Geometrical for them read Gemma Phrysius and Record c. which being exercised by Jugglers add credit to their Art * There are also besides them which I have set down in this title of Hartumim sundry strange experiments reported by Pliny Albert Joh. Bap. Port. Neap. and Thomas Lupton whereof some are true and some false which being known to Jannes and Jambres or else to our Jugglers their occupation is the more magnified and they thereby more reverenced Here is place to discover the particular knaveries of casting of lots and drawing of cuts as they term it whereby many cosenages are wrought so as I dare not teach the sundry devices thereof lest the ungodly make a practice of it in the Common-wealth where many

the cards as though you numbred them holding the same more loose and open than the rest in no wise suffering him to draw any other which if he should do you must let three or four fall that you may begin again This will seem most strange if your said Paper be inclosed in a Button and by confederacy sowed upon the doublet or coat of any body This trick they commonly end with a Nut full of Ink in which case some wag or unhappy Boy is to be required to think a Card and having so done let the Nut be delivered him to crack which he will not refuse to do if he have seen the other feat played before CHAP. XXIX Of Fast or Loose how to knit a hard Knot upon a Handkercher and to undo the same with words THe Aegyptians juggling Witchcraft or Sortilegie standeth much in Fast or Loose whereof though I have written somewhat generally already yet having such opportunity I will here shew some of their particular feats not treating of their common tricks which is so tedious nor of their fortune-telling which is so impious and yet both of them meer cosenage Make one plain loose knot with the two corner ends of a Handkercher and seeming to draw the same very hard hold fast the body of the said Handkercher neer to the knot with your hand pulling the contrary end with the left hand which is the corner of that which you hold Then close up handsomely the knot which will be yet somewhat loose and pull the Handkercher so with your right hand as the left hand end may be neer to the knot then will it seem a true and a firm knot And to make it appear more assuredly to be so indeed lest a stranger pull at the end which you hold in your left hand whilest you hold fast the other in your right hand and then holding the knot with your fore-finger and thumb and the neather part of your Handkercher with your other fingers as you hold a bridle when you would with one hand slip up the knot and lengthen your reins This done turn your Handkercher over the knot with the left hand in doing whereof you must suddenly slip out the end or corner putting up the knot of your Handkercher with your fore-finger and thumb as you would put up the foresaid knot of your bridle Then deliver the same covered and wrapt in the midst of your Handkercher to one to hold fast and so after some words used and wagers layed take the Handkercher and shake it and it will be loose A notable Feat of Fast and Loose namely to pull three Bead stones from off a Cord while you hold fast the ends thereef without removing of your hand TAke two little Whipcords of two-foot long a plece double them equally so as there my appear four ends Then take three great Bead-stones the hole of one of them being bigger than the rest and put one Bead-stone upon the eye or bowt of the one Cord and another on the other Cord. Then take the Stone with the greatest hole and let both the bowts be hidden therein which may be the better done if you put the eye of the one into the eye or bowt of the other Then pull the middle Bead upon the same being doubled over his fellow and so will the Beads seem to be put over the two Cords without partition For holding fast in each hand the two ends of the two Cords you may toss them as you list and make it seem manifest to the beholders which may not see how you have done it that the Bead-stones are put upon the two Cords without any fraud Then must you seem to add more effectual binding of those Bead-stones to the string and make one half of a knot with one of the ends of each side which is for no other purpose but that when the Bead-stones be taken away the Cords may be seen in the case which the beholders suppose them to be in before For when you have made your half knot which in any wise you may not double to make a perfect knot you must deliver into the hands of some standers by those two Cords namely two ends evenly set in one hand and two in the other and then with a wager c. begin to pull off your Bead-stones c. which if you handle nimbly and in the end cause him to pull his two ends the two Cords will shew to be placed plainly and the Bead-stones to have come through the Cords But these things are so hard and long to be described that I will leave them whereas I could shew great variety CHAP. XXX Juggling Knacks by confederacy and how to know whether one cast Cross or Pile by the ringing LAy a wager with your confederate who must seem simple or obstinately opposed against you that standing behind a door you will by the sound or ringing of the money tell him whether he cast Cross or pile so as when you are gone and he hath filliped the Money before the witnesses who are to be cosened he must say What is it if be Cross or What if if it be Pile or some other such sign as as you are agreed upon and so you need not fail to guess rightly By this means if you have any invention you may seem to do a hundreth miracles and to discover the secrets of a mans thoughts or words spoken a far off To make a shoal of Goslings draw a Timber-log TO make a shoal of Goslings or as they say a gaggle of Geese to seem to draw a Timber-log is done by that very means that is used when a Cat doth draw a Fool through a Pond or River but handled somewhat further off from the beholders To make a Pot or any such thing standing fast on the Cupboard to fall down thencs by vertue of words LEt a Cupboard be so placed as your Confederate may hold a black Thred without in the Court behind some window of that room and at a certain loud word spoken by you he may pull the same Thred being wound about the Pot c. And this was the feat of Eleazer which Josephus reporteth to be such a miracle To make one dance naked MAke a poor Boy confederate with you so as after Charms c. spoken by you he uncloth himself and stand naked seeming whilest he undresseth him to shake stamp and cry stil hastening to be uncloathed till he be stark naked or if you can procure none to go so far let him only begin to stamp and shake c. and to uncloath him and then you may for the reverence of the company seem to release him To transform or alter the Colour of ones Cap or Hat TAke a confederates Hat and use certain words over it and deliver it to him again and let him seem to be wroth and cast it back to you again affirming that his was a good new black

it with the same and brandishing the same in his right hand he shall begin to conjure the Spirit on this following manner I Exorcize and Conjure thee thou great and powerful Balkin Lord of Glauron Lord of Luridan and of fifteen hundred Legions Lord of the Northern Mountains and of every Beast that dwells thereon by the holy and wonderful Names of the Almighty Iehovah Athanato ✚ Aionos ✚ Dominus sempiternus ✚ Aletheios ✚ Saday ✚ Iehovah Kedesh El gabor ✚ Deus fortissimus ✚ Anaphexaton Amorule Ameron ✚ ✚ ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muridon ✚ Iah Iehovah Elohim pentasseron ✚ ✚ trinus et unus ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ I Exorcize and Conjure I Invocate and Command thee thou aforesaid Spirit by the powers of Angels and Archangels Cherubim and Seraphim by the mighty Prince Coronzon by the blood of Abel by the righteousness of Seth and the Prayers of Noah by the voyces of Thunder and dreadful day of Judgment by all these powerful and royal words abovesaid that without delay or malitious intent thou do come before me here at the circumference of this consecrated Circle to answer my proposals and desires without any manner of terrible form either of thy self or attendants but only obediently fairly and with good intent to present thy self before me this Circle being my defence through his power who is Almighty and hath sanctified the same In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen After the Magician hath thrice repeated this Conjuration Let him immediately set the fire before him and put the Rozin thereon to fumigate at the appearance of the conjured Spirits and at the instant of their appearance he shall hold the Censer of fire in his left hand and the Sword in his right still turning round as the Spirits do For in a little space after the Invocation is repeated he shall hear the noise of Thunders and perceive before him in the Valley a mighty storm of Lightning and Rain after a while the same will cease and an innumerable company of Dwarfs or Pigmies will appear mounted upon Chamelions to march towards the Circle surrounding the same Next comes Balkin with his Attendants he will appear like the god Bacchus upon a little Goat and the rest that follow will march after him afoot Assoon as they come near the Circle they will breath out of their mouths a mist or fog which will even obscure the light of the Moon and darken the Magician that he cannot behold them nor himself yet let him not be discomfited or afraid for that fog will be quickly over and the Spirits will run round the Circle after Balkin their Lord who rides upon a Goat they will continue to surround the Circle till the Magician begin the form of obligation or binding their Leader or King in this form with the Sword in his right hand the Fire and Rozin burning before him I conjure and bind thee Balkin who art appeared before me by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by all the holy Consecrations I have made by the powerful Names of Heaven and of Earth and of Hell that I have used and uttered in calling upon thee by the Seals which thou here beholdest and the Sword which I present unto thee by this sanctified Girdle and all the sanctified and potent things aforesaid That here thou remain peaceably and of thy present shape before the Northern quarter of this Circle without injury to me in body soul or fortune but on the contrary to answer faithfully unto my demands and not hence to remove till I have licenced thee to depart In the Name of the Father Son and holy Spirit Amen When he is thus obliged he will alight from his Goat and cause his Attendants to remove further into the Valley then will he stand peaceably before the Circle to answer the Magician After this the Magician shall begin to demand into his own possession a Familiar to build or pull down any Castle or strong hold in a night and that this Familiar bring with him the Girdle of Conquest or Victory that the Magician being girded with the same may overcome all enemies whatsoever And further the Spirit is able to inform him of all questions concerning Thunder and Lightning the Motions of the Heavens the Comets and Apparitions in the air Pestilence and Famine noxious and malevolent blasts as also of the Inhabitants of the Northern Pole and the wonders undiscovered throughout the world Likewise if the Exorcist inquire concerning the habitations of starry Spirits he will readily answer him describing their orders food life and past-time truly and exactly After the Magician hath satisfied himself with inquiries and curious questions unto the Spirit there will come from amongst the company a little Spirit of a span long like a little Ethiop which the great King Balkin will deliver unto the Exorcist to continue as a Familiar with him as long as his life shall last This familiar the possessor may name at it pleaseth him The three last who had this Spirit into possession were three Northern Magicians the first Honduros a Norwegian who called it Philenar and commanded it at his pleasure with a little Bell. After him Benno his eldest Son injoy'd the same under the same name And Swarkzar a Polonian Priest was the last who enjoy'd it under the Name of Muncula all which names were imposed upon it according to the pleasure of the Masters and therefore the naming of this familiar is left to the discretion of the Exorcist Now when the Master hath taken this familiar into his custody and service the Spirit Balkin will desire to depart being wearied if the action continue longer then an hour Therefore the Magician must be careful to dismiss him in this following form Because thou hast diligently answered my demands and been ready to come at my first call I do here licence thee to depart unto thy proper place without injury or danger to man or Beast depart I say and be ever ready at my call being duly exorcized and conjured by sacred Rites of Magick I charge thee to withdraw with quiet and peace and peace be continued betwixt me and thee In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then the Spirits company will begin to march about their Prince and in a formal Troop will march along the Valley whilest the Magician repeateth Pater Noster c. until the Spirits be quite out of sight and vanished This is a compleat form of conjuring the aforesaid Spirit according to the Rules of Vaganostus the Norwegian CHAP. X. The exposition of Iidoni and where it is found whereby the whole Art of Conjuration is deciphered THis word Iidoni is derived of Iada which properly signifieth to know it is sometimes translated Divinus which is a Diviner or Soothsayer as in Deut. 18. Levit. 20. sometimes Ariolus which is one that also taketh upon him to foretel things to come and is found Levit. 19.

even through their bones and marrow till they have so habituated them to their service that the same becomes their daily bread and sole delight in accomplishing every villany and abomination which the malicious and subtle instigation of Satan leads them to 52. Thus have I Essayed to illustrate the Natures of Infernal Beings which notwithstanding is a Subject so intricate and copious in it self that great difficulty accompanies the Explication thereof by reason of the variety of their natures in the source of darkness wherein they live move eat breath and inhabit having qualities actions and passions innumerable to us men-kinde utterly unknown and incomprehensible So that to attempt an ample demonstration of this present Subject would require deeper speculation then the matter doth deserve in regard that there be so many Protei and Changlings in that gloomy Kingdom who do never stay or continue in the same nature property and form for an hour together but may be compared to the swiftness of the Windes or the likeness and form of swift running Waters that pass away as a thought and are no more remembered so it is with the Spirits of Darkness whose life is a meer anguish and inconstancy from one sorrow to another unto all Eternity CHAP. VI. Treating of the Nature Force and Forms of Charms Periapts Amulets Pentacles Conjurations Ceremonies c. 1. BEfore Appearances are made after forms of Conjuration are repeated the Infernal Spirits make various and wonderful shews noises and attempts as fore-runners to their appearance At the first attempts of novices in Conjuration they are accompanyed with noises tremblings flashes howlings and most dreadful shriekes till after further progress and experience therein they approach nearer unto this Elemental nature till by degrees they can manifestly be apparent unto their Exorcist 2. When Chiancungi and his sister Napala did first attempt to call up Spirits they begun with the Spirit Bokim in the twentieth degree they hung a vault under ground with black both on the top and bottom lining it therewith and having drawn the Circle of the Order of Thrones with the seven Planets and their Magical Characters in the Center they proceeded to the Ceremonies of Conjuration after they had frequently repeated the forms of calling and nothing as yet appeared they were grown so desperate therein that forsaking the Circle and every defensive Character or Ceremony they at last betook themselves to the most accursed and detestable branch of Magick which consists of Compacts or Confederacy and having by a solemn League summoned the aforesaid Spirit Bokim they obtain'd 155. years from the Spirit Covenanting therewith for body soul and works 3. In which damned life they continued exercising strange wonders in every Countrey By the help of this Magician the Tartars did destroy above 100 sail of Ships belonging unto China many losses did he bring upon that Kingdom in their Children Fruits Corn Silk and Navigation he could frequently transport himself through the Air and carry in one hand a thousand pound weight to the astonishment of all that knew him He had many publick contests with Magicians of other Countries being tryals of skill in Magical Art wherein he was said to excel all that ever went before him 4. Such another was Lewis Gaufridi a French Priest who had compacted with the Devil and served him 14 years in these detestable works sacrificing Infants unto him worshipping him in a filthy shape and tempting others to their Magical society or nocturnal Conventions in which as it is reported they did ever feast and junket with varieties and dainties which though they did seem delectable were yet notwithstanding gustless and unsavoury 5. Leaving these relations something shall be said of Charms and Spells as they are divided in this following manner first such Amulets as being engraven and molded in the fashion of Money or Coyn do serve to provoke any one desired unto love and familiarity being hung about the neck in certain Planetary hours Secondly Spells or Charms in Parchment with Magical Characters as Periapts to Cure diseases to make one valiant memorative and constant Thirdly Corselets which are an ancient Danish Charm of Neck-laces composed of Thunder-stones ingraven with Magical Letters to resist all noxious influences and the danger of Lightning 6. Pentacles are a fourth sort of appendix which Conjurers Charmers and Magicians use being made with five corners according to the five Senses and the operation thereof inscribed upon the corners the matter whereof they are composed is fine Linnen doubled and done with Cere-cloth between This figure the Magician holds in his hand lifting it up from the skirt of his Garment to which it is annexed when Spirits that are raised are stubborn and rebellious refusing to be conformable unto the Ceremonies and Rites of Magick 7. Also by the holding forth of Pentacles with these words Glauron Amor Amorula Beor Beorka Beroald Anephexaron repeated at the instant The evil Spirits that possess the bodies of bewitched people are cruelly tortured and amazed being by the frequent repetition thereof forced at last to depart by the assistance of the Exorcism of the sixth Cannon for the order of Seraphims 8. When Magicians exercise Conjuration by Moon-light in the Mountains or Valleys they have another sort of Charm by way of Telesms which they bury within a hundred paces of the place where the Circle is composed towards the East West North and South for such spells have the secret power to hinder any living creature for coming near them till their Exercize be done except the Infernal Spirit whose presence they do so ardently desire 9. Such Spells as are made in some Edible matter with Characters upon them are given for Agues Head-ach Epilepsie Mother c. Especially being powerful in operation when the party is ignorant of the Charm taken in many such I know have taken wonderful effect But as for Philtres Potions and Love-cups they proceed rather from a natural cause whether their effects be to afflict with Diseases to Poyson or to provoke unto Love of a Party whom they disdain Neither are such to be numbered amongst Charms because their effect is meerly natural from a natural cause 10. But to insist further upon the nature of Conjuration Magicians do much exercise their time in Fumigations unto those Spirits whom they are about to provoke their fumes being distributed according to the nature of the Spirit under any of the seven Planets which the antient Conjurers were very punctual in observing though in these days it be much forgot as superfluous or rather dangerous to insert amongst the Ceremonies of Conjuration A division of Fumigations according to the Influence of the Planets and Orders of Spirits we will here set down in this manner 11. Fumigations for Saturn are made of Frankincense Trees Pepper-wort Rooots Storax and Galbanum by these the Spirits Marbas Corban Stilkon Idos c. And all of