his pen and truly he might as well by the same authority have rased out of the Testament S. Mark 's Gospel CHAP. XII When How and in What sort Sacrifices were first Ordained and how they were prophaned and how the Pope corrupeth the Sacraments of Christ AT the first God manifested to our father Adam by the prohibition of the Apple that he would have man live under a law in obedience and submission and not to wander like a Beast without order or discipline And after man had transgressed and deserved thereby Gods heavy displeasure yet his mercy prevailed and taking compassion upon man he promised the Messias who should be born of a woman and break the Serpents head declaring by evident testimonies that his pleasure was that man should be restored to savour and grace through Christ and binding the mindes of men to this promise and to be fixed upon their Messias established Figures and Ceremonies wherewith to nourish their Faith and confirmed the same with miracles prohibiting and excluding all mans devices in that behalf And upon his promise renewed he enjoyned I say and erected a new form of worship whereby he would have his promises constantly beheld faithfully believed and reverently regarded He ordained six sorts of divine Sacrifices three Propitiatory not as meriting remission of sins but as figures of Christs propitiation the other three were of thanksgiving These Sacrifices were full of Ceremonies they were powdered with consecrated Salt and kindled with fire which was preserved in the Tabernacle of the Lord which fire some think was sent down from heaven God himself commanded these Rites and Ceremonies to our fore-fathers Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob c. promising therein both the amplification of their families and also their Messias But in tract of time I say wantonness negligence and contempt through the instigation of the Devil abolished this institution of God so as in the end God himself was forgotten among them and they became Pagans and Heathens devising their own ways until every Countrey had devised and erected both new Sacrifices and also new Gods particular unto themselves Whose example the Pope followeth in prophaning of Christs Sacraments disguising them with his devices and superstitious Ceremonies contriving and comprehending therein the folly of all Nations the which because little children do now perceive and scorn I will pass over and return to the Gentiles whom I cannot excuse of cosenage superstition nor yet of vanity in this behalf For if God suffered false Prophets among the children of Israel being Gods peculiar people and hypocrites in the Church of Christ no marvel if there were such people amongst the Heathen which neither professed nor knew him CHAP. XIII Of the Objects whereupon the Augurers used to Prognosticate with certain Cautions and Notes THe Gentiles which treat of this matter repeat an innumerable multitude of Objects whereupon they prognosticate good or bad luck And a great matter is made of sneezing wherein the number of sneezings and the time thereof is greatly noted the tingling in the finger the elbow the toe the knee c. are singular notes also to be observed in this Art though specially herein are marked the flying of Fowls and meeting of Beasts with this general caution that the object or matter whereon men divine must be sudden and unlocked for which regard children and some old fools have to the gathering Prim-roses True-loves and four-leaved grass Item the person unto whom such an object offereth it self unawares Item the intention of the diviner whereof the object which is met is referred to Augury Item the hour in which the object is without fore-knowledge upon the sudden met withal and so forth Pliny reporteth that Gryphes flie alwayes to the place of slaughter two or three dayes before the battel is fought which was seen and tryed at the battel of Troy and in respect thereof the Gryphe was allowed to be the chief Bird of Augury But among the innumerable number of the portentous Beast Fowls Serpents and other creatures the Toad is the most excellent object whose ugly deformity signifieth sweet and amiable fortune in respect whereof some superstitious Witches preserve Toads for their familiars And some one of good credit whom I could name having convented the Witches themselves hath starved divers of their Devils which they kept in boxes in the likeness of Toads Plutarch Cheronaeus saith that the place and site of the signs that we receive by Augury are specially to be noted for if we receive them on the left side good luck if on the right side ill luck insueth because terrene and mortal things are opposite and contrary to divine and heavenly things for that which the Gods deliver with the right hand falleth to our left side and so contrariwise CHAP. XIV The division of Augury persons admittable into the Colledges of Augury of their Superstition THe latter Diviners in these mysteries have divided their soothsayings into twelve Superstitions as Augustinus Niphus termeth them The first is prosperity the second ill luck as when one goeth out of his house and seeth an unlucky beast lying on the right side of his way the third is destinie the fourth is fortune the fifth is ill hap as when an infortunate beast feedeth on the right side of your way the sixt is utility the seventh is hurt the eight is called a cautel as when a beast followeth one and stayeth at any side not passing beyond him which is a sign of good luck the ninth is infelicity and that is contrary to the eight as when the beast passeth before one the tenth is perfection the eleventh is imperfection the twelft is confusion Thus farre he Among the Romans none could be received into the Colledge of Augurers that had a bile or had been bitten with a Dog c. and at the times of their exercise even at noon-days they lighted Candles From whence the Papists convey unto their Church those points of infidelity Finally their observations were so infinite and ridiculous that there flew not a sparkle out of the fire but it betokened somewhat CHAP. XV. Of the Common Peoples fond and superstitious Collections and Observations AMongst us there be many women and effeminate men marry Papists alwayes as by their superstition may appear that make great Divinations upon the shedding of Salt Wine c. and for the observation of dayes and hours use as great Witchcraft as in any thing For if one chance to take a fall from a Horse either in a slippery or stumbling way he will note the day and hour and count that time unlucky for a journey Otherwise he that receiveth a mischance will consider whether he met not a Cat or a Hare when he went first out of his doores in the morning or stumbled not at the threshhold at his going out or put not on his shirt the wrong side outwards or his left shooe on his right foot
which Augustus Caesar reputed for the worst luck that might befal But above all other Nations as Martinus de Arles witnesseth the Spaniards are most superstitious herein and of Spain the people of the Province of Lusitania is the most fond For one will say I had a dream to night or a Crow croaked upon my house or an Owl flew by me and screeched at which Augury Lucius Sylla took his death or a Cock crew contrary to his hour Another saith The Moon is at the prime another that the Sun rose in a cloud and looked pale or a Star shot and shined in the air or a strange Cat came into the house or a Hen fell from the top of the house Many will go to bed again if they sneeze before their shooes be on their feet some will hold fast their left thumb in their right hand when they hickot or else will hold their chin with their right hand whiles a Gospel is sung It is thought very ill luck of some that a child or any other living creature should pass between two friends as they walk together for they say it portendeth a division of friendship Among the Papists themselves if any hunters as they were a hunting chanced to meet a Frier or a Priest they thought it so ill luck as they would couple up their Hounds and go home being in despair of any further sport that day Marry if they had used venery with a begger they should win all the money they played for that day at dice. The like folly is to be imputed unto them that observe as true or probable old verses wherein can be no reasonable cause of such effects which are brought to pass only by Gods power and at his pleasure Of this sort be these that follow Vincenti festo si sol radiet memor esto Englished by Abraham Fleming Remember on S. Vincents day If that the Sun his beams display Clara dies Pauli bona tempora denotat anni Englished by Abraham Fleming If Paul th' Apstoles day be clear It doth fore-shew a lucky year Si sol splendescat Mariâ purificante Major erit glacies post festum quà m fuit antc Englished by Abraham Fleming If Maries purifying day Be clear and bright with Sunny ray Then frost and cold shall be much more After the feast than was before Serò rubens coelum cras indicat esse serenum Si manè rubescit ventus vel pluvia crescit Englished by Abraham Fleming The skie being red at evening Fore-shews a fair and clear morning But if the morning riseth red Of wind or rain we shall be sped Some stick a needle or a buckle into a certain tree neer to the Cathedral Church of S. Christopher or of some other Saint hoping thereby to be delivered that year from the headach Item Maids forsooth hang some of their hair before the Image of S. Urbane because they would have the rest of the hair grow long and be yellow Item Women with child run to Church and tie their Girdles or Shooe-lachets about a Bell and strike upon the same thrice thinking that the sound thereof hasteth their good delivery But sithence these things begin to touch the vanities and superstitions of Incantations I will refer you thither where you shall see of that stuffe abundance beginning at the word Habar CHAP. XVI How old Writers vary about the matter the manner and the means whereby things augurifical are moved THeophrastus and Themistius affirm that whatsoever happeneth unto man suddenly and by chance cometh from the Providence of God So as Themistius gathereth that men in that respect Prophesie when they speak what cometh in their brain upon the sudden though not knowing or understanding what they say And that seeing God hath a care for us it agreeth with reason as Theophrastus saith that he shew us by some mean whatsoever shall happen For with Pythagoras he concludeth that all foreshews and auguries are the voyces and words of God by the which he foretelleth man the good or evil that shall betide Trismegistus affirmeth that all augurifical things are moved by Devils Porphyrie saith by Gods or tather good Angels according to the opinion of Plotinus and Jamblichus Some other affirm they are moved by the Moon wandring through the twelve Signs of the Zodiake because the Moon hath dominion in all sudden matters The Aegyptian Astronomers hold that the Moon ordereth not those portentous matters but Stella errans a wandering Star c. CHAP. XVII How ridiculous an Art Augury is how Cato mocked it Aristotle's reason against it fond Collections of Augurers who allowed and who disallowed it VErily all these Observations being neither grounded on Gods Word nor Physical or Philosophical Reason are Vanities Superstitions Lyes and meer Witchcraft as whereby the world hath long time been and is still abused and cosened It is written Non est vestrum scire tempora momenta c. It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own power The most godly men and the wisest Philosophers have given no credit hereunto S. Augustine saith Qui his divinationibus credit sciat se fidem Christianam baptismum praevaricasse Paganum Deique inimicum esse He that gives credit to these Divinations let him know that he hath abused the Christian Faith and his Baptism and is a Pagan and an Enemy to God One told Cato that a Rat had carryed away and eaten his Hose which the party said was a wonderful sign Nay said Cato I think not so but if the Hose had eaten the Rat that had been a wonderful token indeed When Nonius told Cicero that they should have good success in battle because seven Eagles were taken in Pompies Camp he answered thus No doubt it will be even so if that we chance to fight with Pies In like case also he answered Labienus who prophesied like success by such Divinations That through the hope of such toyes Pompy lost all his Pavillions not long before What wise man would think that God would commit his councel to a Daw an Owl a Swine or a Toad or that he would hide his secret purposes in the dung and bowels of Beasts Aristotle thus reasoneth Augury or Divinations are neither the causes nor effects of things to come Ergo they do not thereby foretel things truly but by chance As if I dream that my friend will come to my house and he cometh indeed yet neither dream nor imagination is more the cause of my friends coming than the chattering of a Pie. When Hannibal overthrew Marcus Marcellus the Beast sacrificed wanted a piece of his heart therefore forsooth Marius when he sacrificed at Utica and the beast lacked his liver he must needs have the like success These are their Collections and as vain as if they said that the building of Tenderden-steeple was the cause of Goodwines-Sands or the decay of Sandwich-Haven S.
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
such modesty and patience as might have moved even a heart of steel or flint But Pharaohs frowardness alwayes grew upon the Magicians actions the like example or the resemblance whereof we find not again in the Scriptures And though there were such people in those dayes suffered and used by God for the accomplishment of his Will and secret Purpose yet it followeth not that now when Gods Will is wholly revealed to us in his Word and his Son exhibited for whom or rather for the manifestation of whose coming all those things were suffered or wrought such things and such people should yet continue So as I conclude the cause being taken away the thing proceeding thence remaineth not And to assign our Witches and Conjurers their room is to mock and contemn Gods wonderful Works and to oppose against them Cosenages jugling knacks and things of nought And therefore as they must confess that none in these dayes can do as Moses did so it may be answered that none in these dayes can do as Jannes and Jambres did who if they had been false Prophets as they were Juglers had yet been more priviledged to exceed our old Women or Conjurers in the accomplishing of miracles or in prophecying c. For who may be compared with Balaam Nay I dare say that Balaams Ass wrought a greater miracle and more supernatural then either the Pope or all the Conjurers and Witches in the world can do at this day To conclude it is to be avouched and there be proofs manifest enough that our Juglers approach much nearer to resemble Pharaohs Magicians then either Witches or Conjurers and make a more lively shew of working Miracles than any Inchanters can do for these practise to shew that in action which Witches do in words and terms But that you may think I have reason for the maintenance of mine opinion in this behalf I will surcease by multitude of words to amplifie this place referring you to the tract following of the art of juggling where you shall read strange practices and cunning conveyances which because they cannot so conveniently be described by phrase of speech as that they should presently sink into the capacity of you that would be practitioners of the same have caused them to be set forth in form figure that your understanding might be somewhat helped by instrumental Demonstrations And when you have perused that whole discovery of Juggling compare the wonders thereof with the wonders imputed to Conjurers and Witches not omitting Pharaohs Sorcerers at any hand in this comparison and I believe you will be resolved that the miracles done in Pharaohs sight by them and the miracles ascribed unto Witches Conjurers c. may be well taken for false miracles meer delusions c. and for such actions as are commonly practised by cunning Jugglers be it either by legierdemain confederacy or otherwise CHAP. XXII The Art of Juggling discovered and in what points it doth principally consist NOw because such occasion is ministred and the matter so pertinent to my purpose and also the life of Wicthcraft and cosenage so manifestly delivered in the Art of Juggling I thought good to discover it together with the rest of the other deceitful Arts being sorry that it falleth out to my lot to lay open the secrets of this mystery to the hinderance of such poor men as live thereby whose doings herein are not only tolerable but greatly commendable so they abuse not the Name of God nor make the people attribute unto them his power but alwayes acknowledge wherein the Art consisteth so as thereby the other unlawful and impious Arts may be by them the rather detected and bewrayed The true Art therefore of Juggling consisteth in legierdemain to wit the nimble conveyance of the hand which is especially performed three wayes The first and principal consisteth in hiding and conveying of Balls the second in the alteration of Money the third in the shuffling of the Cards He that is expert in these may shew much pleasure and many feats and hath more cunning than all other Witches or Magicians All other parts of this Art are taught when they are discovered but this part cannot be taught by any description or instruction without exercise and expence of time And forasmuch as I profess rather to discover than teach these mysteries it shall suffice to signifie unto you that the endeavour and drift of Jugglers is only to abuse mens eyes and judgments Now therefore my meaning is in words as plain as I can to rip up certain proper tricks of that Art whereof some are pleasant and delectable other some dreadful and desperate and all but meer delusions or counterfeit actions as you shall soon see by due observation of every knack by me hereafter deciphered CHAP. XXIII Of the Ball and the manner of Legierdemain therewith also notable feats with one or divers Bals. COncerning the Ball the plays and devices thereof are infinite in so much as if you can by use handle them well you may shew therewith a hundreth feats But whether you seem to throw the Ball into your left hand or into your mouth or into a Pot or up into the air c. it is to be kept still in your right hand If you practice first with a leaden bullet you shall the sooner and better do it with Balls of Cork The first place at your first learning where you are to bestow a great Ball is in the palm of your hand with your Ring-finger but a small Ball is to be placed with your thumb betwixt your Ring-finger and middle-finger then are you to practice to do it betwixt the other fingers then betwixt the fore-finger and the thumb with the fore-finger and middle-finger jointly and therein is the greatest and strangest cunning shewed Lastly the same Ball is to be practised in the palm of the hand and by use you shall not only seem to put any one Ball from you and yet retain it in your hand but you shall keep four or five as cleanly as one This being attained unto you shall work wonderful feats as for example Lay three or four Balls before you and as many small Candlesticks Bols Salt-seller covers which is the best Then first seem to put one Ball into your left hand and therewithal seem to hold same fast then take one of the Candlesticks or any other thing having a hollow foot and not being too great and seem to put the Ball which is thought to be in your left hand underneath the same and so under the other Candlesticks seem to bestow the other Balls and all this while the beholders will suppose each Ball to be under each Candlestick this done some charm or form of words is commonly used Then take up one Candlestick with one hand and blow saying Lo you see that is gone and so likewise look under each Candlestick with like grace and words and the beholders will wonder where they
are become But if you in lifting up the Candlesticks with your right hand leave all those three or four Balls under one of them as by use you may easily do having turned them all down with your hand and holding them fast with your little and Ring-finger take the Candlestick with your other fingers and cast the Balls up into the hollowness thereof for so they will not roll so soon away the stander by will be much astonied But it will seem wonderful strange if also in shewing how there remaineth nothing under another of those Candlesticks taken up with your left hand you leave behind you a great Ball or any other thing the miracle will be the greater For first they think you have pulled away all the Bals by miracle then that you have brought them all together again by like means and they neither think nor look that any other thing remaineth behind under any of them And therefore after many other feats done return to your Candlesticks remembring where you left the great Ball and in no wise touch the same but having another like Ball about you seem to bestow the same in manner and form aforesaid under a Candlestick which standeth furthest off from that where the Ball lieth And when you shall with words or Charms seem to convey the same Ball from under the same Candlestick and afterward bring it under the Candlestick which you touched not it will I say seem wonderful strange To make a little Ball swell in your hand till it he very great TAke a very great Ball in your left hand or three indifferent big Balls and shewing one or three little Balls seem to put them into your said left hand concealing as you may well do the other Balls which were therein before then use words and make them seem to swell and open your hand c. This play is to be varied a hundreth wayes for as you find them all under one Candlestick so may you go to a stander by and take off his Hat or Cap and shew the Balls to be there conveying them thereinto as you turn the bottom upward To consume or rather to convey one or many Bals into nothing IF you take one Ball or more and seem to put it into your other hand and whilest you use charming words you convey them out of your right hand into your lap it will seem strange For when you open your left hand immediately the shatpest lookers on will say it is in your other hand which also then you may open and when they see nothing there they are greatly overtaken How to rap a wag on the Knuckles BUt I will leave to speak any more of the Ball for herein I might hold you all day and yet shall I not be able to teach you to use it nor scarcely to understand what I mean or write concerning it but certainly many are perswaded that it is a Spirit or a Fly c. Memorandum that alwayes the right-hand be kept open and straight only keep the palm from view and therefore you may end with this miracle Lay one Ball upon your shoulder another on your arm and the third on the Table which because it is round and will not easily lye upon the point of your Knife you must bid a stander by lay it thereon that you mean to throw all those three Balls into your mouth at once and holding a Knife as a Pen in your hand when he is laying it upon the point of your Knife you may easily with hast rap him on the fingers for the other matter will be hard to do CHAP. XXIV Of Conveyance of Money THe conveying of Money is not much inferior to the Ball but much easier to do The principal place to keep a piece of Money is the palm of your hand the best piece to keep is a Testor but with exercise all will be alike except the Money be very small and then it is to be kept betwixt the fingers almost at the fingers end whereas the Ball is to be kept below neer to the palm To Convey Money out of one of your hands into the other by Legierdemain FIrst you must hold open your right hand and lay therein a Testor or some big piece of Money then lay thereupon the top of your long left finger and use words and upon the sudden slip your right hand from your finger wherewith you held down the Testor and bending your hand a very little you shall retain the Testor still therein and suddenly I say drawing your right hand through your left you shall seem to have left the Testor there specially when you shut in due time your left hand Which that it may more plainly appear to be truly done you may take a Knife and seem to knock against it so as it shall make a great sound but instead of knocking the piece in the left hand where none is you shall hold the point of the Knife fast with the left hand and knock against the Testor held in the other hand and it will be thought to hit against the Money in the left hand Then use words and open your hand and when nothing is seen it will be wondred at how the Testor was removed To convert or transubstantiate Money into Counters or Counters into Money ANother way to deceive the lookers on is to do as before with a Testor and keeping a Counter in the palm of the left hand secretly to seem to put the Testor thereinto which being reteined still in the right hand when the left hand is opened the Testor will seem to be transubstantiated into a Counter To put one Testor into one hand and another into another hand and with words to bring them together HE that hath once attained to the facility of retaining one piece of Money in in his right hand may shew a hundred pleasant conceits by that means and may reserve two or three as well as one And lo then may you seem to put one piece into your left hand and retaining it still in your right hand you may together therewith take up another like piece and so with words seem to bring both pieces together To put one Testor into a strangers hand and another into your own and to convey both into the strangers hand with words ALso you may take two Testors evenly set together and put the same in stead of one Testor into a strangers hand and then making as though you did put one Testor into your left hand with words you shall make it seem that you convey the Testor in your hand into the strangers hand for when you open your said left hand there shall be nothing seen and he opening his hand shall find two where he thought was but one By this device I say a hundred conceits may be shewed How to do the same or the like feat otherwise TO keep a Testor c. betwixt
your finger serveth specially for this and such like purposes Hold out your hand and cause one to lay a Testor upon the palm thereof then shake the same up almost to your fingers ends and putting your thumb upon it you shall easily with a little practice convey the edge bewixt the middle and fore-finger whilest you proffer to put it into your other hand provided alwayes that the edge appear not through the fingers on the backside which being done take another Testor which you may cause a stander by to lay down and put them both together either closely in stead of one into a strangers hand or keep them still in your own and after words spoken open your hands and there being nothing in one and both pieces in the other the beholders will wonder how they came together To throw a piece of Money away and to find it again where you list YOu may with the middle or Ring-finger of the right hand convey a Testor into the palm of the same hand and seeming to call it away keep it still which with confederacy will seem strange to wit when you find it again where another hath bestowed the very like piece But these things without exercise cannot be done and therefore I will proceed to shew things to be brought to pass by money with less difficulty and yet as strange as the rest which being unknown are marvellously commended but being known are derided and nothing at all regarded With words to make a Groat or a Testor to leap out of a Pot or to run alongst upon a Table YOu shall see a Juggler take a Groat or a Testor and throw it into a Pot or lay it in the midst of a Table and with inchanting words cause the same to leap out of the Pot or run towards him or from him-ward alongst the Table Which will seem miraculous until you know it is done with a long black hair of a womans head fastned to the brim of a Groat by means of a little hole driven through the same with a Spanish-Needle In like sort you may use a Knife or any other small thing but if you would have it go from you you must have a confederate by which means all Juggling is graced and amended To make a Groat or a Testor to sink through a Table and to vanish out of a Handkercher very strangely A Juggler also sometimes will borrow a Groat or a Testor c. and mark it before you and seem to put the same into the midst of a Handkercher and wind it so as you may the better see and feel it Then will he take you the Handkercher and bid you feel whether the Groat be there or nay and he will also require you to put the same under a Candlestick or some such thing Then will he send for a Bason and holding the same under the boord right against the Candlestick will use certain words of Inchantments and in short space you shall hear the Groat fall into the Bason This done one takes off the Candlestick and the Juggler taketh the Handkercher by a Tassel and shaketh it but the Money is gone which seemeth as strange as any feat whatsoever but being known the miracle is turned to a bable For it is nothing else but to sow a Groat into the corner of a Handkercher finely covered with a piece of Linnen little bigger then your Groat which corner you must convey instead of the Groat delivered to you into the middle of your Handkercher leaving the other either in your hand or lap which afterwards you must seem to pull through the Boord letting it fall into a Bason c. A notable trick to transform a Counter to a Groat TAke a Groat or some less piece of Money and grind it very thin on the one side and take two Counters and grind them the one no the one side the other on the other side Glew the smooth side of the Groat to the smooth side of one of the Counters joyning them so close together as may be specially at the edges which may be so filed as they shall seem to be but one piece to wit one side a Counter and the other side a Groat then take a very little green Wax for that is softest and therefore best and lay it so upon the smooth side of the other Counter as it doth not much discolour the Groat and so will that Counter with the Groat cleave together as though they were glewed and being filed even with the Groat and the other Counter it will seem so like a perfect entire Counter that though a stranger handle it he shall not bewrey it then having a little touched your fore-finger and the thumb of your right hand with soft Wax take therewith this counterfeit Counter and lay it down openly upon the palm of your left hand in such sort as an Auditor layeth down his Counters wringing the same hard so as you may leave the glewed Counter with the Groat apparently in the palm of your left hand and the smooth side of the waxed Counter will stick fast upon your thumb by reason of the Wax wherewith it is smeared and so may you hide at your pleasure Provided alwayes that you lay the waxed side downward and the glewed side upward then close your hand and in or after the closing thereof turn the place and so instead of a Counter which they supposed to be in your hand you shall seem to have a Groat to the astonishment of the beholders if it be well handled CHAP. XXV An excellent feat to make a Two-peny piece lie plain in the Palm of your Hand and to be passed from thence when you list PUt a little red Wax not too thin upon the nail of your longest finger then let a stranger put a Tow-peny piece into the palm of your hand and shut your fist suddenly and convey the Two-peny piece upon the Wax which with use you may so accomplish as no man shal perceive it Then and in the mean time use words of course and suddenly open your hand holding the tips of your fingers rather lower than higher than the palm of your hand and the beholders will wonder where it is become Then shut your hand suddenly again and lay a wager whether it be there or no and you may either leave it there or take it away with you at your pleasure This if it be well handled hath more admiration than any other feat of the hand Memorandum this may be best handled by putting the Wax upon the Two-peny piece but then must you lay it in your hand your self To convey a Testor out of ones Hand that holdeth it fast STick a little Wax upon your thumb and take a stander by by the finger shewing him the Testor and telling him you will put the same into his hand then wring it down hard with you waxed thumb and using many words look him in the
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
Hat but this is an old blew Hat c. and then you may seem to counter-charm it and re-deliver it to his satisfaction How to tell where a stollen Horse is become BY means of confederacy Steven Tailor and one Pope abused divers countrey people For Stephen Tailor would hide away his neighbours Horses c. and send them to Pope whom he before had told where they were promising to send the parties unto him whom he described and made known by divers signs so as this Pope would tell them at their first entrance unto the door Wherefore they came and would say that their Horses were stollen but the thief should be forced to bring back the Horses c. and leave them within one mile South and by West c. of his house even as the plot was laid and the pack made before by Stephen and him This Pope is said of some to be a Witch of others he is accounted a Conjurer but commonly called a wise man which is all one with Soothsayer or Witch CHAP. XXXI Boxes to alter one Grain into another or to consume the Grain or Corn to nothing THere be divers Juggling Boxes with false bottoms wherein many false feats are wrought First they have a Box covered or rather footed alike at each end the bottom of the one end being no deeper than as it may contain one lane of Corn or Pepper glewed thereupon Then use they to put into the hollow end thereof some other kind of grain ground or unground then do they cover it and put it under a Hat or Candlestick and either in putting it thereinto or pulling it thence they turn the Box and open the contrary end wherein is shewed a contrary grain or else they shew the glewed end first which end they suddenly thrust into a Boll or Bag or such grain as is glewed already thereupon and secondly the empty Box. How to convey with words or Charme the Corn contained in one Box into another THere is another Box fashioned like a Bell whereinto they do put so much and such Corn or Spice as the aforesaid hollow Box can contain Then they stop or cover the same with a piece of Leather as broad as a Testor which being thrust up hard towards the middle part or waste of the said Bell will stick fast and bear up the Corn. And if the edge of the leather be wet it will hold the better Then take they the other Box dipped as is aforesaid in Corn and set down the same upon the Table the empty end upward saying that they will convey the grain therein into the other Box or Bell which being set down somewhat hard upon the Table the Leather and the Corn therein will fall down so as the said Bell being taken up from the Table you shall see the Corn lying thereon and the stopple will be hidden therewith and covered and when you uncover the other Box nothing shall remain therein But presently the Corn must be swept down with one hand into the other or into your lap or hat Many feats may be done with this Box as to put therein a Toad affirming the same to have been so turned from Corn c. and then many beholders will suppose the same to be the Jugglers Devil whereby his feats and miracles are wrought But in truth there is more cunning Witchcraft used in transferring of Corn after this sort than is in the transferring of one mans Corn in the Grass into another mans field which the law of the twelve Tables doth so forcibly condemn for the one is a cosening sleight the other is a false lie Of another Box to convert Wheat into Flower with words c. THere is another Box usual among Jugglers with a bottom in the middle thereof made for the like purposes One other also like a Tun wherein is shewed great variety of stuffe as well of liquors as Spices and all by means of another little Tun within the same wherein and whereon Liquor and Spices are shewed But this would ask too long a time of description Of divert petty Juggling Knacks THere are many other beggerly feats able to beguile the simple as to make an Oat stir by spitting thereon as though it came to pass by words Item to deliver Meal Pepper Ginger or any Powder out of the mouth after the eating of Bread c. which is done by retaining any of those things stuffed in a little Paper or Bladder conveyed into your mouth and grinding the same with your Teeth Item a rish through a piece of a Trencher having three holes and at the one side the Rish appearing out in the second at the other side in the third hole by reason of a hollow place made betwixt them both so as the sleight consisteth in turning the piece of Trencher CHAP. XXXII To burn a Thred and to make it whole again with the Ashes thereof IT is not one of the worst feats to burn a Thred handsomly and to make it whole again the order whereof is this Take two Threds or small Laces of one foot in length a piece roll up one of them round which will be then of the quanity of a Pease bestow the same between your left fore-finger and your thumb Then take the other Thred and hold it forth at length betwixt the fore-finger and thumb of each hand holding all your fingers daintily as young Gentlewomen are taught to take up a morsel of meat Then let one cut asunder the same Thred in the middle When that is done put the tops of your two thumbs together and so shall you with less suspition receive the peice of Thred which you hold in your right hand into your left without opening of your left finger and thumb then holding these two pieces as you did the same before it was cut let those two be cut also asunder in the midst and they conveyed again as before until they be cut very short and then roll all those ends together and keep that Ball of small Threds before the other in your left hand and with a Knife thrust out the same with a Candle where you may hold it until the said Ball of short Threds be burnt to ashes Then pull back the Knife with your right hand and leave the ashes with the other Ball betwixt the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand and with the two thumbs and two fore-fingers together seem to take pains to frot and rub the ashes until your Thred be renewed and draw out that Thred at length which you kept all this while betwixt your left finger and thumb This is not inferiour to any Jugglers feat if it be well handled for if you have Legierdemain to bestow the same Ball of Thred and to change it from place to place betwixt your other fingers as may easily be done then will it seem very strange To cut a Lace asunder in the midst and to make it
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
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 night lord ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ night lord ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ night lord ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ night lord ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ night lord ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ night lord ♂ ☉ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ ♀ ☿ night lord ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ CHAP. XVI The Characters of the Angels of the seven dayes with their names of Figures Seales and Periapts These Figures are called the Seals of Earth without the which no Spirit will appear except thou have them with thee Michael Gabriel Samael Yaphael Sachiel Anael Calliel vel gaphriel ✚ Emanuel Sabaoth Adonay ✚ panthou ufyon ✚ Messyas ✚ Sother ✚ ✚ Dut tha gen ✚ Lap tenop ✚ Tyâ—ithaoth ✚ otheos yon mala iij la Aries Leo ✚ mala iij Alpha et ω on ely eloy Who so beareth this sign about him all Spirits shall do him homage Who so beareth this sign about him let him fear no fo but fear GOD. CHAP. XVII An Experiment of the Dead FIrst fast pray three dayes and abstain thee from all filthiness go to one that iâ— now buried such a one as killed himself or destroyed himself wilfully or else get the promise of one that shall be hanged and let him swear an Oath to thee after his body is dead that his Spirit shall come to thee and do thee true service at thy commandements in all days hours and minutes And let no persons see thy doings but thy fellow And about eleven a clock at night go to the place where he was buried and say with a bold faith and hearty desâ—re to have the spirit come that thou dost call for thy fellow having a Candle in his left hand and in his right hand a Crystal-stone and say these words following the Master having a Hazel-wand in his right hand and these names of God written thereupon Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonai ✚ Agla ✚ Craton ✚ Then strike three strokes on the ground and say Arise N. Arise N. Arise N. I'conjure thee Spirit N. by the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that thou do obey my words and come unto me this night verily and truly as thou believest to be saved at the day of Judgment And I will swear to thee an Oath by the peril of my soul that if thou wilt come to me and appear to me this night and shew me true visions in this Crystal-stone and fetch me the fairie Sibylia that I may talk with her visibly and she may come before me as the Conjuration leadeth and in so doing I will give thee an alms-deed and pray for thee N. to my Lord God whereby thou mayest be restored to thy Salvation at the Resurrection day to be received as one of the Elect of God to the everlasting glory Amen The Master standing at the head of the grave his fellow having in his hands the Candle and the Stone must begin the conjuration as followeth and the Spirit will appear to you in the Crystal-stone in a fair form of a child of twelve years of age And when he is in feel the stone and it will be hot and fear nothing for he or she will shew many delusions to drive you from your work Fear God but fear him not This is to constrain him as followeth I conjure thee Spirit N. by the living God the true God and by the holy God and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me and all the world I conjure thee N. by these holy Names of God Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ Algramay ✚ Saday ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Planaboth ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Neupmaton ✚ Deus ✚ Homo ✚ Omnipotens ✚ Sempiternus ✚ Ysus ✚ Lerra ✚ Vnigentius ✚ Salbator ✚ Via ✚ Vita ✚ Manus ✚ Fons ✚ Origo ✚ Filius ✚ And by their vertues and powers and by all their names by the which God gave power to man both to speak or think so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spirit N. that now immediately thou do appear in this Crystal-stone visibly to me and to my fellow without any tarrying or deceit I conjure thee N. by the excellent Name of Jesus Christ Α and Ω the first and the last For this holy Name of Jesus is above all Names for in this Name of Jesus every knee doth bow and obey both of heavenly things earthly things and infernal And every tongue doth confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of the Father neither is there any other Name given to man whereby he must be saved Therefore in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and by his Nativity Resurrection and Ascension and by all that appertaineth unto his passion and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. that thou do appear visibly in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow without any dissimulation I conjure thee N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb Jesus Christ which was shed for us upon the cross for all those that do believe in the vertue of his blood shall be saved I conjure thee N. by the vertues and powers of all the royal names and words of the living God of me pronounced that thou be obedient unto me and to my words rehearsed If thou refuse this to do I by the Holy Trinity and by their vertues and powers do condemn thee thou Spirit N. into the place where there is no hope of remedy or rest but everlasting horror of pain there dwelling and a place where there is pain upon pain dayly horribly and lamentably thy pain to be there augmented as the Starrs in the Heaven and as the gravel or Sand in the Sea except thou Spirit N. do appear to me and to my fellow visibly immediately in this Crystal Stone and in a fair form and shape of a child of twelve years of age and that thou alter not thy shape I change thee upon pain of everlasting condemnation I conjure thee Spirit N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou Spirit N. be thou bound into the perpetual pains of Hell fire for thy disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words and his precepts I conjure N. by the two edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the month of the Almighty and so thou Spirit N. be torn and cut in pieces with that Sword and to be condemned into everlasting pain where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not I conjure thee N. by the Heavens and by the celestial City of Jerusalem and by the Earth and the Sea and by all things contained in them and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. by the obedience that thou dost owe unto the principal Prince And
cometh in as before Advenient quae lustret anus lectumque locumque Deferat tremula sulphur ova manu Englished by Abraham Fleming Let some old Women hither come And purge both bed and place And bring in trembling hand new eggs And sulphur in like case And Virgil also harpeth upon the like string baccare frontem Cingite ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro Englished by Abraham Fleming Of berry-bearing baccar bowze Awreath or Garland knit And round about his head and browze See decently it sit That of an ill talking tongue Our future Poet be not stung Furthermore was it not in times of Tempests the Papists use or superstition to ring their Bells against Devils trusting rather to the conging of their Bells than to their own cry unto God with Fasting and Prayer assigned by him in all adversities and dangers according to the order of the Thracian Priests which would roar and cry with all the noise they could make in those tempests Olaus Gothus saith that his Countrymen would shoot in the Air to assist their Gods whom they thought to be then together by the ears with others and had consecrated Arrows called Sagittae Joviales even as our Papists had Also in stead of Bells they had great Hammers called Mallei Joviales to make a noise in time of thunder In some Countries they run out of the doors in time of Tempest blessing themselves with a Cheese whereupon there was a Cross made with a Ropes end upon Ascension day Also three Hailstones to be thrown into the fire in a Tempest and thereupon to be said three Pater Nosters and three Aves S. Johns Gospel and In fine fugiat Tempestas is a present Remedy Item to hang an egg laid on Ascension day in the roof of the House preserveth the same from all hurts Item I conjure you hail and wind by the five wounds of Christ by the three nails which pierced his hands and his feet and by the four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John that thou come down dissolved into water Item it hath been an usual matter to carry out in tempests the Sacraments and Reliques c. Item against storms and many dumb Creatures the Popish Church useth Excommunication as a principal Charm And now to be delivered from Witches themselves they hang in their Entries an herb called Pentaphyllon Cinquefoil also an Olive-branch also Frankincense Myrrh Valerian Verven Palm Antirchmon c. also Haythorn otherwise White-thorn gathered on Mayday also the smoak of a Lappoints feathers driveth Spirits away There be innumerable Popish Exorcisms and Conjurations for Herbs and other things to be thereby made wholesom both for the bodies and souls of Men and Beasts and also contagion of Weather Memorandum that at the gathering of these Magical herbs the Credo is necessary to be said as Vairus affirmeth and also the Pater noster for that is not superstitious Also Sprenger saith that to throw up a black Chicken in the Air will make all tempests to cease so it be done with the hand of a Witch If a soul wander in the likeness of a man or woman by night molesting men with bewailing their torments in Purgatory by reason of Tithes forgotten c. and neither Masses nor Conjurations can help the Exorcist in his Ceremonial Apparel must go to the Tomb of that body and spurn thereat with his foot saying Vade ad Gehennam Get thee packing to Hell and by and by the soul goeth thither and there remaineth for ever Otherwise if there be no Masses of purpose for this matter to unbewitch the bewitched Otherwise You must spet in the Piss-pot where you have made water Otherwise Spet into the shoe of your right foot before you put it on and that Vairus saith is good and wholsom to do before you go into any dangerous place Otherwise that neither Hunters nor their Dogs may be bewitched they cleave an oaken branch and both they and their Dogs pass over it Otherwise S. Augustine saith that to pacifie the God Liber whereby Women might have fruit of the seeds they sow and that their Gardens and Fields should not be bewitched some chief grave Matron used to put a Crown upon his genital Member and that must be publiquely done To spoil a Thief a Witch or any other Enemy and to be delivered from the evil UPon the Sabbath day before Sun-rising cut a Hazel-wand saying I cut thee O bough of this Summers growth in the name of him whom I mean to beat or maim Then cover the Table and say ✚ In nomine Patris ✚ Filii ✚ Spiritus sancti ✚ ter And striking thereon say as followeth english he that can Drech myroch esenaroth ✚ betu ✚ baroch ✚ ass ✚ maaroth ✚ and then say Holy Trinity punish him that hath wrought this mischeif and take it away by thy great justice Eson ✚ elion ✚ emaris ales age and strike the carpet with your wand A notable Charm or Medicine to pull out an Arrow-head or any such thing that sticketh in the flesh or bones and cannot otherwise be had out SAy three several times kneeling Oremus praeceptis salutaribus moniti Pater noster Ave Maria. Then make a Cross saying The Hebrew Knight strake our Lord Jesu Christ and I beseech thee O Lord Jesu Christ ✚ by the same iron spear blood and water to pull out this iron In nomine Patris ✚ Filii ✚ Spiritus sancti ✚ Charms against a quotidian Ague CUt an Apple in three pieces and write upon the one The Father is uncreated upon the other The Father is incomprehensible upon the third The Father is eternal Otherwise Write upon a Mass-cake cut in three pieces O Ague to be worshipped on the second O sickness to be ascribed to health and joyes on the third Pax ✚ max ✚ fax ✚ and let it be eaten fasting Otherwise Paint upon three like pieces of a Mass-cake Pater pax ✚ Adonai ✚ Filius vita ✚ Sabbaoth ✚ Spiritus sanctus ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and eat it as is aforesaid For all manner of Agues intermittent JOyn two little sticks together in the midst being of one length and hang it about your neck in the form of a Cross Otherwise For this Disease the Turks put within their Doublet a ball of wood with another piece of wood and strike the same speaking many frivolous words Otherwise Certain Monks hanged scrolls about the necks of such as were sick willing them to say certain Prayers at each fit and at the third fit to hope well and made them believe that thereby they should receive cure Periapts Characters c. for Agues and to cure all Diseases and to deliver from all evil THe first Chapter of St. Johns Gospel in small letters consecrated at a Mass and hanged about ones neck is an incomparable Amulet or Tablet which delivereth from all Witchcrafts and devilish Practices But me thinks if
face and as soon as you perceive him to look in your face or from your hand suddenly take away your thumb and close his hand and so will it seem to him that the Testor remaineth even as if you wring a Testor upon ones fore-head it will seem to stick when it is taken away especially if it be wet Then cause him to hold his hand still and with speed put it into another mans hand or into your own two Testors instead of one and use words of course whereby you shall make not only the beholders but the holders believe when they open their hands that by Inchantment you have brought both together To throw a piece of Money into a deep Pond and to fetch it again from whence you list THere be a marvellous number of feats to be done with Money but if you will work by private confederacy as to mark a shilling or any other thing and throw the same into a River or deep Pond and having hid a shilling before with like marks in some other secret place bid some go presently and fetch it making them believe that it is the very same which you threw into the River the beholders will marvail much at it And of such feats there may be done a marvellous number but many more by publick confederacy whereby one may tell another how much Money he hath in his Purse and a hundreth like toyes and all with Money To convey one Shilling being in one hand into another holding your hands abroad like a Rood EVermore it is necessary to mingle some merry toyes among your grave miracles as in this case of Money to take a Shilling in each hand and holding your arms abroad to lay a wager that you would put them both into one hand without bâ—inging them any whit neerer together The wager being made hold your arms abroad like a Hood and turning about with your body lay the Shilling out of one of your hands upon the Table and turning to the otherside take it up with the other hand and so you shall win your wages How to Rap a Wag on the Knuckles DEliver one piece of Money with the left hand to one and to a second person another and offer him that you would rap on the fingers the third for he though he be ungratious and subtle seeing the other receive Money will not lightly refuse it and when he offereth to take it you may rap him on the fingers with a Knife or somewhat else held in the right hand saying that you knew by your familiar that he meant to have kept it from you CHAP. XXVI To Transform any one small thing into any other form by folding of Paper TAke a sheet of Paper or a Handkercher and fold or double the same so as one side be a little longer then another then put a counter between the two sides or leaves of the Paper or Handkercher up to the middle of the top of the fold holding the same so as it be not perceived and lay a groat on the outside thereof right against the Counter and fold it down to the end of the longer side and when you unfold it again the Groat will be where the Counter was and the Counter where the Groat was so as some will suppose that you have transubstantiated the Money into a Counter and with this many feats may be done The like or rather stranger than it may be done with two Papers three inches square a piece divided by two folds into three equal parts at either side so as each folded Paper remain one inch square then glew the backsides of the two Papers together as they are folded and not as they are open and so shall both Papers seem to be but one and which side soever you open it shall appear to be the same if you hide handsomely the bottom as you may well do with your middle finger so as if you have a Groat in the one and a Counter in the other you having shewed but one may be turning the Paper seem to transubstantiate it This may be best performed by putting it under a Candlestick or a Hat c. and with words seem to do the feat CHAP. XXVII Of Cards with good Cautions how to avoid Cosenage therein special Rules to convey and handle the Cards and the manner and order how to accomplish all difficult and strange things wrought with Cards HAving now bestowed some waste money among you I will set you to Cards by which kind of Witchcraft a great number of people have juggled away not only their Money but also their Lands their health their time and their honesty I dare not as I could shew the lewd juggling that Cheaters practice lest it minister some offence to the well disposed to the simple hurt and losses and to the wicked occasion of evil doing But I would wish all Gamesters to beware not only with what Card and Dice they play but especially with whom and where they exercise gaming And to let Dice pass as whereby a man may be inevitably cosened one that is skilful to make and use Bumcards may undo a hundred wealthy men that are given to gaming but if he have a confederate present either of the players or standers by the mischief cannot be avoided If you play among strangers beware of him that seems simple or drunken for under their habit the most special coseners are presented and while you think by their simplicity and imperfections to beguile them and thereof perchance are perswaded by their confederates your very friends as you think you your self will be most of all overtaken Beware also of the bettors by and lookers on and namely of them that bet on your side for whilest they look on your game without suspition they discover it by signs to your Adversaries with whom they bet and yet are their confederates But in shewing feats and juggling with Cards the principal point consisteth in shuffling them nimbly and alwayes keeping one certain Card either in the bottom or in some known place of the stock four or five Cards from it Hereby you shall seem to work wonders for it will be easie for you to see or spie one Card which though you be perceived to do it will not be suspected if you shuffle them well afterwards And this note I must give you that in reserving the bottom Card you must alwayes whilest you shuffle keep him a little before or a little behind all the Cards lying underneath him bestowing him I say either a little beyond his fellows before right over the fore-finger or else behind the rest so as the little finger of the left hand may meet with it which is the easier the readyer and the better way In the beginning of your shuffling shuffle as thick as you can and in the end throw upon the stock the neather Card with so many moe at the least as you would have preserved for
the head of an Owl with a bundle of St. John's Wort or Millies Perforatum this done he must be informed of some miserable creature that hath strangled himself in some Wood or Desart place which they seldom miss to do and while the Carcass hangs the Magitian must betake himself to the aforesaid place at 12 a clock at night and begin his Conjurations in this following manner First stretch forth the consecrated Wand towards the four corners of the World saying By the mysteries of the deep by the flames of Banal by the power of the East and the silence of the night by the holy rites of Hecate I conjure and exorcize thee thou distressed Spirit to present thy self here and reveal unto me the cause of thy Calamity why thou didst offer violence to thy own liege life where thou art now in beeing and where thou wilt hereafter be Then gently smiting the Carcase nine times with the rod say I conjure thee thou spirit of this N. deceased to answer my demands that I am to propound unto thee as thou ever hopest for the rest of the holy ones and the ease of all thy misery by the blood of Jesu which he shed for thy soul I conjure and bind thee to utter unto me what I shall ask thee Then cutting down the Carcass from the tree lay his head towards the East and in the space that this following Conjuration is repeating set a Chasing-dish of fire at his right hand into which powre a little Wine some Mastick and Gum Aromatick and lastly a viol full of the sweetest Oyl having also a pair of Bellows and some unkindled Charcole to make the fire burn bright at the instant of the Carcass's rising The Conjuration is this I conjure thee thou spirit of N. that thou do immediately enter into thy ancient body again and answer to my demands by the virtue of the holy resurrection and by the posture of the body of the Saviour of the world I charge thee I conjure thee I command thee on pain of the torments and wandring of thrice seven years which I by the power of sacred Magick rites have power to inflict upon thee by thy sighs and groans I conjure thee to utter thy voice so help thee God and the prayers of the holy Church Amen Which Conjuration being thrice repeated while the fire is burning with Mastick and Gum Aromatick the body will begin to rise and at last will stand upright before the Exorcist answering with a faint and hollow voice the questions proposed unto it Why it strangled it self where its dwelling is what its food and life is how long it will be ere it enter into rest and by what means the Magitian may assist it to come to rest Also of the treasures of this world where they are hid Moreover it can answer very punctually of the places where Ghosts reside and how to communicate with them reaching the nature of Astral Spirits and hellish beings so far as its capacity reacheth All which when the Ghost hath fully answered the Magitian ought out of commiseration and reverence to the deceased to use what means can possibly be used for the procuring rest unto the Spirit To which effect he must dig a grave and filling the same half full of quick Lime and a little Salt and common Sulphur put the Carcass naked into the same which experiment next to the burning of the body into ashes is of great force to quiet and end the disturbance of the Astral Spirit But if the Ghost with whom the Exorcist consulteth be of one that dyed the common death and obtain'd the ceremonies of burial the body must be dig'd out of the ground at 12 a clock at night and the Magician must have a companion with him who beareth a torch in his left hand and smiting the Corps thrice with the consecrated rod the Exorcist must turn himself to all the four winds saying By the virtue of the holy resurrection and the torments of the damned I conjure and exorcize thee spirit of N. deceased to answer my liege demands being obedient unto these sacred ceremonies on pain of everlasting torment and distress Then let him say Berald Beroald Balbin gab gabor agaba Arise arise I charge and command thee After which Ceremonies let him ask what he desireth and he shall be answered But as a faithful caution to the practicer of this Art I shall conclude with this That if the Magician by the Constellation and Position of the Stars at his nativity be in the predicament of those that follow Magical Arts it will be very dangerous to try this experiment for fear of suddain death ensuing which the Ghosts of men deceased can easily effect upon those whose nativities lead them to Conjuration And which suddain and violent death the Stars do alwayes promise to such as they mark with the Stigma of Magicians CHAP. III. How to raise up the three Spirits Paymon Bathin and Barma And what wonderful things may be effected through their assistance THe Spirit Paymon is of the power of the Air the sixteenth in the ranck of Thrones subordinate to Corban and Marbas Bathin is of a deeper reach in the source of the fire the second after Lucifers familiar and hath not his fellow for agility and affableness in the whole Infernal Hierarchy Barma is a mighty Potentate of the order of Seraphims whom 20 Legions of Infernal Spirits do obey his property is to metamorphose the Magician or whom he pleaseth and transport into foreign Countreys These three Spirits though of various ranks and orders are all of one power ability and nature and the form of raising them all is one Therefore the Magician that desireth to consult with either of these Spirits must appoint a night in the waxing of the Moon wherein the Planet Mercury reigns at 11 a clock at night not joyning to himself any companion because this particular action will admit of none and for the space of four dayes before the appointed night he ought every morning to shave his beard and shift himself with clean linnen providing beforehand the two Seals of the Earth drawn exactly upon parchment having also his consecrated Girdle ready of a black Cats skin with the hair on and these names written on the inner side of the Girdle Ya Ya ✚ Aie Aaie ✚ Elibra ✚ Elohim ✚ Saday ✚ Yah Adonay ✚ tuo robore ✚ Cinctus Sum ✚ Upon his Shooes must be written Tetragrammaton with crosses round about and his garment must be a Priestly Robe of black with a Friars hood and a Bible in his hand When all these things are prepared and the Exorcist hath lived chastly and retired until the appointed time Let him have ready a fair Parlour or Cellar with every chink and window closed then lighting seven Candles and drawing a double Circle with his own blood which he must have ready before hand let him divide
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.
great Earl and a President he is seen like a Bull and if he take unto him a Mans face he maketh men wonderful cunning in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he giveth good familiars and wise knowing the power and virtue of herbs and stones which are pretious and ruleth Thirty six Legions Ipos aliàs Ayporos is a great Earl and a Prince appearing in the shape of an Angel and yet indeed more obscure and filthy than a Lyon with a Lyons head a Gooses feet and a Hares tail he knoweth things to come and past he maketh a man witty and bold and hath under his jurisdiction Thirty six Legions Naberius aliàs Carberus is a valiant Marquess shewing himself in the form of a Crow when he speaketh with a hoarse voyce he maketh a man amiable and cunning in all Arts and specially in Rhetorick he procureth the loss of Prelacies and Dignities Nineteen Legions hear and obey him Glasya Labolas aliàs Caacrinolaas or Caassimolar is a great President who cometh forth like a Dog and hath wings like a Griffin he giveth the knowledge of Arts and is the Captain of all Manslayers he understandeth things present and to come he gaineth the minds and love of friends and foes he maketh a man go invisible and hath the rule of Thirty six Legions Zepar is a great Duke appearing as a Souldier inflaming Women with the love of Men and when he is hidden he changeth their shape until they may enjoy their beloved he also maketh them barren and Twenty six Legions are at his obey and commandement Bileth is a great King and a terrible riding on a pale Horse before whom go Trumpets and all kind of melodious Musick When he is called up by an Exorcist he appeareth rough and furious to deceive him Then let the Exocist or Conjuror take heed to himself and to allay his courage let him hold a hazel bat in his hand wherewithal he must reach out toward the East and South and make a triangle without besides the Circle but if he hold not out his hand unto him and he bid him come in and he still refuse the bond or chain of Spirits let the Conjuror proceed to reading and by and by he will submit himself and come in and do whatsoever the Exorcist commandeth him and he shall be safe If Bileth the King be more stubborn and refuse to enter into the Circle at the first call and the Conjuror shew himself fearful or if he have not the chain of Spirits certainly he will never fear nor regard him after Also if the place be unapt for a triangle to be made without the Circle then set there a boll of Wine and the Exorcist shall certainly know when he cometh out of his house with his fellows and that the aforesaid Bileth will be his helper his friend and obedient unto him when he cometh forth And when he cometh let the Exorcist receive him courteously and glorifie him in his pride and therefore he shall adore him as other Kings do because he saith nothing without other Princes Also if he be cited by an Exorcist alwayes a silver Ring of the middle finger of the left hand must be held against the Exorcists face as they do for Amaimon And the dominion and power of so great a Prince is not to be determined for there is none under the power and dominion of the Conjuror but he that detaineth both men and women in doting love till the Exorcist hath had his pleasure He is of the orders of Powers hoping to return to the seventh Throne which is not altogether credible and he ruleth Eighty five Legions Sitri aliàs Bitru is a great Prince appearing with the face of a Leopard and having wings as a Griffin when he taketh humane shape he is very beautiful he inflameth a man with a womans love and also stirreth up women to love men being commanded he willingly detaineth secrets of Women laughing at them and mocking them to make them luxuiously naked and there obey him Sixty Legions Paimon is more obedient to Lucifer than any other Kings are Lucifer is here to be understood he that was drowned in the depth of his knowledge he would needs be like God and for his arrogancy was thrown out into destruction of whom it is said Every pretious stone is thy covering Paimon is constrained by divine virtue to stand before the Exorcist where he putteth on the likeness of a man he sitteth on a beast called a Dromedary which is a swift runner and weareth a glorious crown and hath an effeminate countenance there goeth before him an host of men with Trumpets and well sounding Cymbals and all Musical Instruments At the first he appeareth with a great cry and roaring as in Circulo Solomonis and in the Art is declared And if this Paimon speak sometimes that the Conjuror understand him not let him not therefore be dismayed But when he hath delivered him the first obligation to observe his desire he must bid him also answer him distinctly and plainly to the questions he shall ask you of all Philosophy Wisdome and Science and of all other secret things And if you will know the disposition of the World and what the earth is or what holdeth it up in the water or any other thing or what is Abyssus or where the wind is or from whence it cometh he will teach you abundantly Consecrations also as well as Sacrifices as otherwise may be reckoned He giveth dignities and confirmations he bindeth them that resist him in his own chains and subjecteth them to the Conjuror he prepareth good familiars and hath the understanding of all Arts. Note that at the calling up of him the Exorcist must look toward the Northwest because there is his house When he is called up let the Exorcist receive him constantly without fear let him ask what questions or demands he list and no doubt he shall obtain the same of him And the Exorcist must beware he forget not the Creator for those things that have been rehearsed before of Paimon some say he is of the order of Dominions others say of the order of Cherubims There follow him Two hundred Legions partly of the order of Angels and partly of Potestates Note that if Paimon be cited alone by an offering or sacrifice two Kings follow him to wit Bebal and Abalam and other Potentates in his host are Twenty five Legions because the Spirits subject to them are not alwayes with them except they be compelled to appear by divine vertue Some say that the King Belial was created immediately after Lucifer and therefore they think that he was father and seducer of them which fell being of the orders For he fell first among the worthier and wiser sort which went before Michael and other heavenly Angels which were lacking Although Belial went before all them that were thrown down to the earth yet he went not