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A62397	The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Discourse concerning the nature and substance of devils and spirits.	1665 (1665)	Wing S945A; ESTC R20054	529,066	395

Glass-vial full of holy Water and set it upon a linnen cloth which hath been purified not only by washing but by sacrifice c. On the mouth of the Vial or Urinal two Olive-leaves must be laid across with a little Conjuration said over it by a child to wit thus Angele bone Angele candide per tuam sanctitatem meamque virginitatem ostende mihi furem with three Pater nosters three Aves and betwixt either of them a Cross made with the nail of the Thumb upon the mouth of the Vial and then shall be seen Angels ascending and descending as it were Motes in the Sun-beams The Thief all this while shall suffer great torments and his Face shall be seen plainly even as plainly I believe as the Man in the Moon For in truth there are toyes artificially conveyed into glass which will make the water bubble and devices to make Images appear in the bubbles as also there be Artificial Glasses which will shew unto you that shall look thereinto many Images of divers Forms and some so small and curious as they shall in favour resemble whomsoever you think upon Look in John Bap. Neap. for the confection of such glasses The subtilties hereof are so detected and the mysteries of the glasses so common now and their cosenage so well known c. that I need not stand upon the particular confutation hereof Cardanus in the place before cited reporteth how he tried with children these and divers circumstances the whole illusion and found it to be plain knavery and cosenage Another way to find out a Thief that hath stoln any thing from you GO to the Sea-side and gather as many pebles as you suspect persons for that matter carry them home and throw them into the fire and bury them under the threshold where the parties are like to come over There let them lie three days and then before sun-rising take them away Then set a Porrenger full of water in a circle wherein must be made crosses every way as many as can stand in it upon the which must be written Christ overcometh Christ reigneth Christ commandeth The Porrenger also must be signed with a Cross and a form of Conjuration must be pronounced Then each stone must be thrown into the water in the name of the suspected And when you put in the stone of him that is guilty the stone will make the water boil as though glowing iron were put thereinto Which is a meer knack of legierdemain and to be accomplished divers wayes To put out the Thiefs eye REad the seven Psalms with the Letany and then must be said a horrible prayer to Christ and God the Father with a curse against the Thief Then in the midst of the step of your foot on the ground where you stand make a circle like an eye and write thereabout certain barbarous names and drive with a Coopers Hammer or Addes into the midst thereof a brazen nail consecrated saying Justus es Domine justa judicia tua Then the Thief shall be bewrayed by his crying out Another way to find out a Thief STick a pair of Sheers in the rind of a Sieve and let two persons set the top of each of their Forefingers upon the upper part of the Sheers holding it with the Sieve up from the ground steadily and ask Peter and Paul whether A. B. or C. hath stoln the thing lost and at the nomination of the guilty person the Sieve will turn round This is a great practice in all Countries and indeed a very bable For with the beating of the pulse some cause of that motion ariseth some other cause by the slight of the fingers some other by the wind gathered in the Sieve to be staid c. at the pleasure of the holders Some cause may be the imagination which upon the conceit at the naming of the party altereth the common course of the pulse as may well be conceived by a Ring held steadily by a thred betwixt the finger and the thumb over or rather in a goblet or glass which within short space will strike against the side thereof so many strokes as the holder thinketh it a clock and then will stay the which who so proveth shall find true A Charm to find out or spoil a Thief OF this matter concerning the apprehension of Thieves by words I will cite one Charm called S. Adelberts curse being both for length of words sufficient to weary the Reader and for substantial stuff comprehending all that appertaineth unto blasphemous speech or cursing allowed in the Church of Rome as an Excommunication and Inchantment Saint Adelberts Curse or Charm against Thieves BY the Authority of the Omnipotent Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and by the holy Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels and Archangels and S. Michael and S. John Baptist and in the behalf of S. Peter the Apostle and the residue of the Apostles and of S. Stephen and of all the Martyrs of S. Sylvester and of S. Adelbert and all the Confessors nd S. Alegand and all the holy Virgins and of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth unto whom there is given power to bind and loose we do excommunicate damn curse and bind with the knots and bands of Excommunication and we do segregate from the bounds and lists of our holy Mother the Church all those Thieves Sacrilegious persons ravenous Catchers Doers Counsellers Coadjutors male or female that have committed this theft or mischief or have usurped any part thereof to their own use Let their share be with Dathan and Abiran whom the Earth swallowed up for their sins and pride and let them have part with Judas that betrayed Christ Amen and with Pontius Pilat and with them that said to the Lord Depart from us we will not understand thy wayes let their Children be made Orphans Cursed be they in the Field in the Grove in the Woods in their Houses Barns Chambers and Beds and cursed be they in the Court in the Way in the Town in the Castle in the Water in the Church in the Churchyard in the Tribunal-place in Battel in their Abode in the Market-place in their Talk in Silence in Eating in Watching in Sleeping in Drinking in Feeling in Sitting in Kneeling in Standing in Lying in Idleness in all their Work in their Body and Soul in their five Wits and in every Place Cursed be the fruit of their Wombs and cursed be the fruit of their Lands and cursed be all that they have Cursed be their Heads their Mouths their Nostrils their Noses their Lips their Jaws their Teeth their Eyes and Eye-lids their Brains the roof of their Mouths their Tongues their Throats their Breast their Hearts Bellies their Livers all their Bowels and their Stomach Cursed be their Navels their Spleens their Bladder Cursed be their Thighs their Legs their Feet their Toes their Necks their Shoulders Cursed be their Backs cursed be their Arms

there be a great number of lyes contained in M. Mal. and J. Bodin And if this be well weighed and conceived it beateth down to the ground all those Witchmongers arguments that contend to wring witching miracles out of this place For they disagree notably some denying and some affirming that Serpents may be bewitched Nevertheless because in every point you shall see how Popery agrees with Paganism I will recite certain Charms against Vipers allowed for the most part in and by the Church of Rome as followeth I conjure thee O Serpent in this hour by the five holy wounds of our Lord that thou remove not out of this place but here stay as certainly as God was born of a pure Virgine Otherwise I conjure thee Serpent In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus sancti I command thee Serpent by our Lady S. Mary that thou obey me as wax obeyeth the fire and As fire obeyeth water that thou neither hurt me nor any other Christian as certainly as God was born of an immaculate Virgine in which respect I take thee up In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Ely lash eiter ely lash eiter ely lash eiter Otherwise O Vermine thou must come as God came unto the Jews Otherwise L. Varius saith that Serpens quernis frondibus contracta that a Serpent touched with Oak-leaves dieth and stayeth even in the beginning of his going if a feather of the bird Ibis be cast or thrown upon him and that a Viper smitten or hot with a reed is astonied and touched with a beechen branch is presently numme and stiffe Here is to be remembred that many use to boast that they are of S. Pauls race and kindred shewing upon their bodies the prints of Serpents which as the Papists affirm was incident to all them of S. Paul's stock Marry they say herewithal that all his kinsfolks can handle Serpents or any poyson without danger Others likewise have as they brag a Katharine-wheel upon their bodies and they say they are kin to S. Katharine and that they can carry burning-coals in their bare-hands and dip their said hands in hot scalding liquor and also go into hot Ovens Whereof though the last be but a bare jest and to be done by any that will prove as a bad fellow in London had used to do making no tarriance at all therein yet there is a shew made of the other as though it were certain and undoubted by anointing the hands with the juyce of Mallows Mercury Urine c. which for a little time are defensatives against the scalding liquors and scorching fires But they that take upon them to work these mysteries and miracles do indeed after rehearsal of these and such like words and Charms take up even in their bare hands those Snakes and Vipers and sometimes put them about their necks without receiving any hurt thereby to the terror and astonishment of the beholders which naturally both fear and abhorre all Serpents But these Charmers upon my word dare not trust to their Charms but use such an Inchantment as every man may lawfully use and the lawful use thereof may bring to pass that they shall be in security and take no harm how much soever they handle them marry with a woollen rag they pull out their teeth before-hand as some men say but as truth is they weary them and that is of certainty And surely this is a kind of Witchcraft which I term private confederacy Bodin saith that all the Snakes in one Countrey were by Charms and Verses driven into another Region perhaps he meaneth Ireland where S. Patrik is said to have done it with his holiness c. James Sprenger and Henry Institor affirm that Serpents and Snakes and their skins exceed all other creatures for Witchcraft insomuch as Witches do use to bury them under mens thresholds either of the house or stalls whereby barrenness is procured both to woman beasts yea and that the very earth and ashes of them continue to have force of fascination In respect whereof they wish all men now and then to dig away the earth under their thresholds and to sprinkle holy water in the place and also to hang boughs hallowed on Midsummer-day at the stall door where the Cattel stand and produce examples thereupon of Witches lies or else their own which I omit because I see my Book groweth to be greater than I meant it should be CHAP. XVI Charms to carry Water in a Sieve to know what is spoken of us behind our backs for bleer eyes to make seeds to grow well of Images made of Wax to be rid of a Witch to hang her up notable authorities against waxen Images a Story bewraying the Knavery of waxen Images LEonardus Vairus saith that there was a Prayer extant whereby might be carried in a Sieve Water or other Liquor I think it was clam clay which a crow taught a maid that was promised a cake of so great quantity as might be kneaded of so much Flour as she could wet with the Water that she brought in a Sieve and by that means she clam'd it with Clay and brought in so much Water as whereby she had a great Cake and so beguiled her Sisters c. And this Tale I heard among my Grannams Maids whereby I can decipher this Witchcraft Item by the tingling of the Ear men heretofore could tell what was spoken of them If any see a Scorpion and say this word Bud he shall not be stung or bitten therewith These two Greek Letters π and A written in a Paper and hung about ones neck preserve the party from Bleereyedness Cummin or Hempseed sown with cursing and opprobrious words grow the faster and the better Berosus Anianus maketh Witchcraft of great Antiquity for he saith that Cham touching his Fathers naked Member uttered a Charm whereby his Father became emasculated or deprived of the Powers generative A Charm teaching how to hurt whom you list with Images of Wax c. MAke an Image in his name whom would hurt or kill of new Virgin wax under the right Arm-poke whereof place a Swallows heart and the liver under the left then hang about the neck thereof a new thred in a new Needle pricked into the member which you would have hurt with the rehearsal of certain words which for the avoiding of foolish superstition and credulity in this behalf is to be omitted And if they were inserted I dare undertake they would do no harm were it not to make fools and catch Gudgins Otherwise Sometimes these Images are made of Brass and then the hand is placed where the foot should be and the foot where the hand and the face downward Otherwise For a greater mischief the like Image is made in the form of a man or woman upon whose head is written the certain Name of the party and on his or her ribs these words Ailif casyl zaze hit mel meltat then the same must