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heart_n	belly_n	foot_n	neck_n	3,166	5	12.8325	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62395	Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.	1651 (1651)	Wing S943; ESTC R19425	465,580	448

and eye-lids their braines the roofe of their mouthes their tongues their throats their breast their hearts their bellies their livers all their bowels and their stomach Cursed be their navels their spleenes their bladder Cursed be their thighes their legs their feet their toes their necks their shoulders Cursed be their backs cursed be their armes cursed be their elbowes cursed be their hands and their fingers cursed be both the nails of their hands and feet cursed be their ribbs and their genitals and their knees cursed be their flesh cursed be their bones cursed be their bloud cursed be the skin of their bodies cursed be the marrows in their bones cursed be they from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot and whatsoever is betwixt the same be it accursed ' that is to say their five senses to wit their seeing their hearing their smelling their tasting and their feeling Cursed be they in the holy crosse in the passion of Christ with his five wounds with the effusion of his bloud and by the milk of the Virgine Mary I conjure thee Lucifer with all thy Souldiers by the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost with the humanity and nativity of Christ with the vertue of all Saints that thou rest not day nor night till thou bringest them to destruction either by drowning or hanging or that they be devoured by wild beasts or burnt or slain by their enemies or hated of all men living And as our Lord hath given authority to Peter the Apostle and his successors whose place we occupy and to us though unworthy that whatsoever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever we loose on earth shall be loose in heaven so we accordingly if they will not amend do shut from them the gates of heaven and deny unto them Christian burial so as they shall be buried in asses leaze Furthermore curssed be the ground wherein they are buried let them be confounded in the last day of Judgement let them have no conversation among Christians nor be houseled at the hour of death let them be made as dust before the face of the wind and as Lucifer was expelled out of heaven and Adam and Eve out of paradise so let them be expelled from the daylight Also let them be joyned with those to whom the Lord saith at the Judgement Go ye curssed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the devill and his angels where the worme shall not die nor the fire be quenched And as the candle which is throwne out of my hand here is put out so let their works and their soul be quenched in the stench of hell fire except they restore that which they have stolne by such a day and let every one say Amen After this must be sung In media vita in morte sumus c. This terrible curse with bell book and candle added thereunto must needs work wonders howbeit among theeves it is not much weighed among wise and true men it is not well liked to them that are robbed it bringeth small releef the priests stomach may well be eased but the goods stolne will never the sooner be restored Hereby is bewrayed both the malice and folly of popish doctrine whose uncha●itable impietie is so impudently published and in such order uttered as every sentence if opportunity served might be proved both heretical and diabolical But I will answer this cruel curse with another curse far more mild and civil performed by as honest a man I dare say as he that made the other whereof mention was lately made So it was that a certain Sir John with some of his company once went abroad a jetting and in a moon-light evening robbed a millers weire and stole all his eeles The poor miller made his mone to Sir John himself who willed him to be quiet for he would so curse the theef and all his confederates with bell book and candel that they should have small joy of their fish And therefore the next sunday Sir John got him to the pulpit with his surplisse on his back and his stole about his neck and pronounced these words following in the audience of the people All you that have stolne the millers eeles Laudate Dominum de coelis And all they that have consented thereto Benedicamus Domino Lo saith he there is savoe for your eeles my masters Another inchantment CErtaine priests use the hundred and eight psalm as an inchantment or charm or at the leastwise saying that against whomsoever they pronounce it they cannot live one whole year at the uttermost CHAP. XVIII A charme or experiment to find out a witch IN die dominico sotularia juvenum axungia seu pinguedine porci ut moris est pro restauratione fieri perungunt and when she is once come into the church the witch can never get out untill the searchers for her give her expresse leave to depart But now it is necessary to shew you how to prevent and cure all mischiefs wrought by these charmes and witchcrafts according to the opinion of M. Mal. and others One principal way is to naile a horse-shoe at the inside of the outmost threshhold of your house and so you shall be sure no witch shall have power to enter thereinto And if you marke it you shall find that rule observed in many countrey-houses Otherwise Item the triumphant title to be written crossewise in every corner of the house thus Iesus ✚ Nazarenus ✚ rex ✚ Iudaeorum ✚ Memorandum you may join herewithal the name of the virgine Mary or of the four Evangelists or Verbum caro factum est Otherwise Item in some countries they naile a wolves head on the door Otherwise Item they hang Scilla which is either a root or rather in this place garlike in the roof of the house for to keep away witches and spirits and so they do Alicium also Otherwise Item perfume made of the gall of a black dog and his bloud besmeered on the posts and walles of the house driveth out of the doors both devils and witches Otherwise The house where Herba betonica is sown is free from all mischiefes Otherwise It is not unknown that the Romish church allowed and used the smoak of Sulphur to drive spirits out of their houses as they did frankincense and water hallowed Otherwise Apuleius saith that Mercury gave to Ulysses when he came neer to the inchantresse Circe an herb called Verbascum which in English is called Mullein or Tapsus barbatus or Longwoort and that preserved him from the inchantments Otherwise Item Pliny and Homer bo do say that the herb call'd Moly is an excellent herb against inchantments and say all that thereby Ulysses escaped Circes her sorceries and inchantments Otherwise also diverse waies they went to worke in this case and some used this defensive some that preservative against incantations And herein you shall see not only how the religion of papists and infidels

into the said dike and there killed him You must think that this was a devil in a serpents likenesse which for the love he bare to the poore snakes killed the sorcerer to reach all other witches to beware of the like wicked practise And surely if this be not true there be a great number of lies contained in M. Mal. and I. Bodin And if this be well weighed and conceived it beateth downe 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 Neverthelesse because in every point you shall see how popery agreeth with paganisme I will recite certaine charmes against vipers allowed for the most part in and by the church of Rome as followeth I conjure thee O serpent in this house by the five holy wounds of our Lord that thou remove not out of this place but here stay as certainly as God was borne 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 borne 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 Iewes Otherwise L. Vairus saith that Serpens quernis frondibus contacta that a serpent touched with oake-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 remembered that many use to boast that they are of S. Pauls race and kindred shewing upon their bodies the prints of serpent● which as the papists affirme was incident to all them of S. Pauls stock Marry they say herewithall that all his kinsfolks can handle serpents or any poison without danger Others likewise have as they brag a Katharine-wheele upon their bodies and they say they are kinne to S. Katharine and that they can carry burning coales in their bare hands and dip their said hands in hot skalding 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 tarrianc●e at all therein yet there is a shew made of the other as though it were certaine and undoubted by anointing the hands with the juice of mallowes mercury urine c. which for a little time are defensatives against these scalding liquors and scorching fires But they that take upon them to worke these mysteries and miracles do indeed after rehearsall of these and such like words and charmes take up even in their bare hands those snakes and vipers and sometimes p●● them about their necks without receiving any hurt thereby to the terror and astonishment of the beholders which naturally both feare and abhorre all serpents But these charmers upon my word dare not trust to their charmes but use such an inchantment as every man may lawfully use and in the lawfull use thereof may bring to passe that they shall be in security and take no harme 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 terme private confederacy Bodin saith that all the snakes in one countrey were by charmes and verses driven into another region perhaps he meaneth Ireland where S. Patrik is said to have done it with his holynesse c. James Sprenger and Henry Institor affirme 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 stalles whereby barrennesse is procured both to woman and beast 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 boughes hallowed on midsummer day at the stall doore where the cattel stand and produce examples thereupon of witches lies or else their owne which I omit because I see my book groweth to be greater than I meant it should be CHAP. XVI Charmes to carry water in a sive to know what is spoken of us behind our backs for bleere 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 sive 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 floure as she could wet with the water that she brought in a sive and by that meanes she clamd 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 grandams maides whereby I can decipher this witchcraft Item by the tingling of the eare 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 bleereyednesse Cummin or hempseed sowen with cursing and opprobrious words grow the faster and the better Berosus Anianus maketh witchcraft of great antiquity for he saith that C ham touching his fathers naked member uttered a charme whereby his father became emasculated or deprived of the powers generative A charme teaching how to hurt whom you list with images of wax c. MAke an image in his name whom you would hurt or kill of new virgine wax under the right arme-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 rehearsall 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 harme were it not to make fooles and catch gudgins Otherwise Sometimes these images are made of brasse and then the hand is placed where the