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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

coloured and clear Glasses for you may have Glasses so made as what image or favour soever you print in your imagination you shall think you see the same therein Others are so framed as therein one may see what others do in places far distant others whereby you shall see men hanging in the Air others whereby you may perceive men flying in the Air others wherein you may see one coming and another going others where one Image shall seem to be one hundred c. There be Glasses also wherein one man may see another mans image and not his own others to make many similitudes others to make none at all Others contrary to the use of all Glasses make the right side turn to the right and the left side to the left others that burn before and behind others that represent not the Images received within them but cast them far off in the Air appearing like aiery Images and by the collection of the Sun-beams with great force set fire very far off on every thing that may be burned There be clear Glasses that make great things seem little things far off to be at hand and that which is near to be far off such things as are over us to seem under us and those that are under us to be above us There are some Glasses also that represent things in divers colours and them most gorgeous specially any white thing Finally the thing most worthy of admiration concerning these Glasses is that the lesser Glass doth lessen their shape but how big soever it be it maketh the shape no bigger then it is And therefore Augustine thinketh some hidden mystery to be therein Vitellius and J. Bap. Neap. write largely hereof These I have for the most part seen and have the receipt how to make them which if desire of brevity had not forbidden me I would here have set down But I think not but Pharaohs Magicians had better experience then I for those and such like devices And as Pompanatius saith it is most true that some for these feats have been accounted Saints some other Witches And therefore I say that the Pope maketh rich Witches Saints and burneth the poor Witches CHAP. XX. A Comparison betwixt Pharoahs Magicians and our Witches and how their Cunning consisted in juggling Knacks THus you see that it hath pleased God to shew unto men that seek for knowledge such cunning in finding out compounding and framing of strange and secret things as thereby he seemeth to have bestowed upon man some part of his Divinity Howbeit God of nothing with his Word hath created all things and doth at his will beyond the power and also the reach of man accomplish whatsoever he lists And such miracles in times past he wrought by the hands of his Prophets as here he did by Moses in the presence of Pharaoh which Jannes and Jambres apishly followed But to affirm that they by themselves or by all the Devils in Hell could do indeed as Moses did by the power of the Holy Ghost is worse then infidelity If any object and say that our Witches can do such feats with Words and Charms as Pharaohs Magicians did by their Art I deny it and all the world will never be able to shew it That which they did was openly done as our Witches and Conjurers never do any thing so as these cannot do as they did And yet as Calvin saith of them they were but Juglers Neither could they do as many suppose For as Clemens saith These Magicians did rather seem to do these wonders than work them indeed And if they made but prestigious shews of things I say it was more than our Witches can do For Witchcrafts as Erastus himself confesseth in drift of argument are but old wives Fables If the Magicians Serpent had been a very Serpent it must needs have been transformed out of the Rod. And therein had been a double work of God to wit the qualifying and extinguishment of one substance and the creation of another Which are actions beyond the Devils power for he can neither make a body to be no body nor yet no body to be a body as to make something nothing and nothing something and contrary things one nay they cannot make one hair either white or black If Pharaohs Magicians had made very Frogs upon a sudden why could they not drive them away again If they could not hurt the Frogs why should we think that they could make them Or that our Witches which cannot do so much as counterfeit them can kill cattel and other creatures with words or wishes And therefore I say with Jamblicus Quae fascinati imaginamur praeter imaginamenta nullam habent actionis essentiae veritatem Such things as we being bewitched do imagine have no truth at all either of action or essence beside the bare imagination CHAP. XXI That the Serpents and Frogs mere truly presented and the Water poysoned indeed by Jannes and Jambres of false Prophets and of their miracles of Balams Ass TRuly I think there were no inconvenience granted though I should admit that the Serpents and Frogs were truly presented and the Water truly poysoned by Jannes and Jambres not that they could execute such Miracles of themselves or by their Familiars or Devils but that God by the hands of those counterfeit Coseners contrary to their own expectations overtook them and compelled them in their ridiculous wickedness to be instruments of his will and vengeance upon their Master Pharaoh so as by their hands God shewed some Miracles which he himself wrought as appeareth in Exodus For God did put the Spirit of Truth into Baalams mouth who was hired to curse his People And although he were a corrupt and false Prophet and went about a mischievous enterprise yet God made him an instrument against his will to the confusion of the wicked Which if it pleased God to to do here as a speciall work whereby to shew his Omnipotency to the confirmation of his peoples Faith in the doctrine of their Messias delivered unto them by the Prophet Moses then was it miraculous and extraordinary and not to be looked for now And as some suppose there were then a consort or crew of false Prophets which could also foretell things to come and work miracles I answer it was extraordinary and miraculous and that it pleased God so to try his people but he worketh not so in these dayes for the working of miracle is ceased Likewise in this case it might well stand with Gods glory to use the hands of Pharaohs Magicians towards the hardening of their Masters heart and to make their illusions and ridiculous conceits to become effectual For God had promised and determined to harden the heart of Pharaoh As for the miracles which Moses did they mollified it so as he alwayes relented upon the sight of the same For unto the greatness of his miracles were added

Jannes and Jambres were expert active and ready CHAP. XV. How Men have been abused with words of Equivocation with sundry Examples thereof SOme have taught and others have written certain experiments in the expressing whereof they have used such words of Equivocation as whereby many have been overtaken and abused through rash credulity so as sometimes I say they have reported taught and written that which their capacity took hold upon contrary to the truth and sincere meaning of the Author It is a common jest among the Water-men of the Thames to shew the Parish Church of Stone to the Passengers calling the same by the name of the Lanthorn of Kent affirming and that not untruly that the said Church is as light meaning in weight and not in brightness at midnight as at noonday Whereupon some credulous person is made believe and will not stick to affirm and swear that in the same Church is such continual light that any man may see to read there at all times of the Night without a Candle An excellent Philosopher whom for reverence unto his Fame and Learning I will forbear to name was overtaken by his Hostess at Dover who merrily told him that if he could retain and keep in his mouth certain pibbles lying at the shoar side he should not perbreak until he came to Calice how rough and rempestuous so ever the Seas were Which when he had tried and being not forced by sickness to vomit nor to lose his stones as by vomiting he must needs do he thought her Hostess had discovered unto him an excellent secret nothing doubting of her amphibological speech and therefore thought it a worthy note to be recorded among miraculous and medicinable stones and inserted it accordingly into his Book among other Experiments collected with great industry learning travel and judgement All these Toyes help a subtile Cosener to gain credit with the multitude Yea to further estimation many will whisper Prophecies of their own invention into the ears of such as are not of quickest capacity as to tell what Weather c. shall follow Which if it fall out true then boast they and triumph as though they had gotten some notable conquest if not they deny the matter forget it excuse it or shift it off as that they told another the contrary in earnest and spake that but in jest All these helps might Pharaohs Jugglers have to maintain their Cosenages and Illusions towards the hardening of Pharaohs heart Hereunto belong all manner of Charms Periapts Amulets Characters and such other Superstitions both popish and prophane whereby if that were true which either Papists Conjurors or Witches undertake to do we might daily see the very miracles wrought indeed which Pharaoh's Magicians seemed to perform Howbeit because by all those Devices or Cosenages there cannot be made so much as a nit so Jannes and Jambres could have no help that way I will speak thereof in place more convenient CHAP. XVI How some are abused with Natural Magick and sundry Examples thereof when Illusion is added thereunto of Jacobs pied Sheep and of a Black-Moor BUt as these notable and wonderful Experiments and Conclusions that are found out in Nature it self through wisdom learning and industry do greatly oppose and astonish the capacity of man so I say when deceit and illusion is annexed thereunto then is the Wit the Faith and Constancy of Man searched and tried For if we shall yield that to be divine supernatural and miraculous which we cannot comprehend a Witch a Papist a Conjuror a Cosener and a Jugler may make us believe they are Gods or else with more impiety we shall ascribe such power and omnipotency unto them or unto the Devil as only and properly appertained to God As for example By Confederacy or Cosenage as before I have said I may seem to manifest the secret thoughts of the heart which as we learn in Gods Book none knoweth or searcheth but God himself alone And therefore whosoever believeth that I can do as I may seem to do maketh a God of me and is an Idolater In which respect whensoever we hear Papist Witch Conjuror or Cosener take upon him more than lieth in humane power to perform we may know and boldly say it is a knack of Knavery and no miracle at all And further we may know that when we understand it it will not be worth the knowing And at the discovery of these miraculous Toyes we shall leave to wonder at them and begin to wonder at our selves that could be so abused with Bables Howbeit such things as God hath laid up secretly in Nature are to be weighed with great admiration and to be searched out with such industry as may become a Christian man I mean so as neither God nor our Neighbour he offended thereby which respect doubtless Jannes and Jambres never had We finde in the Scriptures divers natural and secret Experiments practised as namely that of Jacob for pied sheep which are confirmed by prophane Authors and not only verified in Lambs and Sheep but in Horses Peacocks Conies c. We read also of a Woman that brought forth a young Black-Moor by means of an old Black-Moor was in her house at the time of her conception whom she beheld in fantasie as is supposed howbeit a jealous Husband will not be satisfied with such phantastical imaginations For in truth a Black-Moor never faileth to beget black Children of what colour sover the other be Et sic contra CHAP. XVII The Opinion of Witchmongers that Devils can create Bodies and of Pharaohs Magicians IT is affirmed by James Sprenger and Henry Institor in M. Mal. who cite Albert in lib. de animalib for their purpose that Devils and Witches also can truly make living creatures as well as God though not at an instant yet very suddenly Howbeit all such who are rightly informed in Gods Word shall manifestly perceive and confess the contrary as hath been by Scriptures already proved and may be confirmed by places infinite And therefore Jannes and Jambres though Satan and also Belzebuh had assisted them could never have made the Serpent or Frogs of nothing nor yet have changed the waters with words Nevertheless all the learned Expositors of that place affirm that they made a shew of Creation c. exhibiting by cunning a resemblance of some of those Miracles which God wrought by the hands of Moses Yea S. Augustine and many other hold that they made by Art and that truly the Serpents c. But that they may by Art aprroach somewhat nearer to those actions then hath been yet declared shall and may appear by these and many other Conclusions if they be true CHAP. XVIII How to produce or make Monsters by Art Magick and why Pharaohs Magicians could not make Lice STrato Democritus Empedocles and of late Jo. Bap. Neap. teach by what means Monsters may be produced both from Beast and also from Fowl Aristotle

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

must be addrest unto by Prayer resignation and fasting with a celestial Song out of the Canto's of Nagar this is his Character ● Nal-gah appearing to those that are devoted to the knowledge of Magick teaching them how to exercise Infernal Witchcraft without danger and in despight to the Devils he must be sought by hours minutes constellations privacy and blood c. He hath a bow bent in his hand and a Crown of Gold upon his head this is his Character ● Maynom one of the Powers who hath the ability of subservient administration that is at one time to be present with many he resembleth a Ew with Lamb typifying his nature in that appearance Gaonim an Angel causing his Pupil to go invisible and transporting him at his pleasure in a moment to the outmost parts of the earth Halanu the Instructer in Manual operations by whom Bezaliah and Aholibah were divinely inspired for the structure of the Tabernacle Rama-umi who is the Instructer in Cabalistical Magick and reveals the secrets of numbers the names of Angels and the vertue of Boim 7. These are the seven bad Angels or Daemons As the power and capacity of the good proceeds from the strength of God in the quality of heaven so is the force of the evil Genii in the hellish quality correspondent for it is to be noted that these evil Angels did before their fall enjoy the same places and degrees that now the good or holy Angels do so that as their power is to instruct men in Government Abstinence Philosophy Magick and Mechanick Arts for a good intent and for the glory of God The power of the evil ones is the very same to inform and instigate unto the same attainments as farr as they may be instrumental for the Devil or the Kingdom of Darkness therein 8. Their names are 1. Panalcarp like a Crocodile with two heads 2. Baratron appearing like a Conjurer in a Priestly habit 3 Sondennah like a Hunts-man 4. Greizmodal accompanying his Pupil like a Spaniel-Dog 5. Ballisargon the grand Inticer to theeving and robbery till he hath brought his followers to destruction 6. Morborgran who can put on various likenesses especially appearing as a Serving-man 7. Barman who most commonly possesseth the soul of those that are joyned unto him 9. These are the names of the 7 good and evil Daemons according to the antient writing on the Magical Art who do also to many particular Cities and Countries ascribe certain good and evil Angels the one whereof protects and defends the other inflicts Pestilence and Famin upon them Like unto which is the story recorded by Sigbertus in Chronicis That in the 11th year of the reign of Constans a good Angel and a bad were seen by the whole City of Constantinople nightly to fly about the City and as often as by the command of the good Angel the other smote any house with a dart in his hand such was the number that dyed in that house according to the stroaks given 10. And indeed it is to be feared that whosoever have ever pretended or do at present alledge that they enjoy familiarity with a familiar Spirit I say its greatly to be suspected that all such familiars belong to the Kingdom of Darkness for such are too too officious and ready to attend the depraved desires of mortal men whereas if communication with Angels or good and holy Guardians be at all attainable yet such is the difficulty of the attainment that the examples thereof if true are exceeding rare But in general the writings of Magicians and Naturallists do plentifully abound with examples of this nature whether good or evil is yet to be determined I have been told of a certain Country-man in these dayes who was continually pestered with the company of a woman discerned by none but by himself If he was upon Horse-back she would be behind him if at dinner she sate at his elbow if lying on his bed there she was also present And if at any time he had taken a journey or gone about some unprofitable business at such a time she accompanyed him not and seldom escaped he some mischief when she was absent But at last for all her dutiful pretences as she accompanyed him riding through a deep and swift running River she tumbled him into the deepest part and lay upon him till she had strangled or drowned him 11. Amongst the Jews this kind of Idolatry was frequent to consult with and associate themselves unto familiar Spirits whom they compelled to do them domestick service dressing their Camels lifting their burthens and doing their messages for the attaining their service they had many blasphemous Forms and superstitious Ceremonies and Sacrifices making the holy Names of God subservient to their accursed practices one whose name was Baal-Ben-ammim was adjudged by the Law of Moses to be burnt for the like practices being condemned in the time of one Judah a high Priest in the Captivity for killing an Infant and with its blood performing Sacrifice to Baalzebub with various ceremonies intermixed by which means his God had bequeathed unto him a certain Lacky from the Infernal Troop to attend and serve him for his whole life time this is to be found in Zoar's Coment upon Berosus and Belus who affirms That at his tryal he endeavoured to prove that the same was the good Angel or Genius given unto him by the mercy of God 12. Both the Hebrew Cabalists and Heathen Magicians as also those addicted to Magick in Christianity have all of them laid down certain forms of attaining the company of a good or evil Angel by number and astrological Observations fitted to the rules of Conjuration and Invocations And many of the superstitious Rabbi's have affirmed That they were able by such practices to cause the ghost of Adam Eve or any of the holy Patriarchs to appear unto them which was surely the delusion of Satan to harden their hearts But in the Addition to the 15th Book of the Discovery this Subject is more practically handled where many forms of obtaining the Society of the Bonus or Malus Genius are plainly decyphered so far as with safety and convenience they could be described Chap. III. Of the Astral Spirits of men departed What they are And why they appear again And what Witchcraft may be wrought by them 1. AS the Astral Spirits separate which belong not to any deceased person do for many years survive or continue so if the party deceased hath departed in discontent and melancholy it is often known that they return again and causing terrour to families and houses do wait for opportunity to disburthen themselves that at length they may come into their desired rest 2. The opinion of many is That the Devill in their likenesse is all that appears But the more Learned have sufficiently demonstrated through Example and Experience That the apparition is really proper to the person deceased Nor can

Vair lib. de fascin 1. c. 1. Sapi. 4. Gal. 3. Psal 119. Direct and lawful-means of curing Cattel c. A Charm of Charms taken out of the sixt chapter of St. Paul to the Ephesians Mal. malef part 2. quest 2. cap. 6. 1 Tim. 4.7 Origen lib. 3. in Job J. Chrysost in Matth. * Mark that here was no Latine Service Idem Ibid. August 26. quast ultim Galen in lib. de comitiali morbe Hippocrat lib. de morbo sacro Hieronymus in Gen. 41.8 24. In Exod. 7.13 In Dan. 1.20 The Authors intention touching the matter hereafter to be discoursed upon * Sap. 7.17 18 19 20 21. See Jidoni Eccles 7.25 A Magician described and the Art distinguished Read Pliny in natural hist Cardan de rerum variet Albertus de occulta rerum proprietate Barthol Neap. in natural magia and many others Natural magick hath a double end which proveth the excellency of the same Pompanatius lib. de incant cap. 3. J. Wierius de lamiis Jasp Peucer H. Cardan c. Of late experience neer Coventry c. Aristot in lib. de hist animalium Plin. de lanicii colore Ludovicus Coelius Rhod. lib. antiq lect 11. cap. 70. Barthol Anglicus lib. 16. * Avicenna cano 2. tract 2. cap. 124. Serapio agg cap. 100 Dioscor lib 5. cap. 93. Plin. lib. 37. cap. 10. Albert. lib. 2. cap. 7. Solin cap. 32. * Rabbi Moses aphor part 22. Isidor lib. 14. cap. 3. Savanorola Marbodeus Gallus in suae dactylotheca pag. 56. Vis gemmarum lapillorum preciosorum negatur quia occulta est rarisfimeque sub sensum cadit Many moe authors may be named of no less antiquity and leatning Plin. lib. 37. cap. 10. Albert. minor lib. 2. cap. 1. Solin cap. 11. Diurius in scrin cap. de complexionibus complexatis Geor. Pictorius Villang doct medici in scholiis super Marbod dactyl H. Card. lib. de subtil 10. H. Card. lib. de var. rer 16. cap. 90. Marbodeus in sua dactylotheca pag. 41 52. Memoramdum the Authors meaning is that this Stone be set in silver and worn on the finger for a ring as you shall see afterwards Vincent lib. 7. cap. 77. Dioscor lib. 5. cap. 100. Aristot in Lapidario Agreement and disagreement in sufferance Read a little tract of Erasmus intituled De amicitia where enough is said touching this point Zanthus in hist prima Jub lib. 25. cap. 2. This common experience can justifie J. Wierus Plutarch in vita Pyrrhi Albert. lib. de mor. aximal cap. 3. Pomp an lib. de incant cap. 4. Plutar. in vita Catonis The venom or poyson of an Harlot Matth. 13. Mark 6. Luke 4. John 4. Wonderfull natural effects in bone of fishes beasts c. Strange properties in a plece of earth Strange properties in a stone the like qualities in other stones * Being in the 7. Book of this Discovery Where discourse is made of Oracles c. Look hereafter in this Book for divers conceits of jugling set forth at large Example of a ridiculous wonder This I have proved upon crows and pies This might be done by a confederate who standing at some window in a Church-Steeple or other fit place and holding the Pigeon by the leg in a string after a sign given by his fellow pulleth down the Pigeon and so the wonder is wrought A Jest among Water-men touching Stone-Church in Kent as light at midnight as at mid-day A slender shift to save the credit of their cunning The inconvenience of holding opinion that whatsoever passeth our Capacity is divine supernatural c. J. Bap Neapol in natural mag M. Malef. p. 1. q. 10. John 1.3 Colos 1.16 Natural conclusions To produce any fowl out of an Egg without the natural help of the Hen. * The Mother of marvels Two kind of Toads natural and temporal Maggots ingendred of the inwards of a Beast are good for angling Giles Alley See the poor mans Library Wonderful experiments To set an horses or an asses head on a mans neck and shoulders Strange things to be done by perspective glasses Concerning these glasses remember that the eye-sight is deceived for Non est in speculo res quae speculatur in illo Rash opinion can never judge soundly An apish imitation in Jannes and Jambres of working wonders Jo. Calvin lib. institut 1. cap. 8. Cle. recog 3. Erast in disputat de lamiis Actions unpossible to Devils Ergo to Witches Conjurers c. Jamb de mysterius Pharaohs Magicians were not Masters of their own actions Exod. 10. God useth the wicked as instruments to execute his counsels and judgements The contrary effects that the miracle of Egyptian Magicians wrought in the heart of Pharaoh That the Art of Juggling is more or at least no less strange in working miracles than conjuring Witchcraft c. In what respects juggling is tolerable and also commendable The three principal points wherein legierdemain or nimbleness of hand doth consist Great variety of play with the Balls c. These feats are nimbly cleanly and swiftly to be conveyed so as the eyes of the beholders may not discern or perceive the drift Memorandum that the Juggler must set a good grace on the matter for that is very requisite This feat tendeth chiefly to the moving of laughter and mirth The money must not be of too small nor of too large a circumference for hindering of the conveyance This is pretty if it be cunningly handled for both the ear and the eye is deceived by this device Variety of tricks may be shewed in juggling with Money You must take heed that you be close and flie or else you discredit the Art Use and exercise maketh men ready and practive This feat is the stranger if it be done by night a Candle placed between the lookers on and the Juggler for by that means their eye-sight is hindred from discerning the conceit A discovery of this juggling knack The Juggler must have none of his trinkets wanting besides that it behooveth him to be mindful lest he mistake his tricks * A● Ailis easyl zaze hit mel meltat Saturnus Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury Luna or such like In these knacks of confederacy Feats had the name whilest he lived A knack more merry than marvellous Another to the same purpose read in pag. 228. * Such as you shall find in pag. 227. and 330. in the marginal notes or some strange terms of your own devising Of Dice play and the like unthrifty games mark these two old verses Ludens taxillis bene respice quid fit in illis Mors tua sors tua res tua spes tua pendet in illis and remember them Note You must be well advised in the shuffling of the bunch lest you overshoot your self * For that will draw the action into the greater admiration The eye bewrayeth the thought Tricks with Cards c. which must be done with confederacy A merry conceit the like whereof you shall find in pag. 228. 232.