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A36504	Daimonomageia a small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes : never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations.	Drage, William, 1637?-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing D2117; ESTC R37769	35,637	43

Charms and Rites to which spirits are subject and by which they are bound as the conjuring down those that walk into such a ground or Sea for such a term of years and the Devils are forced to live under Laws and to be commanded by those Men that without the Extraordinary Mercy of GOD must serve them in Vassalage and slavery for ever hereafter Herbs are boiled in a Pot over which the bewitched do hold their heads when the fit approaches Master Gibbons of Hathorough cured one so and like a Mouse leaped forth of her mouth and she was absolutely freed a Gentleman living nigh Huntingdon who told me was Spectatour Others were with some stinking Suffumige cast on Coals so was a Maid I knew cured a Mouse in similitude leaped from her Mouth held open when the fit approached A sober Antient Gentleman told me he intimately knew one in the Isle of Ely whose name he told but now I have forgot it he was bewitched and before strange fits he had like a Mouse came to him which none could hinder he sent to a white Witch or Necromancer Sorcerer Magician or what you please to call him he gave him an Amulet or Charm to hang about his neck and so long as he wore that he was freed he durst not leave it off this Wizard asked if they were wicked People else he said he could not or would not help them Anne Bodenham we read in Henry More when she raised Spirits made a stinking perfume on Coals after her Circle was drawn and conjuring Charmes in her Book read the Devil loves it seems evil base Odours and Sluttishness is commanded as Regmigius was told by them 2. Of the Cure of plain Witchcraft wherein nothing palpably enters the Sick or is alive within them and first of preservation Divers things are traditionally delivered as Preservatives against Witchcraft wore about us and offensive to Devils therefore I believe came Rosemary Misselto and Jvy to be hung up in Houses because the Antients judged those to defend Houses from evil Spirits Laevinus Lemnius in one of his last Chapters of his Book of the Wonders of Nature hath divers such as he and others wish to wear Corral Lapis Amianthes Graines of Paris Piony and Rhue to defend from Witchcraft one of London a German Physitian highly extolls Corral and told a friend of mine he cured one bewitched with it Our best way is to desire GOD's Protection and pray to him and keep our selves from wickedness and to have nothing to do with those that have reason to be suspected for Witches or to do preternatural Acts though indeed the stupid and superstionated Vulgar judge onely that honest many times that is within the reach of their Capacity and Experience onely 2ly Concerning the Cure of Witchcraft we shall divide it into these seven heads because Experience hath shewen they have been helped so many several wayes 1. To punish the Witch and that two wayes 1. Either her own Body or 2. The thing bewitched 2. Call upon GOD. 3. Use Specifical Medicines antipathetical to Daemons if there be any such 4. Use or make the Witch use the Ceremonies of ridding the Sickness 5. Make her if the other fail either to take the Disease her self or transfer it to some Dog or Brute 6. Search if there be no Charmes or things resembling the Sick laid about the house 7. If the Witch is imprisoned she is void of hurt and Satan leaves her First Briefly to demonstrate all these the afore named Authors can justifie all these which we need not here reiterate If any is troubled as our Diagnostick Signs Demonstrate one thing being compared with another and the subsequents with the Precedents 1. Punish the Witch threaten to hang her if she helps not the Sick scratch her and fetch blood for so saith Thomas Bartholinus Witchcraft is held to be dissolved and so I heard from a sober Physitian a Child bewitched by Magaret Bell nigh Lutterworth in Leicestershire was delivered 2. Punish the thing bewitched putting red hot Iron in the Churm when Butter would not come hath burned her in the Guts burning the Excrements of one bewitched hath made her Anus sore tying the Fat or Cauldren of Drink hard with Cords that hath boiled over when scarce any Fire was under hath made the Witch be sore girt and pained stopping up Bottles of that Drink that hath been bewitched hath made the Witch able neither to urine or deject until they were opened if an Horse or Hen c. be bewitched to death if they are burnt alive and in the fit the Witch comes and complains These are all Examples that I by my diligent Inquisition into these things have been informed of But Authors in other Ages and other Countryes will bear me out in the truth hereof 2ly Call upon GOD pray earnestly uncossantly we are in no case to throw away Faith and not in any to take Presumption let none think I am better then such an one and GOD ought to defend me and I am sure I shall not be hurt if I go amongst Witches or Spirits this is Presumption better than thee have suffered worse for matter of driving out Devils Prayer avails more than in ordinary Witchcraft yet some cannot be cured at all and Remigius saith In one the Devil answered Because the Sick had never prayed to God for restouration but the Witches gave other Reasons why they could not cure others such things are secret to us yet common in the Councels of Spirits and Witches cannot cure nor cure by any other way than that their Fiends or Familiar Spirits order and command or at least this is most common Thirdly Use Specifical Medicines antipathetical to Daemons if any be so qualified and effectually so Corral Aetites Emerods Rhue Piony Rosemary Misselto and Birch were used by the Antients some of the Antients thought all Convulsions and Epileptick passions Vertigoes and Hystericks to arise from Daemons and Spirits and tying these about their necks and giving them inwardly they were helped so that false Foundations must needs have rotten Superstructures Pliny lib. 30. cap. 2. Relates that Cynocephalaea an Hearb that is called in Egypt Osirites prevails against all Witchcraft and that the Grammarian Appion raised the Ghost of Homtr by it to tell him what Country man he was but received no answer as he durst relate Matthiolus saith The Seed of the Hearb True-love Ê’i at a time drunk for twenty dayes cures Diseases caused by Fascination Lobelius pag. 87. saith the Herb Priamis with white Pepper and Wines looses Witchcraft Thomas Bartholin for such as cannot copulate and eject sperme with their own Wives through Witchcraft praises from others Birch Tree For Love-Enchantment Skenkius Observ. Medecinal pag. 515. enjoyns to take of Unious Stones and Saint Iohn's-wort called Fuge Daemonum equal parts and a little Balm give them in drink and hang the Loadstone Amulet-like about their necks P. Droetus cap. 8. Consilii novi