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Author: Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
Title: 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.
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Print source: 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.
Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
[London]: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ..., 1651.
Alternate titles: Discoverie of witchcraft
Subject terms:
Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
Demonology -- Early works to 1800.
Occultism -- Early works to 1800.
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To the Honorable, mine especiall good Lord, S. Roger Manwood Knight, Lord chief Baron of her Majesties Court of the Eschequer.
To the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Scot, Knight, &c.
To the right worshipful his loving friends, Master Doctor Coldwell Deane of Rochester, and Master Doctor Read-man Arch-deacon of Canturbury, &c.
To the Readers.
The forreign Authors used in this Book.
The discovery of Witchcraft.
The first Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
The second Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP▪ XI.
CHAP. XII.
The thrid Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIIII.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
The fourth Book
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
The Fift Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
The sixt Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
The seventh book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
A very wonderfull and strange mi∣racle of God shewed upon a Dutchman the age of 23. years, which was possessed of ten devils, and was by Gods mighty providence dis∣possessed of them again, the 27. of Ianuary last past. 1572.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
The eight book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
The ninth Booke.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
The tenth Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
The eleventh Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
The Twlfeth Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
A Charme against shot, or a wastecote of proof.
Against the falling evill.
A popish periapt or charme, which must never be said, but carried a∣bout one, against theeves.
Another amulet.
A papistical charme.
A charme found in the canon of the masse.
Other papisticall charmes.
A charme of the holy crosse.
Furthermore as followeth.
A charme taken out of the Primer.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
For the falling evill.
Against the biting of a mad dog.
Against the biting of a Scorpion.
Against the toothach.
A charme to release a woman in travel.
To heale the Kings or Queens evil, or any other sorenesse in the throte.
A charm read in the Romish church, upon Saint Blazes day, that will fetch a thorne out of any place of ones body, a bone out of the throte, &c. Lect. 3.
A Charme for the head-ach.
A charme to be said each morning by a witch fasting, or at least before she go abroad.
Another charme that witches use at the gathering of their medicin∣able herbs.
An old womans charme, wherewith she did much good in the countrey, and grew famous thereby.
Another like charme.
A charme to open locks.
A charme to drive away spirits that haunt any house.
A pretty charme or conclusion for one possessed.
Another for the same purpose.
Another to the same effect.
Another charme or witch-craft for the same.
A charme for the bots in a horse.
A charm against vineger.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
A charme teaching how to hurt whom you list with images of wax, &c.
CHAP. XVII.
Counter-charms against these and all other witchcrafts, in the say∣ing also whereof witches are vexed, &c.
A charm for the choine cough.
For corporall or spiritual rest.
Charmes to find out a theefe.
Another way to find out a theefe that ahht stolne any thing from you.
To put out the theeves eye.
Another way to find out a thiefe.
A Charme to find out or spoile a theefe.
Saint Adelberts curse or charme against theeves.
Another inchantment.
CHAP. XVIII.
To spoile a thiefe, a witch, or any other enemie, and to be delivered from the evil.
Coarmes against a qu tidian ague.
For all manner of agues intermittent.
Periapts, characters, &c. for agues, and to cure all diseases, and to de∣liver from all evill.
More charmes for agues.
For a bloody flux, or rather an issue of bloud.
Cures commenced and finished by witchcraft.
Another witchraft or knavery, practised by the same Chirurgian.
Another experiment for one bewitched.
Otherwise.
A knack to know whether you be bewitched, or no, &c.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
A charme to find her that bewitched your kine.
Another, for all that have bewitched any kind of cattel.
A speciall charm to preserve all cattel from witchcrafs.
CHAP. XXII.
The charme of charmes:
Otherwise.
CHAP. XXIII.
The thirteenth Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
To make a little ball swell in your hand till it be very great.
To consume (or rather to convey) one or many bals into nothing.
How to wrap a wag upon the knuckles.
CHAP. XXIIII.
To convey money out of one of your hands into the other by legierdemain.
To convert or transubstantiate money into counters, or counters into money.
To put one testor into one hand, and another into the other hand, and with words to bring them together.
To put one testor into a strangers hand, and another into your own, and to con∣vey both into the strangers hand with words.
How to do the same or the like seat otherwise.
To throw a piece of money away, and to find it again where you lost.
With words to make a groat or a testor to leap out of a pot, or to run along upon a table.
To make a great or a testor to sink through a table, and to vanish out of a hand∣kercher very strangely.
A notable trick to transforme a counter to a groat.
CHAP. XXV.
To convey a testor out of ones hand that holdeth it fast.
To throw a piece of money into a deep pond, and to fetch it again from whence you list.
To convey one shilling being in one hand into another, holding your hands a∣broad like a rood.
How to rap a wag on the knuckles.
CHAP. XXVI.
CHAP. XXVII.
How to deliver out four aces, and to convert them into four knaves.
How to tell one what card he seeth in the bottome, when the same card is shuffled into the stock.
Another way to do the same, having your selfe indeed never seene the card.
To tell one without confederacy what card he thinketh▪
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
A notable seat of fast or loose; namely, to pull three beadstones from off a cord, while you hold fast the ends thereof, without removing of your hand.
CHAP. XXX.
To make a shoal of goslings draw a timber log.
To make a pot or any such thing standing fast on the cupboard, to fall down thence by vertue of words.
To make one dance naked.
To transform or alter the colour of ones cap or hat.
How to tell where a stollen horse is become.
CHAP. XXXI.
How to convey (with words or charms) the corn contained in one box into a∣nother.
Of another box to convert wheat into flower with words, &c.
Of divers petty juggling knacks.
CHAP. XXXII.
To cut a lace asunder in the midst, and to make it whole again.
How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth, of what colour or length you list, and never any thing seen to be therein.
CHAP. XXXIII.
CHAP. XXXIII.
To eat a knife, and to fetch it out of any other place.
To thrust a Bodkin into your head without hurt.
To thrust a Bodkin through your tongue, and a knife through your arme; a pitifull sight, without hurt or danger.
To thrust a piece of lead into one eye, and to drive it about (with a flick) be∣tween the skin and flesh of the forehead, untill it be brought to the other eye, and there thrust out.
To cut half your nose asunder, and to heal it again presently without any salve.
To put a ring through your cheek.
To cut off ones head, and to lay it in a platter, &c. which the jugglers call the decollation of Iohn Baptist.
To thrust a dagger or bodkin into your guts very strangely, and to recover im∣mediately.
To draw a cord through your nose, mouth or hand, so sensible as is wonder∣full to see.
The conclusion, wherein the reader is referred to certain patternes of instru∣ments wherewith divers feats here specified are to be executed.
The xiiii. Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
The xv. Booke.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
The disposition of the Planets.
How the day is divided or distinguished.
The division of the day, and the planetary regiment.
The division of the night, and the planetary regiment.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
This is the way to goe invisible by these three sisters of Fairies.
CHAP. XI.
Say first the prayers of the angels every day, for the space of seaven dayes.
Say this prayer fasting, called Regina linguae.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
The two and twentieth Psalm.
This psalm also following, being the fifty one psalme, must be said three times ever, &c.
CHAP. XIIII.
A license for the spirit to depart.
CHAP. XV.
To the water say also as followeth.
Then take the salt in thy hand, and say putting it into the water, making in the manner of a Cross.
Then sprinkle upon any thing, and say as followeth.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. XVII.
Now the Pater noster, Ave, and Credo must be said, and then the prayer immediately following.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
Then being appeared, say these words following.
A licence to depart.
CHAP. XX.
part
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
CHAP. XXIV.
CHAP. XXV.
CHAP. XXVI.
CHAP. XXVII.
¶ A conjuration written in the masse booke. Fol. 1.
¶ Oremus.
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
CHAP. XXX.
CHAP. XXXI.
CHAP. XXXII.
CHAP. XXXIII.
CHAP. XXXIV.
CHAP. XXXV.
CHAP. XXXVI.
CHAP. XXXVII.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
CHAP. XXXIX.
CHAP. XL.
CHAP. XLI.
CHAP. XLII.
THE xvj. Booke.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
A Discourse upon divels and spirits, and first of Philosophers opinions, also the manner of their reasoning hereupon; and the same confuted.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IIII.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
CHAP. IX.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII.
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XVI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
CHAP. XXIIII.
CHAP. XXV.
CHAP. XXVI.
CHAP. XXVII.
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
CHAP. XXX.
CHAP. XXXI.
CHAP. XXXII.
CHAP. XXXIII.
CHAP. XXXIIII.
The summe of every chapter con∣tained in the sixteene books of this discovery, with the discourse of divels and spirits annexed thereunto.
The first Booke.
The second Booke.
The third Book.
The fourth Book.
The fift Book.
The sixt Book.
The seventh Booke.
The eight booke.
The ninth Booke:
The tenth Booke.
The eleventh Book.
The twelfth Book.
The XIII. Book.
The xiiii. Book.
The xv. Book.
The xvi. Book.