Devil; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- United States
A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Deuilles by Witches and Sorcerers.
By which men are and haue bin greatly deluded: the antiquitie of them:
their diuers sorts and Names. With an Aunswer unto diuers friuolous
Reasons which some doe make to prooue that the Deuils did not make those
Aperations in any bodily shape. By G. Gyfford. Imprinted at London for
Toby Cooke. 1587.
A true Discourse, Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe
Peeter, a most wicked Sorcerer, who, in the likenes of a Woolfe, committed
many murders, continuing this diuelish practise 25 yeeres, killing and
deuouring Men, Women and Children. Who for the same fact was taken and
executed the 31 of October last past in the Towne of Bedbur neer the
Cittie of Collin in Germany. Trulye translated out of the high Duch
according to the Copie printed in Collin, brought ouer into England by
George Bore’s ordinary Poste, the xj daye of this present Moneth of June
1590, who did both see and heare the same. At London: Printed for Edward
Venge, and are to be sold in Fleet-street, at the signe of the Vine.
The most strange and admirable discouerie of the three Witches of Warboys,
arraigned, conuicted and executed at the last Assizes at Huntington for
the bewitching of the fine daughters of Robert Throckmorton Esqre., and
diuers other persons, with sundrie Diuellish and grieuous torments. And
also for bewitching to death of the Lady Crumwell, the like hath not been
heard of in this age. London: Printed by the Widdowe Owin, for Thomas Man,
and Iohn Winnington, and are to be solde in Paternoster Rowe, at the signe
of the Talbot. 1593.
A True Discourse, upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romorantin,
pretended to be possessed by a Deuill. Translated out of French into
English by Abraham Hartwell. Ecclesiastie 19. ‘He that is hastie to giue
credite, is light minded; and shall be held as one that sinneth against
his owne Soule.’ London: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, 1599.
Malleus Maleficarum: De lamiis et strigibus, et sagis aliisque Magis &
Demoniacis, eorumque arte, potestate, & pœna ... Tractatus aliquot tam
veterum quam recentiorum auctorum, &c. 2 tom. Francofurti, 1600, 8vo.
A true Narration of the strange and grevous vexation by the Devil of 7
persons in Lancashire, and William Somers of Nottingham. Wherein the
doctrine of Possession and Dispossession of Demoniakes out of the word of
God, is particularly applyed unto Somers and the rest of the persons
controuerted: together with the use we are to make of these workes of God.
By Iohn Darrell, Minister of the word of God. ‘He that is not with me, is
against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.’ Matth. xii.
30. Printed 1600.
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