Demonology -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
What the feare of death and feeling of torments may force one to doo,
and that it is no marvell though witches condemne themselves by their
owne confessions so tyrannicallie extorted. pag. 37.
¶ _The third Booke._
The witches bargaine with the divell, according to M. Mal. Bodin,
Nider, Daneus, Psellus, Erastus, Hemingius, Cumanus, Aquinas,
Bartholomeus Spineus, &c. Pag. 40.
The order of the witches homage done (as it is written by lewd
inquisitors and peevish witchmoongers) to the divell in person;
of their songs and danses, and namelie of La volta, and of other
ceremonies, also of their excourses. pag. 41.
How witches are summoned to appeere before the divell, of their riding
in the aire, of their accompts, of their conference with the divell, of
his supplies, and their conference, of their farewell and sacrifices:
according to Daneus, Psellus, &c. p. 43.
That there can no real league be made with the divell the first author
of the league, and the weake proofes of the adversaries for the same.
pag. 44.
Of the private league, a notable tale of Bodins concerning a French
ladie, with a confutation. pag. 46.
A disproofe of their assemblies, and of their bargaine pag. 47.
A confutation of the objection concerning witches confessions. pag. 49.
What follie it were for witches to enter into such desperate perill,
and to endure such intolerable tortures for no gaine or commoditie,
and how it comes to passe that witches are overthrowne by their
confessions. 51.
How melancholie abuseth old women, and of the effects thereof by
sundrie examples. pag. 52.
That voluntarie confessions may be untrulie made, to the undooing of
the confessors, and of the strange operation of melancholie, prooved by
a familiar and late example. pag. 55.
The strange and divers effects of melancholie, and how the same
humor abounding in witches, or rather old women, filleth them full
of mervellous imaginations, & that their confessions are not to be
credited. p. 57.
A confutation of witches confessions, especiallie concerning their
league. pag. 59.
A confutation of witches confessions, concerning making of tempests and
raine: of the naturall cause of raine, and that witches or divels have
no power to doo such things. pag. 60.
What would ensue, if witches confessions or witchmōgers opinions were
true, concerning the effects of witchcraft, inchantments, &c. pag. 63.
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