Demonology -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
The incredible operation of waters, both standing and running; of wels,
lakes, rivers, and of their woonderfull effects. pag. 292.
The vertues and qualities of sundrie pretious stones, of cousening
Lapidaries, &c. pag. 293.
Whence the pretious stones receive their operations, how curious
Magicians use them, and of their seales. pag. 297.
The sympathie and antipathie of naturall and elementarie bodies
declared by diverse examples of beasts, birds, plants, &c. pag. 301.
The former matter prooved by manie examples of the living and the dead.
pag. 303.
The bewitching venome conteined in the bodie of an harlot, how hir eie,
hir toong, hir beautie and behavior bewitcheth some men: of bones and
hornes yeelding great vertue. pag. 304.
Two notorious woonders and yet not marvelled at. pag. 305.
Of illusions, confederacies, and legierdemaine, and how they may be
well or ill used. pag. 307.
Of private confederacie, and of Brandons pigeon. pag. 308.
Of publike confederacie, and whereof it consisteth. pag. 309.
How men have beene abused with words of equivocation, with sundrie
examples thereof. pag. 309.
How some are abused with naturall magike, and sundrie examples therof
when illusion is added thereunto, of Jacobs pied sheepe, and of a
blacke Moore. pag. 311.
The opinion of witchmongers, that divels can create bodies, & of
Pharaos magicians. pag. 312.
How to produce or make monsters by art magike, and why Pharaos
magicians could not make lice. pa. 313.
That great matters may be wrought by this art, when princes esteeme
and mainteine it: of divers woonderfull experiments, and of strange
conclusions in glasses, of the art perspective, &c. pag. 315.
A comparison betwixt Pharaos magicians and our witches, and how their
cunning consisted in juggling knacks. pag. 317.
That the serpents and frogs were trulie presented, and the water
poisoned indeed by Jannes and Jambres, of false prophets, and of their
miracles, of Balams asse. pag. 318.
The art of juggling discovered, and in what points it dooth
principallie consist. pag. 321.
Of the ball, and the manner of legierdemaine therwith, also notable
feats with one or diverse balles. pag. 322.
¶ To make a little ball swell in your hand till it be verie great.
p. 323. To consume (or rather to conveie) one or manie balles into
nothing. pag. 324. How to rap a wag upon the knuckles. pag. 324.
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