Demonology -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
Juggling knacks by confederacie, and how to know whether one cast
crosse or pile by the ringing. pag. 338.
¶ To make a shoale of goslings drawe a timber log. pag. 338. To make
a pot or anie such thing standing fast on the cupboord, to fall downe
thense by vertue of words. pag. 338. To[*] one danse naked. pag. 339.
To transforme or alter the colour of ones cap or hat. pag. 339. How to
tell where a stollen horsse is become. pag. 339.
Boxes to alter one graine into another, or to consume the graine or
come to nothing. pag. 340.
¶ How to conveie (with words or charmes) the corne conteined in one
boxe into an other. pag. 340. Of an other boxe to convert wheat into
flower with words, &c. pag. 341. Of diverse petie juggling knacks.
pag. 341.
To burne a thred, and to make it whole againe with the ashes thereof.
pag. 341.
¶ To cut a lace asunder in the middest, and to make it whole againe.
pag. 342. How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth, of what
colour or length you list, and never anie thing seene to be therein.
pag. 343.
How to make a booke, wherein you shall shew everie leafe therein to be
white, blacke, blew, red, yellow, greene, &c. pag. 343.
Desperate or dangerous juggling knacks, wherin the simple are made to
thinke, that a seelie juggler with words can hurt and helpe, kill and
revive anie creature at his pleasure: and first to kill anie kind of
pullen, and to give it life againe. pag. 346.
¶ To eate a knife, and to fetch it out of anie other place. pag. 346.
To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt. pag. 347. To thrust a
bodkin through your toong, and a knife through your arme: a pittiful
sight, without hurt or danger. pag. 347. To thrust a peece of lead
into one eie, and to drive it about (with a sticke) betweene the skin
and flesh of the forehead, untill it be brought to the other eie, and
there thrust out. pag. 348. To cut halfe your nose asunder, and to
heale it againe presentlie without anie salve. pag. 348.
To put a ring through your cheeke. pag. 348. To cut off ones head, and
to laie it in a platter, &c: which the juglers call the decollation
of John Baptist. pag. 349. To thrust a dagger or bodkin in your guts
verie strangelie, and to recover immediatlie. pag. 350. To draw a cord
through your nose, mouth or hand, so sensiblie as it is wonderfull to
see. pag. 351.
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