Demonology -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
A pleasant miracle wrought by a popish preest. pag. 460.
The former miracle confuted, with a strange storie of S. Lucie.
pag. 461.
Of visions, noises, apparitions, and imagined sounds, and of other
illusions, of wandering soules: with a confutation thereof. pag. 461.
Cardanus opinion of strange noises, how counterfet visions grow to be
credited, of popish appeerances, of pope Boniface. pag. 464.
Of the noise or sound of eccho, of one that narrowlie escaped drowning
thereby &c. pag. 465.
Of Theurgie, with a confutation therof, a letter sent to me concerning
these matters. pag. 466.
¶ The copie of a letter sent unto me R. S. by T. E. Maister of art, and
practiser both of physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine
sciences; now condemned to die for the same: wherein he openeth the
truth touching these deceits. pag. 467.
¶ _The xvi. Booke._
A conclusion, in maner of an epilog, repeating manie of the former
absurdities of witchmongers conceipts, confutations thereof, and of
the authoritie of James Sprenger and Henry Institor inquisitors and
compilers of M. Mal. Pa. 470.
By what meanes the common people have beene made beleeve in the
miraculous works of witches, a definition of witchcraft, and a
description thereof. pag. 471.
Reasons to proove that words and characters are but bables, and that
witches cannot doo such things as the multitude supposeth they can,
their greatest woonders prooved trifles, of a yoong gentleman
cousened. pag. 473.
Of one that was so bewitched that he could read no scriptures but
canonicall, of a divell that could speake no Latine, a proofe that
witchcraft is flat cousenage. pag. 476.
Of the divination by the sive & sheeres, and by the booke and key,
Hemingius his opinion thereof confuted, a bable to know what is a
clocke, of certeine jugling knacks, manifold reasons for the
overthrowe of witches and conjurors, and their cousenages, of the
divels transformations, of _Ferrum candens, &c._ pag. 477.
How the divell preached good doctrine in the shape of a preest, how
he was discovered, and that it is a shame (after confutation of the
greater witchcrafts) for anie man to give credit to the lesser points
thereof. pag. 481.
A conclusion against witchcraft, in maner and forme of an Induction.
pag. 483.
Of naturall witchcraft or fascination. pag. 484.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account