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The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth Webster, John

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The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth

Name: The displaying of supposed witchcraft : $b Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth
Author: Webster, John

Webster, John

Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800

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                              Imprimatur,

_July 29. 1676._

                                                _Jonas Moore_ Soc. Regiæ
                                                        Vice-Præses.

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                                  THE

                               DISPLAYING

                              OF SUPPOSED

                              WITCHCRAFT.

            Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of

                       =Deceivers and Impostors=,

                                  AND

              Divers persons under a passive _Delusion_ of
                       _MELANCHOLY_ and _FANCY_.

        But that there is a _Corporeal League_ made betwixt the
                          DEVIL and the WITCH,

Or that he sucks on the _Witches Body_, has _Carnal Copulation_, or that
 _Witches_ are turned into _Cats_, _Dogs_, raise Tempests, or the like,
                    is utterly denied and disproved.

                        Wherein also is handled,

   The Existence of Angels and Spirits, the truth of Apparitions, the
    Nature of Astral and Sydereal Spirits, the force of Charms, and
                 Philters; with other abstruse matters.

               By _John Webster_, Practitioner in Physick.

 _Falsæ et enim opiniones Hominum præoccupantes, non solùm surdos, sed &
  cæcos faciunt, it à ut videre nequeant, quæ aliis perspicua apparent._
                       Galen. lib. 8. de Comp. Med.

                                _LONDON_,
  Printed by _J. M._ and are to be sold by the Book-sellers in _London_.
                                  1677.

To his Worshipful and honoured Friends _Thomas Parker of Braisholme_,
_John Asheton_ of the _Lower-Hall_, _William Drake_ of
_Barnolaswick-coat_, _William Johnson_ of the _Grange_, _Henry Marsden_
of _Gisburne_ Esquires, and his Majesties Justices of Peace and _Quorum_
in the West-riding of _Yorkshire_.

  Worshipful Gentlemen and honoured Friends,

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