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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

Chap. 6. _That divers places in Scripture have been
   mis-translated thereby to uphold this horrid opinion of the
   Devils omnipotency, and the power of Witches, when there is
   not one word that signifieth a familiar Spirit, or a Witch in
   that sense that is vulgarly intended._                        p. 106.

 Chap. 7. _Of divers places in the Old Testament, that are
   commonly wrested, and falsly expounded, thereby to prove
   Apparitions, and the power of the Devil, and Witches._        p. 136.

 Chap. 8. _Of the Woman of_ Endor _that pretended to raise up_
   Samuel, _and of some other places in the Scriptures, not
   handled yet, and of some other objections_.                   p. 165.

 Chap. 9. _Of Divine permission, providence and prescience._     p. 183.

 Chap. 10. _Whether faln Angels be corporeal, or simply
   incorporeal, and the absurdity of the assuming of Bodies, and
   the like consequents._                                        p. 197.

 Chap. 11. _Of the knowledge, and power of faln Angels._         p. 215.

 Chap. 12. _If the Devils or Witches have power to perform
   strange things, whether they do not bring them to pass by
   mere natural means, or otherwise? And of_ Helmont’s _opinion
   concerning the effects caused by Devils or Witches_.          p. 241.

 Chap. 13. _That the ignorance of the power of Art and Nature,
   and such like things, hath much advanced these foolish and
   impious opinions._                                            p. 267.

 Chap. 14. _Of divers Impostures framed and invented to prove
   false and lying miracles by, and to accuse persons of
   Witchcraft, from late and undeniable authorities._            p. 270.

 Chap. 15. _Of divers creatures that have a real existence in
   nature, and yet by reason of their wonderous properties, or
   seldom being seen, have been taken for Spirits and Devils._   p. 279.

 Chap. 16. _Of Apparitions in general, and of some
   unquestionable stories, that seem to prove some such things.
   Of those Apparitions pretended to be made in Beryls and
   Crystals, and of the Astral or Sydereal Spirit._              p. 288.

 Chap. 17. _Of the force and efficacy of words or charms,
   whether they effect any thing at all, or not, and if they do,
   whether it be by natural or diabolical virtue and force._     p. 321.

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                                  THE

                               DISPLAYING

                              OF SUPPOSED

                              WITCHCRAFT.




                                CHAP. I.

  _Of the false, irrational, and unchristian Censures, that have been,
    and yet are, cast upon Learned men, for writing of abstruse
    Subjects: As also for treating of Apparitions and Witchcraft,
    especially if they crossed the common stream of vulgar Opinion._

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