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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

3. It doth not appear that she had any familiar spirit, or called up
any; for the name that is there given her is ‏בַּעֲלַת אוֹב‎ _Dominam
Pythonis vel utris_; the Mistriss of the Bottle, or of the Oracle, for
Saul saith, seek me a Woman that is Mistriss of the Bottle, or of the
Oracle, for so it must signifie, if it be genuinely and fitly
translated; and his servants tell him, that at _Endor_ there is a Woman
that was Mistriss of _Ob_, the Bottle or Oracle. For though some
translate it _mulier habens Pythonem_, or as _Tremellius, mulier prædita
Pythone_, it will but reach thus much, that she was possessed of or had
in her power, this _Ob_, Bottle, or Oracle, that could be nothing but
the fit contrived place to give answers, as they did at the Oracle. For
if they meant that she had a familiar spirit in her Belly, then it was
possest of her, more than she could be said to be possest of it. But
there is another Text that doth fully agree with this, and will help to
explicate it, and is this, speaking of the destruction of _Nineveh_ or
the Jewish Nation, and the causes of it: _Because of the multitude of
the whoredoms of the welfavoured harlot, the Mistriss of Witchcrafts_,
‏בַּעֲלַת כְּשָׁפִים‎, _Domina vel patrona_, the Mistriss, or Patroness
of Juglings and delusions. So that in propriety of language she of
_Endor_ is called the Mistriss of _Python_ or Oracle, because she could
play the couzening feats that belonged unto it.

[Sidenote: 2 Chron. 33.6.]

[Sidenote: Gen. 6. 14. 16.]

[Sidenote: Psal. 115. 3.]

[Sidenote: _Id._ 136. 4.]

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