The discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions .... In sixteen books (1665)
Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599, Baldwin, Alfred, 1841-1908, former owner, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · London, Printed for A. Clark and to be sold at Mris. Cotes's, 1665. · leaf 224
point of Witchcraft, apt for the place, neceflary for the time, and in mine opinion meet to bé-difcovered, or at the leaft to be defaced among deceitful Arts. And becanfe many are abufed here- by totheir utterundoing , for that it hath had paflage under the prote&ion of learning, whereby they… … To be inttruéted in the right ufe of the faid Bead-ftones, read pag.t90, & I9T. As for the Bridle, read pag. 193. io" a
Demonology · Early works to 1800 · Magic · Witchcraft
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