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 266
![An illustration from Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars, and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men, women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise, their flying in the air, &c. to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also the lewde unchristian practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c (1651)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/locbook-loc_92245413-318-1.webp)