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 267
the Day is divided or diftingnifhed. A Day natural isthe fpace of four and twenty hours, accounting the Nighe withal, and beginneth at oné of the clock after midnight. Anartificial day isthat fpace of crime, which is betwixt the rifing and falling of the Sun, @e. all the reftis night and beginneth…
Demonology · Early works to 1800 · Magic · Witchcraft
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