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 276
Demonology · Early works to 1800 · Magic · Witchcraft
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division · No known copyright restrictions. Free to use for anything.
![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_92245413-329-1.webp)
![An illustration from Englands propheticall Merline, : foretelling to all nations of Europe untill 1663. the actions depending upon the influence of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1642[/]3. The progresse and motion of the Comet 1618. under whole effects we in England, and most regions of Europe now suffer. What kingdomes must yet partake of the remainder of the influence, viz. of war, plague, famine, &c. When the English Common-wealth may expect peace, and the city of London better times. The beginning, and end of the Watry Trygon: an entrance of the fiery triplicity, 1603. The nativities of some English kings, and some horary questions inserted: / performed by William Lilly, student in astrologie. (1644)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b2016502x-42-1.webp)
