The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Dover Occult)

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Scotte's discoovery of Witchcraft dismasketh sundry egregious impostures, and in certaine principall chapters, and speciall passages, hitteth the nayle on the head with a witnesse; howsoever I could have wished he had either dealt somewhat more curteously with Monsieur Bondine [i.e. Bodin], or confuted him somewhat more effectually. ns read us.] &c. There have beene some †walking † At Canturburie by Rich. Lee esquire, & others, anno.

A cousening physician, and a foolish patient.ANother such cousening physician persuaded one which had a timpanie, Wootton, David. "Scot, Reginald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/24905. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) TIe a halter about your head, wherewith one hath beene hanged. ¶ A charme to be said each morning by a witch fasting, or at least POTTS'S DISCOVERY OF WITCHES In the County of Lancaster, REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1613. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY JAMES CROSSLEY, Esq.He uses the sceptic's weapons of wit, sarcasm, pun and your standard anti-Catholic joke (however, let us not forget, he is concerned with the onset of the witch-scare in Protestant England). He also deploys compassion as a goal and as a strategy. Today, 435 years after it was published, the book sits on the shelf, silent, patient, having done the work its author did not want it to do. It’s almost as if…the thing had a hex on it. Estes, Leland L. Reginald Scot and His "Discoverie of Witchcraft": Religion and Science in the Opposition to the European Witch Craze, Church History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec., 1983), pp.444–456. The Discouerie of Witchcraft From the McManus-Young Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress Scot also contends that spirits cannot take human form nor interact with humans, and consequently that the link between spells cast by so-called witches and any unpleasant events spuriously attributed to witches is entirely coincidental. As set out by one of Scot’s recent biographers David Wootton, Scot explains the witch phenomenon as “resulting out of a particular type of social encounter: old women begging for food or other assistance would curse their neighbours when they were turned away empty handed; if something bad then happened – the death of a child, perhaps – the old woman would be taken to be a witch. Those who confessed to being witches were either deluded or the victims of torture… mere fable and fiction” (Wootton, “Scott [Scot], Reginald”).

and upon what ground all this geere standeth, if you read M. Mal. Mal. Malef. par. 2. quæ. 7. cap. 2. The content of all comments is released into the public domain unless clearly stated otherwise. The Library of Congress does not control the content posted. far. Trulie I for my part cannot perceive what is to go a whoring To go to witches, &c. is idolatrie.after REMAINS HISTORICAL & LITERARY CONNECTED WITH THE PALATINE COUNTIES OF LANCASTER AND CHESTER PUBLISHED BY THE CHETHAM SOCIETY. VOL. VI.Copperfield, David; Wiseman, Richard; Britland, David (2021). David Copperfield's history of magic. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-9821-1291-2. OCLC 1236259508. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) All upcoming public events are going ahead as planned and you can find more information on our events blog became emasculated or deprived of the powers generative. ¶ A charme teaching how to hurt whom you list with images of wax, &c. crowne upon his genitall member, and that must be publikelie done. To spoile a theefe, a witch, or anie other enimie, and to be delivered In the sixteenth century, witch hunters scoured Europe in search of those who they believed were dabbling in the dark arts. In 1584, one man [Reginald Scot] spoke out against this toxic mix of superstition, fear, and ignorance. In doing so, he helped shape history and also produced the first book in the English language to present detailed descriptions of magic.”

Scot's book appeared entitled "The Discoverie of Witchcraft, wherein the Lewde dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notablie detected, in sixteen books... whereunto is added a Treatise upon the Nature and Substance of Spirits and Devils", 1584. At the end of the volume the printer gives his name as William Brome.

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defend me from evils present, past, and to come, inward and outward. ¶ A charme found in the canon of the masse. forsooke the temple. But as *one * H. Haw. in his defensative against prophesies. that of late hath written against Almost every English author who subsequently wrote on the subject of witchcraft mentioned Scot disparagingly,” Davies writes of the period. Scot died in 1599; the book was not republished during his lifetime. There wasan abridged Dutch translation published in 1609, Davies notes, but was not republished in England until 1651, nearly three quarters of a century after its initial publication. Philip C. Almond. England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'. (London: 2011)