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Reginald Scot. The Discovery of Witchcraft
The Discovery of Witchcraft
Table of Content
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Will Of Raynold Scot
Abstract of Inquis. Post Mortem, 18 Eliz p. 1, No. 84
Abstract of Inquis. P.M., 45 Eliz., pars. 1, No. 71
The Epistle
To the Honorable, mine especiall good
To the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Scot Knight, &c
To the right worshipfull his loving friends,[A. viii]. A a 3 Maister Doctor Coldwell Deane of Ro- chester, and Maister Doctor Read- man Archdeacon of Can- turburie, &c
To the Readers
The forren authors used in this Booke
The summe of everie chapter con- teined in the sixteene bookes of this disco- verie, with the discourse of divels and spirits annexed thereunto
¶ The first Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
¶ The second Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The Ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
¶ The third Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
The xvii. Chapter
The xviii. Chapter
The xix. Chapter
The xx. Chapter
¶ The fourth Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
¶ The fift Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
¶ The sixt Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
¶ The seventh Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
¶ The eight Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
¶ The ninth Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
¶ The tenth Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
¶ The eleventh Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
The xvii. Chapter
The 18. Chapter
The 19. Chapter
The xx. Chapter
The xxi. Chapter
The xxii Chapter
The xxiii. Chapter
¶ The twelfe Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
¶ A charme against shot, or a wastcote of proofe
¶ Against the falling evill
¶ A popish periapt or charme, which must never be said, but carried about one, against theeves
¶ Another amulet
¶ A papisticall charme
¶ A charme found in the canon of the masse
¶ Other papisticall charmes
¶ A charme of the holie crosse
¶ A charme taken out of the Primer
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
For the falling evill
¶ Against the biting of a mad dog
¶ Against the biting of a scorpion
¶ Against the toothach
¶ A charme to release a woman in travell
¶ To heale the Kings or Queenes evill, or any other sorenesse in the throte
¶ A charme read in the Romish church, upon saint Blazes daie, that will fetch a thorne out of anie place of ones bodie, a bone out of the throte, &c: Lect. 3
¶ A charme for the headach
¶ A charme to be said each morning by a witch fasting, or at least before she go abroad
¶ Another charme that witches use at the gathering of their medicinable hearbs
¶ An old womans charme, wherewith she did much good in the countrie, and grew famous thereby
Another like charme
A charme to open locks
¶ A charme to drive awaie spirits that haunt anie house.732
¶ A prettie charme or conclusion for one possessed
¶ Another for the same purpose
¶ Another to the same effect
¶ Another charme or witch-craft for the same
¶ A charme for the bots in a horsse
¶ A charme against vineager
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
¶ A charme teaching how to hurt whom you list with images of wax, &c
The xvii. Chapter
¶ Counter charmes against these and all other witchcrafts, in the saieng also whereof witches are vexed, &c
¶ A charme for the choine cough
¶ For corporall or spirituall rest
¶ Charmes to find out a theefe
¶ Another waie to find out a theefe that hath stolne anie thing from you
¶ To put out the theeves eie
¶ Another waie to find out a theefe
¶ A charme to find out or spoile a theefe
¶Saint Adelberts cursse or charme against theeves
¶ Another inchantment
The xviii Chapter
¶ A charme or experiment to find out a witch
To spoile a theefe, a witch, or anie other enimie, and to be delivered from the evill
¶ A notable charme or medicine to pull out an arrowhead, or anie such thing that sticketh in the flesh or bones, and cannot otherwise be had out
¶ Charmes against a quotidian ague
¶ For all maner of agues intermittant
Periapts, characters, &c: for agues, and to cure all diseases, and to deliver from all evill
¶ More charmes for agues
¶ For a bloudie flux, or rather an issue of bloud
¶ Cures commensed and finished by witchcraft
¶ Another witchcraft or knaverie, practised by the same surgion
¶ Another experiment for one bewitched
¶ Otherwise
¶ A knacke to knowe whether you be bewitched, or no, &c
The xix. Chapter
The xx. Chapter
The xxi. Chapter
¶ A charme to find hir that bewitched your kine
¶ Another, for all that have bewitched anie kind of cattell
¶ A speciall charme to preserve all cattell from witchcraft
The xxii. Chapter
The charme of charmes
¶ Otherwise
The xxiii. Chapter
¶ The xiii. Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
The xvii. Chapter
The xviii. Chapter
The xix. Chapter
The xx. Chapter
The xxi. Chapter
The xxii. Chapter
The xxiii. Chapter
To make a little ball swell in your hand till it be verie great
To consume (or rather to conveie) one or manie balles into nothing
How to rap a wag upon the knuckles
The xxiiii. Chapter
To conveie monie out of one of your hands into the other by legierdemaine
To convert or transubstantiate monie into counters, or counters into monie
To put one testor into one hand, and an other into the other hand, and with words to bring them togither
To put one testor into a strangers hand, and another into your owne, and to conveie both into the strangers hand with words
How to doo the same or the like feate otherwise
To throwe a peece of monie awaie, and to find it againe where you list
With words to make a groat or a testor to leape out of a pot, or to run alongst upon a table
To make a groat or a testor to sinke through a table, and to vanish out of a handkercher verie strangelie
A notable tricke to transforme a counter to a groat
The xxv. Chapter
To conveie a testor out of ones hand that holdeth it fast
To throwe a peece of monie into a deepe pond, and to fetch it againe from whence you list
To conveie one shilling being in one hand into another, holding your armes abroad like a rood
How to rap a wag on the knuckles
The xxvi. Chapter
The xxvii. Chapter
How to deliver out foure aces, and to convert them into foure knaves
How to tell one what card he seeth in the bottome, when the same card is shuffled into the stocke
An other waie to doo the same, having your selfe indeed never seene the card
To tell one without confederacie what card he thinketh
The xxviii. Chapter
The xxix. Chapter
A notable feate of fast or loose; namelie, to pull three beadstones from off a cord, while you hold fast the ends thereof, without remooving of your hand
The xxx. Chapter
To make a shoale of goslings drawe a timber log
To make a pot or anie such thing standing fast on the cupboord, to fall downe thense by vertue of words
To make one danse naked
To transforme or alter the colour of ones cap or hat
How to tell where a stollen horsse is become
The xxxi. Chapter
How to conveie (with words or charmes) the corne conteined in one box into an other
Of an other boxe to convert wheat into flower with words, &c
Of diverse petie juggling knacks
The xxxii. Chapter
To cut a lace asunder in the middest, and to make it whole againe
How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth, of what colour or length you list, and never anie thing seene to be therein
The xxxiii. Chapter
The xxxiiii. Chapter
To eate a knife, and to fetch it out of anie other place
To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt
To thrust a bodkin through your toong, and a knife through your arme: a pittifull sight, without hurt or danger
To thrust a peece of lead into one eie, and to drive it about (with a sticke) betweene the skin and flesh of the forehead, untill it be brought to the other eie, and there thrust out
To cut halfe your nose asunder, and to heale it againe presentlie without anie salve
To put a ring through your cheeke
To cut off ones head, and to laie it in a platter, &c: which the jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist
To thrust a dagger or bodkin into your guts verie strangelie, and to recover immediatlie
To drawe a cord through your nose, mouth or hand, so sensiblie as is woonderful to see
The conclusion, wherin the reader is referred to certeine patterns of instruments wherewith diverse feats heere specified are to be executed
Heere follow patternes of certeine instru*ments1009to be used in the former juggling knacks
To thrust a bodkin into your head, and through your toong, &c
To thrust a knife through your arme, and to cut halfe your nose asunder, &c
To cut off ones head, and to laie it in a platter, which the jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist
¶ The xiiii. Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
¶ The xv. Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The vi. Chapter
The disposition of the planets
The aspects of the planets
How the daie is divided or distinguished
The division of the daie, and the planetarie regiment
The division of the night, and the planetarie regiment
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
This is the waie to go invisible by these three sisters of fairies
The eleventh Chapter
¶ Saie first the praiers of the angels everie daie, for the space of seaven daies
¶ Saie this praier fasting, called *Regina1202linguæ
The twelfe Chapter
A figure or type proportionall, shewing what forme must be observed and kept, in making the figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a spirit in christall is to be accomplished, &c
The xiii. Chapter
¶ The two and twentieth psalme
This psalme also following, being the fiftie one psalme, must be said three times over, &c
The xiiii. Chapter
A licence for the spirit to depart
A type or figure of the circle for the maister and his fellowes to sit in, shewing how and after what fashion it should be made
The xv. Chapter
To the water saie also as followeth
Then take the salt in thy hand, and saie putting it into the water, making in the maner of a crosse
Then sprinkle upon anie thing, and saie as followeth
The xvi. Chapter
The xvii. Chapter
Now the Pater noster, Ave, and Credo must be said, and then the praier immediatlie following
The xviii. Chapter
The xix. Chapter
Then being appeared, saie these words following
A licence to depart
The xx. Chapter
To speake with spirits
The xxi. Chapter
The xxii. Chapter
The xxiii. Chapter
The xxiiii. Chapter
The xxv. Chapter
The xxvi. Chapter
The xxvii. Chapter
¶ A conjuration written in the masse booke. Fol. 1
¶ Oremus
The xxviii. Chapter
The xxix. Chapter
The xxx. Chapter
The xxxi. Chapter
The xxxii. Chapter
The xxxiii. Chapter
The xxxiiii. Chapter
The xxxv. Chapter
The xxxvi. Chapter
The xxxvii. Chapter
The xxxviii. Chapter
The xxxix. Chapter
The xl. Chapter
The xli. Chapter
The xlii. Chapter
The copie of a letter sent unto me R. S. by T. E. Maister of art, and practiser both of physicke, and also in times past, of certeine vaine sciences; now condemned to die for the same: wherein he openeth the truth touching these deceits.*1359
¶ The xvi. Booke
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
A Discourse upon divels and spirits,489.351[2].and first of philosophers opinions, also the maner of their reasoning hereupon;*1410and the same confuted
The first Chapter
The second Chapter
The third Chapter
The fourth Chapter
The fift Chapter
The sixt Chapter
The seventh Chapter
The eight Chapter
The ninth Chapter
The tenth Chapter
The eleventh Chapter
The twelfe Chapter
The xiii. Chapter
The xiiii. Chapter
The xv. Chapter
The xvi. Chapter
The xvii. Chapter
The xviii. Chapter
The xix. Chapter
The xx. Chapter
The xxi. Chapter
The xxii. Chapter
The xxiii. Chapter
The xxiiii. Chapter
The xxv. Chapter
The xxvi. Chapter
The xxvii. Chapter
The xxviii. Chapter
The xxix. Chapter
The xxx. Chapter
The xxxi. Chapter
The xxxii. Chapter
The xxxiii. Chapter
The xxxiiii. Chapter
[Appendix I.]
Chap. I
How to consecrate an imaginary Circle
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
An Exorcism for the fire
At the putting on the Garments,
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
Chap. VIII
Chap. IX
[Appendix II.]
Chap. I
Chap. II
Chap. III
Chap. IV
Chap. V
Chap. VI
Chap. VII
SHAKESPEARE NOTINGS
MIDDLETON’S “WITCH”
EXTRACTS FROM WIER
I
II. SCOT ON THE NAMES, ETC., OF DEVILS FROM WIER, BUT PROBABLY THROUGH T. R., MENTIONED P. 393
Additions to Part I, p. 558
GENERAL NOTINGS ON SCOT’S TEXT
GLOSSARY
Footnotes
