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Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Will Of Raynold Scot

Abstract of Inquis. Post Mortem, 18 Eliz

Abstract of Inquis. P.M., 45 Eliz

The Epistle

To the Honorable, mine especiall good

To the right worshipfull Sir

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

¶ 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

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

¶ 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

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*ments 1009 to 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 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

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 *Regina1202 linguæ

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

¶ A conjuration written in the masse booke. Fol. 1

The Copie of a Letter Sent Unto Me R. S. By T. E

A Discourse upon divels and spirits

[Appendix I.] Chap. I

How to consecrate an imaginary Circle

An Exorcism for the fire

At the putting on the Garments,

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

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