Scot, Reginald: The Discoverie of Witchcraft ©1584 Reginald Scott Republished many times, including: ©1972 Dover Publications, Inc., NY Softcover, perfect-bound ©1995 Richard Kaufman Hardcover, no dj, 282 pages

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Comments: The Discoverie of Witchcraft was originally written in 1584 by Reginald Scot as a response to the many accusations of witchcraft taking place at the time. The book provides an analysis of Scriptures to demonstrate that modern witchcraft is no longer possible, and thus many of the prosecutions of supposed witches were incorrect. He also covered some of the magic tricks of the time, to show how many feats supposed to be by witchcraft were actually just deceit and illusion.

There have been several reprints of this book through the years, with differing introductory materials providing additional historical background. The contents below are based on the Dover Edition, which was "an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in Great Britain by John Rodker in 1930."

Many thanks to Jacky Kahan of magicbooks.be who provided a rough scan. Those contents have been edited for OCR errors and compared against the Dover contents listing for better accuracy.

1. To the Honorable, mine especiall good Lord, Sir Roger Manwook Knight, Lord cheefe Baron of Hir Maiesties Court of the Eschequer.
2. To the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Scot Knight, &c.
3. To the right worshipfull his loving friends, Maister Doctor Coldwell Deane of Rochester, and Maister Doctor Readman Archdeacon of Canturburie, &c.
4. To the Readers
5. The forren authors used in this Booke: a listing

Contents (from the Dover Edition ToC, old English spelling retained):

xvii Introduction (Montague Summers, 1930)
xxxiii Bibliographical Note

1 Booke I

1 Chapter I: An impeachment of Witches power in meteors and elementarie bodies tending to the rebuke of such as attribute too much unto them
3 Chapter II: The inconvenience growing by mens credulitie herein, with a reproofe of some churchmen, which are inclined to the common conceived opinion of witches omnipotencie, and a familiar example thereof
4 Chapter III: Who they be that are called witches, with a manifest declaration of the cause that mooveth men so commonlie to thinke, and witches themselves to beleeve that they can hurt children, cattell, &c. with words and imaginations: and of coosening witches
5 Chapter IV: What miraculous actions are imputed to witches by witchmongers, papists, and poets
7 Chapter V: A confutation of the common conceived opinion of witches and witchcraft, and how detestable a sinne it is to repaire to them for counsell or helpe in time of affliction
7 Chapter VI: A further confutation of witches miraculous and omnipotent power, by invincible reasons and authorities, with dissuasions from such fond credulitie
9 Chapter VII: By what means the name of witches becommeth so famous, and how diverslie people be opinioned concerning them and their actions
9 Chapter VIII: Causes that moove as well witches themselves as others to thinke that they can worke impossibilities, with answers to certeine objections: where also their punishment by lawe is touched
10 Chapter IX: A conclusion of the first booke, wherein is foreshewed the tyrannicall crueltie of witchmongers and inquisitors, with a request to the reader to peruse the same

11 Booke II
11 Chapter I: What testimonies and witnesses are allowed to give evidence against reputed witches, by the report & allowance of the inquisitors themselves, and such as are speciall writers heerein
11 Chapter II: The order of examination of witches by the inquisitors
13 Chapter III: Matters of evidence against witches
14 Chapter IV: Confessions of witches, whereby they are condemned
14 Chapter V: Presumptions, whereby witches are condemned 14
15 Chapter VI: Particular Interogatories used by the inquisitors against witches
16 Chapter VII: The inquisitors triall of weeping by conjuration
16 Chapter VIII: Certaine cautions against witches, and of their tortures to procure confession
18 Chapter IX: The fifteen crimes laid to the charge of witches, by witchmongers; speciallie by Bodin, in Daemonomania
19 Chapter X: A refutation of the former surmised crimes patched togither by Bodin, and the onelie waie to escape the inquisitors hands
20 Chapter XI: The opinion of Cornelius Agrippa concerning witches, of his pleading for a poore woman accused of witchcraft, and how he convinced the inquisitors
21 Chapter XII: What the feare of death and feeling of torments may force one to doo, and that it is no marvell though witches condemn themselves by their owne confessions so tyrannicailie extorted

23 Booke III

23 Chapter I: The witches bargaine with the divell, according to M. Mal. Bodin, Nider, Danaeus, Psellus, Erastus, Hemingius, Cumanus, Aquinas, Bartholomnus, Spineus, &c.
24 Chapter II: The order of the witches homage done (as it is written by lewd inquisitors and peevish witchmoongers to the divell in person; of their songs and dance, and namelie of La volta, and of other ceremonies, also of their excourses
25 Chapter III: How witches are summoned to appeere before the divell, of their riding in the aire, of their accompts, of their conference with the divell, of his supplies, and their conference, of their farewell and sacrifices; according to Dannus, Psellus, &c.
26 Chapter IV: That there can no real! league be made with the divill the first author of the league, and the weake proofes of the adversaries for the same
Chapter V: Of the private league, a notable tale of Bodins concerning a French ladie, with a confutation
27 Chapter VI: A disproofe of their assemblies, and of their bargaine
28 Chapter VII: A confutation of the objection concerning witches confessions
29 Chapter VIII: What follie it were for witches to enter into such desperate peril!, and to endure such intollerable tortures for no gain or commoditie, and how it comes to asse that witches are overthrowne by their confessions
30 Chapter IX: How melancholic abuseth old women, and of the effects thereof by sundrie examples
32 Chapter X: That voluntarie confessions may be untrulie made, to the undooing of the confessors, and of the strange operation of melancholic, prooved by a familiar and late example
33 Chapter XI: The strange and divers effects of melancholic, and how the same humour abounding in witches, or rather old women, filleth them full of mervellous imaginations, and that their confessions are not to be credited
34 Chapter XII: A confutation of witches confessions, especiallie concerning their league
34 hapter XIII: A confutation of witches confessions, concernin making of tempests and raine : of the natural cause of raine, and that witches or divels have no power to doo such things
36 Chapter XIV: What would ensue, if witches confessions or witchmongers opinions were true, concerning the effects of witchcraft, inchantments, &c.
36 Chapter XV: Examples of forren nations, who in their warres used the assistance of witches; of eybiting witches in Ireland, of two archers that shot with familiars
37 Chapter XVI: Authorities condemning the fantasticall confessions of witches, and how a popish doctor taketh upon him to disproove the same
38 Chapter XVII: Witchmongers reasons, to proove that witches can worke wonders, Bodins tale of a Friseland preest transported, that imaginations, proceedings of melancholic doo cause illusions
39 Chapter XVIII: That the confession of witches is insufficient in civil! and common lawe to take await life. What the sounder divines, and decrees of councels determine in this case
40 Chapter XIX: Of foure capital! crimes objected against witches, all fullie answered and confuted as frivolous
41 Chapter XX: A request to such readers as loath to heare or read filthie and bawdie matters (which of necessitie are heere to be inserted) to passe over eight chapters

42 Booke IV

42 Chapter I: Of witchmongers opinions concerning evil1 spirits, how they frame themselves in more excellent sort than God made us
42 Chapter II: Of bawdie Incubus and Succubus, and whether the action of venerie may be performed between witches and divels, and when witches first yeelded to Incubus
43 Chapter III: Of the divels visible & invisible dealing witches in the waie of lecherie
44 Chapter IV: That the power of generation is both outwardlie and inwardlie impeached by witches, and of divers that had their genitals taken from them by witches, and by the same means again restored
45 Chapter V: Of bishop Sylvanus his leacherie opened and covered agame, how maides having yellow haire are most combred with Incubus, how maried men are bewitched to use other mens wives, and to refuse their own
46 Chapter VI: How to procure the dissolving of bewitched love, also to enforce a man (how proper so ever he be) to love an old hag : and of a bawdie tricke of a priest in Gelderland
46 Chapter VII: Of divers saints and holie persons, which were exceeding bawdie and lecherous, and by certeine miraculous meanes became chaste
47 Chapter VIII: Certeine popish and magicall cures, for them that are bewitched in their privities
47 Chapter IX: A strange cure done to one that was molested with Incubus
48 Chapter X: A confutation of all the former follies touching Incubus, which by examples and proofes of like stuffe is shewed to be flat knaverie, wherein the carnall copulation with spirits is overthrowne
49 Chapter XI: That Incubus is a naturall disease, with remedies for the same, besides magicall cures herewithall expressed
50 Chapter XII: The censure of G. Chaucer, upon the knaverie of Incubus

51 Booke V

51 Chapter I: Of transformations, ridiculous examples brought by the adversaries for the confirmation of their foolish doctrine
53 Chapter II: Absurd reasons brought by Bodin, and such others, for confirmation of transformations
54 Chapter III: Of a man turned into an asse, and returned again into a man by one of Bodins witches: S. Augustines opinion thereof
55 Chapter IV: A summarie of the former fable, with a refutation thereof, after due examination of the same
56 Chapter V: That the bodie of a man cannot be turned into the bodie of a beast by a witch, is prooved by strong reasons, scriptures, and authorities
58 Chapter VI: The witchmongers objections, concerning Nabuchadnez-zar answered, and their errour concerning Lycanthropia confuted
58 Chapter VII: A speciall objection answered concerning transportations, with the consent of diverse writers thereupon
60 Chapter VIII: The witchmongers objection concerning the historie of Job answered
62 Chapter IX: What severall sorts of witches are mentioned in the scriptures, and how the word witch is there applied

64 Booke VI

64 Chapter I: The exposition of this Hebrue word Chasaph, wherein is answered the objection conteined in Exodus 22. to wit: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, and of Simon Magus. Acts. 8
65 Chapter II: The place of Deuteronomie expounded, wherin are recited all kind of witches; also their opinions confuted, which hold that they can worke such miracles as are imputed unto them
67 Chapter III: That women have used poisoning in all ages more than men, and of the inconvenience of poisonIng
68 Chapter IV: Of divers poisoning practises, otherwise called veneficia, committed in Italie, Genua, Millen, Wittenberge, also how they were discovered and executed
68 Chapter V: A great objection answered concerning this kind of witchcraft called Veneficium
68 Chapter VI: In what kind of confections that witchcraft, which is called Venificium, consisteth: of love cups, and the same confuted by poets
70 Chapter VII: It is proved by more credible writers, that love cups rather ingender death through venome, than love by art; and with what toies they destroie cattell, and procure love
70 Chapter VIII: John Bodin triumphing against John Wier is overtaken with false Greeke & false interpretation thereof

72 Booke VII

72 Chapter I: Of the Hebrue word Ob, what it signifieth where it is found, of Pythonisses called Ventriloquae, who they be, and what their practises are, experience and examples thereof shewed
74 Chapter II: How the lewd practise of the Pythonist of Westwell came to light, and by whome she was examined; and that all hir diabolicall speach was but ventriloquie and plaine cousenage, which is prooved by hir owne confession
75 Chapter III: Bodins stuffe concerning the Pythonist of Endor, with a true storie of a counterfeit Dutchman
76 Chapter IV: Of the great oracle of Apollo the Pythonist, and how men of all sorts have been deceived, and that even the apostles have mistaken the nature of spirits, with an unanswerable argument, that spirits can take no shapes
77 Chapter V: Why Apollo was called Pytho whereof those witches were called Pythonists; Gregorie his letter to the divell
78 Chapter VI: Apollo, who was called Pytho, compared to the Rood of grace; Gregories letter to the divell confuted
78 Chapter VII: How diverse great clarkes and good authors have been abused in this matter of spirits through false reports, and by meanes of their credulitie have published lies, which are confuted by Aristotle and the scriptures
79 Chapter VIII: Of the witch of Endor, and whether she accomplished the raising of Samuel truelie, or by deceipt : the opinion of some divines hereupon
80 Chapter IX: That Samuel was not raised indeed, and how Bodin and all papists dote herein, and that soules cannot be raised by witchcraft
81 Chapter X: That neither the divell nor Samuell was raised, but that it was a meere cousenage, according to the guise of our Pythonists
81 Chapter XI: The objection of the witchmongers concerning this place fullie answered, and what circumstances are to be considered for the understanding of this storie, which is plainelie opened from the beginning of the 28. chap. of the 1. Samuel, to the 12. verse
83 Chapter XII: The 12. 13. & 14. verses of 1. Samuel 28. expounded; wherin is shewed that Saule was cousened and abused by the witch, and that Samuel was not raised, is prooved by the witches owne talke
84 Chapter XIII: The residue of i. Sam. 28. expounded; wherin is declared how cunninglie this witch brought Saule resolutelie to beleeve that she raised Samuel, what words are used to colour the cousenage, and how all might also be wrought by ventriloquie
85 Chapter XIV: Opinions of some learned men, that Samuel was indeed raised, not by the witches art or power, but by the speciall miracle of God, that there are no such visions in these our daies, & that our witches cannot doo the like
86 Chapter XV: Of vain apparitions, how people have beene brought to feare bugges, which is partlie reformed by preaching of the gospell, the true effect of Christes miracles
87 Chapter XVI: Witches miracles compared to Christs, that God is the creator of all things, of Apollo, and of his names and portraiture

88 Booke VIII

88 Chapter I: That miracles are ceased
90 Chapter II: That the gift of prophesie is ceased
91 Chapter III: That Oracles are ceased
92 Chapter IV: A tale written by manie grave authors, and beleeved by manie wise men of the divels death. An other storie written by papists, and beleeved of all catholikes, approoving the divels honestie, conscience, and courtesie
Chapter V: The judgments of the ancient fathers touching oracles, and their abolishment, and that they be now transferred from Delphos to Rome
94 Chapter VI: Where and wherein couseners, witches, and preests were woont to give oracles, and to worke their feats

95 Booke IX

95 Chapter I: The Hebrue word Kasam expounded, and how farre a Christian may conjecture of things to come
95 Chapter II: Proofes by the old and new testament, that certaine observations of the weather are lawfull
96 Chapter III: That certeine observations are indifferent, certeine ridiculous, and certeine impious, whence that cunning is derived of Apollo, and of Aruspices
97 Chapter IV: The predictions of soothsaiers and lewd priests, the prognostications of astronomers and physicians allowable, divine prophesies holie and good
98 Chapter V: The diversitie of true prophets, of Urim, and of the propheticall use of the twelve precious stones conteined therein, of the divine voice called Eccho
98 Chapter VI: Of prophesies conditionall; whereof the prophesies in the old testament doo intreate, and by whom they were published; witchmongers aunswers to the objections against witches supernaturall actions
99 Chapter VII: What were the miracles expressed in the old testament, and what are they in the new testament and that we are not now to looke for anie more miracles

101 Booke X

101 Chapter I: The interpretation of this Hebrue word Onen, of the vanitie of dreames, and divinations thereupon
101 Chapter II: Of divine, naturall, and casuall dreames, with their differing causes and effects
102 Chapter III: The opinion of divers old writers touching dreames, and how they varie in noting the causes thereof
102 Chapter IV: Against interpretors of dreames, of the ordinarie cause of dreames, Hemingius his opinion of diabolicall dreames, the interpretation of dreames ceased
103 Chapter V: That neither witches, nor anie other, can either by words or hearbs, thrust into the mind of a sleeping man, what cogitations or dreames they list; and whence magicall dreames come
104 Chapter VI: How men have been bewitched, cousened or abused by dreames to dig and search for monie
104 Chapter VII: The art and order to be used in digging for monie, revealed by dreames, how to procure pleasant dreames, of morning and midnight dreames
105 Chapter VIII: Sundrie receipts and ointments, made and used for the transportation of witches, and other miraculous effects: an instance therof reported and credited by some that are learned
106 Chapter IX: A confutation of the former follies, as well concerning ointments, dreames, &c. as also of the assemblie of witches, and of their consultations and bankets at sundrie places, and all in dreames
106 Chapter X: That most part of prophesies in the old testament were revealed in drearnes, that we are not now to looke for such revelations, of some who have drempt of that which hath come to passe, that dreames proove contrarie, Nabuchadnez-zars rule to knowe a true expositor of dreames

108 Booke XI

108 Chapter I: The Hebrue word Nahas expounded, of the art of augurie, who invented it, how slovenlie a science it is; the multitude of sacrifices and sacrificers of the heathen, and the causes thereof
108 Chapter II: Of the Jewes sacrifice to Moloch, a discourse thereupon, and of Purgatorie
108 Chapter III: The Canibals crueltie, of popish sacrifices exceeding in tyrannie the Jewes or Gentiles
108 Chapter IV: The superstition of the heathen about the element of fier, and how it grew in such reverence among them, of their corruptions, and that they had some inkling of the godlie fathers dooings in that behalfe
110 Chapter V: Of the Romane sacrifices: of the estimation they had of augurie, of the lawe of the twelve tables
110 Chapter VI: Colleges of augurors, their office, their number, the signification of augurie, that the practisers of that art were couseners, their profession, their places of exercise, their apparrell, their superstition
111 Chapter VII: The times and seasons to exercise augurie, the maner and order -thereof, of the ceremonies thereunto belonging
112 Chapter VIII: Upon what signes and tokens augorors did prognosticate, observations touching the inward and outward parts of beasts, with notes of beasts behaviour in the slaughterhouse
112 Chapter IX: A confutation of augurie, Plato his reverend opinion thereof, of contrarie events, and false predictions
112 Chapter X: The cousening art of sortilege or lotarie, practised especiallie by Aegyptiara vagabonds, of allowed lots, of Pythagoras his lot, &c.
113 Chapter XI: Of the Cabalisticall art, consisting of traditions and unwritten verities learned without booke, and of the division thereof
114 Chapter XII: When, how, and in what sort sacrifices were first ordained, and how they were prophaned, and how the pope corrupteth the sacraments of Christ
115 Chapter XIII: Of the objects whereupon the augurors used to prognosticate, with certeine cautions and notes
116 Chapter XIV: The division of augurie, persons admittable into the colleges of augurie, of their superstition
116 Chapter XV: Of the common peoples fond and superstitious collections and observations
117 Chapter XVI: How old writers varie about the matter, the manor and the meanes, whereby things augurificall are mooved
118 Chapter XVII: How ridiculous an art augurie is, how Cato mocked it, Aristotles reason against it, fond collections of augurors, who allowed, and who disallowed it
119 Chapter XVIII: Fond distinctions of the heathen writers, concerning augurie
119 Chapter XIX: Of naturall and casuall augurie, the one allowed, and the other disallowed
119 Chapter XX: A confutation of casuall augurie which is meere witchcraft, and upon what uncertaintie those divination are grounded
120 Chapter XXI: That figure-casters are witches, the uncerteintie of their art, and of their contradictions, Cornelius Agrippas sentence against judiciall astrologie
121 Chapter XXII: The subtiltie of astrologers to mainteine the credit of their art, why they remaine in credit, certeine impieties conteined in astrologers assertions
122 Chapter XXIII: Who have power to drive awaie divels with their onelie presence, who shall receive of God whatsoever they aske in praier, who shall obteine everlasting life by meanes of constellations, as nativitie-casters affirme

123 Booke XII

123 Chapter I: The Hebrue word Habar expounded, where also the supposed secret force of charmes and inchantments is shewed, and the efficacie of words is diverse waies declared
123 Chapter II: What is forbidden in scriptures concerning witchcraft, of the operation of words, the superstition of the Cabalists and papists, who createth substances, to imitate God in some cases is presumption, words of sanctification
124 Chapter III: What effect and offense witches charmes bring, how unapt witches are, and how unlikelie to worke those things which they are thought to doo, what would followe if those things were true which are laid to their charge
125 Chapter IV: Why God forbad the practise of witchcraft, the absurditie of the lawe of the twelve tables, whereupon their estimation in miraculous actions is grounded, of their woonderous works
125 Chapter V: An instance of one arreigned upon the lawe of the twelve tables, whereby the said lawe is proved ridiculous, of two witches that could doo woonders
126 Chapter VI: Lawes provided for the punishment of such witches as worke miracles, whereof some are mentioned, and of certeine popish lawes published against them
127 Chapter VII: Poetical authorities commonlie alleaged by witchmongers, for the proofe of witches miraculous actions, and for confirmation of their supernaturall power
130 Chapter VIII: Poetrie and poperie compared in inchantments, popish witchmongers have more advantage herein than protestants
131 Chapter IX: Popish periapts, amulets and charmes, agnus Dei, a wastcote of proofe, a charme for the falling evill, a writing brought to S. Leo from heaven by an angell, the vertues of S. Saviors epistle, a charme against theeves, a writing found in Christs wounds, of the crosse, &c.
135 Chapter X: How to make holie water, and the vertues therof. S. Rufins charme, of the wearing and bearing of the name of Jesus, that the sacrament of confession and the eucharist is of as much efficacie as other charmes, & magnified by L. Vairus
136 Chapter XI: Of the noble balme used by Moses, apishlie counterfeited in the church of Rome
136 Chapter XII: The opinion of Ferranus touching charmes, periapts, appensions, amulets, &c. Of Homericall medicines, of constant opinion, and the effects thereof
137 Chapter XIII: Of the effects of amulets, the drift of Argerius Ferrarius in the commendation of charmes, &c.: foure sorts of Homericall medicines, & the choice thereof; of imagination
138 Chapter XIV: Choice of Charmes against the falling evill, the biting of a mad dog, the stinging of a scorpion, the toothach, for a woman in travell, for the Kings evill, to get a thorne out of any member, or a bone out of ones throte, charmes to be said fasting, or at the gathering of hearbs, for sore eies, to open locks, against spirits, for the bots in a horsse, and speciallie for the Duke of Albas horsse, for sowre wines, &c.
142 Chapter XV: The inchanting of serpents and snakes, objections aunswered concerning the same; fond reasons whie charmes take effect therin, Mahomets pigeon, miracle wrought by as Asse at Memphis in Aegypt, popish charmer against serpents, of miracle workers, the tameing of snakes, Bodins lie of snakes
146 Chapter XVI: Charmes to carrie water in a sive, to know what is spoken of us behind our backs, for bleare eies, to make seeds to growe well, of images made of wax, to be rid of a witch, to hang hir up, notable authorities against waxen images, a storie bewraieng the knaverie of waxen images
147 Chapter XVII: Sundrie sorts of charmes tending to diverse purposes, and first, certeine charmes to make taciturnitie in tortures
151 Chapter XVIII: A charme or experiment to find out a witch
157 Chapter XIX: That one witchcraft maie lawfullie meete with another
158 Chapter XX: Who are privileged from witches, what bodies are aptest to be bewitched, or to be witches, why women are rather witches than men, and what they are
159 Chapter XXI: What miracles witchmongers report to have beene done by witches words, &c.: contradictions of witchmongers among themselves, how beasts are cured herby, of bewitched butter, a charmet witches, and a counter charme, the effect charmes and words proved by L. Vairus to be woonderfull
161 Chapter XXII: Lawfull charmes, or rather medicinable cures for diseased cattell. The charme of charmes, and the power thereof
162 Chapter XXIII: A confutation of the force and vertue falselie ascribed to charmes and amulets, by the authorities of ancient writers, both divines and physicians

163 Booke XIII

163 Chapter I: The signification of the Hebrue word Harturnim where it is found written in the scriptures, and how it is diverslie translated; whereby the objection of Pharaos magicians is afterward answered in this booke; also of naturall magicke not evill in it selfe
163 Chapter II: How the philosophers in times past travelled for the knowledge of naturall magicke, of Salomons knowledge therein, who is to be called a naturall magician, a distinction thereof, and why it is condemned for witchcraft
164 Chapter III: What secrets do lie hidden, and what is taught in naturall magicke, how Gods glorie is magnified therein, and that it is nothing but the worke of nature
165 Chapter IV: What strange things are brought to passe by naturall magick
165 Chapter V: The incredible operation of waters, both standing and running; of well, lakes, rivers, and of their woonderfull effects
166 Chapter VI: The vertues and qualities of sundrie pretious stones, of cousening Lapidaries, &c.
168 Chapter VII: Whence the pretious stones receive their operations, how curious Magicians use them, and of their seales
170 Chapter VIII: The sympathie and antipathie of naturall and elementarie bodies declared by diverse examples of beasts, birds, plants, &c.
171 Chapter IX: The former matter prooved by manie examples of the living and the dead
172 Chapter X: The bewitching venome conteined in the bodie of an harlot, how hir eie, hir toong, hir beautie and behavior bewitcheth some men; of bones and
homes yeelding great vertue
173 Chapter XI: Two notorious woonders and yet not marvelled at
174 Chapter XII: Of illusions, confederacies, and legierdemaine, and how they may be well or ill used
174 Chapter XIII: Of private confederacie, and of Brandons pigeon
175 Chapter XIV: Of publike confederacie, and whereof it consisteth
175 Chapter XV: How men have beene abused with words of equivocation, with sundrie examples thereof
176 Chapter XVI: How some are abused with naturall magike, and sundrie examples thereof when illusion is added thereuunto, of Jacobs pied sheepe, and of a blacke Moore
177 Chapter XVII: The opinion of witchmongers, that divels can create bodies, and of Pharaos magicians
Chapter XVIII: How to produce or make monsters by art magike, and why Pharaos magicians could not make lice
178 Chapter XIX: That great matters may be wrought by this art, when princes esteeme and mainteine it; of divers woonderfull experiments, and of strange conclusions in glasses, of the art perspective, &c.
180 Chapter XX: A comparison betwixt Pharaos magicians and our witches, and how their cunning consisted in juggling knacks
180 Chapter XXI: That the serpents and frogs were trulie presented, and the water poisoned indeed by Jannes and Jambres of false prophets, and of their miracles, Balams asse
182 Chapter XXII: The art of juggling discovered, and in what points it dooth principallie consist
182 Chapter XXIII: Of the ball, and the manner of legierdemaine therewith, also notable feats with one or diverse balles
184 Chapter XXIV Of conveiance of monie
186 Chapter XXV: An excellent feat, to make a two penie peece lie plaine in the palme of your hand, and to be passed from thence when you list
187 Chapter XXVI: To transforme anie one small thing into anie other forme by folding of paper
188 Chapter XXVII: Of cards, with good cautions how to avoid cousenage therein; speciall rules to conveie and handle the cards, and the maner and order to accomplish all difficult and strange things wrought with cards
190 Chapter XXXIII: How to tell what card anie man thinketh, how to conveie the same into a kernell of a nut or cheristone, &c.; and the same againe into ones pocket; how to make one drawe the same or anie card you list, and all under one devise
190 Chapter XXIX: Of fast or loose, how to knit a hard knot upon a handkercher, and to undo the same with words
191 Chapter XXX: Juggling knacks by confederacie, and how to know whether one cast crosse or pile by the ringing
192 Chapter XXXI: Boxes to alter one graine into another, or to consume the grain or come to nothing
193 Chapter XXXII: To burn a thred, and to make it whole againe with the ashes thereof
195 Chapter XXXIII: How to make a booke, wherein you shall shew everie leafe therein to be white, blacke, red, yellow, greene, &c.
196 Chapter XXXIV: Desperate or dangerous juggling knacks, wherein the simple are made to thinke, that a seelie juggler with words can hurt and helpe, kill and revive anie creature at his pleasure; and first too kill anie kind of pullen, and to give it life againe

204 Booke XIV

204 Chapter I: Of the art of Alcumystrie, of their woords of art and devises to bleare mens eies, and to procure credit to their profession
205 Chapter II: The Alcumysters drift, the Chanons yeomans tale, of alcumysticall stones and waters
206 Chapter III: Of a yeoman of the countrie cousened by an Alcumyst
208 Chapter IV: A certeine king abused by an Alcumyst, and of the kings foole a pretie jest
208 Chapter V: A notable storie written by Erasmus of two Alcumysts, also of longation and curtation
212 Chapter VI: The opinion of diverse learned men touching the follie of Alcumystrie
214 Chapter VII: That vaine and deceitfull hope is a great cause why men are seduced by this alluring art, and that there labours therein are bootelesse, &c.
214 Chapter VIII: A continuation of the former matter, with a conclusion of the same

217 Booke XV

217 Chapter I: The exposition of Iidoni, and where it is found, whereby the whole art of conjuration is deciphered
217 Chapter II: An inventarie of the names, shapes, powers, government, and effects of divels and spirits, of their severall segniories and degrees; a strange discourse woorth the reading
226 Chapter III: The houres wherin principall divels may be bound, to wit, raised and restrained from dooing of hurt
226 Chapter IV: The forme of adjuring or citing of the spirits aforesaid to arise and appeare
227 Chapter V: A confutation of the manifold vanities conteined in the precedent chapters, speciallie of commanding of divels
228 Chapter VI: The names of the planets, their characters, togither with the twelve signes of the zodiake, their dispositions, aspects, and government, with
other observations
231 Chapter VII: The characters of the angels of the seaven daies, with their names: of figures, seales and periapts
232 Chapter VIII: An experiment of the dead
235 Chapter IX: A licence for Sibylia to go and come by at all times
236 Chapter X: To know of treasure hidden in the earth
237 Chapter XI: An experiment following, of Citrael, &c.: angeli diei dominici
238 Chapter XII: How to enclose a spirit in a christall stone
240 Chapter XIII: An experiment of Bealphares
243 Chapter XIV: To bind the spirit Bealphares, and to lose him again
244 Chapter XV: The making of the holie water
245 Chapter XVI: To make a spirit appeare in a christall
246 Chapter XVII: An experiment of the dead
247 Chapter XVIII: A bond to bind him to thee, and to thy N. as followeth
249 Chapter XIX: This bond as followeth, is to call him into your christall stone, or glasse, &c.
250 Chapter XX: When to talke with spirits, and to have true answers to find out a theefe
251 Chapter XXI: A confutation of conjuration, especiallie of the raising, binding and dismissing of the divell, of going invisible, and other lewd practises
252 Chapter XXII: A comparison betweene popish exorcists and other conjurors, a popish conjuration published by a great doctor of the Romish church, his rules and cautions
253 Chapter XXIII: A late experiment, or cousening conjuration practised at Orleance by the Franciscane Friers, how it was detected, and the judgement against the authors of that comedie
255 Chapter XXIV: Who may be conjurors in the Romish church besides priests, a ridiculous definition of superstition, what words are to be used and not used in exorcismes, rebaptisme allowed, it is lawfull to conjure any thing, differences between holie water and conjuration
257 Chapter XXV: The seven reasons why some are not rid of the divell with all their popish conjurations, why there were no conjurors in the primitive church, and why the divell is not so soone cast out of the bewitched as of the possessed
258 Chapter XXVI: Other grosse absurdities of witchmongers in this matter of conjurations
258 Chapter XXVII: Certaine conjurations taken out of the pontificall and out of the missall
259 Chapter XXVIII: That popish priests leave nothing unconjured, a forme of exorcisme for incense
260 Chapter XXIX: The rules and ]awes of popish Exorcists and other conjurors all one, with a confutation of their whole power, how S. Martine conjured the divell
261 Chapter XXX: That it is a shame for papists to beleeve other conjurors dooings, their owne being of so litle force, Hipocrates his opinion herein
262 Chapter XXXI: How conjurors have beguiled witches, what bookes they carie about to procure credit to their art, wicked assertions against Moses and Joseph
263 Chapter XXXII: All magicall arts confuted by an argument concerning Nero, what Cornelius Agrippa and Carolus Gallus have left written thereof, and prooved by experience
264 Chapter XXXIII: Of Salomons conjurations, and of the opinion conceived of his cunning and practise therein
265 Chapter XXXIV: Lessons read in all churches, where the pope hath authoritie, on S. Margarets daie, translated into English word for word
265 Chapter XXXV: A delicate storie of a Lombard, who by S. Margarets example would needs fight with a reall divell
266 Chapter XXX VI: The storie of Saint Margaret prooved to be both ridiculous and impious in everie point
267 Chapter XXX VII: A pleasant miracle wrought by a popish preest
268 Chapter XXX VIII: The former miracle confuted, with a strange storie of saint Lucie
268 Chapter XXXIX: Of visions, noises, apparitions, and imagined sounds, and of other illusions, of wandering soules: with a confutation thereof
269 Chapter XL: Cardanus opinion of strange noises, how counterfet visions grow to be credited, of popish appeerances, of pope Boniface
270 Chapter XLI: Of the noise or sound of eccho, of one that narrowlie escaped drowing thereby, &c.
270 Chapter XLII: Of Theurgie, with a confutation thereof, a letter sent to me concerning these matters

273 Booke XVI

273 Chapter I: A conclusion, in maner of an epilog, repeating manie of the former absurdities of witchmongers conceipts, confutations thereof, and of the authoritie of James Sprenger and Henrie Institor inquisitors and compilers of M. Mal.
274 Chapter II: By what meanes the common people have been made beleeve in the miraculous works of witches, a definition of witchcraft, and a description thereof
274 Chapter III: Reasons to proove that words and characters are but bables, & that witches cannot doo such things as the multitude supposeth they can, their greatest woonders prooved trifles, of a yoong gentleman cousened
276 Chapter IV: Of one that was so bewitched that he could read no scriptures but canonicall, of a divel that could speake no Latine, a proofe that witchcraft is flat cousenage
277 Chapter V: Of the divination by the sive and sheeres, and by the booke and key, Hemingius his opinion thereof confuted, a bable to know what is a clocke, of certeine jugling knacks, manifold reasons for the overthrowe of witches and conjurors, and their cousenages, of the divels transformations, of Ferrum candens, &c.
279 Chapter VI: How the divell preached good doctrine in the shape of a preest, how he was discovered, and that it is a shame (after confutation of the greater witchcrafts) for anie man to give credit to the lesser points thereof
280 Chapter VII: A conclusion against witchcraft, in maner and forrne of an Induction
281 Chapter VIII: Of naturall witchcraft or fascination
281 Chapter IX: Of inchanting or bewitching eies
282 Chapter X: Of naturall witchcraft for love, &c.