Chap 1
Jbat certaine obfervations are indifferent certaine ridiculous, and certaine impious, whence that cunning is derived of Apollo, and of Artifices. I Know not whether to difallow ordifcomniend the curious obfervation The rid gt cu-ufed by our elders, who conje amp ured upon nativities fo as, if Saturne ip 5 arc nt and Mercui ie were oppofite in any brute ligne, a man then bor e ihould tivity-caftmg. be dumb or ftammer much j whereas ic is d yly feeue, that children naturally imirate their parents...
Chap Hi
Of the devils vifible and invifible dealing with witches in the mU lechery. T Ut as touching the devils vifible or invifible execution of lechery, M writren, that to fuch witches, as before have made a vifible Icagotl with the prieft, the devili I fhould fay there is no neceflity that iCN fl fhould appear invifible marry to the ftan Jers-6y he is for rhe moft put invifible For proof hereof met Sprenger and Infhor affirme, rhat mam times witches are feen in the fields' and woods, pfoftituting...
Proving
trafifmg with Divels, Spirits, or Familiars and their power to kill, torment, and confuroe the bodies of men women, and children, or other creatines by difeafes orotherwifes their flying in th Air, amp c. To be but imaginary Etronious conceptions and novelties gt WHEREIN ALSO, The lewde unchriftian pra amp ife of Witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and fuperftious people in extorting con-fcflions, by inhunwiic tenors and tortures is notably detefted. The knavery and confederacy...
CHAP III Msd
77. e opinion of VfeUm touching fpirits gt oftheir feverall ordeu0 a confutation of his errors therein, - . TiScllM being of authority in the church of Rome, and not impaau bleby any catholike, being alfo inftru amp cd in thefe fupcrnaturau or rather diabolical matters by a monke called Marcus, who had bcenfa mili3rly onvcrfant a long time, as he fnid, with a certaine divell , tf porteth upon tha fame divels owne word, which muft needs underfM ' left the ftate of this queftion, that the bodyes...
Chap Xtx
Ik at.great matters may be wrought by this art when Princes efteem and maintain it of divers wonderfuU experiment s9 and of ftrange concluftons in glares of the art perjpeflw9 amp c. J-JOwbcit, thefe arc but trifles in refpett of other experiments to this ef-led, fpccially when great Princes maintain and give countenance to Undents in thole magicail arcs, which in thefe countries and in this age is rather prohibited than allowed,by rcafon of the abufe commonly coupled thcrewithswhich in truth...
Chap Xiv 1
Choice of Charmes againft tbe falling eviO, tbe biting of a mad dog, the flinging of a Scorpion, Ihetoitb-acb, for a woman m travel for the k ngs evilf to get a tborne out of j member y or a bone eut of oms thnte, charmes to be faidfafting, or at tbe gathering f hearts, for ore eyes9 to open loehj, againft fpirits, for tbe ht s in a horfe3 nd peciaily for theVuhc of Albas h orje for foWer Wines, amp c. Tf ere be innumerable charmes of conjurers, bad phyfitians, lewd Chirurgians, melancholike...