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DEFINITION.

Difeafeof Witchcraft is a Sicktic: s tr at uU fes from ftrange and preternatural Caufes, and from Diabolical Power in the ufe of ftrange and ridiculous Ceremonies by Wit¬ ches or Necromancers,affli<fting with ftrange and unaccuftomed Symptoms, and common¬ ly pretemanually violent, very feldom or not at all curable by Ordinary and Natural Remedies.

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Rnuesjudgeit Fafcination ; That: tb«s have been fuch, *e7l..*r-

tholiny Hiftor'u Anatomic*, and ,«. ' eXaT;necj ftriftly Eye- A Phvfician of my Acquaintance told me he examined itrict.y c>e A l nyncian oi »»y 1 yas ancj where it was a report, that

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fSiiS*ZTfcKtoMJl tp“Hlly *=> nc.1 .llu.ed b, Gain, or f ta rft'or ftiperttitionafed by Education, or forced by rigour

of luiority bu one writ in one place, another in another; one in one C , nr v another in another; one in one Age, another in another ;one fh°» Tud-e 'the other the Phyiictan: fo that they held no confederacy to i,rfuture A'-es, but writ’their clear Experience ; which Experience cheat tuture/ s-s, , . a<? indeed what can any.man know

WrtSSSSSSt?af iA W Conceit, o. R 1 dually, and by <b.»« is ™= I *?d if™. Conn- 1 hanlie, wmen y Authors have writ m other Coun-

WSd SS'ba ■ >=■ »n»rn »1 «* Wind » Soodred thitbs in other Count,eys; and fUA. tb.nforaie.ly , and one hundtU that . But thefe aremany bewitched which

lienor thought fo, and confequently not cured that o.herwite might • and the e are divers thought fo, that are not, but,their Sicknefi i* refer- and there am. - and found by the Scrutinous in the legitimate

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Knives* Sciffais, Bryais, whole Egg?* Dogs Tails, crooked Nails, Pins, Needles, fometures threaded and ibtnetimes with Hair, Bundles of Hair, pieces of W^x, pieces of Silk, live Eels, large pieces of Flelli, Bones and Stones, and pieces of Wood, Hooks, and pieces of Salperer ; conclude they are bewitched; and that fuch have been vomited, or voi¬ ded by ftool, and that from Witchcraft. See Alexander Benedi Bus, Lib. 7. Cap.2^ of his Practice, Tho. Bartholwus, in Hlftor. Anatomleis, An¬

tonins BtnlvenitU) Obf. cjMed. Cap* 8+ (fardannsde varletate Rerumy Lib. 15. VlerH'y de praftlg. ‘D&momWy Nicolas Re mights de Damonolatreiay

Foreftns in Obf, Med. Lib.ift. LangmSy Lib. i. Epft+$$. Cornelius Gem-

nta> Lib. 2. de Vlvlnis Hatura CharaBerlftmlsy Cap* 4. Laurentlus Schilt- zdvu in Epftolis, Greg. Horpins in Eplft. Jacobus Dsldetlm in BpftoliS) and others, Witneffes enough, and men of credit enough.

The Reader is here to be advertifed*_that he mtftake not ; He muft in¬ quire what wentrbefore, what was eaten, and if a fufpedted Witch was offended : Secondly, He muft conlider whether fuch might not hi ge¬ nerated in the Body : Thirdly,He muft fee how many fuch ftrange things they vomit or egeft; none vomited all the aforefaid things, and all vo¬ mited fomeof them; commonly they vomited three or four kinds ; one vomited GUfs, Nails, and Hair together ; another vomited often Gob¬ bets of Flelli, BrafsPins, with Wax and Hair folded up together, and crooked Nails* Guefs at the reft, by thefe.

Some died, and cold not get up nor down thefe things ,* as Alexander

Benedltlns fhews ; fome were opened, as Virions-Newjejfer, as Johannes

LanqlttSy and Vieras affirm ; there were found in his Stomach four Iron Knives, partly fhafp, and partly like Saws, long and fmooth pieces of Wood, fuch as potfibly could not be fwaliowed or vomited forth ; two rou^h Iron Tools, each a fpan long, and a bundleof Hair: If Ulcers, Boiles, or Apoftems, have in them any of thefe preternatural things that were never fwaliowed, if other things correfpond therewith, fufpecfc Witchcraft." See Job. Langms of a Woman of Bononlay Eptft, 1%. Lib.

1. nn& VterttSy Lib.^. Cap.12. < , Objedf, There are thofe that go up and downy that [wallow Pebbles*, Coals,

Pieces of Irony BoneSy &c. and thefe maybyufe fo facilitate their Stomachy

that they may vomit them when they will, and fo be either admire d7 or plttled ■

and relieved* , Anfvo. Such have been : But, r. Abundance of thefe things for

.their fhaipnefs, roughnefs , and iargenefs, could never t>e;iwal¬ lowed.

2. The Perfons that voided them, and in whom fuch. were found be- in0 ddlefted, were fifty Men, Women, and Maids; and then they would

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not have been fo Tick, and vomited them fo difficultly, and To long to¬ gether, and have lain fo long miferably tormented, yes, and to cue at

lilt ^ II Sttar°e and wonderful Convulfions, indomitable and inexpteffi-

ble Torments” with other things preceding, or fupervening, gives fufpi- cion of Witchcraft: One Judith, a religious Maid, was bewitched, as Vierm, Lib.3. Op. 13. relates ; Her Jaws were contorted, and clave together, and fotnetimes her Gullet, that (lie could not fwallow, and fometimes her Tongue was fo convulled that lire could not (peak.

A convulfion of the whole Body by intervals, fhaking of the Head, nains in all the Joynts and Limbs molt vehement, (toppings of the Ears, blarin'’ out of (he Tongue, with hideous clamours adjoyned, with noife therein, like barking of Dogs, fupervened with vomiting of Chefnuts, Brills of Hair, laree pieces of raw Fleihj and Bones, or like to this, which Jaobus Ssilddim in his Obfnvations experienced, you may be fure

there is Fafcination. . . . ^ . Whofoever after long and violent pains votruts or ejects things pre-

ternatural to be bred in the Body, or unlikely to be received thereinto,

fufpect Witchcraft. _ , „ „ ' ' .. ' r a , . Ill If the Sick complaineth of fuch a Woman ot Man fufpedted tor

a Witch, and faith, Then he (or ft) funds ; or, he (orjht) comes, though no Body elfe fee any thing; for fitch is the power and cunning of the Devil, and confequently of his Agents (as Bodimts, VUrm, Gnllan- dm Remil'nu, Peter de Loier, now rendered in Englifh,, and Others, do demonftrate) that fome may fee a Spirit, others in the fame Room, at the fame time, fhall not; and fome that had very good skill in Magick. W6vild lit 'ertakebv the Phyfiognomy to tell who (hould fee Vifionsof Spirits, or Angels," which die ouely diftinguiflaed from other Spirits by their Office ; for ayyikos comes from «yyiM»,to declare,or be fent on a Melfa^e ; fo that one Spirit may be an Angel at one time, and another at another; alfo they will undertake to difeover who fhall never fee Ap¬ paritions, though they be in the Room with others that fee them ; If as foon as the Tick Party ctyeth out of fuch a one, like a Moufe, or Fly, or any other Creature, entered] into the Month, or goeth to the Body of the Sick which fometimes onely theSick feeth, and the Sick is raifed, and hoven up in his Body, and Breft moves high and labotioufly, and fome¬ nt fee ms to rife up to fuffocate him,with or without, the noife of Dogs batkins;, Cats mewing, Hogs grunting, Cows lowing, ot their like,heard

for thefe are more common to one peculiarly poflefled of the D *vil ’ as alfo is the long lyingin a trance thereupon, as if the party was dead, 'and then with leaping and raving the fit may go off; Judge this

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IV. A fourth fign of Witchcraft is, if the lick Prophefy, ana foretel truly things that afterward come to pals, and fpeak beyond the courfe of Nature (Gods Law, beyond which no man lawfully can go) things-- they never heard, felt, faW, orunderllood, and Languages they never learned - as divers chiefly in fome ficknefs that have Ipose Latin tnat they never learned, or other Nations Tongues they never were taught, and afterward} for the moft part, they forget all again, if with thefe, or without thefe, for there is difference in all; the Sick fly, or run up the Walls with their Feet uppermoft, or leap from one place to another,, ftrongly and fiercely, at a great diftance : Be fute tt rs not naturally ; if not naturally, preternaturally; if preternaturally, either by God or the Devil; if of the Devil, they tend to advance his Interel. or King-

dom, and Co do thefe Practices* i. That feveral have (pokeGrange Tongues they never learned,

we Thall endeavour to fatisfie the Reader, and alfo that-fome Pro-

^fordams de Rerun, vurlct. Lib. 8 .Ctp.tf. Relates how PoLms, an Italian, diftempered in Body [poke the ^ Tongue perfectly that he never learned ; he by Phyfick voided many Worms, and could afterward fpeak only his Native Language.

Siaeberti Continuator, faith, ‘Herbert of Nigella, from the Devil, di ieDeat the Camides from one end to another, in the Latin and Germ, Tongue, and afterward Seing cured, his new fpeaking ft range .Langua¬

° Cedrentts and Zonarusy Tomo. Report a Servant ot Michae Cu\°- mlates, at an Bciipfe, or, Conjmthonem Soli cum Luna, was ftruck .mth Madnefs, and would Prophefy things they found to come to pais, and m

ufjfeSwre'lates of a Maid, that never learnt Latin,that being asked

which was the beft Veifein all 'Argil, faid,

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cuP was apparently by other things poffefled by the Devil. - Z JT onenk Com, ad Problem, x. SeU. 3 of Anfiotle, Ob-

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never learned, and as foon as her flcknefs was gon, (lie could net-fpeak one word. ' . .

See L&v'inm Hemnius, Lib. 2. Cap. 2. de Occult. Natur. Mir. and GuawriaS) Tra&. 1 j. ^ f. 4. Gemllisy how many bewitch¬ ed may fore tel things to come, Alexander and Rhafis mention it ; but Witches leave the Body, and their Souls go into far Countries for two or three or more dayes, and then they return to their Body again, which lay, all this while as dead or in a trance ; and then they 'make re¬ port of what is done, or to be done, before any news can come, a week or fortnight perhaps, -the way is fo far for Poft, or ordinary Meflengers to bring a Relation • and fo they are thought^ forefee or foreknow many times, when they are not. Nlc. Remigm, PeUrdeLoier, An Hiftory of Naples, and Bodlms in D&monomanidi, Lib. 2. Cap. 4. con¬ firm it by many Hiftories and Examples ; and our Countrey Witches have tcliified the fame : It is preternatural indeed, and done by the Devil, to have theit Souls at lalt to live in Vaffalage with him.

2, That Witches, or the bewitched, can fly from Houfe to Houfe, or leap many yards, which naturally they cannot, nor in health could not, and run up the Walls with their Feet uppermofl, without hold¬ ing by Diabolical power, we (hail bring feveral Teftimonies. It would be too tedious to write fully all the Examinations and Informati¬ ons I have took concerning our own Count re y Witches: and alio the Reader may fufpedt either my true Information, or Sophiftication of my delivering it ; therefore I fliall rather defire to fatisfie by the Authori¬ ty of Authors’Experience chiefly. Their Adyerfaries con tradidt their Experience only by their Incredulity : and how flight an evincement that is, let all judge. I would be loth to give juft occafion to the Rea¬ der, to fufpedt me defirous of gaining Profclites by the impofltion of Lies and fained Fables • for I have heard many Relations from fober People tbuching thefe things, that I (hailhe;re omit defer] bing, left I fliould be charged with too great Credulity towards the one, and a de- lufive Impofltion towards the other.

Vlerus lib. 3.cap. 9. brings feveral Examples of the Nunns of Vm- tettfs in the County of Horn, how they were molefted with evil Spirits, and were fometimes lift up above a mans height from the gro'und, they climbed to us like Cats, and were fometimes carried over mens heads, and fometimes fell down again headlong; they would fometimes goe on the tips of their toes, as well as others on their feet.

• Sjlvula de Hiftorlis 'Mirabillbi*sy writes of a Woman called the Lady Rofe, that would of a fuddain by Diabolical Power be fnatch’d awav,

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;*nd bound to a bid,’a tree • fometimes an hair or a little flax was feen

to hold her. - . CMagdalena Cruel a, a famous Witch; whom Dr. Henry CMore m his

Antidote againft Atheifm rnentions^a^Afebeft, in fuch eftimation fhe was for her miiicies,fhe vibuld Cometriaes ini pomp on a Feftival Day, be lift up feveral Cubits above-ground, fo flaying her felf, holding in her arms the Image of the Child Jefus, her eyes pouring out tears* and her mouth counterfeiting Devotion. ?- But fome may objeCt, This jheivs not exaUlyy that fVitcheS canmake others fly y orfubflft inthf ambient Air.

Dr. Henry More only mentions Mr. Throckmortons Children nigh Huntingtony I fuppofe he,meant, as I have heard, how they would fly, and run up walls,being bewitched:Even as Elizabeth D^,(whom I well knew,as her Kindred with,whom fhe lived inform’d me) did, She would run up the walls with, her feet, layihgnohand, and on the Selling with her head downwards^ whicH lhe could never do before not fince ; like a Moufe leap’d from her, with a SufFumigation, a Phyflcian made, and

fome Ceremonies. / ' The Boy of Northwieh twelve years old,that Mt.Bruen, a pious man,

of Bruen Staple ford, recorded, would fly from Bed to Table, and from Table to Window, at a great diftance, and yet hislegs grown up to his

Buttocks. .P n ■ y The carrying of Mr . Silk^ from his Companion, Mr. m*?p*//,in the

Tens, on his Horfe back in the Air diverfe miles, till he lighted into Sr. Oliver CromwelsTard, leaping over one wall, and then another* leaving here a Glove, and there another, and elfewhere his Hat, could be no Deluilon. I had it from a fober Gentleman, who took it from their mouths. DoubtJefs fome Witch did it.

I fince heard,thelaft Spring itNew-Markety a Noble Man’s Hotfe ran away with a Lad* leaped an immenfe way each ftep, ran by fieep Hill Tides, and then ran his head againft a bank and killed himfelf. The Spectators never faw Horfe do fo before. And fome fay Stakes were to hefet at each leap for commemoration. : ~

So do Pigs and Hens when bewitched, often leap and dance. V. A fifth Sign of Witchcraft is. If the Sick is twiften, contorted,

ahd his Chin diawn to his Forehead, and neck turned behind him, or face rather, thsugh:the common cxprelflon is the other, and lye long, as if dfcady andthelite. r Butthefe may more particularly be termed, Tojfejfed'i Of which anofr. r. ; £ . '

VI. A great Sign i$*Xf any thing that comes from the Sick be ournt or harmed, and the fufpeCted Woman fuffers in fuch manner, or comes to

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x q- AT. wfe $ WjMjMpvw I'ViMcraf tj the Houfe ; or if after ihe is 10 ferved* or fcifttch d tul blood cotn€$}Of threatened, the Sick is eafed much and clearly, fufpeft her for a Witch, and the Difeafe to be from her, Confderatis confiiermits.

Befides the many Teftimosies of our own Country, Sprangmis and fflicol. in his D&woMALfttvyy. and T fw. BtiTthol in his

Hiftories mention the fame. 3 ' , ' . VII, All Difeafes that are caufed by Nature, may. be caufed by

Witchcraft j But all that are caufed by Witchcraft, cannot be caufed

bV Nature. 3 B • •* . _ Barrennefs, Lamenefs, Madnefti-Sterrility, and Impotent is Cm*.

di, Cholicks, Fainting and.Sweating, &cm Wit fliall relate mtheDe- fcription of Caufes, how Witches caufe them. .

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DIFF&R S.MCE. Now here it remains that we make Diliincf ion, if any is to be made,

betwixt the obfeffed or poffeftedLwitb evil SpititSj ftnd the bewitched

by Ceremonies. . V, rr Betwixt the extieam of Greatnefs in one, and the extieam of Sma.i—

nefs in the other, there is little difference, even in all other Difeafes * .alfo betwixt fome-kind of Obfeffion, and fome kind of Incantation is lefs difference, then.betwixt Come QbfefTion and other. Obfeffion, or betwixt foitie Incantation or Witchcraft, and otuer Incantation • but the Caufes betwixt Ppffeffion and Bewitching, do commonly clearly differ in Manner and Nature, the Witches ufmg idle .Similitudes, foo- litfi Ceremonies, and fenfiefs Words to Inchant the devihfh Spirits, to enter the Body in fliapd of .a Fly; yetfometimes the Witches fend their Imps, which do fo; ^and I qu eft ion whether any Evil .Spirit can enter any man, without command; from fome man:; but with that mot alwayes for God gives not leave, but that is fecret; fometidies on a worfe man they have no power, and yet bewitch abetter, or poifefs

the Religious. , Thefe are more peculiar to Pbffeftion; .Flying, Leaping at an huge

diftance, Speaking, the Tongue of the Side being held-; ‘add fotnetime they ufe his Tongue ; alfo fpeaking Biafphemy, Raving, and Lyihg, and tellincr things done far off at the momefit, and what will be by Va¬ ticination • alfo the Ikk.Roar like Bears, Bark .like DogSyiMew like Gats Grunt like. Bogs^mc. They fometime lie as if dead, ftiff, theii Head wreathed backward,Chin and Nofe drawn toigether3ot whole Face drawn up like a Purfe, with foaming and frothing,- and taging moft.and tormenting the lick Patty exceedingly whenanypuy brtpeak of God.

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A young Gentlewoman' told me *&MW*K &efW mPrifonwith a Witch i who was exhorted to repent , and did endeavour it, and then the Devil made her fume and fweat, and flopped her breath almoft; and after half ap hourlffe came to het Celf ^and being asked if the Devil did not pofleffeher, to diverts her from, Repenting, (he an- fvyered, Yea. Tfft

So Ramigius the Judge.of Lotharikgia obferved, that at the Bench, or in Prifon,or at their Liberty, (as we have alfo heard Relations there¬ of ) the Devil;would come and flop their Ears, or alttiolichoak them, or anoy them like a fwarm of Flies, or throw them along, when they had good Counfei given,or intended .today hold on God’s Mercy, whom they had at their Witch-making-covenantib folemnly renounced, toge- ther with all Faith in him, and Religion towards him. See the Story of Ann Bodenham, of the Maidflie made a Witch, that repented , in Henry Mere his Antidote. <> r ■.

Concerning the'Nature of Poffeffion, to be as we have, writ, fee Matter Clarke, in the fecond part of the Marrow of Scclefiafiicd Hijlory, and Life oi Matter Bmen, a Pious Man, it is his relation ; alfo the Ob- fervation of Felix Flaterus, a wife and fober Phyfyian, which he faw3 and the Relation is to be feen in bis Obfervationsy page 2©. de mentis confternatione. Alfo the Sfcpry of a Smiths Daughter, in fch'e Valley Joachim, poffcffedin, 15 f p. by:"Joins' Fine*tins, lib, 3+ de Micaculis: See alfo Vierus, lib.f* cap., io, deprtftigtis Damonum. Alfo Fernelinh d* abditis morborum caufis, lib, 2.

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Alfo wemuft make diftin&ion betwixt thofe that are poffeffed and be¬ witched, and thofe that are killed by evil fpirits ; I know not, but moft kind of fpiiitsthat appear will harm us, if we refift them ; and it is to be doubted that God will give them permiffton, if we affront them on bad grounds. A fober learned Man^told me. His father lying at an Inn, heard fome body in the Chamber, though it a Thief, and rofe to xefitt the Spirit, as it proved, gave him '* blow, fmall, but of force enough tocaufe Sicknef$,and hisdeath.jA fober and learned,Efquire of Northampton-{hire,told me his man was comitag early over New Market Heath , it was light when he felt fomewhat ftrike him on the back , no body there, he came.home, ffekened and died ^they hever looked to fee if the mark of the blow might befeen in his ftefh. '

Do&or More, lib,3.cap,2, of his Antidote- againft Atheifme, faith. That Miftris Prfrfcof fVeftminfttr told him, that her Husband very well

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fed deep in the Flefh. „ . , , * So Hiftories mention, and Doft-or More quotes them , that 'PhtlUp

Melmttons Kinfwomans Husband, being dead, in a few dayes appeared to her, bein? Solitary and. grief,ful, and took her by the hand and comforted her, but her hand; was black alwayes after.

The Barbers Boy, about 1 «SiSo. that was killed in Cambridge by a cneftial woman that haunted him,' fometimes alone, and fometimes wuh a Man in Trunk Breeches, addstothefe ; He had the ex aft mark in his forehead, being dead , where that Spiritual Woman did hit him aUve • he came from the Ifle of Ely on purpofe to be forfaken by the Vn-Val woman , feverat Scholars-took.Notes in writing thereof; but we write all as fhort as may be, fo that fome tntyobjefr and except soainft the Concordance and Dependance of one thing with another. ° The Devil, upon fome affront, dafhes out the Brains: thofe that

read conjuring Books, or otherway.es call him to-jeer him , are fome-

tirSom4 ri^ate hurt by Spirits, look firangely, their Hair ftandsup- rioht. Mouth or Cheekdrawn awry, or Eye-lid down to the Mouth - as th ■ Minifter of a Neighbour Town lately told me_ of one of his Panlb, fttook by a Spirit in the night upon no occafion given; feme are dumb, feme-Rave and all almoft differing: but we (hall not mfift on thefe, ’though we could bring many confiderable Obfervations.

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THe fiilhand movent Caufe:i?pthe Witch fome way offended, and (lie doth ill by» Revenging henifelf ;:-bUt fometimes ^theit Imps

force and perfwache them,ali S^mh Bmnw*<&Mourde»conttfe<i. We will ftrff relhte fbmdyiidiculous Gefemontes.'We have heard from

learned men, and iktetstfcber People, of Witches confeflion and con¬ viction, about the.way thdybewitch men andcartel .

Some take a BeaftSk in orffide, and ftickitfull of Thornes, or Pins, and call it fuch an ones Skin,and thafparty is wonderfu ly pricked and pained in the Superficies of-his Body, but it is. very- like they mutter

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Some tike a wooden bowl and a knife, and dagg the knife point into the bottom of the bowl, and it becomes full of blood, and fuch an Hotfeas they name, pifleth blood > until he dyes, or as they pleafe, with confent of the Devil, and Limitation of God , the firft , the oreateft, and the beft, to be praifed for evermore. ° Others to annoy Houfes with Flies, or to choik People, take a Setvc and put duft in it, and fife it, and throw up this dull, with fome Dia¬ bolical Sentences, and it turns to Flies.

One bewitched her Neighbours Cows Bags to rankle,and to be knortea and to °an°rene ; fhe fent her Child into the Field for fome Bryars and made like° the form of a Cow , and called it fuch an ones Cow, and (truck the Bagg diverfe times with thofe Bryars, and their Neighbours

rows Bags fwelled, and rankled. * , _ But it is the Devil that doth thefe. things; for fuch Ceremonies do

nothing or at leaft moft of them, in other Peoples hands ; the Devil and they make a Bargain, he to help them to Money, or Revenge, and they to give him their Souls at laft,, to live m fervitude and Vafialage

eternally with him. t ..., We yead how Mofesand thz Egyptian Magicians did many^ preternatu¬

ral things by that Magick that is called Rahdomantiayot Rod-magic k^and the Ceremonies both ufed wete much alike ; fo did Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Ifa'iah, many Ceremonies or Similitudes,as eating of Books, det- tin- on Pots, making like Seige, and Leaguers, going barefoot, andthe like; all Caufes are Gods, and are good, but the Devil knows them

^TheTblind man in Matthew, cured with Clay and Spittle ; Ezeklah rured with Figgs of his dangerous Sicknefs ; Naaman, wathipg in Jordan, cured of his Leprofie, were but Ceremonies; but ufed in the power of God, which can effed all things. . C(,- n,5. nr_

Neither do all natural Caufes produce onely natural Eftv-cts, nor do all Preternatural Effeds, arife only from Preternatural Caufes.

Natural Caufes ufed- by Spirits,may produce effeds above the Power, merely of thofe natural Caufes; indeed Witches ufe fuch tmngs but as

^Novvlefus'fee what Authors have fet down briefly, how Witches

caufe ficknefs, and bring death, and what kinds of ficknefs, I Firft moft chiefly and familiarly they; ufe certain Ceremonies,

fool'ifh Superftitions, and fencelefs- words; fometimes calling on the

Duftts Kin° of the Scots, was pined away and wafted with a fweating ficknefs;by fits he fweat hugely and langui(hed,& by fits he was cooled.

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3nd refreflisd. The Governour o&Moravidy his enemy fet Witches to hurt him; they made his Image of Wax^ anddid roaft it on a Spit 5 arid as that began to melt, fo the King melted ; removed from the fire, the King was refreshed. See Hettor BoetiasyHiflor. Scotornm^ib, 11. I have heard fuch a thing by a waxen Image done in England y both from a Phyfitian, and Divine ; but much according to Hiffior Boetins his Story.

To take away virility,and that a man and his wife fbould not copulate, and though they had eredUon, and provocation, they could not ejedt Semen) or if fo, not into their own Veins, Witches ufe certain words, which they mumble, and tie a knot, whiles the parties are married; or take a Lock, andafifoon as the parties are married, fhootit; they tie this knot many wayes, and fometimes hinder copulation; fometimes give leave to copulation,but hinder generation : One was fo bound by an earthen Pot, threw by a Witch into his Well,' with fome Cere¬ monies. See of thefe tilings Tho.Barthol.hift. Anatom, the Book-called Malleus l^enejicartim. cap.7. pag. 2.alfo BodmHSy lib, 2,cap,1. Sometimes the Genitals are ihrunk up, and fcarce to be found, as Baptjjla Codron- chmsy lib. 3, cap,6. de morbis veneficis ac venefieijs, and Bodinus teftifie, with others; PTieras, lib.$,cap,i$Je Barn. PY*ftig,pizw$ more,and Alex~

ander Beneditttts, lib.24.. cap.14.. de medendis morbis^ hath an example of one made unable by a Charm in verfe, others by Charadlers.

A Woman of Onipontusy wonderfully tortured, was freed by taking away a waxen Image an hands length, laid under the thrcfhold of the door by a Witch ; "the Image was bored through , and two pins ftuck in each fide, which fo tormented this Woman. Another laid a bead like a Toad, under the threshold of a door, and made Barrennefs to

all the houfe. < ’ / /V’0 * 7*7/7 Remigias faith, The Devil gave one Woman a little Hay^ which jhe

was to pat into her Neighbours Thatch ; and the hoafe would be foon on

Fire, . . .

Their Ceremonies for railing Winds, Thunder and Lightening, Storms and Hail, Earthquakes, and Fires, were as ridiculous and in- fi<mificant, as thofe whereby they caufed ficknefs ; the Devil wilhed them to perform fuch Ceremonies, and fuch effeSs (hould come to

Dafl'e In the fifth Book of Tocjuifuion of \A/itches j it is recorded, that

■Anna de MinAelen and Agne went into the Field, digged an hole, put water therein, ftiired it about, and ufing fome words, calling on the Devil-Luge Storms arofe, and Thunder.

Vm anas Albs. Relates of great Rains caufed by Witches, by draw- • . mg

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a® about the Crucifix in the Streets, with great Railings, and Blafphe- mies, and giving the concerned Hofttoan Affe, and leading him to

the Church Porch. „ . r , t. - Towards the end of the Hiftory of John Leo of Africa, of the Reu-

oior of the Gentiles of Africa, mention is made of the ‘Portugalls in Angola , deftrous to fee the Gaughe, or Priefts , raife Sroims and Thunder • In 1787. One with little Bells, Skipps, and Trinkets, and Superftitions words, in half an hour raifed Thunder, and many black

Clouds t- Henry-More, chap 3 Mb.3 faith, What iff -catting of Flint Stones be¬ hind their backs toward the Wieft, or flinging a little Sand in the Air, or ftriking a River with a Befome, or Rod, fprinkling the water towards Heaven, the ftirring of Urine, -or water, with their Anger in an hole in the ground, or boiling of Hoggs briftles in a pot ? what a re thefe fooferres available of themfelves tbgather Clouds,.and coverthe Air Withdkrktiefr, and then to make the ground fmoak with peak s of Hail arid Rain, 'and to make:the Air terrible, with frequent Tightenings ana

11. We (Ball drew, that the Witches fend their Imps, or young Spi¬ rits, into fome, fometimes in form of Mice, fometimes of Flies, or fometimes give the-party a piece of bread to eat, or the like ; But in our differencing Paffeflion front Effafcinatiori we have hinted fome things hereof, which need not be repeated ; it will be needful to add, how many 'feints may be in one: whether they are alwayes Gommiflionated,or fent; by Witches, we cannot Determine ; fometimes they are, as we have received information of the Maid Mary H^,now poflefled, as the Spirits fay, with two; and fhe faid flie faw two Flies? come down the Chimny to her, before fhe was diftempered ; flie lives at * or nigh Gadsden, nigh JDunfiable : Elizabeth Day, who lived once in this Town, that I knew, had one that leaped forth like a Moufe, upon fuftumiga- tion • (he was bewitched: So one at Harbor ongh, divers years fince, Mafter Gibbons cured ; fo another in the Ifle of that a fober Antient Man of this place well knows, being Jbewitched, had a Mous-like Spirit entr.ed him. Matthew, Mark^ Luke, and John? teftifte that there may be more evil fpirits then one, at once, in one ; out of Mary Magdalen# was feven Devilscaft ; one was called Legion, becaufe hehad lo many in him ; now^a Legion is'ten thoufand- or many thoufands : the Boy that Mafter Bruen wrote of, faid he hadthree evil Spirits in hipv -■

But whether thefe be , or fo alwayes,, the Imps ’of. Vv itches tnat fuck their Teatsy found in feveral parts of their bodies, is que^ionable, ©r Whether all Witches have fuch Imps, and confequently Teats to be

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fucked by them, is queftionable ; perhaps fome that deny there to be any Witches, and confequently any to be bewitched , deny onely the fuckling of Imps, or infernal Spirits, acknowledging and aUowing that there be Necromancers, Sorcerers, and thofe that have familiar Spirits, or familiarity with Spirits; and that thefe ad by, and have covenanted with Diabolical Spirits, by oath to the Devil, Renuntiation of G O D, and Bond writ in their blood, or otherwife; onely denyiug that any have Teat*, and cannot fink, and gi ve fuck to Spirits, and do mif- chief : The chief thing that makes a Witch, isafolemn Bargain and Covenant with infernal Spirits ; and we. know, Dtnornmto[*mmr a

et tars fro toto. Let but any allow me the Thing, and they muft ©f necelluy allow the Variety and Degrees thereof.

Thefe Imps that the Devil commands fome Witches to nourilh, do infti°ate them to give them command to do evil, and they have fome two! fome three, and poiT.bly fome mote, fome fewer; one u to bewitch Cartel, another Men, a third Plants and Fruits of the > Earth; and they call them by feveral names : it u moft probable that Witches fend thefe in form of Flies, or Mice, into thofe they Envy, and wifli Revenge. But, as Remigws well obferved, they muft at their Noftuinal Conventicles acquaint the Devil, and he bids them do thus, and id; and they boaft of their wickednefs there, as we do of our °oodnefs here ; Pmlut Crdlamim di SomUgus, Bedims, and r<Vw,°teftifiethe fame things ; as how alfo Witches ate pumftied and jeered, when they come to the Debolical Affemblies, if they have

done no miichief. . , , I I i Tertium canja rum genus: a third kind of Caufe is, how by their

voyce and eyes fome do. bewitch;' this feems ftrange, but fome of the aforementioned Authors teftificit j fome have two Pupils, and look croffe ; others by praife inchant; we know fome charming words will do much, not as they are words,but Charms. .

Gm. Horfiim, Epift. Med. fett.7 ."faith. If the look will do it, in all reafon much more the touch-but thatT do not know, Realon is not Reafon that follows not Experience; for matter of doing, the Con¬ ference is Rekfon ; but Experience only, for matter of knowing, is Rea¬ fon • otherwife Reafon is but apleafing phanfie, which one man thinks Reafon, and another not; Elermamm^ and V\ernsi by their experience find neither Afpeft nor Contad to bewitch ; this I,do believe, many women mav bewitch thofe they have not ieen ,>ut it is rarely feen . fome times they intend(as the two Spirits in Mary Halim '1664. about Gadsden did exprefle; they were Cent to her father, but had not rower <uvenof God,) to bewitch one, and cannot, andfobewitch r 7 b another

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another of the family. So I have been told of a Child fo bewitched fo£

another, In thefe parts. . IV. AFourth kind of Caufeis, acafuai advantage that Witches take

upon Men nigh to fome danger; as a fober Divine told me, his Brother, was in a Scots (hip, when a Witch transformed her felf into a Crow, and was in the Air to raife a Wind to caft it away, out of Envy fhe bore to the Mariners; but her mother, a Witch, withftoodit. So RcrnWivts relates how Witches from their own confetfion, being brought afore him, did intimate that they took advantage on mens nearnefs to danger, as one being on a Cart, they made fall, and break his Limbs; another going amongft Trees, they caufed a rotten bough to break oft, and with a wind dire&ed it'to his Eye, and to put it out,

V. They kill fome by anointing them ; what thefe Oyntments oc, * know not; there be, I fuppofe, no fuch in a Apothccaryes.(hops, the force is from the Devil; nor do they ufe thefe to kill, to mucn as to flie withall; and whom they anoint with this oyntment,they will m a e to flie ; indeed , as %emlglm well obferved, whom they fay it jhaU kill, but efpecially their powder, it kills ; and whom they lay it Hull hurt fo, it hurts in fuch a manner andmeafure: they do often mutter fome words, when they anoint themtelves with it to flie. That we o not fpeak thefe things onely of our felf, the Reader may fee by reading Remirifts his Damomlatr.y, Bodimts his D&monomany, Vlertes de 1 rajhgus, Grillandtis de Sortileglis , John cJMeyerut in ffifim* Flandna, and fac.

fV\ A Sixth way they have to caufe ficknefs, and bring death, to deftrov Cattel, and fruits of the Earth, is a Powder; this they lome- times drew on men in bed, or Children; or if they fpnnkle it, they that °o over it are fubjeft to that mifehief the Witch appoints that fcat- tersit* or they bury it in ground, and Beads that go over it ar e hurt- if they fprinkle it on fruits,they die: they receive it of their evil fpirits, and, as Remlgius well obferves, it never hurts them, let them touch it how they will; and it hurts others onely as they do appoint it ;. o inus faith, Onthe u.of January, 15 77. a Witch was [entenced to die^tr.hit;

confejfed (he had killed three men,by cafling a Powder wrapped in

way they were to travell; f<*ywg> tN THE NAM& OF ALL DEVILS. At cpiBavium in the year 1564. were rhtee men and one woman con¬

demned to be burned ; they confefled they hid dull under tbrelholds, and Sheep-Coats, whereby they hurt men and Beads; that the Devil gave them this Powder thus; After they had all anointed themfelves, or flyen on Goats , Befoms, or the like, enchanted by their Diabolical Arts to carry them either high or low, that is, on the ground, or aloft m

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lS A. l recmfe of Dijeafes from Witchcraft, i-h* Ait raceedtri? T&iftJ they came into huge meetings, where one Pevil in (hape of a Goat fat on a Throne, to which all Old Homage and kiffed his filthinefs; then they danced, had carnal Copulation with other Devils, feafted, andlaftof all, the principal Devil did burn hi* bodv to Allies, of which every Witch took fome, that foe might de- ftrov withal 1 ; the Devils uttering thefe Woids,;-Rw^ your [elves, and aJ, They did all renounce God, and deny all Faith in him, and Obe¬ dience towards him ; and if any did not obferve the Devils commands, and do mifehief, they were pumfhed ; nor durft they abftatn from their NoUHrmt Coventlcles.. Many Hilaries confirm thefe things; we make but a brief AbftrahTjof them, the forelaid Authors may fausfie the Reader ullv therein. , .. VII. So retimes they make natural Remedies to produce preternatural

, as by oivin° the party fomewhat to eat, but that that is eaten hath no power to raife fitch ftrangeSymptomes, but rather gives power to» “ Witch,by giving any to,or receiving any thing from the party that is - - be bewitched ; and until then , fome Witches have conteffed that they ould not have their minds, or power to bewitch ; fo a Neighbour of mine tells me concerning his Sifter, long intended to be bewitched oy a W-ch • and of one in the Me of Ely, I heard the like, who could not b, bewitched-until the Witch had got him to eat meat with her : The

,,verb is, it is iU mdlwg with edged Toole j or Bed daring to catch . Bear by the Tooths it isworfe daring, to have to do with the De-

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VIII. Witches have another way, when thefe will not do, or at l?aft fo fuitably as the occafion (lands, that is, to Metamoiphofe or transform'themfelves into Cats, Rats, Flyes, Bees, Wolves Sc. and fometime they lie in lurking holes ( as ^^pathetically.ae- feribes) feeking our ruine and mifehief, while we fleepi fecurely, little diftruftin0 anydhino when we lie down ; 7hereyore (faith he) it is heft for

us to commit and commend our /elves to Codin oar Prayers when we-he down,

ani defire his Protection ; for there have been of all Jons of men, both for ooodJfs and great nefs,harmed by them.-hk relates of one that comeffed he transfoimed'her felf into the (Rape of a Cat, and the I-eople of the.

f’oufe let her run up and down, not thinking any thing-; and when tney were gone out of the houfe, With a Powder (he had in the bottom or claw of her foot, foe fptinkled the face of the Child in the Cradle, and

*“ Sawyer told me, at an Atfoes of this County he heard a Witch fay at Bench, before the judge and her Accufers , She was fare-pot to die

yj: for all the mifehief fit. had dene, was m transform! ng her felf

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(bape of a Bumble Bee ; and biting the Maids thread often in pieces as {he fmn ; which Maid came in againlt her. It would be too tedious here to defcrv how Witches can thus alter their bodies, or in a manner anmni- late them. This world was made of nothing,by Spiritual Power,and may be refolve'd into nothing again by the fame Power ; and we can refolve denfe Bodies into Air * and coagulate Air into Water; and the D-vil, quatenus a Spirit, can do that, that a Spirit can do • but as bem the worfe, and weaker then God, he vanes; but by Gods permiflion he is

abILeft SyTild doubt of the Transformation of Witches and how they are fenfiblein the (Rapes of Wolves,Cats,Mice,Dogs,Hoggs,lLc. and aft the parts of fenfitive Creatures therein, and copulate with the Creatures of the lhape they affume, and eat fometime fuch meat, and devour Children in the Ibape of Wolves, let them read Remgms his r,rnr»>r chanter Veter de Layer , John Tntemius, Bodtnus, Herodotus, 'pompotlus Melal Solinus, Matter Gage of tie'VVeil Indies, and others ; SS Lranoerus, terns, and Vincent,us, wnneffes enough ; who alfo teftifte the ability of Witches, through Diabolical Power given them, to transform and metamorphofe any men or wornen they have powe to hurt into what fhape they pleafe, commonly holdinD hmiutu e w ^

f° Anfin^the fhape of Wolves have divers Witches lacerated and eaten thofe they thirfted to be revenged of, or thofe that cafually fell into their hands , I fliould rather fay their Clawes ■ which when tMichacl Verdunus, and Peter Bur got us {it Vterus l,h.6.cap. 13. teftifies) firft faw, they were afraid of then new form they had brought themfelves into , thus deftroying Men and Cattel, they thought not to be found out by the fecular Authority, and fo to raign fecurely in then

Homicide.

Of the Cure of Difeafes Caufcd by Witchcraft.

i Of the Cure of poffeffion, n mu^usi©- -, feme are call out by Pravers, feme by Necromancy; one to* commands another •, there , ? .1 charms and Rites to which Spirits are fubjeft, and by which they are bound; as the conjuring down thofe that walk into fuc r« ound orsea, for fuch a term of years; and the Devils are forced trTtiue under Laws and to be commanded by thofe Men that without iteliuS” A of GOD, m.a toe .hem in V>M.S. andflavery for ever hereafter. - Hethj

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Herbs are boiled in a Pot, over which the bewitched do hold then heads when the fit approaches; Mafter Gibbons of Harborough cured one fo’- and like a Moufe leaped forth of her mouth, and flie was ab- folutely freed; a Gentleman living nigh Huntingdon, who told me,

^ofhers were with fome (linking Suffumigecaft on Coals; fo was a Maid I knew cured, a Moufein fimilitude, leaped from her Mouth, held open when the fit approached. ... , . . ,

A fobet Antient Gentleman told me, he intimately knew one in.the Ift» of Ely, whofe name he told, but now I have forgot it; he was be¬ witched and before ftrange fits he had like a Moufe came to him, which none could hinder ; he lent to a white Witch, or Necromancer, Sorcerer Ma°idan, or what you pleafe to call him ; he gave him an Amulet or Charm to hang about his neck , and fo long as he wore that, he was freed; he durft not leave it off: this Wizard asked if they were wicked People , elfe , he faid Y. hexouid not , or would not help

X^Ame Bodenham, we read in Henry Mere, when flic raffed Spirits, made a (linking perfume on Coals, after her Circle was drawn , and conjuring Charmes in her Book read; the Devil loves, it Teems, evil bafc°Odours, aud Sluttiihnefs is commanded, as Regmlghts was

told by them. *. t. t . 4 2. Of the Cure of plain Witchcraft, whereur nothing palpably enters

the Sick, or is alive within them; and firft ofrprefervation. Divers things are traditionally delivered , as Prefeivatives againft

Witchcraft, wore about us 5 and offenfive to Devils ; therefore I be¬ lieve cameRofemary,Miffelto,andJvy,to be hung up in Houfes,became ihe Antients judged thofe.to defend Houfes from evil Spirits ; L&vimu Lmnlus in one of his laft Chapters of his Book of the Wonders of Nature,’hath divers fuch , as he and others, wiih to wear Corral, Lapis Jmlanthes , Graines of Taris, Piony , and Rhae, .to defend from Witchcraft ; cne of London * a German Phyfitian , highly ex- tolls Corral, and told a friend of mine he. cured one bewitched

with it. . , Our beft way is to defire GOD'S Frotedhon, and pray to him, and

keep our felves from wickednefs; and to have nothing to do with thofe that have reafon to be- fufpe&ed for Witches, or to do preternatural Avis; though indeed the ftupid and fupeiBionated Vulgar,judge onely that honeft, many times, that is within the.reach of their Capacity and Experience pnely0. •

Concerning tke Cure of Witchaaft,we mall divide it intothefe ' . *" feven

.v, $**f; .V'

5 5 and Supernatural Caufif. feven heads, becaufeExperience hath ihewen they have b :a helped fo

^x?TopunUh theWitch, and that twowayes, i. Either hei own Body, or 2. The thing bewitched.

2. Call upon GOD. ... t*, t l 3. Ufe Specifical Medicines, antipathetical to Damons, if there be

^lufe, or make the Witch ufe the Ceremonies of lidding the Sick-

nC s; Make her, if the other fail, either to take the Difeafe her felf, ei transfer it tofome Dog, or Brute. ut. ,

6. Search, if there be no Gharmes, or things refemblin& the Sic:<3

hl7 .'wdle v|Uh U imprifoned, flic is void of hurt, and Satan leaves

b£ Firft , Briefly to demonftrate all thefe, the afore named Authors can iuftifie all thefe, which we need not here reiterate.

If any is troubled, as out DiagnojUck. Signs Demonftrate, one thing being compared with another, and the lubfequents with t ePrece-

xC. Punifli the Witch, threaten to hang her if (he helps not the Sick; fcratch her, and fetch, blood, for fo, faith Thoms* B*nbolmm Witch- ciaft is held to bediflolved ; and fo I heard from a fooer Phyfitun , a Child bewitched by Magoret Bell, nigh Lmtermrtb m Leicejterjhre, was

2. Punklithe thing bewitched ; putting red hot Iron in the Cburm, when Butter would not come, hath burned her in the Guts; burning the Excrements of one bewitched, hath made her Amu fore; tying the Fat 01 Cauldren of Drink hard with Cords, that hath boiled over when fcarce any Fire was under, hath made the Witch be fore girt and pained. flopping up Bottles of that Drink that hath been bewitched, nath made the'Witch able neither to urine or deject, until they were opened; if an Hoife or Hen, &c. be bewitched to death , if they are burnt alive, and in the fit, theWitch comes, and complains : Thefe are all Ex¬ amples that 1, by my diligent Inquihtion into thefe things, have been informed of; But Authors in other Ages, and other Countryes, will

bear me out in the truth hereof. . 2lv Call upon GOD ; pray earneftly Sounceffantly; we.areanno_ cafe

to throw away Faith,and not in any to take Prefumotionslet none think, lam better then fueh an one, and GOD ought to defend me, and lam for? 1 lhall not be hurt if I go amongft Witches 01 Spirits , thins Pr*

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fum-ption f better than thee have fuffered worfe : for matter of driving out Devils, Prayer avails more than in ordinary Witchcraft, yet fofrie cannot be cured at ail • and Remigius faith , In one the Devil anfweredy Becaufe the Sick^ had never payed to God for refauration; but the Witches gave other Reafons, why they could not cure others ; inch things are fecret to us, yet common in the Councels of Spirits.; and Witches cannot cure, nor cure by any other way , than that their Fiends or Fa¬ miliar Spirits order and command, or at leaft this is moft common./

Thirdly, life Specifica! Medicines, antipathetical to Damons^ if any be fo qualified, and effectually fo: Corral, ffLtites, Emerods, Rhue, Piony, Rofemary, Miffelto, and Birch, were ufed by the Antients: fomeof the Antients thought all Convulfions and Epikpuck paflions, Vertigoes, and Hyftericks, to arife from Damons and Spirits; and ty¬ ing thefe about their necks, and giving them inwardly , they were helped; fo that falfe Foundations mull needs have rotten Supcr- ffrudiures. ; ' #

Pliny, lib.IQ.cap.2. Relates that Cymcephalaa, an Hearb that is called in Egypt Of rites, prevails againft all Witchcraft; and that the Gram¬ marian Appion raifed the Ghoft of Homtr by it, to tell him what Country man he was, but received no anfwer, as he durft relate.

Matthiolus faith, The Seed of the Hearb True-love, at a time drunks for twenty dayes, cures Dijeafes caufed by Fafcination.

Lobelius, pag. 87. faith, the Herb Priamis, with white Pepper and Wines, loofes Witchcraft.

Thomas Bartholin, for fuch asr cannot copulate and eje& fperme, with their own Wives through Witchcraft, praifes from others Birch Tree. * . # a *\

For Love-Enchantment, Skenklus, Obferv. Medecinal: pag.^\$. en- joyns to take of Unious Stones, and Saint Johns.wort, called Puge SDa- monum, equal parts, and a little Balm, give them in diink, and hang the Loadftone,Amulet-like, about their necks.

<P. T>roetus cap.K.Confiliinovi de peftilentia, faith,An Amulet of Quick? fiver prevails againfl Plague and Witchcraft : An ignorant PhyfitiamI know, layes it under the Pillow in a quill.

Marcellus (Donatus m Aledica Ilifloria Adirabilis, hath diicuffed many things concerning Witches and Damons: amongft the reft he queftions whether Galen did believe there were any Damons or no, and he brings this Sentence in his Book of Medicines eafie to be prepared, to prove he did , Caridion, et latum cuminnm, et z,ochii radicem ad tertiam partem de- coque, et ex vino veter, potui da, gcfet et glaneum off ay hac emmfnjfitaDa-

r.tor.es ablgant*$z: lib.2,cap. 1.

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, C]reg> Hsrfiim t Sctl.7. jquaji.et Epftol.Med. writing toJJrihv Schlan-

hovim in Aniwei to hh a diiputes me Cafe, Wfaeth&i Natural Remedies may cure a Difeafe from a Preternatural Caufe , and it may fometime; llicers have been cured , fo writes Schlanhovius, Petrus ^omfonatius lib de Incantationibus ; and Horfi'm reckons two , one that had a fore Breaft,out of which came a long piece of Glaffe ; another of an Ophthal- mj, voided pieces of the Befome, and they loft the Befomes they had newly bought, the Witch ufed them ; but it is but fometimes,and moft in outward Ails,that common Medicines will cure.

Fourthly, Ufe lawful, and make the Witch ufe thofe Ceremonies fhe knows to Cure the Sick. Mailer C^iptper relates how one tied in Pu- dendis VirUibus fo that he could not joyn with his wife, was freed by making Urine through his Wives Wedding Ring, Barthold mentions the like of pilling through a Birch Befome.

One white Witch is recorded to Cure by the heads of Crows and Brainesof Cats : And if Natural Remedies can have a Preternatural force given by Witches, to caufe Difeafes ; why not as well, when they pleafe,to Cure Sickneffes ? As Mrs. Bodenha?n of Salisbury 1653. fent five ragged Boyes (Spirits) (it feems the Devil is poor,he can keep his fervants no better cloathed) with Mris. Goddards Maid, to gather in Wf7f0#-Meadow, Dill and Vervain, together with which, fhe gave the paring of her Nails ; fome were to give in broath to rot their Guts, the other to rub about the Pot lides, to make their Teeth fall out; thefe fpiritual ragged Boyes were alio fo hungry, that Mrs. Bodenham threw them fome bread, and they eat it, and danced; they could not tell where the Hearbs in the Meadow were, till they removed the Snow,and looked about as others may do ; young Damons! from all fuch, and par¬ ticipating in their adlions, the Lord deliver us and defend ; for, it is He that worketh in us both to mil and to do,even of bis ^ood pleafure ; and it is not in man to dir ell his wayes ; for, in him we hvey move, and have our

being. f Some ufe writ Charms, Verfes, and Chara&ers : Paracelfus had fome

knowledge in fuch, Witches do nothing by the Stars, they are G CD’S Creatures, of noble ufe, and for mans ufe.

Fifthly, The Witch is fometimes forced to take the Difeafe her felf, and fometimes is lick, as the party fhe alflidled was ; fometimes dies ; when fhe is call into Piifon the Sick are fometime delivered ; fometime he or fhe (they are moft Females,moft old women, and moft poor) mull transfer the Difeafe to other perfons, fometimes to a Dog or Horfe, or Cow,&c. Threaten her, and beat her, to remove it. For the verifica¬ tion of thefe,read Aiuhoxs, -., ■ . ' ; . -

Sixthly,

intheduftof thehoufe, as Witches Powder is laid, whether there be no Charrxus, Images, writ Chara&ers, or other Teiefms; for thefe took away and deftroyed , the Effafcination ceafes; Mafter Lilly in his Julgement upon the twelve Aflrologictil Hoisfes^ in his IntroinElion t& Aflrologie y hath fet down diverfe Natural Remedyes againft Witch¬ craft. ' ' . . '

Seventhly, Get the Witch, put her in Pxifon, her Power then ceafes, Satan leaves her ; fomecimes fhe then acquits thofe fhe hath be¬ witched, if Satan will give leave ; however, her bewitching of others isprevented. 1

I have been brief, otherwife things might have been defcribed more cleerly,and fully; ZqIIhs and Memns may carp.

4 v 1 • '

Ecaufe there be many that will not believe the manifold and rna- IJ nifeft Experience , many in all Ages and Countryes have had 13 of thefe things ; yet when they fee the Scriptures (to which

moft, if not all, yield a reverence to, and belief in) in plain words and Hiftorical expreibons to mike out the fame', they may be convinced of their former rigid Incredulity: Wherefore we drew out thefe places of Scripture , to offer to the Readers perufal and contide- ration; literally they are fo to all ; but if they ate to be interpreter, why may not I have the liberty to interpret them to the belt of my know¬ ledge,as well as another, for the defence of his way ? _ - .

1/That there be Witches, or thofe that have familiarity with Spirits,

- - and Supernatural Caufes, * "

4« That Witches can make inanimate things Animate, turn water into blood, jnake the bodies of the dead arife, foretell thing;? to come, &c. through the Power the Devil giveth them by the permulion of Uods £^.7.20,22,and ver[,ii.Exod.8'7» Afow* 23.8,9,10.

f. That Spirits Immediately, as well as Mediately, by Humane Agents.may hurt and difeafe: Job 2,7•Luke 1.1^,20,22.

6. That the beft of Men may be hurt by ill Spirits, by the pertmlTion of God: fobz.6,7. Job 1.12,13,14. Macth.4

7. That Spirits commonly work by Sirring up Natural Caufes, fob r*

8. ?That they aft by Ceremonies,“the good as well as bad, Exd. 7.

11,12,22. Exod.%.6,7-17. Ifaifih 6.6,7. Jcrem. I3- verf.x,, tothei2. Jertm. 24. vtrf. 1. to 10. Jer.zj. 2.8c 28.10. Jer. 5 1. vtrf.60 63,64. Ezekj4. and y chapters. Ez>ckj 12.18. 8c chap. 24. w/.3, to 0. chap.37*

16,17. Joh.9.6>7. 2.2,3. , p. That all have not Power, as to bewitch, to not to heal, or call

out Devils, by the means and Ceremonies that others may, Mat*10,1.

/kV^9.i8,ip. 19.16. . 10. That many Devils may be in one body ; m fome feven >

CMark^ 16.19. or one alone, as Tebit 8Atts i9.*y>*6. A Legion,

that is, many thousands, Luke 8.30. . 11. That the Devil may polTelfe Man, fee all the aforefaid places,

and aifo Beafts, Luke 8.3 3. compared with 8.28,30. 12. That all are not polfelfed alike, that are alike pofieffed, M^.

i7.to2p. Lfikeft. 3°. fomeare Dumb,as CMarkv+iJ* fome fpeak,as

13. That the evil Spirits may torture, and would deftroy Man,

ii^That the Symptoms from Preternatural Caufes, are more violent and liian°e then fromNatuial, CAtxrkjt.io^o^Z. Luke 8.3cMar-.f.

3 That thofe poffeffed may do Preternatural afts, often beyond

the Power of Men to do> Luke 8.29* , . » 16 That the evil Spirits can go no farther then Goa permits, Exo .

' 17 That «ood Spirits, and alfo bad, Spirits, have done, 4nd confequently may raife Earthquakes, and Winds, and make , a

appear in Fire, Job i.itf, 19. and Jrf 5i.i. N<wb.9.i5.Exod. 74.17.

£Xfs 1 That one Spirit may deftroy an Army of men, ip. That Spirits can fee all the world in a moment, ^

that very fwift, Luke 4.5. \ 21. That there be degrees of Spirits, even as there be greater and

leffe, fo better and worfe, Matth. 12.24. Jude verf.9. Revel. 12.17* 22. That Armies of Spirits, horfed and armed, may fight and run

to and fro in the Air. 2 Maccabees 5 .2,3, _

pons, and do therewith Actions on Earth, 2 Maccabees 3.24,2^, 2d. 2iC*W.2.XI. ... . x rr t

24. That the good and evil Spirits may be fometimes together,/^ 1. 6. Job 2.1. Jude verf.9+ 1 JC/tfg.22.19. to the 23.

2y. That Spirits are not tied to one place , but wander up and down, lob 1.7.'job 2.2. God is every where, 2Chron.7.*%*

2.6. That a million of Spirits may be in one room or place, Luke 8. 30.

27, That Spirits may affume Natural Bodies as ours> and put them

ao.Exod. 24.10,11. 28. That Spirits appear after diverfe manners and (napes. Van.y y.

Gen.1 .i)2+Job 4‘14>1f>1^* £^^.1.4. the 14* s 2.2,3. Exod.$, 2. Jtts 9.3. to 7. £*W*24.p.io,i 1. and chapu 13.21.

29. Thar the Bodies and Inftruments Spirits raife, when they would perform A&ions here on Earth, are fometimes fo material that they are tangible as well as vifible and audible, 2 Maccabees 3.24,25.Tobit 6. y, jo *Gen. 19,10. Luke 24.39.Tobit y .6. 2 Maccabees y.2,3 .Job. 20.20,

27. compared to 24.39,40.

30. That are Spirits fometimes only audible,not vifible nor tangible. 2 3.4, y,d. ^ 9+7. „

31. That Spirits, with the bodies they raife,perform divers Humane Actions, Tobit.3.17. Tobit 6.8.

32. That they fometimes eat and drink, Tobit.6.$. Luke 2441,42, 43. compared with ]ohn2i.verf.$.to i^.Gen.i^.^Gen.i^.1). to the 9.

33. That they be guides in Journeyes, if.v0d.13.21. Tobit y.d. 34. That they have walhed their feet, and lyen down like Men*

6V/z.i8.4.chapter 19.2,3* , 3y. And it may be conftrued that they ufe coition, and beget, from

Reared; to. 18.2.three Spirits,& Gex.ip.i. two appeared,& Tobit 3. V. but one 3 and what is not in Scripture by manifeft exprefiion,may be

and Supernatural Caufes, jt'?

argued from thence by neceflary Deduftion; and what is faid of Ange/sy is referable to Spirits, for all Angels are Spirits, but all Spirits are

not Angels . , The Power of Spirits is not to be compared to, nor limited by the

Power of Natural Caufes; and if the motion of one natural thing can¬ not be folved by the motion of another, much leffe may fupernatual be folved by natural Caufes. . •

And if Lightning will fo foon exanimate Men, and they die fud- denly, no wound feen, but only black ; and diink up Buckets of Waters not hurting the Bucket; or contrariwife, breaking a Barrel, and fixing the Beer in it that it Ihall not run forth ; or melt the Sword in the Scab¬ bard , the Sheath it is in, unhurt; or Gold to be melted in the Cheft, that being fafe , or if Herb Moonwort will unfhoe the Horfe and loofe his fetters,or Herb Loofeftrife tied about Oxens necks make them agree; or if Herbs,or Lozenges of Rosts of Ciclamen, or Caro Bufornm will caufe Love ; Darnell,madnefs; Wine, mirth and alacrity ; and Corral, Mifelto, and Wood.Nightfhadereleafe the bewitched, and drive away Fiends ; or if the Loadftone can draw Iron, or Gold Quickfilver ; or if a fewGraines of prepared Gold will blow up an houfe , or Wolves Guts unfeen aftonilh Horfes, or the looks of the B aftlisk kill Men, or Unicorns Horn , Spiders ; or if the Afh-Tree will kill Adders or Ser¬ pents ; the Remora flop the Ship in irs carrear: or Torpedo-fiOa, benumb the hands that holds the angle, at the hook of which fhe is hung ; or if an Air or fuddain blaft can take away all mens Limbs, and femetimes Senfes, and make Apople&ick; or the fume of Char-coal inaclofe roome make lethargick; if Afium Rifut, or Herb Sardis, will make Men die convulfive and laughing: if thefe, I fay, and thoufands their like , be really true, (which our other Writings may manifeft, if they come ever to be publilhed) let thefe firft be folved by Reafon and by the courfe in Nature on other things , before fupernaturals come to be compared by natural, and to be denyed to be, by reafon of the im-

poffibility of their caufe. What reafon is there why fome fbould fail divers Months, and others

Years, and fome eat twenty times as much as moft Men ? whyfhould Chamelions live without eating or drinking, and Tortoifes and Sala¬ manders diverfe months, when Man and moft Beafls muft feed every day > whyfhould Flyes, Swallows, Butterflies, Caterpillers, &c. lie dead and fenflefs all Winter, and revive in Summer, when moft creatures either live alwayes alike, or die for altogether ? why lhould fome creatures live in two Elements, when moft cannot ? Tortoifes lie covered in Earth, or lie on Earth in the Sun , or fwim in the Water;

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% ATreatife of Difeafes from Witchcraft,

fo-ne Amencan-Fifh come on the day time on Land and eat gj-affe; the c p.tc Crocodiles and Otters do the lams; and why lhould the Sala-

SmClme. c.ash.by Filta<, etoly fomwilike to u^, S^dUi in the Water-• which things our Phyfielogy, Jatrophy .and pZtiZTmby declares; how comes the Stomachs of Hens to dtgeft rZT LLIs 7 and Pearls; and Dogs Bones, the Stmbmmthtt or Oftrich di°efts Iron ; and Dog-fifli, and Sharks concoft C "ms Shoes, Hats, Caps, &c. and who gave the diverlity of ap- S°1 es to.ll thefe creatures and thoufands more ? for as theft differ one from another, fo others from thefe: how doth the ebbing and flowing IfThe Sea , magmtuiiut et««,differ in diverfe places and why {hould the Needle touched, turn alwayes to the North-Pole ? the ftony

h AtWi* , whole Towns and Armies turned Stone fuddainly and fecrefly with the Air ? the birth of a Childe at Prague having all its interne Bowels hanging forth, from its Mother, feeing a Calf fo exen- terated three Months afore her delivery? the force of Imagination, the

fwoond at Cheefe and yet eat Cheefe-Curd ; lome tweat, ana are in

,n A-onv when brought afore a roafted Pigg, and yet love Pork ; fome- r ° A (r Rreaft and yet eat a Shoulder of Mutton ; and fome

though unfeen and unknown-,, whence is it that lome long for Pofies,

and Kilfes and to eat mans Flefla, and-rotten Carcaffes?But we muft rnffe by many, to fpeak of many : why do fome Trees in America bring forth twelve times in a Year, and Rice in Cochin China thrice, when our FtuitsTnd Grain come but once ? and why have our Women commonly St one at a Birth, when thofe of Egypt have often three or four? whence £it that many and huge Fifties that fwallow many and huge things.fwal- * w w. tu thcrn no Water, and we mud, it runs m by our Noftrils. why

poyfon! ,»d b» com.;(«»= » to ««dl j_r thp rorrid as others unde: the frozen Zone . Thoufands more of Natures Sygma’s, Problems and <Ph*»emen* s

mav be produced , but we gucffe by a peny how a (hilling is coyned ; SShef- may confute the Pride and Prefumption of thofe,that will un¬ dertake to folve all by their Imaginary Reafon, and not only thefe but r thin-s too, or elfe they will not believe them to be true : Thefe things negle&ed, have been the caufe of all falfnefs, ftubborn-

BejS’ The nofmakiog Experience (which ftiould be manifold, as well as maaifelf) the foundation of that, that Reafon is made the.fuperftiu&rre

and Supernatural Caufes.

2. The want of diftin&ion betwixt likes, 3. The binding Nature up to one Method and Rule, and not allow¬

ing every thing its varieties of manner, and degrees of meafure. 4. The making general Rules, before particulars were truely and

fully known, . 5. The too great confidence and idlenefs, in judging all things we do

not know, by thofe we know. ' * 1 6. The miftakc of things Cafual for Ominous, and Ominous for

Cafual. 7. The too great Supcrftition men yield to, and unqueftioned belief

they have in, received Opinions , Traditions of Anceftors, and what ever is in popular applaufe ; defending their own belief, not by their own Experience, but others conjc&u'res.

8. The proving fome things not to be true, by proving others tobe. falfe ; as Mr, Seot>&c. about Witches and Spirits have done,who think they have proved Witches Juplers, by proving Juglers to do their tricks by flight of hand, and deceptio vifus.

9. The judging all by one, when as we fhould judge one by all 2 one fheweth that another may be fo, but not proveth that all muft be

fo. 10. The want of the confederation of Gods confederation in making

this world ; every thing was made for another, nothing in vain; Crea¬ tures had particular parts made for every particular office , and wifdom oiven to all anfwerable to their parts made to be ufed : every thing hath us extreams of little and much,and mediocrity, & its Friends and Foes in the Creation ; every place mull be filled,and every office occupied : fomewhat was made for every Genius, and fome Genius's were made pur- pofely to know and fee the Myfteries and variety in the Creation ; thefe not well known and weighed , are the maintained of Ignorance and perperual Controverfies : to which we might add, the putting the Caufe for the Effects, and the Efte&s for the Caufe ; and the particular Phan- tafieS of Men, for the general Reafon of Man. Some critical diftindH- ons needfully may follow ; neither are all Juglers, Tumblers and Trick- fheweis, quatenus Juglers, Tumblers, &c. Witches, ( fo that thofe

„that drew no fuch Tricks may be Witches, and they that drew fuch Tricks may not) nor are all that be Witchts^quantemss Witches, Juglers, Trick-diewcrs, &c. therefore thofe that deny the being of reality in Witchcraft,becaufe there is fraud and dclulion in another thing, prove things by millaken and unnecetfary confequents ; neither have all that have been condemned for Witches, been Witches, nor have all that were Witches, been condemned for, 01 reputed the fame; neither are

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* r a Treaiife of Dtleales from Witchcraft>

all things that arc reported , »:ua ; nor all thirds that are true, arc re¬ potted : the proving one thing falfe, doth not deny another to be true ; and the proving faifnets in any one thing, doth not prove there is onely faifnefs in that thing: Shall we judge becaufe there be fome Hypocrites in Religion, that there be none fincere ? or becaufe one Man lyed, therefore no Man may fpeak true? for he lyed not* quoad a Man, but quoad untrue *, we muft fee where the diftin&ion and ltreis of an Argu¬ ment lic3,whcther in the Thing, or its Attribute , and therein concern¬ ing Witchcraft,many miftake themfelves: if we will go about to prove in any Profeflton that there be Impoftors and Diftemblersy we mall fufficientiy prove thereby that there is truth in the thing , from which thefe Impoftors and Diffemblers do recede and deviate ; elte hey mil be proved not to be.Impoftors and Diffemblers: It doth not follow that becaufe one Man lies awake with his eyes (hut, and another lies alleep With his eyes open , that all men muft do fo: Witches may ao all that 7u°leis do, but Juglers cannot do all that Witches can do; and to con¬ demn the fraud and impotence of the greater, by the fraud and impo¬ tence of the lefl'e, is an impertinent proof: and alfo they differ more then quoad gradam ct modum-, we muff not prove by deep that death is ttie

fame, became it is like it.

Sornnas eft mortis imago, omne ftmile non eft idem.

Some believe concerning Witches, and not concerning Spirits; and fome believe concerning Spirits, and not concerning ^ uc e • fome believe both, and fome neither: and as many i^ that, that was falfe to writing, fomany men did omit that thatwa’te in writing; and many things are written that are true, that are not tui-

ly written as they are true. ' _ . ..,Arri , ^ But fometime there is more controverts and difpute about the word,

one fpeakes , Witch,as to its vulgar acceptation, another as to its g«- ine fignification; and pethips both may mean one thing. I peiceive many things we have writ in this Book are not fo ftrange to moft London¬ ers as to Country People ; -and many things are more familiar to Coun¬ try People then Londoners; and the Vulgar do common y ju „ ^ that little Experience they.hive; and I amconfident ten thcula"°P^’' in the City of London , and proportionally in the Coun”y>^nb"° their Experience of thefe things : And the onely way to decide aH c trovetfies, is to have,as it were,a trial at an Aflizes, and all] the: vw -

nstles to be fwotn ; many woulddepofe upon Oath their infallible E - perience in thefe things, and Experience muft be that that muft ump

Su and that Is from Experior

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ryed; h I/1 ICflf :ome onclv from Opwory to mink. homines, tct jcntentia-y yelle jufiw cuiq\

efe me voto vlvitur unoy men are rcaay on all fides to receive that they do ’in part already believe. - - N'

Now a few Syllogiftical Reafons to prove there fee'Witches. If Spirits ever did affume bodies , they may affume bodies: But the

Scriptures, befides multiplicity of Authors and fecular witneffcs, ma- nifeft that Spirits have aflumed bodies : Ergothey may.

If there ever have been Witcheries, Exoicifms, and Conjurations, there may be : But the Scripture, and many Writers, and Moderne Experience, teftifies there have been fuch: Ergo there may beWitch-

If’in all Profeffots and Profeffions there hath been ho* falfity and reality, then the Profeffors of Conjuration, Exorcifmes, and Witch- craft may be fome falfe, and fome true : But Scriptures, Writings, and Experience teftifies, dec. Ergo.

If the Power of the Devil can do onely what Man can do, ana onely as man can do it, then there be no Witches : But the Scripture, many Authors; and Vulgar Experience, *ewes the Devil doth higher things then Man, and in another manner then Man can : Sr go, there may be

If there ever were fuch Difeafes in Man that were impoflible to be effefted by Natural Caufes , they mud be by Supernatural; and if fo, by Diabolical; and if fo, by Agents: But it is clear there have been fuch : Ergo we conclude the Devil hath done thefe,and that by Agents, which we call Witches. , .. ,

If there ever were any that could make Water Blood, raife the bodies of Men buried , and make Inanimate things Animate , &c. and not by the Power of God, nor Natural Caufes, it muft be from- the Devil : But the Scriptures clearly ihew fuch have been ; Ergoythere

are fuch as work by Devils. i

?2 A Treatife of Dfeafis from Witchcraft.

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A Relation of Mary Hail of Gadfden, reputed to be

poftefsed of two Devils. 1664. 1 MAry Hall, a Maid of Womans Stature, a Smiths Daughter of little qadfden in the County of Hartford, began to ficken in the fall of the Leaf, 1663. It took her firft in one foot with a trembling fluking and Convulfive motion , afterwards it

poffeffed both ; die would fit damping very much; lire had fometimes like Epileptick > fometimes like Convulfive fits > and ftrange ejacula-, tions : (he was lent to Doctor Woodhoufe of Barktnfled, a Man famous in curin'7 bewuched pci Tons, for fo die was edeemed to be ; he. feeing the Water and her, judged the like, and prepared (linking SufFumi- ^ations, over which the held her head , and fometimes did drain to vomit, and her didemper for fome weekes feemed abated, upon Dc&or Woodhoufe direction ; Then reinvisorating , were heard in her drange noifes,like mewing of Cats,barking of Dogs,roaring of Bears,fcc.at lad a Voice fpoke in her , Pas Cat, what a Cat? nothing bat mue ; this Was about the beginning of Aagujl, 1664. and after this the evil Spirit fpoke often , exercihn? the tricks and torments, conyuhions, and elevati¬ ons of the Maid> as before it fpoke, with fome Additions. ^ ^ ,i

The manner and matter of the Spirits fpeaking was on this wife : If anyfaid, Get thee oat of her , Satan; the fpiiit replyed , We are

two; and as oft as any faid, Satan, or ‘Devil, it would reply, We are two; and would fay. We are onely two Little Insps, Of2 Harods, and Youngs; fometimes we are in the jhape of Serpents , fometimes of Plyes> fometimes of Rats or Mice; and Gfe Harod fent us to choak^this Maid, Mary Hail; bat we fbould have choaiefd Goodman Hall, but of him we■ had no Power , andfo pojfejfed his daughter ; we came down the Chimny, riding on a flick., and went firft to Mat fs foot, whereupon her foot trembledfir ft of all her diftemper. At other times, upon diverle occahons, either volun¬ tarily, or in aniwer to the cjuedions of thofe that came to fee her, they faid > They would do more mifehief if they could; yea, they would deflroy all Mankind, and be revenged on their Adverfaries , bat God was above, they had no: Power, yet many times they would fpeak Blafphemoufly of God; and fay, God cannot caft us out, , we are above God ; we are,four to

and Supernatural Caufes. I 3

(meaning the two Witches that fent them , and they two, againtt God) and do you thinks we cannot deal with him well enough. When iorne came to pray,they would fay,You (hall not caft us outywe will tire yon all out ; and when they had done praying, the Spirits would fay, Did we not tell you\you fhould not caft ns out f where is your God now ? When one of Saint ^Albans came to pray, the Spirits faid , Get you goxe> for we cannot abide yon: to another they faid , that fpoke to them of God > Get yon

gone, it is dark^ it is late, yon will be benighted. Sometimes to thofe that came to cal? them out, they would fay, 7hey

tvould be %one to morrow ; or that they had a fhort time , and therefore muft be bnfie in (hewing a few^prankys more , ere they went out; at another time thev would tell them , They mufl choak. her, and they would not out

yet* : Sometimes they would bid her, Mary, choat^your felf, when fhe went

to eat; and when lhe went nigh water, Mary, dround your felf ; and when Ihe would not do it, and they wanted Power to make her, they

' would fay , Ah Fool, Fool, Fool, Fool, what will you not drownd your felf ? when fhe was nigh the Fire, they wouldiay, Mary, put your head

into the Fire ; or, Mary, put your head into the Pot , and iometimes of a fuddain they would dop down her head, as if fhe (liould put it into the Scalding Pottage, but could not effedf it.

Becaufe many People came to her , her father, in September lent her to feveral Friends Houfes, five or fix miles more or lelfediftant; where Friends met to pray ; and the Spirits would fay , CMary (ball not ridey and would lift her up, and make her fhake , fo that they were fain to hold her on the Horfe; but formerly they fuffered her to ride without interruption; fince they begun to fpeak, when fhe went to read in the Bible , they would fay, Mary, do not read; or, Mary you (had not. read , for Bookj are all again/} us ; her father would fayShe (hall read in fpight of all the Devils, and fo foe did alwayes without interruption ; for when flie read, Ihe was not molefkd, but once they did convulfe her

' Aims>and threw the Books far from her. ■/' When fome prayed by her, and faid , At the Name of God jhall alt

_ Fie lb Tremble ; and at the Name of Jefns fhall every knee bow, they would make her to tremble, and her knees to bow ; and when fo done , laugh and fing, We know how to cheat yon , and make yon believe any

^*Yet fometimes they Would fay, We are Lyers,and God is true ; and when God (veakes the word, wemufi out : and at other times they would howl, and lament, and condole their condition , and cry out, We are undone,

we are undone, we are mifer able aud tormented! and immediately there¬ to upon,

And when any blamed them for mocking at God, who was able to m'tOrahlp tr> all Eternitv * thev would anfwer, They could

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and Supernatural Caufes. after (he had come, and denyed them , they would fay , I*. Wood fa hanged^ if fhe will, becaufe fhe denyed us.

The voice thefe Spirits uttered, differed ; the father faid, he thought one had a fhrill voice , and the other a great; fometimes they would fpeak like a Child, and drawling; fometimes greatly, and fonaroufly ; fometimes they would imitate the voices of thole that were in the Houfe.

Ere they fpeak , the Spectators beheld her Breaft to rife, and by the gradual lifting up of her Breafts towards her Throat, fomewhat feemed to afeend; then it came into her Throat,and diftended that, fo that her neck feemed at fometimes as if a roll was in it.

Sometimes her lips in fpeaking were not moved, but commonly they were, and her tongue alwayes; for the Spirits by the pains flic felt, and by the fwellingof thofe parts feen to the Spectators, came to the root of the Tongue, and moved it.

Sometimes they came thus to her Throat, to try if they could choak •her, and her breath would be flopped for a while, and then be at a little more liberty ; and prefently they would diftend and fwell her Throat again, fo that fhe was ready to fwoond, and for a while laboured for breath : fometimes fhe had many of thefe fits, and fometimes was freed a good while p (he flept well, and eat freely, and all the while'fhe read, the Spirits troubled her not ; fo that eating, reading, and deep¬ ing, were her immunity, or times of reprieve.

But when People prayed, they tore and tormented her; yet at fome¬ times they lay ftill; and if fhe fat, on a fuddain they would make her leap up a good height; fometimes in length (he would leap an Extra¬ ordinary way ; fometimes as (he lay on her bed, and was fain to be held, on a fuddain (while others were praying, the Spirits lying ftill a good while) fhe would leap up and hit her head againft the Beds Teftor.

Sometimes (he would beat her felf, fometimes with one, fometimes both hands, chiefly on the Breaft.

Sometimes her legs would go* faft and violently, kicking of the ground , and the Spirits would fay,f ComeyMary^Dance ; and then they would make a tune, and make her feet to Dance it; fometimes they would fayyMaryy make a mouth ; and they then convulfed her mouth, fo that her lips feemed griftles , and her Ncfe was fometimes drawn up; another time they flhould fay , We will put out your Eyes; and then they would fo draw together her Eye-lids , rhat fcarce any extuberance of the Eye could be perceived.

Sometimes they would fay, Comey Mary> turn round ; and then they would whisk her round ; fometimes they would fay, Turn half round, and (he would do accordingly.

E 2 Some-

}5 ATmtijfi of bifeafisfrom WHMraft, Sometimes when the Spirits moved her Tongue , of the Houfe

would catch hold of it, to ftay it, and it was pulled from them. They read out of Matter Culpepers Books, that Mi fit to of ike Oak,

5*4 r food a pain (l witchceaft ; wherefore they got forne Mifleto, and ap- plved about her neck , and (he trembled , and to what part foeyer they annlyedit foasit touched her Fiefh, (he trembled; by which they perceived It had prevalency again!! Diabolical Incantation ; bat did the Maid no good,as to the Expulhon of the CacodanpnK ..... ,

When Dodtor Woodhovfe ordered fome things to be boiled for her^ 'afloon as they began to boil, the Maid , or the Spirits in her, did . tremble and (hake, and fo continued all the while thofe .AmMmomack-

Medicines boiled. . , , . a , . Thou°h (he was for the moft part moft tortured and molefted when

any praved by her, yet (he was willing thereto-, becaufe defirous to K> r\d of that enthralment; yet commonly we cannot tell how to entertain willingly a prefent mifery, though it bring to us an after ex-

"TSSSL looked pretty- wellfor colour, and kept her Flejh ; She'was a Civil fair-conditioned Maid, and her Friends inclined to the -Anabaptlfis Seel, and mott that came to pray by her were of their.

Sh» would fometimes be forced againft the walls, fcrabbling with her hands as if (he would run up ; the Spirits would precipitate her in diverfe manners , but that they wanted Powery as tomeumes they faid they could not hurt an hair of her head , and though they tortured her' hodv they could not damnifie her Soul; her mind was free and un¬ hurt when her tits were off, and when the Spirits were no way occa-

(l°Moon as Doctor Woodhoufe had given her a Spoonful of fome Liquor, tein’fcarce °ot down her Throat, fhe fell down in a fwoond ; fo-that it is apparant fome things are Antipatheuck to Vamons.

i told them I doubted natural Remedies would do no good other- wife I could have advifed them to give her Powder of Coral, of oiMlfteto, of Herb True-Love, and of Saint Jonns-worc, feverally, now lome of one, and anon fome of another; and to have hung, RoUmxry, Mifieto, Ivy and (foral.in. the houfe, and about ner neck, or to have given her the Decoction of them at any ume , lpecially m the fits, in fuch manner as ftae could beft take them.

The Evil Spirits would rarely take, notice of any , or fpeak to them if they flood dvity in the.Room, unlels that they firft fpake to, or con- retnin0 the Spirits; they would fometimefay, m may eafily be cajt out.

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m word will 4 e»f; the ftandew-6f would prefendy ask ? f^at worf? ,faid the Spirits: but they tryed that,& many other inefteaually.

I went over to have feen her, but fhe was not at home, and het ba¬ ther and Uncle faid , they knew not whither (he was carryed by feme other

friends (he had , that ufed to pray with her ; Therefore I made it my bufi- nefs to examine ft rift I y, her Father, Brother and Sifter, at dif¬ ferent times, and alfo her Unde, who were moft conftantly with hvr and law all her changes; and alfo in the Town I examined ome mat were prefent with her in her fits, and of fome Neighbour lowns; who held

Since,in September, Ottober,and November,huh talk hath been of he , but 1 hear, (he is fo afflifted {Fill; but the Spirits lie ftul for the moft part, unlefs by queftions, or praying, they are difturbed ; fomeumes they fay , they lift her up to a great height , but fay , they cannot hurt one

Hair of her head. , • Since.on December r. I was there, and fan the poftures and carnage

of the Maid : when I went firft into the houfe the Maid was feeding, and looked well-bleed, feemingly lhe was very well : 1 asked the Spirits fome queftions, and they anfwcredme, but very fooltlhly ; they fata, They were fent by Gfe Harod, who gave them her Soul to come tnto CMary

Had ■ I asked them if they were lent by a Councel of Supenour Ve-

mo»4 they anfwered thus. We will not ted you, that we wont, that we

won-t, that we won’t. 1 asked them, if they did not feat Godspurdh- in" them to all Eternity, for thele endeavours of wrong to mankind, thsv anfwered , We do not fear God, we care not for God. I asked it their Superiour ^Daemons, or Matters, fat in a Local Hell, to give out corJ1’ million, to fuch as they, to go and do their femce:, or whether the

•chiefer Spiritsalfo>did poffefle any, as they did? theyfatd, r tell yoPh that we wont. I asked them , how they Lked the Bible they made no anfwer. I asked to what purpofe were their foolifh , mle, un- neceflary tticks , they tended not to advance the interelf of theirMa-

'fters Kin°dom?' they anfwered nothing. Both in her readtng and feed- i„» both herfits of (peaking; and convulfive ficsmolefted her: Uwaye* when ("he fpoke , her voice was intelligible, plain, and modeft ; they fooke fcarce to be undetftood ; alwayes aloie they fpoke, her I hroat fwelled, het Face grew red, her head (hook, and was wreathed about,, until they had done ; when I caufed her tongue to be held out of her mouth, their voice was more obfeure ; it is fometimes hoatfer, fome- times fhriller; fometimes fmall, fometimes great; fomeumes her Throat fwells more, fometimes leffe, and her Breaft is elevated; fhe went to read, they told her, fhe fhouldnot, yet (he did ; fhe then had a

3 g A 7reatife of Dijeafes from Witchcraft7

{baking of one Leg ; I laid my hand upon her knee, and then the motion ceafed there , and writhed her body; in her going, one Leg was took, as it were, with a cramp; but fome times fhegoeth very yveli ; nothing happens alwayes, and each fometimes ; fometime one member, fome- time another ; fometime in one manner , and fometime in another; fometimes almolt all the members, and fometimes fcarce any.

While I was there, Goodwife Halt told me, that the night before the Spirits told her, fhe fhouldnot fleep y *nd would fometimes heave her up in bed, and tell her, Mary> m mil buy yon aflackJJown, Hoods, and Scarfs 3 and Rlbbins, Hay! Ribbing Rlbbins yRibbinsy Rlbbins.

Not being fatisfied with what I faw, I went over to Barklnjled to Doctor Woodhonfe, who was her Phyfitian, and he,'told me he really thought "(be rvas pojfefed, and he told me two able Phyfitians, (whofe names I have now forgotten) were with her, and told him fhe wasVa-

monlacallypojfejfed, a nd that they being very lately in France, faw there a whole Covent of Nunns fo handled as Mary Hall was, With their Abbateffe; onely this Symptome was more in Mary Hally then any of that Covent (who were to the number of thirty poffeffed with Devils) that ere when the Spirits fpoke in Mary Hall, in their prefence , her Throat, on each fide, was extended to the bignefsof a mans hft; Alfo Do&or IVoodhoufe faid , one of her keepers told him , that he and another man held her in her Chair , and foe leaped up from themy and they thought (he would have gone out of their reach , had they not fulled her down and held her - and another time, two men held her, and (he leaped out of her

Chair , and until her fit was aver , they could not force her down again: her _ fits commonly are very fhoit , efpecially when they are very often. When (he came to be cured, with Do&or tVoodhoufe, fhe fat very dill a while in his Phyfick room, and on a fuddain, fhe fell a (lamping,- and fo continued half an hour, till (lie was all on a fweat, and made the houfe (hake- ; . ,

Doctor Woodhoufe , gave her a Venificifuge, a Cbyrrucal preparation, o'tven in the third part of a gtain for one dofeO; plum the (trongeft of all things, many times in a Grain, makes very little alteration in the body; but this tid her, in part for a while, of her fits; but then the Spirits had never fpoke in her: he hath ufed that Venificifuge to other bewitched perfons with good fucceffe; and to a Child of hisownTowr., that the People brought information it was in convulfion fits, he fent convulfive Remedies ; they did no good : then he queflioned the Que¬ rents what fits they were, They come, faid they, every day, at fix of the Clock.-, hewent then to fee it,and found itto begin its fit,with pulling oft its headcloaths;then it fell a pulling off its Hair,and chen fcratching the

skin oft its face; wii j,trie Aftrologer ^Chiromancer^M there,who told Dt.WoodhoufeyIt was bewitched,& accordingly,with other Remedies, itwas cured; but the chief thing he trufteth to, is a Sigil to hang about their Necks : He cured one in Barkamfted alfo, that two learned Phyfi- dans (many there be, that know Greek and Latin, though perhaps no¬ thing elfe truly, and as they ought, which many a Boy of twelve or fourteen years old knows) faid, had Hyfterick Fits; faid he, You will not believe that there be Witches,but you (hall fee that the Party is not handled as you imagine, for Hyfterick Medicines will do her no good ; but I will cure her with one thing, once given in the third part of a Grain; which was accompliftied.

A Friend of his, ufed Amaya Dulcis\ a Mercury Placity gathered when Mercury was ftrong, effentially and accidentally, and applyed a- bout the parties Neck, when Mercury was well pofited in Hoafe, and afpe&ed friendly by the Fortunes, and moft fignificant Planets.

And Tragw faith, The People in Germany ufed to hang Amara Dulcis, or Wood-night-(hade about their Cattels Necks, when they feared Witch¬ craft. - '

The Spirits in Mary Hall told them, That if they would go to Redman of Amerfom, (whom fomefay is a Conjurer, others fay, Hex an ho* ttefl and able Phyftciany and doth abundance of good) he would cafl them out.

This Redman y by relation, .is unlearned in the Languages, but hath abundance of Pra&ice, and is much talked of in remote parts ; he was once fent to Prifon for thefe things.

A Child being very lick, likely to die, Redman bids them, Take the length of the Child with a Sticky stnd meafure fo much ground in the Church- yardy and there digy and bury the Sticky of the Childs lengthy and the Child fuddenly recovered.

Another troubled with an Ague, he bid go into the Medowy and where two Cart ruts croffed one another , juft there to dig an hole with his flick ^d make water therein; and the party thus doing,was freed of his ague.

A third was wifhed to boil an Egg in his Urintyand bury it in an Ant-hilly where were many AntSy or Pifmires ; and he prefently recovered of his diftemper.

But the Judge could not for thefe things do any thing to him and fet him free; thefe do not deny but he may be a Witch (or Wizard as fome will have men to be called }^ut do not prove he muft be fo ; and I have in my Obfervations,colle&ed from the Vulgar,diverfe of their pra&ices of this kinde,ridding their feives thereby of divers diftempers,efpecially Agues, which vve have fhewn in our Puretologjyor Treatife of Agues3 writ in Latine, and in the chapter of Tranfplantation.

> ' Redma»

0 A Treatije of Difiafes from Witchcraft, ' t i am infonrYd, pretends to do thefe, and the like feats

h/iS, »3 b= done tavMy by uf/M.p. bur ?It^b=m>nyih.imlktibitth=iipttItn«ioJ daracc, .iKl probib.y

1 r! A-Ur Am that mav be unlawful, tnat go beyond JJiwagy. “ Goodwife Hd told7? ", that her Daughter was worfe when Uy(}J and did not aftuateL: parts , for then Jbttras heavy , and eV el

•*& , - »»“W* j are held by all very confcienttous and honelf Pe^

-r *°dd Shv • fo that they need ufe no fuch impoftures to get money, nor would ufe fuch blafphetiues and abufes of Uod to gam pity

CrinS"dm°anva Tugler, oi Tumbler, may by ufe come nigh to imitate thefe thtir, but what cat. fuch a filly, young, bafhful well-d.fpofed, and rcii°ioufly-educated Maid do in thele things ? ,, a C- rntd me that a Mincer that was with H*// told her,

Since one toi _ > r fu. Soirits laid, ^ <*0 that when he he knew none law or '

hear/of^t” T this be true, it is recognition, and that is not Natural

it was a littUPious Book, that troubled them.

\\7 . Wttit \r n-celfarv here to write down fome difeoveriesof Witched <^ffiS5SgSi> errarmoari.,, *J have

l 'i's from tbeit Cwiming. From their Tears. 3- From then

non-abibty roetb “F^Ood perfons ducked at B<thWk,diverle

'face o““ Sprofem?, W.ight, .be other, rhougb ryed V ^ Thumbs mother, co'uld not be made to fink. Domna iW?<P Toes and Thumfe.o e ner,^ ducked „ Saint ^/W,

hupts oppidi, form. y > thouoh ftrovei by putting her head

^deTthe Water, and was thru ft down with Poles ; and fhe confefled, ntof hcrlmpt leaped Mor. her.Bnaft w the Water, and 1 CtnnTi man in Prifon did Ihew their Teats ; the Man had like

• % sati&si A“ ‘ S and Lm.ee .be Devil, and call God » Wnttefs, **jtey Aiitn

and Supernatural Cct fes. 41

difclaim him, and all his Service, 3s0thefic.fi. Mary by chance, (fo

nick-named) ’tis here publickly known how (he fwam, and could not

fink with all the means fthe could ufe ; and fome fay, She had got Iron next her to wake her fink: K0^li hujas oppidl * very honeft Man told

me, (hefawit) That about the year, 1637. Gfe. Rofe of Bedford (for

bewitching a Maid’s Peafe (that had demed her fome ) to be all, and

each, worm-eaten ; and another fellow to be alwaves lowfie, though

Aiifted every day, and never was afore) was ducked, and could by no

means fink; the Maid that ftle bewitched, as to her Peafe, offered to be

ducked with her,to make the other the more willing, and fhe Tank pre~

iently,and they could fcarce bring her to life with all their half apdArts.

We muff make thefe diftin&ions, The Devil can caufe all Difeafes

that are Natural,1"but Nature cannotcaufe all Difeafes that are Diaboli¬

cal; the Devil, quatenm a Spirit, can do all manner of mifehief • but

Quaienm Inferiour, he cannot do all the evil he will; and Quatenns Evil, he will not do all the good he can.

Tin TcZymtQUX) rcJ OicJ) Tto rcu

They that leap five or fix yards ; that fpeak Tongues they never

learned v that foretel things to come 5 that are ftronger then four or five men; that fly, or ftand in the Air; or run up Walls without ufe of their.

Hands ; or-have their Face bent quite behind them, fo long remaining,

Canfideratis confiderandis, muff be poffeffed of Spirits : but they that are.

not thus handled, may be poffeffed of Spirits. Thofe that were in theEvangdiffs poffeffed, were not a|\ke poffeffed...

Different kinds and degrees of a thing, drew it may, but do not prove

that it muff be another thing. It is beft judging what may be, by what hath been 5 but Hiffories

mention divers that have been fo poffeffed, therefore divers may be fa

poffeffed. Some are thought to be bewitched,that are not; and fome are thought.

1 not to be bewitched, that are. - \ If Mary Hall is falfly poffeffed, it doth not prove another not to be

truly poffeffed ; or if Mary Hall be truly poffeffed, it doth not prove

that there are no fuch counterfeits* Neither have the Imps,,or Inferiour Daemons, the power and know¬

ledge of the Superiour, to exercife ; nor can the Superiour alwayes ex—

ercife the power and knowledge they have. Neither are all Difeafes natural,' cureableby Natural Remedies; nor*

are all Difeafes Supernatural, incureable by Natural Remedies. F There

* Treatife of Difeafis from Witcher aft, t- . . i t«;n of God that is not in his Power j and

There is nothing m the 1 it were in his power to do it: But if his Will did refttam Witchcratt, it were » v

his Will is two-fold. ; _ ' 1. Of Ordination. 2. Of Permiifion. He orialm Good, an JHPr ordained of God to cure VVitch- It is lawful to ufe al t _ u*edt0 cure Witchcraft, are not ot-

datned of God1eaalcure "nly by his person, who brings good out

of all evil. . licence from God to hurt whom they

pleafe^nor hive'theVVitches licence from their Daemons to cure whom

they will. , ...handled after fome extream or ftrange

4"„'rhKi »««■—

anSnirks 'frequently work without, but fometimes by, but then com-

monly'above me power of ^ in or upon Na-

Thofe that deny any Powhe«°ren Natural and common Caufes, deny tural things, from any othe nfequently tnuft conclude that God any thing to be fupernatural; and coniequem y d. CQn_

could make the orderaft and alter by no

aufe from *e common . , whltfoever cannot be folved by the ordi-

t *»» n*““* c,ute'p,<,,ed Supernatural Spiritual.

There was Printed laft twopoffeffed or batched^theom. ms Janes* jr^^&^.q

wf^>. whofe conditi « ft twYrs p0ffeffed, of five Evil Sprnts,

WTv1 a aflaft dil'poffeffed by confiant prayer, at which the Devils roar, sc/ 'and were tormented, fo that they went out of him, not in any vifi-

and Supernatural Caufes, 4*

bleihape, but as it were with Belches, and like Suffocation : He was fometimes dumb £01 long time, fometimes dark mad, fometimes beat himfelf, and endeavoured to make himfelf away • ftrange noifes were heard in him, Tinging and curfing were fometimes prefent; He faid, at firft like a Rat came to him; the Imp of the Witch, or the Witch ‘her felf mi°ht To transform her felf: And iome imagine, that Nebuchad- xez,z,ar was°transformed into thefhapeofamOx, (feeIW.4. 33.36.) and that, that faying, He cat Cjrafs like anOx, (hould be Translated, He eat Grafs, being like an Ob, or vn the hkjnefs of an Ox.

The other Relation, in that Paper of Hannah Crtmp of Warwick., had nothing extraordinary, but the Symptoms of madnefs, yet might be bewitched : They went to one in wincheper Park* in Southwark., to un- bewitch her, he asked, Five pound ; for (faid he) I am not fare to cure her, and if 1 do, if / cannot be firong enough for the Witch, after I have taken the afflittion from the Maid, I mufi bear it my felf; but if 1 can be prong enough for the Witch, (he muf bear it, until (he difpofeof it to fome other, for none of her Familiars will bear it: Doubtlefs Spirits are loth to 00 out °f the poffeffed and the Evangelifts Ihews fomereafon, fay- in^ When the unclean Spirit goeth out of any man, he wandreth up and down% faking ref, and findeth none 5 and then he taketh counfel of a greatei number of foul Spirits, and they poffefs the fame party again, or others, more grievoufly. . r .

VALEa 4 -A v ~ *

Non gens fed mens, non genus fed genius; virtus nobilitat, & Rati® homines a brutis & inter fe diferimmat, Symbols ^£milim & CUm~

dij Impcratorum*

Deo Gloria, Homini pax.

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FINIS.

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