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Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387074383
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Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368374334
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0486260305
They sacrifice their owne children to the divell before baptisme, holding them up in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines … They use incestuous adulterie with spirits … They eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of men and children openlie … They kill mens cattell … They bewitch mens corne … They ride and flie in the aire, bring stormes, make tempests … They use venerie with a divell called Incubus and have children by them, which become the best witches … In 1584, when there were few who would even defend witches against these charges, Reginald Scot went one step further. He actually set out to prove that witches did not and could not exist! King James later found Scot's opinion so heretical that he ordered all copies of his book to be burned. But so rich and full of data on the charges against witches, on witch trials and on the actual practice of the black arts was Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft that it remained a much-used source throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is still one of the few primary sources for the study of witchcraft today. At the heart of Scot's book are stories and charges pulled from the writers of the Inquisition about the supposed nature of witches. Scot believed that the utter absurdity of the facts would be enough to stop belief in witchcraft forever. But he also goes on to give opinions of medical authorities, interviews with those convicted of witchcraft, and details about the two-faced practices of those in charge of the inquisitions to show even further why the charges of witchcraft were simply not true. In later chapters Scot details the other side of the question through a study of the black arts that are not purely imaginary. He discusses poisoners, jugglers, conjurers, charmers, soothsayers, figure-casters, dreamers, alchemists, and astrologers and, in turn, sets down the actual practices of each group and shows how the acts depend not upon the devil but upon either trickery or skill. In the process, many of the magician's secrets and much other folk and professional lore of the time is made available to the reader of today. Shortly after the Spanish Inquisition, directly in the wake of Sprenger and Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum, during the great upsurge of witch trials in Britain, Scot was a direct witness to the witchmonger in one of witch-hunting's bloodiest eras. Whatever your interest in witchcraft — either historical, psychological, or sympathetic — Scot, in his disproof, tells you much more about the subject than the many, many contemporary writers on the other side of the question.
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1584
Category : Demonology
ISBN : OCLC:1355326089
Author : Reginald SCOT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504372217
Author : Reginald Scot,Anonymous
Publisher : Topaz House Publications
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780990668251
In 1665 an anonymous treatise was added to a book skeptical of witchcraft. That book, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft", compiled by Reginald Scot and published in 1584, defended those accused of witchcraft. It also included so many examples of rituals and charms that it became popular with magical practitioners themselves. "The Magitians Discovered" Volume 2 consists of the anonymous material, along with sections from Scot's original "Discoverie" dealing with ritual magic. talismans. and amulets. This is supplemented by excerpts from two works believed to be written and translated by one of the authors of the anonymous material
Author : Chrisistopher Irvine,Reginald Scot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990668223
In 1665 an anonymous treatise was added to a book skeptical of witchcraft. That book, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft", compiled by Reginald Scot and published in 1584, defended those accused of witchcraft. It also included so many examples of rituals and charms that it became popular with magical practitioners themselves. "The Magitians Discovered" Volume 2 consists of the anonymous material, along with sections from Scot's original "Discoverie" dealing with ritual magic. talismans. and amulets. This is supplemented by excerpts from two works believed to be written and translated by one of the authors of the anonymous material
Author : Reginald Scot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1528461436
Excerpt from The Discoverie of Witchcraft: Being a Reprint of the First Edition Published in 1584 In the biographical portion of this Introduction, besides a supposi tion or two of my own, which from his writings seem to me highly probable, there have been given notices of his pedigree, age, and marriages, matters hitherto unknown or misstated, and for which I would at once record my indebtedness to Edmund Ward Oliver, Esq. This gentleman having taken an interest in investigating these ques tions, and being a perfect stranger to me, wrote and offered the results of his inquiries so soon as he had learnt that I was engaged with this reprint, and has since most obligingly answered the various questions that I have had occasion to put to him. A copy of Scot's Will has been also for the first time published, and some Notes and a Glossary added. Were I to have imitated the learned editors of former days, I Should have added, not some, but exhaustive notes on every point, gathered from every known and unknown source; but I have con fined myself to explanation, or to making a few remarks on the text, giving also the author's agreement with, or Obligations to Wier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Arts
ISBN : OSU:32435024898454
Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:L0083283952
Author : Matthew Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : LCCN:2010668522
Author : Philip C Almond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0755621581
Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'. The Book ; Noblesse Oblige ; Motivations and Methods ; The Bible, the Book, and the Books -- Chapter Two: Witchcraft. Apocalypse Soon ; A Witch in Brenchley ; Evil and Providence ; The Witches of Windsor ; The Witches of St. Osyths ; Witches, Deluding and Deluded ; Mad and Melancholic Imaginings -- Chapter Three: Demonology. Demonological Foundations ; The Demonic Pact ; On Sabbatical Travels ; Animal Transformations ; Sex and the Devil -- Chapter Four: Magic. Poisons and Potions ; Pythonists and Ventriloquists ; The Pythonist of Endor ; Miracles, Oracles, and Apparitions ; Reading the Stars ; Divining and Dreaming ; Guessing Upon Uncertain Toys ; Of Enchanters, Priests, and Physicians ; Magic, Angelic and Demonic -- Chapter Five: Philosophy and Religion. Natural Magic ; Secular Enchantments ; 'Of the Art of Alchumystrie' ; A Devilish and Spiritual Discourse ; The Secret Sadducee? ; Carnal and Spiritual Men ; The Spiritual Demonologist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Author : Reginald Scot,Brinsley Nicholson
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297400844
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433104246537
Author : Reginald SCOT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1651
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504372188