Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].

  • William Drage
Date:
1665
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Credit: Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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