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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    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, ' - and