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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    ])maJes4 nWfM'hcrafi: 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