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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    , 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,