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

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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$m word will 4 e»f; the ftandew-6f would prefendy ask ? f^at worf? ,faid the Spirits: but they tryed that,& many other inefteaually. I went over to have feen her, but fhe was not at home, and het ba¬ ther and Uncle faid , they knew not whither (he was carryed by feme other friends (he had , that ufed to pray with her ; Therefore I made it my bufi- nefs to examine ft rift I y, her Father, Brother and Sifter, at dif¬ ferent times, and alfo her Unde, who were moft conftantly with hvr and law all her changes; and alfo in the Town I examined ome mat were prefent with her in her fits, and of fome Neighbour lowns; who held Since,in September, Ottober,and November,huh talk hath been of he , but 1 hear, (he is fo afflifted {Fill; but the Spirits lie ftul for the moft part, unlefs by queftions, or praying, they are difturbed ; fomeumes they fay , they lift her up to a great height , but fay , they cannot hurt one Hair of her head. , • Since.on December r. I was there, and fan the poftures and carnage of the Maid : when I went firft into the houfe the Maid was feeding, and looked well-bleed, feemingly lhe was very well : 1 asked the Spirits fome queftions, and they anfwcredme, but very fooltlhly ; they fata, They were fent by Gfe Harod, who gave them her Soul to come tnto CMary Had ■ I asked them if they were lent by a Councel of Supenour Ve- mo»4 they anfwered thus. We will not ted you, that we wont, that we won-t, that we won’t. 1 asked them, if they did not feat Godspurdh- in them to all Eternity, for thele endeavours of wrong to mankind, thsv anfwered , We do not fear God, we care not for God. I asked it their Superiour ^Daemons, or Matters, fat in a Local Hell, to give out corJ1’ million, to fuch as they, to go and do their femce:, or whether the •chiefer Spiritsalfo>did poffefle any, as they did? theyfatd, r tell yoPh that we wont. I asked them , how they Lked the Bible they made no anfwer. I asked to what purpofe were their foolifh , mle, un- neceflary tticks , they tended not to advance the interelf of theirMa- 'fters Kin°dom?' they anfwered nothing. Both in her readtng and feed- i„» both herfits of (peaking; and convulfive ficsmolefted her: Uwaye* when (he fpoke , her voice was intelligible, plain, and modeft ; they fooke fcarce to be undetftood ; alwayes aloie they fpoke, her I hroat fwelled, het Face grew red, her head (hook, and was wreathed about,, until they had done ; when I caufed her tongue to be held out of her mouth, their voice was more obfeure ; it is fometimes hoatfer, fome- times fhriller; fometimes fmall, fometimes great; fomeumes her Throat fwells more, fometimes leffe, and her Breaft is elevated; fhe went to read, they told her, fhe fhouldnot, yet (he did ; fhe then had a$

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