Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets ... relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft ... directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof / [Joseph Blagrave].
- Joseph Blagrave
- Date:
- 1671
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets ... relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft ... directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof / [Joseph Blagrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I then any of the other three beforementioried by reafon t/i c I blood hath more life in'it then the urine -, f or the urine is ac¬ counted, but as the excrement of blood: The reafon why the p Witch is tormented, when the blood or urine of the patient ^ is burned, is becaufe there is part of the vital fpirit of the | Witch in it, for fuch is the fubtlety of the Devil, that he will | not fuffer the Witch toinfufe any poyfonous matter into the I body of man or beaft, without fotne of the Witches blood if mingled with it, as appearcth by the whey before mentioned. For ’tis the Devils policy, either by this means to deted them or othervvife by toiment to brin^ them unto their ends: for f the devil well knoweth, that when the blood or urine of the if patient is burned, that the Witch will be afflicted, and then i§ they will defire to come to tl>e place, for to get cafe, for by i| the fm^U thereof, their paid is mitigated by fympathy ; even lk 3s by fympathy, when the blood and urine is burning, they r are tormented, yet fometimes they, will rather indurey' the ijt miferyof it than appear, by reafon country people oft times ] will fall upon them , and fcratch and abufe them fhfewdiy. A I conceive the onely reafon the devil doth fuck the Witches i' blood is mearly to deted: them, or otherwife one way or o* d ther to bring them to their ends, and fometimes they are di- M fcovered by their tec, at which place the Devil ofualiy fuck- | eth their blood, whereby to mix with the po.fon, which I they by their wicked ways do infufe into the body of man p or beaft, and foinfeft them. I do find by practice and ex- [ perience that few or none are bewitched by Image or Mod del M alone, but that there is Sorcery wrought with it for other- r wife the burning of the blood or urine of the patient could no W way afflift them in any fympathetick way, as aforefaid; i having by the rules aforegoing fetforth the way, howto af- w fiift the Witch. I fhall in the next place difeover the general f way ofeure. I f *1he way to cure both Witchcraft and Sorcery-, common- i. ly called Evils it Takes* -rw-’ ■ >■ T 1 Avingby a figure difeovered under what planet the Pa- 1 Jrl tient is affiifted, and in what part of the body the grief I eg pain lyethwhether outward in anyjimb or part of the body,.Or throughout the whole body, as it will lometimes frfll I1 out when the Nerves or Arteries are oppreffed, proceeding I : from the heart and brain', or whether inward in the bowels, | puts, liver, lupgs^ heart, breaft, or ftom.ack *, o;- be it what Hi* cthtr](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30330610_0142.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
