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weather; as lightening, thunder, &c. These be they that procure barrennesse
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in man, woman, and beast. These can throwe children into waters, as they
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walke with their mothers, and not be seene. These can make horsses kicke, till
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they cast the riders. These can passe from place to place in the aire invisible.
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These can so alter the mind of judges, that they can have no power to hurt
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them. These can procure to themselves and to others, taciturnitie and insensi-
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bilitie in their torments. These can bring trembling to the hands, and strike
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terror into the minds of them that apprehend them. These can manifest unto
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others, things hidden and lost, and foreshew things to come; and see them as
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though they were present. These can alter mens minds to inordinate love or
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hate. These can kill whom they list with lightening and thunder. These can
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take awaie mans courage, and the power of generation. These can make a
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woman miscarie in childbirth, and destroie the child in the mothers wombe,
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without any sensible meanes either inwardlie or outwardlie applied. These can
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with their looks kill either man or beast.
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All these things are avowed by James Sprenger and Henrie Institor In malleo
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maleficarum, to be true, & confirmed by Nider, and the inquisitor Cumanus; and
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also by Danæus, Hyberius, Hemingius, and multiplied by Bodinus, and frier Bar-
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tholomæus Spineus. But bicause I will in no wise abridge the authoritie of their
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power, you shall have also the testimonies of manie other grave authors in this
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behalfe; as followeth.
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| Ovid. lib. | |
And first Ovid affirmeth, that they can raise and suppresse lightening and
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thunder, raine and haile, clouds and winds, tempests and earthquakes. Others
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| phoeôn 7. | |
doo write, that they can pull downe the moone and the starres. Some write that
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| Danæus in | |
with wishing they can send needles into the livers of their enimies. Some that
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| dialog. | |
they can transferre corne* in the blade from one place to another. Some, that
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| Psellus in | |
they can cure diseases supernaturallie, flie in the aire, and danse with divels.
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| operatione dæm. | |
Some write, that they can plaie the part of Succubus, and contract themselves to
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| Virg. in Damo | |
Incubus; and so yoong prophets are upon them begotten, &c. Som saie they
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| Hora. epod. 5 | |
can transubstantiate themselves and others, and take the forms and shapes of
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asses, woolves, ferrets, cowes, apes, horsses, dogs, &c. Some say they can keepe
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divels and spirits in the likenesse of todes and cats.
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| lib.I eleg. 2. | |
They can raise spirits (as others affirme) drie up springs, turne the course of
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| Ovid. epist. 4. | |
running waters, inhibit the sunne, and staie both day and night, changing the
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| Lex. 12. | |
one into the other. They can go in and out at awger* holes, & saile in an egge
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| Tabularum. | |
shell, a cockle or muscle shell, through and under the tempestuous seas. They
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| Mal. Malef. | |
can go invisible, and deprive men of their privities,* and otherwise of the act
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| Lucã. de bello | |
and use of venerie.* They can bring soules out of the graves. They can teare
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| civili. lib. 6. | |
snakes in peeces with words, and with looks kill lambes. But in this case a man
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| Virg. eclog. 8. | |
may saie, that Miranda canunt sed non credenda Poetæ. They can also bring to passe,
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that chearne as long as you list, your butter will not come; especiallie, if either
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the maids have eaten up the creame; or the goodwife have sold the butter
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| amoris. lib. I. | |
before in the market. Whereof I have had some triall, although there may be
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true and naturall causes to hinder the common course thereof: as for example,
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| Erastus. | |
put a little sope or sugar into your chearne of creame, and there will never come
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anie butter, chearne as long as you list. But M. Mal. saith, that there is not so
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little a village, where manie women are not that bewitch, infect, and kill kine,
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and drie up the milke: alledging for the strengthening of that assertion, the
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saieing of the Apostle, Nunquid Deo cura est de bobus? Dooth God take anie care of
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oxen? |
| Bryan Darcy | | |
| Confessio | | |
| Windesor. | | |
| Virgil. | | |
| Aeneid. 4. | | |
| C. Manlius | | |
| astrol. lib. I. | | |
| Mal. Malef. | | |
| part. 2. quæst | | |
| I. cap. 14 | | |
| I. Cor. 9, 9. | | |
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