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].

  • Drage, William, 1637?-1669.
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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    Herbs are boiled in a Pot, over which the bewitched do hold then heads when the fit approaches; Mafter Gibbons of Harborough cured one fo’- and like a Moufe leaped forth of her mouth, and flie was ab- folutely freed; a Gentleman living nigh Huntingdon, who told me, ^ofhers were with fome (linking Suffumigecaft on Coals; fo was a Maid I knew cured, a Moufein fimilitude, leaped from her Mouth, held open when the fit approached. ... , . . , A fobet Antient Gentleman told me, he intimately knew one in.the Ift» of Ely, whofe name he told, but now I have forgot it; he was be¬ witched and before ftrange fits he had like a Moufe came to him, which none could hinder ; he lent to a white Witch, or Necromancer, Sorcerer Ma°idan, or what you pleafe to call him ; he gave him an Amulet or Charm to hang about his neck , and fo long as he wore that, he was freed; he durft not leave it off: this Wizard asked if they were wicked People , elfe , he faid Y. hexouid not , or would not help X^Ame Bodenham, we read in Henry Mere, when flic raffed Spirits, made a (linking perfume on Coals, after her Circle was drawn , and conjuring Charmes in her Book read; the Devil loves, it Teems, evil bafc°Odours, aud Sluttiihnefs is commanded, as Regmlghts was told by them. *. t. t . 4 2. Of the Cure of plain Witchcraft, whereur nothing palpably enters the Sick, or is alive within them; and firft ofrprefervation. Divers things are traditionally delivered , as Prefeivatives againft Witchcraft, wore about us 5 and offenfive to Devils ; therefore I be¬ lieve cameRofemary,Miffelto,andJvy,to be hung up in Houfes,became ihe Antients judged thofe.to defend Houfes from evil Spirits ; L&vimu Lmnlus in one of his laft Chapters of his Book of the Wonders of Nature,’hath divers fuch , as he and others, wiih to wear Corral, Lapis Jmlanthes , Graines of Taris, Piony , and Rhae, .to defend from Witchcraft ; cne of London * a German Phyfitian , highly ex- tolls Corral, and told a friend of mine he. cured one bewitched with it. . , Our beft way is to defire GOD'S Frotedhon, and pray to him, and keep our felves from wickednefs; and to have nothing to do with thofe that have reafon to be- fufpe&ed for Witches, or to do preternatural Avis; though indeed the ftupid and fupeiBionated Vulgar,judge onely that honeft, many times, that is within the.reach of their Capacity and Experience pnely0. • Concerning tke Cure of Witchaaft,we mall divide it intothefe ' . * feven