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A28315	Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3112; ESTC R13219	116,672	169

significator is in Square or Opposition to the Moon But if the Witches house be tiled then take a tile from over the door heat him red hot put salt into the patients water and dash it upon the red hot tile until it be consumed and let it smoke through a trivet or frame of a skillet as aforesaid 2. Another way is to get two new horseshooes heat one of them red hot and quench him in the patients urine then immediately nail him on the inside of the threshold of the door with three nailes the heel being upwards then having the patients urine set it over the fire and set a trivet over it put into it three horse nails and a little white salt Then heat the other horshooe red hot and quench him severall times in the urine and so let it boil and waste until all be consumed do this three times and let it be near the change full or quarters of the Moon or let the Moon be in Square or Opposition unto the Witches Significator 3. Another way is to stop the urine of the Patient close up in a bottle and put into it three nails pins or needles with a little white Salt keeping the urine alwayes warm If you let it remain long in the bottle it will endanger the witches life for I have found by experience that they will be grievously tormented making their water with great difficulty if any at all and the more if the Moon be in Scorpio in Square or Opposition to his Significator when it s done 4. Another way is either at the new full or quarters of the moon but more especially when the Moon is in Square or Opposition to the Planet which doth personate the Witch to let the patient blood and while the blood is warm put a little white salt into it then let it burn and smoke through a trivet I conceive this way doth more afflict the Witch then any of the other three before mentioned by reason the blood hath more life in it then the urine for the urine is accounted but as the excrement of blood The reason why the Witch is tormented when the blood or urine of the patient is burned is because there is part of the vital spirit of the Witch in it for such is the subtlety of the Devil that he will not suffer the Witch to infuse any poysonous matter into the body of man or beast without some of the Witches blood mingled with it as appeareth by the whey before mentioned For 't is the Devils policy either by this means to detect them or otherwise by torment to bring them unto their ends for the devil well knoweth that when the blood or urine of the patient is burned that the Witch will be afflicted and then they will desire to come to the place for to get ease for by the smell thereof their pain is mitigated by sympathy even as by sympathy when the blood and urine is burning they are tormented yet sometimes they will rather indure the misery of it than appear by reason country people oft times will fall upon them and scratch and abuse them shrewdly I conceive the onely reason the devil doth suck the Witches blood is mearly to detect them or otherwise one way or other to bring them to their ends and sometimes they are discovered by their tet at which place the Devil usually sucketh their blood whereby to mix with the poison which they by their wicked ways do infuse into the body of man or beast and so infect them I do find by practice and experience that few or none are bewitched by Image or Moddel alone but that there is Sorcery wrought with it for otherwise the burning of the blood or urine of the patient could no way afflict them in any sympathetick way as aforesaid having by the rules aforegoing set forth the way how to afflict the Witch I shall in the next place discover the general way of cure The way to cure both Witchcraft and Sorcery commonly called Evils or Takes HAving by a figure discovered under what planet the Patient is afflicted and in what part of the body the grief or pain lyeth whether outward in any limb or part of the body or throughout the whole body as it will sometimes fall out when the Nerves or Arteries are oppressed proceeding from the heart and brain or whether inward in the bowels guts liver lungs heart breast or stomack or be it what other disease or distemper whatsoever for as I have already declared there is no disease or distemper whatsoever but may be brought upon man or beast by witchcraft and Sorcery as I have already in several examples demonstrated If the grief pain or distemper be in the outward parts limbs or members of the body then the cure must be by bathes and ointments made antipathetical unto the afflicting planets As instance if Saturn be the afflicting planet then herbs must be used under the Sun and Jupiter If Mars be the afflicting planet then herbs must be used under the dominion of the Sun and Venus Alwayes provided that the herbs be gathered at the right planetary hours according unto their virtues and numbers If the ●rief lieth inward at the breast stomach and heart then you must chuse such herbs which are under the dominion of that planet which is antipathetical unto the afflicting planet and are good to open obstructions and to comfort the heart and arteries ever remembring in all cures to use a select number of herbs under the dominion of the Sun in regard he governeth the heart and is fountain of life a●d sole Monarch of the heavens It the grief lie in the bowels and guts then sometimes glisters must he used made with such herbs especially which are good to expel poyson being under the dominion of Sol which this book will sufficiently instruct you in together with such herbs which are of a contrary nature unto the afflicting planet but if the afflicting planet is more strong than the planet which is a contrary nature then you must chuse a small select number of herbs of his own nature which are good to cure the infirmity and mix them with the other herbs before mentioned concerning the way to make glisters bathes oyls decoctions or diet drinks and what else is meet to be used in all cures whatsoever I have already elsewhere in this book expressed Note That in the curing of all kinds of evils I do usually cause the patients to wear a select number of solary herbs gathered at the hour of the Sun the reasons I have shewed elsewhere in this book I could have been more copious in setting forth the way of curing both witchcraft and sorcery but that I have sufficiently treated thereof in the way of curing all kinds of evils before mentioned for I conceive that generally those evils before mentioned came from witchcraft and Sorcery onely some particular evils may proceed from some extraordinary distemper of the nerves

Patient thereof three times a day viz morning afternoon and at night and every morning about an hour after they have taken the diet drink you must give the Patient water grewel or broath made with either the same herbs or other herbs which are suitable to the Cure according ●nto their virtues and numbers How to extract the Spirits of Plants and Herbs If the Patient be weak and must take smal quantities then you must do as followeth having collected the herbs together suitable to the cure shred them small with the addition according as in the decoction aforesaid and put them into a limbeck still and put into it a quantity of bear or ale with some white-wine muskadel and brandy to make it proportionable unto the quantity of liquor and herbs before expressed viz. a good handful of herbs with the additions unto two quarts or better of liquor this will keep a long time There is yet another way to extract the Spirit as followeth Take the herbs with the additions being shread small and bruised put them into warm water and put some berm unto it let it work three dayes as doth bear and then distil it in a limbeck still if you desire to have it strong you may put brandy or Spirit of Wine unto it and put fresh herbs to it and still it over again The way to make Syrups Take the Roses herbs or flowers and bruise them put them into a convenient quantity of fair water my usual dose is about three pints of water to a pound of flowers roses or herbs let the water be hot and let it stand with the herbs or flowers in it about twelve hours then strain it and infuse more of the same herbs or flowers and heat more water and put unto it you must sometimes infuse the roses herbs or flowers whole without bruising to make it have the smell of the plant The more of the roses herbs or flowers you do infuse into the liquor the stronger it will be and the oftner you do infuse the better The last infusions I usually boil and then gently strain it and to every pint of liquor add a pound of the best Sugar at the least you must cimber it over the fire until it be a Syrup you may know when 't is enough by cooling some in a spoon when 't is made you must keep it in glasses or stone pots bound over onely with paper or such like you must not stop it close with cork least it break the glass Concerning Lohochs or Lambatives the making and use Having made your election of such herbs which are of virtue to cure such inward defects required shread and boil them by way of decoction and when you have strain'd it put twice its wait of honey or suger and so boil it to a Lohoch which is somewhat thicker than a Syrup if the grief be of flegme then honey is best These lambetives are usually taken with a liquorish stick And are most usually taken for inflamations and ●ulcers in the lungs Coughs Asthmaes and difficulty of breath and such like infirmities Concerning Pils their making and use All kinds of Pils are made onely by beating the substantial matter into a powder and so with syrup or little gum Tragacanth dissolved in distilled water made up into Pils They are usually taken at night If it be one●y to cause the Patient to go to stool the next day then so much alloes as will heap on a two pence for a strong body or less for a weak body mixt with a little mirrh and saffron will be enough these Pils are also good for the head and stomach There are many forts of Pil● made for several infirmities as you may find in the London Dispensatory unto which I shall refer you I confess I seldom use any Pils except what I haue mentioned for I find the Astrological way of cure by herbs doth if rightly applyed cure all distempers and griefs whatsoever loosen the body and alay any pain of the head and the like as you shall find in this book yet sometimes when the patient is bound in body and the destemper requireth a decoction made of such herbs which are commonly heating and so for the most part binding such as are palpetations convulsions palsies● apoplexies and such like Then I usually give the Patient Pils at night made as aforesaid if need require Concerning Glysters If the Patient be much afflicted in the belly and Guts or is very costive in body as sometimes it will fall out more especially when the grief requireth herbs heating and binding to work their cure then I usually apply Glisters and ointments made of such herbs which are antipathetical to the afflicting Planet But most especially such herbs which are good to comfort the heart to expell poison and cleanse the Guts Also you must be careful that the herbs be gathered at the right planetary hours not omitting their numbers which he longeth to each Planet When you have gotten the herbs together shred them small and boil them in milk together with such seeds and roots which are good to expell winds about a pint and a half of milk boiled until it be near half wasted will be enough for any reasonable man or woman after its boil'd and strain'd I usually put into it three or four spoonfuls of sallet oyle and a spoonful of hony or course sugar And so give it the Patient blood warm But my usual way is first to give the Patient a suppository made of Sal-Gem to bring them first to stool by which means I find the Glyster worketh the more effectual upon the humour offending For many times if no suppository be first given the glisters will not stay by reason the Patient cannot keep them in their body Concerning Fumes If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of superfluous moisture then fumes are proper to be used by reason they have a drying quality provided they be made antipathetical unto the afflicting planet you must shred bruise and dry those herbs plants or roots which you intend to use and so bring them into powder and when you intend to fume their heads put some of this powder upon hot coles and let the Patients hold their heads over it twice a day is enough viz. morning and evening They must be careful to keep their head and feet warm Concerning Suffumigations If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of great drought be it hot or cold drought you must make choice of such herbs according unto their vertues and numbers which are antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet shread them small and boil them either in strong bear ale or strong maulted water and while it is hot let the Patients hold their head over it and be careful they take no cold afterwards Concerning Cataplasms Cataplasmes are oft-times used to help cure Agues and sometimes to apply unto the feet to draw from the head and more especially in such infirmities and defects wherein

the Nerves and arteries are concerned being laid to the pulse neck and other parts of the body as occasion is offered I commonly use them in convulsions appoplexies palpitations and such like distempers The way to make them is thus you must make choice of such herbs according unto their virtues and numbers which are good to cure the grief as you shall find in this book shread them small and pound them in a mortar with a quantity of white Salt and a few raisons honey a litle Venus turpentine or burgelary pitch to make it hold together you must lay it on hot Concerning Oyntments Those Oyntments which are made heating must be made with sallet-Oyle and those Oyntments which are cooling must be made with either neats foot oyle or sweet lard I usually put into both a little sheep suet so make it thick the way to make each kind is as followeth And first of the oyl heating having by the rules in this book made choice of such herbs according unto their virtues and numbers which are proper to cure the desect shread them small and bruise them well in a morter then put them into a convenient quantity of oyl imagine unto two handful of herbs about a pint of oyl If you cannot stay to make it by reason of your present occasions then set it over the fire keeping it close covered and when it s near crisp strain forth the oyl and if you desire to make it very strong then shread more herbs and bruise them and boil them in the same oyl again until it be crisp and so strain it and keep it for your use But if you desire to make it strong and have convenient time to do it then bruise the herbs and put them into the oyl and set them in the Sun for a week or two then strain it and infuse more herbs and at length boil them until they be crisp and having strain'd it keep it for your use If you intend to make a cold oyl then infuse the herbs being shread and pounded as foresaid into sweet-lard or neats-feet oyl you may take some of each and make it after the same manner as you did the hot oyl aforesaid If these ointments be used about wounds running sores or ulcers then ●twill be convenient to dissolve half an ounce of turpentine in two ounces of oyl by the heat of the fire more especially if you use the hot oyl thereunto otherwise not for every cure for the most part is antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet except the afflicting Planet be very strong in the heavens for then you must in some measure comply as I have else where in this book expressed Concerning Bathes or Fomentations Bathes are used either in case of hot or cold swellings sometimes for aches ulcers wounds burnings or scaldings and such like having by the rules in this book made choice of such herbs and plants which are necessary for the cure cut them small and boil them in strong maulted water My usual way is to boil the water and mault together about three or four pints of mault to seven or eight pints of water when the liquor is strong strain it from the mault and put the herbs into the liquor and so soon as it boils take it from the fire you must bathe or foment the place grieved warm with the bath and then immediately use such oyntments as are proper for the cure and so by swath or otherwise according as the grief is make it up I commonly use the same herbs in the bath which makes the oyl once a day being at evening is my usual time to do it Of PVRGATIONS When you give a Purge let the Moon be in a watry sign or let a watry sign ascend and let the Moon be aspected by any planet which is direct if swift in motion and under the earth the better But by no means let the Moon be aspected of any retrograde planet for then the Patient will be apt to vomit Secondly If you desire to purge any humour or element predominant do as followeth Let the planet be weak which is of the nature of the element offending And let the Moon apply unto or be in Trine or Sextile with that planet which is of contrary Nature as instance Mars who ruleth choler being by nature hot and dry Now if you desire to purge choler then let Mars be weak and let the Moon be applying unto Venus and if you desire to purge melancholy which is under ♄ then let ♄ be weak and the Moon applying unto Jupiter And if you desire to purge flegm let Venus be weak the Moon decreasing and applying to the Sun by Trine or Sextile aspect And if to purge blood let Jupiter be weak and the Moon applying unto Mercury You must do the like in purging any other parts or members of the body by observing what planet hath predominancy over it as instance Saturn ruleth the spleen Jupiter ruleth the liver and lungs Mars the gall Sol the heart Venus the reins and vessels of generation yet notwithstanding if any planet which owns the infirmity be Lord of the ascendant of the Patient and if he be strong its the better but let the Moon apply by any friendly aspect unto a fortune and if she be in the sign which represents the part of the body grieved its the better Of the manner of purging the Body If the body require a strong purge be sure to eat no supper but if any let it be light of digestion and take it early before you go to bed Also before you go to bed take a little aloes in the pap of an apple so much as will heap on a single peny but not bruised too small or otherwise take two or three small pils made suitable to the humour offending and if the Patients body be much bound take either a suppository made with Sal-Gem or a glyster to open and prepare the body before the physick works Take the purge in the morning early and let the Moon be in a watry sign or else let a watry sign ascend as is above expressed take either water-gruel or thin broath about an hour after and likewise after every stool and fast at the least six hours after I mean from meat or any other diet How to Purge the Heal or remote parts When you intend to purge the head or remote parts of the body you must give the patient ●●ls made up in a hard form for the longer it remaineth in the body the better it works upon the remote humours offending How to purge Choler That which purgeth Choler gently is peach-flowers blew-violets damask Roses cent●ury But I chiefly use aloes and Rubarb provided the body be strong else not How to purge Flegm and water Elder-buds elder-flowers broom-flowers flower-de-luce roots hyssop Spurg dwarf-elder orri but I chiefly use bryony-root or jallop the body being strong How to purge Melancholly Pollipodium sumitory white and black Hellebore dodder

when by sympathy it shall reflect upon the man or beast whom they intend to hurt or destroy it being done by thorn pin or needle prickt into that part of the image which answereth unto that part of the body of man or beast wherein they are pained or grieved An Example hereof I have already mentioned concerning the Woman lately taken at the Devises in Wiltshire But that which I conceive is the most usual way practised by Witches is most properly called Sorcery For by the help of the Devil some poysonous matter is prepared and mixt with some blood and vital spirit of the Witch and so by smell or taste infused into the body of man or beast bewitched or rather by which they are infected For its observable in Philosophy Si acceperis terram cadaverosam cujuscunque viri mulierisve qui notabili quocunque morbo moriebatur eandemque des ullo masculo aut foeminae eodem morbo contaminabuntur in morbis aliquibus odore tantùm hoc efficitur Exempla gratia in peste Lue Venereae seu morbo Gallico Elephantiasi sive Lepra Those who are thus wrought upon by sorcery may be infected with most kinds of diseases whatsoever As I have sufficiently discovered in my Practice of Physick Besides I have known many things which through sorcery have been so infected and spoiled as instance bear cream and milk whey and such like that neither Housewife or Dairy Maid could make any good use thereof I shall relate one Example hereof when I was a Boy my Father kept a Dairy at a place called Shenfield near Reading and one of my Sisters had the charge thereof upon a time my Father desired her to make some wilde curds and to send them home which she did endeavour to do but could make none The reason was as she conceived because an Old woman suspected for a witch was at that time denyed whey who went muttering away discontented The next day my Father came with one of his Brothers named John Blagrave a man of great knowledge in Astrology and Philosophy as appears by his many works in print Now my Father askt her why she sent him no curds she told him she could make none notwithstanding she had used her best skill and related what is aforesaid concerning the Woman suspected Now my Fathers Brother aforesaid being desirous to make further tryal hereof went into the House and caused the whey to be hung over the fire again which no sooner was done but presently it rumbled and made a noise as if many bullets had been in it whereupon he caused the Kettle and whey to be taken from the fire and caused a greater fire to be made He also called for a cord and an iron wedge he took the cord and bound the Kettle round about and wrested it very hard and then caused the Kettle with whey to be set over the fire again and having heat the wedge red hot put him into the whey and immediately there was abundance of curds rose up after which my Unckle sent a messenger to the suspected Witches house to know how she did who brought word that after much knocking at length she opened the door where he found the Witch or suspected person shrunk up like a purse or leather put into the fire By which it appeareth that part of the vital spirit of the Witch was infused into the whey for otherwise it could not have wrought so violently upon her for should the poysonous matter or thing be given or used alone without some blood or vital spirit of the Witch mingled with it the burning of the patients blood or urin would not hurt them or the putting this red hot wedg into the whey could no way have afflicted her which it did by Sympathy as appeared by her body being shrunk up as aforesaid The true way to Cure both Witchcraft and Sorcery according unto the Authors experience and Practice THe curing of such who are bewitched is not done only by such who are called white Witches as many foolish do imagine for the white Witch and the black Witch are all one as I have elsewhere expressed they are but confederate Witches the one Witch by thorn pin or needle pricks into the Image through the subtilty of the Devil causeth the infirmity pain or lameness the other Witch giveth forth that she can cure and so when the friends of the bewitched cometh unto the white Witch or cunning woman they divide the gain and the cure is quickly done it s but pulling forth the thorn pin or needle and the Patient is cured and I have been credibly informed by some who have gon to these cunning women or white Witches that their Cattle or the Patient afflicted have been perfectly well before they have gotten home but as I have already declared after either man or beast have been bewitched above moneth they cannot cure them especially if the pain continue in one place all that time but sometimes they will move the thorn pin or needle into some other part of the body that so they may have remedy when they come unto them for after the pain or infirmity have been of above a moneth standing the grief will get into the flesh blood and vital parts and then the pulling forth of the thorn and the rest will do the Patient but little good and cannot possibly help them wherefore in this condition the Patients friends must of necessity repair unto such who are well skilled in Astrological and Philosophical way of cure as I shall declare in order hereunto but before we proceed unto the way of cure it will be necessary to shew how to afflict the Witch that so she may be discouraged to act any further in her mischief for notwithstanding their witchcraft by image as aforesaid yet I seldom find especially where the Patient hath been above a moneth bewitched but that Sorcery is wrought so well as Witchcraft upon the Patient and sometimes immediately together with the Witchcraft especially where there are no confederate Witches for the white Witches cannot help where Sorcery hath been wrought upon the Patient by reason it breaketh forth immediately into some Poysonous or infectious inward grief or infirmity which can no way be cured except by accident but by the Astrological Philosophical way of Physick Here followeth some experimental Rules whereby to afflict the Witch causing the evil to return back upon them 1. ONe way is by watching the suspected party when they go into their house And then presently to take some of her thatch from over the door or a tile if the House be tyled if it be thatch you must wet and sprinkle it over with the patients water and likewise with white salt then let it burn or smoke through a trivet or the frame of a skillet you must bury the ashes that way which the suspected Witch liveth It s best done either at the change full or quarters of the Moon Or otherwise when the Witches