Mathematical Figures adapted to the names and natures of separated Substances whither good or evil Now the form of Consecrating such Magical Pentacles is to name the vertue of the holy Names and Figures their Antiquity and Institution with the intention of the Consecration purifying the Pentacle by consecrated fire and waving the same over the flames thereof When the Exorcist would consecrate Places or Utensils Fire or Water for magical uses he must repeat the Consecration or Dedication of Solomon the King at the building of the Temple the Vision of Moses at the Bush and the Spirit of the Lord on the tops of the Mulberry-trees repeating also the Sacrifice of it self being kindled the Fire upon Sodom and the Water of Eternal Life Wherein the Magitian must still remember to speak of the seven golden Candlesticks and Ezekiels Wheels closing the Consecration with the deep and mysterious Names of God and holy Daemons When particular Instruments are to be sanctified the Magitian must sprinkle the same with consecrated Water and fumigate them with fumigations anoint them with consecrated Oyl And lastly Seal them with holy Characters after all which is performed an Oration or Prayer must follow relating the particulars of the Consecration with Petitions to that Power in whose Name and Authority the Ceremony is performed And in like manner shalt thou consecrate and sanctifie every Utensil whatsoever by Sprinklings Fumigations Unctions Seals and Benedictions commemorating and reiterating the sanctifyings in the holy Scripture of the Tables of the Law delivered to Moses of the two Testaments in the New Covenant of the holy Prophets in their Mothers wombs and of Aholiah and Aholibah whom the Spirit of God inspired to frame all sorts of curious workmanship for the Tabernacle This is the sum of Consecrationn CHAP. V. Treating more practically of the Consecration of Circles Fires Garments and Fumigations IN the Construction of Magical Circles the hour day or night and season of the year and the Constellation are to be considered as also what sort of Spirits are to be called and to what Region Air or Climate they belong Therefore this method is to be followed for the more orderly and certain proceeding therein First a Circle nine foot over must be drawn within which another Circle three inches from the outermost must be also made in the Center whereof the name of the hour the Angel of the hour the Seal of the Angel the Angel of the day predominant wherein the work is undertaken Note these attributes are to be inscribed betwixt the Circles round about with Alpha at the beginning and Omega at the close When the Circle is composed it must be sprinkled with holy Water while the Magician saith Wash me O Lord and I shall be whiter then Snow And as for the Fumigations over them this Benediction must be said O God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob bless these thy subservient creatures that they may multiply the force of their excellent odors to hinder evil spirits and phantasms from entring the Circle through our Lord. Amen An Exorcism for the fire The Exorcist ought to have an earthen Censer wherein to preserve the fire for magical uses and the expiations and fumigations whose consecration is on this manner By him that created Heaven and Earth and is the God and Lord of all I exorcize and sanctifie thee thou creature of Fire that immediately thou banish every phantasm from thee so that thou prove not hurtful in any kind Which I beseech thee O Lord to confirm by sanctifying and making pure this creature of fire that it may be blessed and consecrate to the honour of thy holy Name Amen At the putting on the Garments Let the Magician say By the figurative mystery of this holy Stole or Vestment I will cloath me with the armour of Salvation in the strength of the highest Ancor Amacor Amides Lheodonias Anitor That my desired end may be effected through thy strength Adonai to whom the praise and glory will for ever belong Which Ceremonies being finished the Exorcist shall proceed to the practical part of Invocation and Conjuration of all degrees of Spirits having every utensil and appendix in readiness for the performance and proceeding according to the method in these following Chapters CHAP. VI. How to raise and exorcize all sorts of Spirits belonging to the Airy Region THe Garment which the Exorcist is cloathed withall at the performance of this action ought according to the opinions of the chiefest Magicians to be a Priestly Robe which if it can no where be procured may be a neat and cleanly linnen Vest with the holy Pentacle fastned thereunto upon Parchment made of a Kids skin over which an Invocation must be said and then the Pentacle must be sprinkled with holy Water At the putting on the Magical Garment this Prayer must be repeated By thy holy power Adonai Sabaoth And by the power and merit of thine Angels and Archangels and by the vertue of holy Church which thou hast sanctified do I cloath me with this consecrated Garment that what I am to practice may take effect through thy Name who art for ever and ever Now as for the time of operation and the manner thereof The Instructions before set down are sufficient to direct the Exorcist only the Acter and his Scholar must be mindful in the way as they go towards the place of Conjuration to reiterate the sacred forms of Consecrations Prayers and Invocations the one bearing an Earthen Vessel with consecrated fire and the other the Magical Sword the Book and Garments till approaching nigh the place where the Circle is to be drawn they must then proceeed to compose it after the aforesaid manner And at last Exorcize the Spirits on this following manner Seeing God hath given us the power to bruise the Serpents head and command the Prince of Darkness much more to bear rule over every airy Spirit Therefore by his strong and mighty Name Iehovah do I conjure you naming the Spirits and by his secret commands delivered to Moses on the Mount and by his holy Name Tetragrammaton and by all his wonderful Names and Attributes Sadai Ollon Emillah Athanatos Paracletos c. That ye do here immediately appear before this Circle in humane form and not terrible or of monstrous shape on pain of eternal misery that abides you unless you speedily fulfil my commands Bathar Baltar Archim Anakim Nakun Amen When the Exorcist hath finished this Conjuration he and his companion shall continue constantly turning themselves to the East West North and South saying with their Caps in their hands Gerson Anek Nephaton Basannah Cabon and within a little space they will behold various apparitions upon the ground and in the air with various habits shapes and instruments after that he shall perceive a troop of armed men with threatning carriage appear before the Circle who after they are conjured to leave
not his law The Day delay'd by length of Night Which made both Day and Night to yaw And all was through that charming gear Which caus'd the World to quake for fear Carmine Thessalidum dura in praecordia fluxit Non fatis adductus amor flammisque severi Illicitis arsere ignes With Thessal Charms and not by Fate Hot Love is forced for to flow Even where before hath been debate They cause Affection for to grow Gens invisa diis maculandi callida coeli Quos genuit fera terra mali qui sidera mundi Juráque fixarum possunt pervertere rerum Nam nunc stare polos flumina mittere norunt Aethera sub terras adigunt montésque revellunt These Witches hateful unto God And cunning to defile the Aire Which can disorder with a nod The course of Nature every where Do cause the wandering Starrs to stay And drive the Winds below the ground They send the Streams another way And throw down Hills where they abound linguis dixere valucrum Consultare fibras rumpere vocibus angues Sollicitare umbras ipsúmque Acheronta movere In noctémque dies in lucem vertere noctes Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit They talked with the tongues of Birds Consulting with the Salt-sea-coasts They burst the Snakes with witching words Solliciting the spiritual Ghosts They turn the Night into the Day And also drive the Light away And what is 't that cannot be made By them that do apply this Trade CHAP. VIII Poetry and Popery compared in Inchantments Popish Witchmongers have more advantage herein than Protestants YOu see in these verses the Poets whether in earnest or in jest I know not ascribe unto Witches and to their Charms more than is to be found in Humane or Diabolical Power I doubt not but the most part of the Readers hereof will admit them to be fabulous although the most learned of mine adversaries for lack of Scripture are fain to produce these Poetries for proofs and for lack of judgment I am sure do think that Actaeons transformation was true And why not as well as the Metamorphosis or Transubstantiation of Ulysses his companions into Swine which S. Augustine and so many great Clerks credit and report Nevertheless Popish Writers I confess have advantage herein of our Protestants for besides these Poetical proofs they have for advantage the word and authority of the Pope himself and others of that holy crew whose Charms Conjurations Blessings Cursings c. I mean in part for a taste to set down giving you to understand that Poets are not altogether so impudent as Papists herein neither seem they so ignorant prophane oe impious And therefore I will shew you how lowd also they lie and what they on the other side ascribe to their Charms and Conjurations and together will set down with them all manner of Witches Charms as conveniently as I may CHAP. IX Popish Periapts Amulets and Charms Agnus Dei a Wastecote of proof a Charm for the Falling-Evill a Writing brought to S. Leo from Heaven by an Angel the vertues of S. Saviours Epistle a Charm against Theeves a Writing found in Christs Wounds of the Cross c. THese Vertues under these Verses written by Pope Urbane the fifth to the Emperour of the Grecians are contained in a Periapt or Tablet be continually worn about one called Agnas Dei which is a little cake having the picture of a Lamb carrying of a flag on the one side and Christs head on the other side and is hollow so as the Gospel of S. John written in fine Paper is placed in the concavity thereof and it is thus compounded or made even as they themselves report Balsamus mundra cera cum Chrismatis unda Conficiunt agnum quod munus do tibi magnum Fonte velut natum per mystica sanctificatum Fulgura de sursum depellit omne malignum Peccatum frangit ut Christi sanguis angit Pregnans servatur simul partus liberatur Dona refert dignis virtutem destruit ignis Portatus munde de fluctibus eripit undae Englished by Abraham Fleming Balme Virgine Wax and Holy-Water An Agnus Dei make A gift than which none can be greater I send thee for to take From Fountain clear the same hath issue In secret sanctified ' Gainst Lightning it hath soveraign vertue And Thunder-cracks beside Each hainous sin it wears and wasteth Even as Christs precious blood And Women whiles their Travel lasteth It saves it is so good It doth bestow great gifts and graces On such as well deserve And born about in noisome places From peril doth preserve The force of fire whose heat destroyeth It breaks and bringeth down And he or she that this enjoyeth No water shall them drown A Charm against Shot or Wastecoat of Proof BEfore the coming up of these Dei's a holy Garment called a Wastecoat for necessity was much used of our fore-fathers as a holy relique c. as given by the Pope or some such Arch-Conjuror who promised thereby all manner of immunity to the wearer thereof insomuch as he could not be hurt with any shot or other violence And otherwise that woman that would wear it should have quick deliverance the composition thereof was in this order following On Christmas-day at at night a Thread must be spun of Flax by a little Virgin-girl in the name of the Devil and it must be by her woven and also wrought with the Needle In the brest or fore-part thereof must be made with Needle-work two heads on the head at the right side must be a Hat and along Beard the left head must have on a Crown and it must be so horrible that it may resemble Beelzebub and on each side of the Wastecoat must be made a Cross Against the Falling-Evill Moreover this ensuing is another counterfeit Charm of theirs whereby the Falling-evil is presently remedied Gaspar fert myrrham thus Melchior Balthasar aurum Haec tria qui secum portabit nomina regum Solvitur à morbo Christi pietate caduco Gasper with his myrrh began These presents to unfold Then Melchior brought in Frankincense And Balthasar brought in Gold Now he that of these holy Kings The Names about shall bear The falling ill by grace of Christ Shall never need to fear THis is a true copy of the Holy-writing that was brought down from Heaven by an Angel to S. Leo Pope of Rome and he did bid him take it to King Charles when he went to the battel at Ronceval And the Angel said that what man or woman beareth this writing about them with good devotion and saith every day three Pater-nosters three Aves and one Creed shall not that day be overcome or his Enemies either bodily or ghostly neither shall be robbed or slain of Theeves Pestilence Thunder or Lightning neither shall be hurt with fire or water nor cumbred with Spirits neither shall he have displeasure of
the Circle into seven parts and write these seven names at the seven divisions setting at every Name a Candle lighted in a brazen Candlestick in the space betwixt the Circles The names are these Cados ✚ Escherie 🜂 Anick ✚ Sabbac Sagun ✚ ✚ Aba ✚ Abalidoth When the Candles are lighted let the Magician being in the midst of the Circle and supporting himself with two drawn Swords say with a low and submissive voyce I do by the vertue of these seven holy Names which are the Lamps of the living God Consecrate unto my use this inclosed Circle and exterminate out of it all evill Spirits and their power that beyond the limit of their circumference they enter not on pain of torments to be doubled Yah Agion Helior Heligah Amen When this Consecration is ended Let him sprinkle the Circle with consecrated Water and with a Chasing-dish of Charcole perfume it with Frankincense and Cinamon laying the Swords a cross the Circle and standing over them then whilest the fumigation burneth let him begin to call these three Spirits in this following manner I Conjure and Exorcize you the three Gentle and Noble Spirits of the power of the North by the great and dreadful name of Peolphan your King and by the silence of the night and by the holy rites of Magick and by the number of the Infernal Legions I adjure and invocate you That without delay ye present your selves here before the Northern quarter of this Circle all of you or any one of you and answer my demands by the force of the words contained in this Book This must be thrice repeated and at the third repetition the three Spirits will either all appear or one by lot if the other be already somewhere else imployed at their appearance they will send before them three fleet Hounds opening after a Hare who will run round the Circle for the space of half a quarter of an hour after that more hounds will come in and after all a little ugly Aethiop who will take the Hare from their ravenous mouths and together with the Hounds vanish at last the Magician shall hear the winding of a Hunts-mans horn and a Herald on Horseback shall come galloping with three Hunters behind upon black Horses who will compass the Circle seven times and at the seventh time will make a stand at the Northern quarter dismissing the Herald that came up before them and turning their Horses towards the Magician will stand all a brest before him saying Gil pragma burthon machatan dennah to which the Magician must boldly answer Beral Beroald Corath Kermiel By the sacred rites of Magick ye are welcome ye three famous Hunters of the North and my command is that by the power of these Ceremonies ye be obedient and faithful unto my summons unto which I conjure you by the holy Names of God Yah Gian Soter Yah Iehovah Immanuel Letragrammaton Yah Adonay Sabray Seraphin Binding and obliging you to answer plainly faithfully and truly by all these holy names and by the awful name of your mighty King Peolphon Which when the Magician hath said the middle Hunter named Paymon will answer Gil pragma burthon machatan dennah We are the three mighty Hunters of the North in the Kingdom of Fiacim and are come hither by the sound of thy Conjurations to which we swear by him that liveth to yield obedience if Judas that betrayed him be not named Then shall the Magician swear By him that liveth and by all that is contained in this holy Book I swear unto you this night and by the mysteries of this action I swear unto you this night and by the bonds of darkness I swear unto you this night That Judas the Traitor shall not be named and that blood shall not be offered unto you but that truce and equal terms shall be observed betwixt us Which being said the Spirits will bow down their heads to the Horses crests and then alighting down will call their Herald to withdraw their Horses which done The Magician may begin to bargain with all or any one of them as a familiar invisibly to attend him or to answer all difficulties that he propoundeth Then may he begin to ask them of the frame of the World and the Kingdoms therein contained which are unknown unto Geographers He may also be informed of all Physical processes and operations also how to go invisible and fly through the airy Region They can likewise give unto him the powerful Girdle of Victory teaching him how to compose and consecrate the same which hath the force being tyed about him to make him conquer Armies and all men whatsoever Besides there is not any King or Emperour throughout the world but if he desires it they will engage to bring him the most pretious of their Jewels and Riches in twenty four hours discovering also unto him the way of finding hidden treasures and the richest mines And after the Conjurer hath fulfilled his desires he shall dismiss the aforesaid Spirits in this following form I charge you ye three officious Spirits to depart unto the place whence ye were called without injury to either man or Beast leaving the tender Corn untouched and the seed unbruised I dismiss you and licence you to go back untill I call you and to be alwayes ready at my desire especially thou nimble Bathin whom I have chosen to attend me that thou be alwayes ready when I ring a little Bell to present thy self without any Magical Ceremonies performed and so depart ye from hence and peace be betwixt you and us In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen When the Magician hath repeated this last form of dismission he will hear immediately a horn winding after which the Herald with the jet black Horses and the three Spirits will mount upon them compassing the Circle seven times with the Herald winding his horn before them and at every Candle they will bow towards the Horses crest till coming towards the Northern quarter they will with great obeysance seem to march away out through the solid wall as through a City gate CHAP. IV. How to Consecrate all manner of Circles Fumigations Fire Magical Garments and Utensills COnsecrations are related either to the person or the thing consecrated The person is the Magitian himself whose consecration consisteth in Abstinence Temperance and holy Garments The things consecrated are the Oyl the Fire the Water The Fumigations consisting of oriental Gums and Spices the magical Sword Pensils Pens and Compasses the measuring Rule and waxen Tapers the Pentacles Periapts Lamins and Sigils Vests Caps and Priestly Garments these are the materials to be consecrated The sacred Pentacles are as signs and charms for the binding of Evil Daemons consisting of Characters and Names of the Superior order of the good Spirits opposite unto those evils ones whom the Magitian is about to Invocate And of sacred Pictures Images and
Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by all their virtues do I N. swear and promise thee to be obedient as is rehearsed And here for a witness do I N. give thee N. my right hand and do plight thee my faith and troth as God me help and holydome And by the holy contents in this Book do I N. swear that my spirit shall be thy true servant all the days of thy life as is before rehearsed and here for a witness that my Spirit shall be obedient unto thee N. and to those bonds of words that be written in this N. before the bonds of words shall be rehearsed thrice else to be damned for ever and thereto say all faithful souls and spirits Amen Amen Then let him swear this Oath three times and at every time kiss the Book and at every time make marks to the bond Then perceiving the time that he will depart get away the people from you and get or take your stone or glass or other thing in your hand and say the Pater noster Ave and Credo and this Prayer as followeth And in all the time of his departing rehearse the bonds of words and in the end of every bond say oftentimes Remember thine Oath and promise And bind him strongly to thee and to thy stone and suffer him not to depart reading thy bond 24 times And every day when you do call him by your other bond bind him strongly by the first bond by the space of 24. days apply it and thou shalt be made a man for ever Now the Pater noster Ave and Credo must be said and then the Prayer immediately following O God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob God of Tobias the which didst deliver the three children from the hot burning oven Sidrac Misac and Abednago and Susanna from the false crime and Daniel from the Lions power even so O Lord Omnipotent I beseech thee for thy great mercy sake to help me in these my works and to deliver me this Spirit of N. that he may be a true subject unto me N all the days of my life and to remain with me and with this N. all the dayes of my life O glorious God Father Son and Holy Ghost I beseech thee to help me at this time and to give me power by thy holy Name Merits and vertues whereby I may conjure and constrain this Spirit of N. that he may be obedient unto me and may fulfill his Oath and promise at all times by the power of all thine holiness This grant O Lord God of Hosts as thou art righteous and holy and as thou art the Word and the Word God the beginning and the end sitting in the Thrones of thine everlasting Kingdoms and in the divinity of thine everlasting Godhead to whom be all honour and glory now and for ever und ever Amen Amen CHAP. XXVII A Bond to bind him to thee and to thy N. as followeth I Conjure and constrain the Spirit of N. by the living God by the true God and by the holy God and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the Spirit of thee N. that thou shalt not ascend nor descend out of thy body to no place of rest but only to take thy resting place with N. and with this N. all the days of my life according to thine Oath and promise I conjure and constrain thee Spirit of N. by ehese holy Names of God ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ Agla ✚ Saday ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Planabothe ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Neupmaton ✚ Deus ✚ homo ✚ omnipotens ✚ sempiternus ✚ ysus ✚ terra ✚ unigenitus ✚ salbator ✚ via ✚ vita ✚ manus ✚ sons ✚ origo ✚ filius ✚ and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the Spirit of N. that thou shalt not remain in the fire nor in the water in the air nor in any privy place of the earth but only with we N. and with this N. all the dayes of my life I charge thee Spirit of N. upon pain of everlasting condemnation remember thine Oath and promise Also I conjure the spirit of N. and constrain thee by the excellent Name of Jesus Christ Α and Ω the first and the last for this holy Name of Jesus is above all names for unto it all knees do bow and obey both of heavenly things earthly things and infernals Nor is there any other Name given to man whereby we have any salvation but by the Name of Jesus Therefore by the Name and in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and by his Nativity Resurrection and Ascension and by all that appertaineth to his Passion and by their vertues and powers I do conjure and constrain the Spirit of N. that thou shalt not take any resting place in the ☉ nor in the ☽ nor in ♄ nor in ♃ nor in ♂ nor in ♀ nor in ☿ nor in any of the twelve signs nor in the concavity of the Clouds nor in any other privy place to rest or stay in but only with me N. or with this N. all the days of my life If thou be not obedient unto me according to thine Oath and promise I N. do condemn the spirit of N. into the pit of hell for over Amen I Conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb Jesus Christ the which was shed upon the Cross for all those that do obey unto it and believe in it shall be saved and by vertue thereof and by all the aforesaid royal names and words of the living God by me pronounced I do conjure and constrain the spirit of N. that thou do be obedient unto me according to thine Oath and promise If thou refuse to do as is aforesaid I N. by the holy Trinity and by his vertue and power do condemn the spirit of N. into the place whereas there is no hope of remedy but everlasting condemnation and horror and pain upon pain daily horribly and lamentably the pains there to be augmented so thick as the starrs in the Firmament and as the gravel sand in the Sea except thou Spirit of N. obey me N. as is afore rehearsed else I N. do condemn the spirit of N. into the pit of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure thee and constrain the spirit of N. by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by the four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John and by all things contained in the old Law and the new and by their vertues and by the twelve Apostles and by all Patriarchs Prophets Martyrs Confessors Virgins Innocents and by all the elect and chosen is and shall be which followeth the Lamb of God and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. strongly to have common talk with me at all times and in all days nights hours and
ravine theft and violence and yet none of them all are so just but that the very best and uprightest of them fall into great infirmities both doing and suffering much wrong and injury And what is their fortitude but to arm them to indure misery grief danger and death it self But what happiness or goodness is to be reposed in that life which must be waited upon with such calamities and finally must have the help of death to finish it I say if it be so miserable why do they place Summum bonum therein S. Paul to the Romans sheweth that it cannot be that we should attain to justice through the moral and natural actions and duties of this life because that never the Jews nor the Gentiles could eâ—press so much in their lives as the very law of Nature or of Moses required And therefore he that worketh without Christ doth as he that reckoneth without his host CHAP. II. Mine own opinion concerning this Argument to the disproof of some Writers hereupon I For my part do also think this Argument about the Nature and Substance of Devils and Spirits to be so difficult as I am perswaded that no one Author hath in any certain or perfect sort hitherto written thereof In which respect I can neither allow the ungodly and prophane sects and doctrines of the Sadduces and Peripateticks who deny that there are any Devils or Spirits at last nor the fond and superstitious Treatises of Plato Proclus Plotinus Porphyrie or yet the vain and absurd opinions of Psellus Nider Sprenger Cumanus Bodin Michael Andreas Janus Matchaeus Laurentius Ananias Jambilchus who with many others write so ridiculously in these matters as if they were babes frayed with bugges Some affirming That the souls of the dead become spirits the good to be Angels the bad to be Devils Some That Spirits or Devils are only in this life Some That they are men Some That they are women Some That Devils are of such gender as they list themselves Some That they had no beginning nor shall have ending as the Manichees maintain Some That they are mortal and die as Plutarch affirmeth of Pan Some That they have no bodies at all but receive bodies according to their phantasies and imaginations Some That their bodies are given unto them Some That they make themselves Some say They are wind Some That they are the breath of living creatures Some That one of them begat another Some That they were created of the least part of the mass whereof the Earth was made and some That they are substances between God and Man and that of them some are Terrestrial some Celestial some Watery some Airy some Firy some Starry and some of each and every part of the Elements and that they know our thoughts and carry our good Works and Prayers to God and return his benefits back unto us and that they are to be worshipped wherein they meet and agree jump with the Papists as if you read the notes upon the second chapter to the Colossians in the Seminaries Testament printed at Rhemes you shall manifestly see though as contrary to the Word of God as black to white as appeareth in the Apocalypse where the Angel expresly forbad John to worship him Again some say That they are mean betwixt Terrestrial and Celestial bodies communicating part of each nature and that although they be eternal yet that they are moved with affections and as there are Birds in the air Fishes in the water and Worms in the earth so in the fourth Element which is the fire is the habitation of Spirits and Devils And lest we should think them idle they say They have charge over men and Government in all Countries and Nations Some say That they are only imaginations in the mind of man Tertullian saith They are Birds and fly faster then any fowl of the air Some say That Devils are not but when they are sent and therefore are called evil Angels Some think That the Devil sendeth his Angels alroad and he himself maketh his continual abode in Hell his Mansion place CHAP. III. The opinion of Psellus touching Spirits of their several Orders and a Confutation of his Errors therein PSellus being of authority in the Church of Rome and not impugnable by any Catholick being also instructed in these supernatural or rather Diabolical matters by a Monk called Marcus who had been familiarly conversant a long time as he said with a certain Devil reporteth upon the same Devils own word which must needs understand best the state of this question That the bodies of Angels and Devils consist not now of all one element though perhaps it were otherwise before the fall of Lucifer and That the bodies of Spirits and Devils can feel and be felt do hurt and be hurt in so much as they lament when they are striken and being put to the fire are burnt and yet that they themselves burn continually in such sort as they leave ashes behind them in places where they have been as manifest tryal thereof hath been if he say truly in the borders of Italy He also saith upon like credit and assurance That Devils and Spirits do avoid and shed from out of their bodies such seed or nature as whereby certain vermin are ingendered and that they are nourished with food as we are saving that they receive it not into their mouths but suck it it up into their bodies in such sort as sponges soke up waser Also he saith They have names shapes and dwelling places as indeed they have though not in temporal and corporal sort Furthermore he saith That there are six principal kind of Devils which are not only corporal but temporal and worldly The first sort consist of fire wandering in the Region neer to the Moon but have no power to go into the Moon The second sort consisting of air have their habitation more low and neer unto us These saith he are proud and great boasters very wise and deceitful and when they come down are seen with streams of fire at their tail He saith That these are commonly conjured up to make Images laugh and Lamps burn of their own accord and that in Assyria they use much to prophesie in a Bason of Water Which kind of Incantation is usual among our Conjurors but it is here commonly performed in a Pitcher or Pot of water or else in a Vial of Glass filled with water wherein they say at the first a little sound is heard without a voyce which is a token of the Devils coming Anon the water seemeth to be troubled and then there are heard small voyces wherewith they give their answers speaking so softly as no man can well hear them because saith Cardan they would not be argued or rebuked of lyes But this I have elsewhere more largely described and confuted The third sort of Devils are earthly the fourth watery or of the Sea
these dubious Spirits do properly belong then are they frequently sollicited to mediate in such treacherous actions as the hellish Spirits have conspired against the Lives of mortal men 30. More particularly These Spirits that belong to the fiery Element are most officious in this kinde of service being naturally such as the Antecedent matter hath sufficiently demonstrated but according to the ranks and Categoryes to which they belong some of them are more inveterate and malicious in their undertakings then the rest But every kinde of Astral Spirit is obsequious to the Kingdome of darkness that the devilish Spirits can effect little or nothing without their assistance in this external principle of the Starrs and Elements upon the bodies or possessions of Mankind because their bodies are too crude and rough for the conveyance of their influence either in Dreams Raptures Philtres Charms or Constellations as the following Chapter of the nature of Infernal beings shall make plain wherein the nature and capacity of every damned Spirit is decyphered according to the truth of the antient Philosophy 31. Leave we now the Spirits of the fire to illustrate the natures of subterranean Beings whose Orders Species and Degrees are various for they consist in these distinctions viz. Spirits of men deceased Souls of men deceased separated Spirits Astral separate Spirits semi-Infernal Spirits appropriate to the Constellations where any of the seven metals viz. Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Luna Venus Mercury are found in the bowels of the Earth and as farr as the natures of Minerals are distinct one from the other so much distant are these Subterranean Spirits in Nature and Faculty in respect of their places shapes names and qualities 32. But they are not all confined unto the metallick Kingdome for there are also Spirits of the Mountains Vallies Caves Deeps Hiata's or Chasma's of the Earth hidden Treasures Tombs Vaults and Sepultures of the Dead To the last belong the Astral Spirits of deceased Mortals that delight to hover over the antient Carcases to which they belong'd seeking still to be dissolved and diligently enquiring the Cause of their retention such are resident in silent Caves and solitary Vaults where the deceased lie till the Humidum Radicale be exciccate and totally dryd up after which their tricks are no more manifest but are utterly extinguished and annihilated 33. To the next belong such Spirits as are Protectors of hidden Treasures from a natural Cause from whence they do exceedingly envy mans benefit and accommodation in the discovery thereof ever haunting such places where money is conceal'd and retaining malevolent and poysonous Influences to blast the Lives and Limbs of those that dare to attempt the discovery thereof Peters of Devonshire with his confederates who by Conjuration attempted to dig for such defended Treasures was crumbled into Atomes as it were being reduced to Ashes with his Companions in the twinkling of an eye 34. And upon this particular we have plenty of Examples of the destruction of such as by Magical experiments have discovered hidden Treasures which instances do rather seem to prove That such as haunt these places do more nearly belong to the Infernal then to the Astral Hierarchy in regard that they are so infesting and inveterate to Mortal men that the Grand Intention of the Prince of darkness may be accomplished in their designs 35. But of all the rest such as haunt Mines and mettle men are the most pernicious and frequent from the same Cause with the former The nature of such is very violent they do often slay whole Companies of Labourers they do sometimes send inundations that destroy both the Mines and Miners they bring noxious and malignant vapours to stifle the laborious workmen briefly their whole delight and faculty consists in tormenting killing and crushing men that seek such Treasures that mankind may never partake thereof to relieve their Cares and worldly necessities 36. Such was Anaebergius a most virulent Animal that did utterly confound the undertakings of those that laboured in the richest Silver mine in Germany called Corona Rosacea He would often shew himself in the likeness of a he-goat with Golden horns pushing down the workmen with great violence sometimes like a Horse breathing flames and pestilence at his Nostrils At other times he represented a Monk in all his Pontificalilus flouting at their Labour and imitating their Actions with scorn and dedignation till by his daily and continued molestation he gave them no further ability of perseverance 37. Thus I have hinted the various distinctions and sub-distinctions of Astral Spirits proper or common illustrating their natures according to the opinions of the Learned from thence I proceed to say what the Infernal Hierarchy is and whereof it doth consist in this fifth Chapter following CHAP. V. Of the Infernal Spirits or Devils and damned Souls treating what their Natures Names and Powers are c. 1. LEaving the Astral Kingdome I will now proceed to describe the natures and distinctions of Infernal Spirits or Devils and damned Souls who are to be considered according to their ranks and orders exactly correspondent to the Quires and Hierarchies of the Angels or Celestial beings wherein I will insist upon their names shapes places times orders powers and capacities proceeding gradually from a general narration to a particular Anatomy of every sort of Spirit in its proper place and order 2. As for the Locality or Circumscription of the Kingdome of darkness it is farr otherwise to be considered then the vulgar account it who esteem the hellish habitation a distinct Chasma or Gulph in a certain place above under or in the Center of the Earth where innumerable Devils and wicked Souls inhabit who are perpetually scorched and tormented with material flames of fire This is the opinion which naturally all men are addicted and prone unto But if we will rightly consider the Kingdome of Heaven and Hell in respect of one another we must look upon the similitude of light and darkness in this outward world who are not circumscribed nor separate as to Locality from one another for when the sun arises the darkness of the night disappeareth not that it removes it self to some other place or Country but the brightness of the light overpowereth it and swallows it up so that though it disappeareth yet it is as really there as the light is 3. This is also to be considered in the description of the Habitations of good or evill beings that they are really in one another yet not comprehended of one another neither indeed can they be for the evil Spirits if they should remove ten thousand miles yet are they in the same quality and source never able to finde out or discover where the Kingdome of Heaven is to be found though it be really through and through with the dark Kingdome but in another quality which makes them strangers to one another 4. A similitude hereof we
Lords or Ladies he shall not be condemned with false witness nor taken with Fairies or any manner of Axes nor yet with the Falling-evil Also if a woman be in Travel lay this writing upon her belly she shall have easie deliverance and the child right shape and Christendom and the mother Purification of holy Church and all through vertue of these holy Names of Jesus Christ following ✚ Jesus ✚ Christus ✚ Messias ✚ Soter ✚ Emmanuel ✚ Sabbath ✚ Adonai ✚ Unigenitus ✚ Majestas ✚ Paracletus ✚ Salvatur noster ✚ Agiros iskiros ✚ Agios ✚ Adonatos ✚ Gasper ✚ Melchior ✚ Balthasar ✚ Matthaeus ✚ Marcios ✚ Lucos ✚ Johannes The Epistle of S. Saviour which Pope Leo sent to King Charles saying that whosoever carrieth the same about him or in what day soever he shall read it or shall see it he shall not be killed with any Iron-tool nor be burned with fire nor be drowned with water neither any evil man or other creature may hurt him The Cross of Christ is a wonderful defence ✚ the cross of Christ be alwayes with me ✚ the cross is it which I do alwayes worship ✚ the cross of Christ is true health ✚ the cross of Christ doth lose the bands of death ✚ the cross of Christ is the truth and the way ✚ I take my journey upon the cross of the Lord ✚ the cross of Christ beareth down every evil ✚ the cross of Christ giveth all good things ✚ the cross of Christ taketh away pains everlasting ✚ the cross of Christ save me ✚ O cross of Christ be upon me before me and behind me ✚ because the ancient Enemy cannot abide the sight of thee ✚ the cross of Christ save me keep me govern me and direct me ✚ Thomas bearing this note of thy divine Majesty ✚ Alpha ✚ Omega ✚ first ✚ and last ✚ midst ✚ and end ✚ beginning ✚ first begotten ✚ wisdom ✚ vertue ✚ A Popish Periapt or Charm which must never be said but carried about one against Theeves I Do go and I do come unto you with the love of God with the humility of Christ with the holiness of our blessed Lady with the Faith of Abraham with the Justice of Isaac with the Vertue of David with the Might of Peter with the Constancy of Paul with the Word of God with the Authority of Gregory with the Prayer of Clement with the Flood of Jordan p p p c g e g a q q est p t 1 k a b g l k 2 a x t g t b a m g 2 4 2 1 que p x c g k q a 9 9 p o q q r. Oh only Father ✚ oh only Lord ✚ And Jesus ✚ passing through the midst of them ✚ went In ✚ the Name of the Father ✚ and of the Son ✚ and of the Holy Ghost ✚ Another Amulet JOseph of Arimathea did find this Writing upon the wounds of the side of Jesus Christ written with Gods finger when the Body was taken away from the Cross Whosoever shall carry this writing about him shall not dye any evil death if he believe in Christ and in all perplexities he shall soon be delivered neither let him fear any danger at all Fons Alpha Omega ✚ figa ✚ figalis ✚ Sabbaoth ✚ Emmanuel ✚ Adonai ✚ o ✚ Neray ✚ Ela ✚ Ihe ✚ Rentone ✚ Neger ✚ Sahe ✚ Pangeton ✚ Commen ✚ a ✚ g ✚ l ✚ a ✚ Mattheus ✚ Marcus ✚ Lucas ✚ Johannes ✚ ✚ ✚ titulus triumphalis ✚ Jesus ✚ Nasarenus rex Judaeorum ✚ ecce dominica crucis signum ✚ fugite partes adversae vicit leo de tribu Judae radix David aleluijah Kyrie eleeson Christe eleeson Pater noster Ave Maria ne nos veniat super nos salutare tuum Oremus c. I find in a Primer intituled The Hours of our Lady after the use of the Church of York printed anno 1516. a Charm with this titling in red letters To all them that afore this Image of pity devoutly shall lay five Pater nosters five Avies and one Credo piteously beholding these arms or Christ's passion are granted thirty two thousand seven hundred fifty five years of pardon It is to be thought that this pardon was granted in the time of Pope Boniface the ninth for Platina saith that the Pardons were sold so cheap that the Apostolical Authority grew into contempt A Papistical Charm SIgnum sanctae crucis defendat me a malis praesentibus praeteritis futuris interioribus exterioribus That is The sign of the Cross defend me from evils present past and to come inward and outward A Charm found in the Canon of the Mass ALso this charm is found in the Canon of the Mass Haec sacrosancta commixtio corporis sanguinis domini nostri Jesu Christi fiat mihi omnibusque sumentibus salus mentis corporis ad vitam promerendam capessendam praeparatio salutaris that is Let this holy mixture of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ be unto me and unto all receivers thereof health of mind and body and to the deserving and receiving of life an healthful preparative Other Papistical Charms Aqua benedicta sit mihi salus vita Englished by Abraham Fleming Let holy water he both health and life to me Adque nomen Martini omnis haereticus fugiat pallidus When Martins name is sung or said Let Hereticks flie as men dismaid But the Papists have a harder Charm than that to wit Fire and fagot Fire and fagot A Charm of the Holy-Cross Nulla salus est in domo Nisi cruce munit homo Superliminaria Neque sentit gladium Nec amisit filium Quisquis egit talia No health within the house doth dwell Except a man do Cross him well At every door or frame He never feeleth the Swords point Nor of his Son shall lose a joynt That doth perform the same Furthermore as followeth I sta suos fortiores Semper facit victores Morbos sanat languores Reprimit Daemonia Dat captivis libertatem Vitae confert novitatem Ad antiquam dignitatem Crux reducit omnia O Crux lignum triumphale Mundi vera salus vale Inter ligna nullum tale Fronde flore germine Medicina Christiana Salva sanos aegros sana Quod non valet vis humana Fit in tuo nomine c. Englished by Abraham Fleming It makes her souldiers excellent And crowneth them with victory Restores the lame and impotent And healeth every malady The Devils of Hell it conquereth Releaseth from imprisonment Newness of life it offereth It hath all at commandement O Cross of Wood incomparable To all the world most wholesome No Wood is half so honourable In branch in bud or blossome O medicine which Christ did ordain The sound save every hour The sick and sore make whole again By vertue of thy power And that which mans unablenss Hath never comprehended Grant by thy Name
there be a great number of lyes contained in M. Mal. and J. Bodin And if this be well weighed and conceived it beateth down to the ground all those Witchmongers arguments that contend to wring witching miracles out of this place For they disagree notably some denying and some affirming that Serpents may be bewitched Nevertheless because in every point you shall see how Popery agrees with Paganism I will recite certain Charms against Vipers allowed for the most part in and by the Church of Rome as followeth I conjure thee O Serpent in this hour by the five holy wounds of our Lord that thou remove not out of this place but here stay as certainly as God was born of a pure Virgine Otherwise I conjure thee Serpent In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus sancti I command thee Serpent by our Lady S. Mary that thou obey me as wax obeyeth the fire and As fire obeyeth water that thou neither hurt me nor any other Christian as certainly as God was born of an immaculate Virgine in which respect I take thee up In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Ely lash eiter ely lash eiter ely lash eiter Otherwise O Vermine thou must come as God came unto the Jews Otherwise L. Varius saith that Serpens quernis frondibus contracta that a Serpent touched with Oak-leaves dieth and stayeth even in the beginning of his going if a feather of the bird Ibis be cast or thrown upon him and that a Viper smitten or hot with a reed is astonied and touched with a beechen branch is presently numme and stiffe Here is to be remembred that many use to boast that they are of S. Pauls race and kindred shewing upon their bodies the prints of Serpents which as the Papists affirm was incident to all them of S. Paul's stock Marry they say herewithal that all his kinsfolks can handle Serpents or any poyson without danger Others likewise have as they brag a Katharine-wheel upon their bodies and they say they are kin to S. Katharine and that they can carry burning-coals in their bare-hands and dip their said hands in hot scalding liquor and also go into hot Ovens Whereof though the last be but a bare jest and to be done by any that will prove as a bad fellow in London had used to do making no tarriance at all therein yet there is a shew made of the other as though it were certain and undoubted by anointing the hands with the juyce of Mallows Mercury Urine c. which for a little time are defensatives against the scalding liquors and scorching fires But they that take upon them to work these mysteries and miracles do indeed after rehearsal of these and such like words and Charms take up even in their bare hands those Snakes and Vipers and sometimes put them about their necks without receiving any hurt thereby to the terror and astonishment of the beholders which naturally both fear and abhorre all Serpents But these Charmers upon my word dare not trust to their Charms but use such an Inchantment as every man may lawfully use and the lawful use thereof may bring to pass that they shall be in security and take no harm how much soever they handle them marry with a woollen rag they pull out their teeth before-hand as some men say but as truth is they weary them and that is of certainty And surely this is a kind of Witchcraft which I term private confederacy Bodin saith that all the Snakes in one Countrey were by Charms and Verses driven into another Region perhaps he meaneth Ireland where S. Patrik is said to have done it with his holiness c. James Sprenger and Henry Institor affirm that Serpents and Snakes and their skins exceed all other creatures for Witchcraft insomuch as Witches do use to bury them under mens thresholds either of the house or stalls whereby barrenness is procured both to woman beasts yea and that the very earth and ashes of them continue to have force of fascination In respect whereof they wish all men now and then to dig away the earth under their thresholds and to sprinkle holy water in the place and also to hang boughs hallowed on Midsummer-day at the stall door where the Cattel stand and produce examples thereupon of Witches lies or else their own which I omit because I see my Book groweth to be greater than I meant it should be CHAP. XVI Charms to carry Water in a Sieve to know what is spoken of us behind our backs for bleer eyes to make seeds to grow well of Images made of Wax to be rid of a Witch to hang her up notable authorities against waxen Images a Story bewraying the Knavery of waxen Images LEonardus Vairus saith that there was a Prayer extant whereby might be carried in a Sieve Water or other Liquor I think it was clam clay which a crow taught a maid that was promised a cake of so great quantity as might be kneaded of so much Flour as she could wet with the Water that she brought in a Sieve and by that means she clam'd it with Clay and brought in so much Water as whereby she had a great Cake and so beguiled her Sisters c. And this Tale I heard among my Grannams Maids whereby I can decipher this Witchcraft Item by the tingling of the Ear men heretofore could tell what was spoken of them If any see a Scorpion and say this word Bud he shall not be stung or bitten therewith These two Greek Letters π and A written in a Paper and hung about ones neck preserve the party from Bleereyedness Cummin or Hempseed sown with cursing and opprobrious words grow the faster and the better Berosus Anianus maketh Witchcraft of great Antiquity for he saith that Cham touching his Fathers naked Member uttered a Charm whereby his Father became emasculated or deprived of the Powers generative A Charm teaching how to hurt whom you list with Images of Wax c. MAke an Image in his name whom would hurt or kill of new Virgin wax under the right Arm-poke whereof place a Swallows heart and the liver under the left then hang about the neck thereof a new thred in a new Needle pricked into the member which you would have hurt with the rehearsal of certain words which for the avoiding of foolish superstition and credulity in this behalf is to be omitted And if they were inserted I dare undertake they would do no harm were it not to make fools and catch Gudgins Otherwise Sometimes these Images are made of Brass and then the hand is placed where the foot should be and the foot where the hand and the face downward Otherwise For a greater mischief the like Image is made in the form of a man or woman upon whose head is written the certain Name of the party and on his or her ribs these words Ailif casyl zaze hit mel meltat then the same must
Glass-vial full of holy Water and set it upon a linnen cloth which hath been purified not only by washing but by sacrifice c. On the mouth of the Vial or Urinal two Olive-leaves must be laid across with a little Conjuration said over it by a child to wit thus Angele bone Angele candide per tuam sanctitatem meamque virginitatem ostende mihi furem with three Pater nosters three Aves and betwixt either of them a Cross made with the nail of the Thumb upon the mouth of the Vial and then shall be seen Angels ascending and descending as it were Motes in the Sun-beams The Thief all this while shall suffer great torments and his Face shall be seen plainly even as plainly I believe as the Man in the Moon For in truth there are toyes artificially conveyed into glass which will make the water bubble and devices to make Images appear in the bubbles as also there be Artificial Glasses which will shew unto you that shall look thereinto many Images of divers Forms and some so small and curious as they shall in favour resemble whomsoever you think upon Look in John Bap. Neap. for the confection of such glasses The subtilties hereof are so detected and the mysteries of the glasses so common now and their cosenage so well known c. that I need not stand upon the particular confutation hereof Cardanus in the place before cited reporteth how he tried with children these and divers circumstances the whole illusion and found it to be plain knavery and cosenage Another way to find out a Thief that hath stoln any thing from you GO to the Sea-side and gather as many pebles as you suspect persons for that matter carry them home and throw them into the fire and bury them under the threshold where the parties are like to come over There let them lie three days and then before sun-rising take them away Then set a Porrenger full of water in a circle wherein must be made crosses every way as many as can stand in it upon the which must be written Christ overcometh Christ reigneth Christ commandeth The Porrenger also must be signed with a Cross and a form of Conjuration must be pronounced Then each stone must be thrown into the water in the name of the suspected And when you put in the stone of him that is guilty the stone will make the water boil as though glowing iron were put thereinto Which is a meer knack of legierdemain and to be accomplished divers wayes To put out the Thiefs eye REad the seven Psalms with the Letany and then must be said a horrible prayer to Christ and God the Father with a curse against the Thief Then in the midst of the step of your foot on the ground where you stand make a circle like an eye and write thereabout certain barbarous names and drive with a Coopers Hammer or Addes into the midst thereof a brazen nail consecrated saying Justus es Domine justa judicia tua Then the Thief shall be bewrayed by his crying out Another way to find out a Thief STick a pair of Sheers in the rind of a Sieve and let two persons set the top of each of their Forefingers upon the upper part of the Sheers holding it with the Sieve up from the ground steadily and ask Peter and Paul whether A. B. or C. hath stoln the thing lost and at the nomination of the guilty person the Sieve will turn round This is a great practice in all Countries and indeed a very bable For with the beating of the pulse some cause of that motion ariseth some other cause by the slight of the fingers some other by the wind gathered in the Sieve to be staid c. at the pleasure of the holders Some cause may be the imagination which upon the conceit at the naming of the party altereth the common course of the pulse as may well be conceived by a Ring held steadily by a thred betwixt the finger and the thumb over or rather in a goblet or glass which within short space will strike against the side thereof so many strokes as the holder thinketh it a clock and then will stay the which who so proveth shall find true A Charm to find out or spoil a Thief OF this matter concerning the apprehension of Thieves by words I will cite one Charm called S. Adelberts curse being both for length of words sufficient to weary the Reader and for substantial stuff comprehending all that appertaineth unto blasphemous speech or cursing allowed in the Church of Rome as an Excommunication and Inchantment Saint Adelberts Curse or Charm against Thieves BY the Authority of the Omnipotent Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and by the holy Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels and Archangels and S. Michael and S. John Baptist and in the behalf of S. Peter the Apostle and the residue of the Apostles and of S. Stephen and of all the Martyrs of S. Sylvester and of S. Adelbert and all the Confessors nd S. Alegand and all the holy Virgins and of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth unto whom there is given power to bind and loose we do excommunicate damn curse and bind with the knots and bands of Excommunication and we do segregate from the bounds and lists of our holy Mother the Church all those Thieves Sacrilegious persons ravenous Catchers Doers Counsellers Coadjutors male or female that have committed this theft or mischief or have usurped any part thereof to their own use Let their share be with Dathan and Abiran whom the Earth swallowed up for their sins and pride and let them have part with Judas that betrayed Christ Amen and with Pontius Pilat and with them that said to the Lord Depart from us we will not understand thy wayes let their Children be made Orphans Cursed be they in the Field in the Grove in the Woods in their Houses Barns Chambers and Beds and cursed be they in the Court in the Way in the Town in the Castle in the Water in the Church in the Churchyard in the Tribunal-place in Battel in their Abode in the Market-place in their Talk in Silence in Eating in Watching in Sleeping in Drinking in Feeling in Sitting in Kneeling in Standing in Lying in Idleness in all their Work in their Body and Soul in their five Wits and in every Place Cursed be the fruit of their Wombs and cursed be the fruit of their Lands and cursed be all that they have Cursed be their Heads their Mouths their Nostrils their Noses their Lips their Jaws their Teeth their Eyes and Eye-lids their Brains the roof of their Mouths their Tongues their Throats their Breast their Hearts Bellies their Livers all their Bowels and their Stomach Cursed be their Navels their Spleens their Bladder Cursed be their Thighs their Legs their Feet their Toes their Necks their Shoulders Cursed be their Backs cursed be their Arms
cursed be their Elbows cursed be their Hands and their Fingers cursed be both the Nails of their hands and feet cursed be their Ribs and their Genitals and their Knees cursed be their Flesh cursed be their Bones cursed be their Blood cursed be the Skin of their Bodies cursed be the Marrow in their Bones cursed be they from the Crown of the Head to the sole of the Foot and whatsoever is betwixt the same be it accursed that is to say their five Senses to wit their Seeing their Hearing their Smelling their Tasting and their Feeling Cursed be they in the holy Cross in the Passion of Christ with his five Wounds with the effusion of his Blood and by the milk of the Virgin Mary I conjure thee Lucifer with all thy Souldiers by the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost with the Humanity and Nativity of Christ with the Vertue of all Saints that thou rest not day nor night till thou bringest them to destruction either by drowning or hanging or that they be devoured by wild Beasts or burnt or slain by their Enemies or hated of all men living And as our Lord hath given Authority to Peter the Apostle and his Successors whose place we occupy and to us though unworthy That whatsoever we binde on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever we loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven so we accordingly if they will not amend do shut from them the Gates of Heaven and deny unto them Christian Burial so as they shall be buried in Asses Leaze Furthermore cursed be the ground wherein they are buried let them be confounded in the last day of Judgement let them have no conversation among Christians nor be houseled at the hour of Death let them be made as dust before the face of the wind and as Lucifer was expelled out of heaven and Adam and Eve out of Paradise so let them be expelled from the day-light Also let them be joyned with those to whom the Lord saith at the Judgment Go ye cursed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels where the worm shall not die nor the fire be quenched And as the candle which is thrown out of my hand here is put out so let their works and their soul be quenched in the stench of Hell-fire except they restore that which they have stoln by such a day and let every one say Amen After this must be sung In media vita in morte sumus c. This terrible curse with Bell Book and Candle added thereunto must needs work wonders howbeit among Thieves it is not much weighed among wise and true men it is not well liked to them that are robbed it bringeth small relief the Priests stomach may well be eased but the goods stoln will never the sooner be restored Hereby is bewrayed both the malice and folly of Popish Doctrin whose uncharitable impiety is so impudently published and in such order uttered as every sentence if opportunity served might be proved both heretical and diabolical But I will answer this cruel curse with another curse far more mild and civil performed by as honest a man I dare say as he that made the other whereof mention was lately made So it was that a certain Sir John with some of his company once went abroad a jetting and in a Moon-light Evening robbed a Millers Weir and stole all his Eels The poor Miller made his moan to Sir John himself who willed him to be quiet for he would so curse the Thief and all his Confederates with Bell Book and Candle that they should have small joy of their Fish And therefore the next Sunday Sir John got him to the Pulpit with his Surplice on his back and his Stole about his neck and pronounced these words following in the audience of the people All you that have stoln the Millers Eeles Laudate Dominum de Coelis And all they have consented thereto Benedicamus Domino Lo saith he there is sauce for your Eeles my Masters Another Inchantment CErtain Priests use the hundred and eighth Psalm as an Inchantment or Charm or at leastwise saying that against whomsoever they pronounce it they cannot live one whole year at the uttermost CHAP. XVIII A Charm or Experiment to find out a Witch IN die dominico sotularia juvenum axungia seu pinguedine porei ut moris est pro restauratione fieri perangunt and when she is once come into the Church the Witch can never get out until the searchers for her give her express leave to depart But now it is necessary to shew you how to prevent and cure all mischiefs wrought by these Charms and Witchcrafts according to the opinion of M Mal. and others One principal way is to nail a Horse-shoe at the inside of the outmost threshold of your House and so you shall be sure no Witch shall have power to enter thereinto And if you mark it you shall find that rule observed in many Countrey-houses Otherwise Item the triumphant title to be written crosswise in every corner of the house thus Jesus ✚ Nazarenus ✚ Rex ✚ Judaeorum ✚ Memorandum you may joyn herewithal the Name of the Virgin Mary or of the four Evangelists or Verbum caro factum est Otherwise Item in some Countries they nail a Wolfs head on the door Otherwise Item they hang Scilla which is either a Root or rather in this place garlick in the roof of the House for to keep away Witches and Spirits and so they do Alicium also Otherwise Item Perfume made of the gall of a black Dog and his blood besmeared on the posts and walls of the House driveth out of the doors both Devils and Witches Otherwise The House where Herba betonica is sown is free from all mischiefs Otherwise It is not unknown that the Romish Church allowed and used the smoak of Sulphur to drive Spirits out of their houses as they did Frankincense and Water hallowed Otherwise Apuleius faith that Mercury gave to Ulysses when he came neer to the Inchantress Circe an herb called Verbascum which in English is called Mullein or Tapsus barbatus or Longwoort and that preserved him from the Inchantments Otherwise Item Pliny and Homer both do say that the Herb called Moly is an excellent herb against Inchantments and say all that thereby Ulysses escaped Circes her Sorceries and Inchantments Otherwise also diverse wayes they went to work in this case and some used this Defensive some that Preservative against Incantations And herein you shall see not only how the Religion of Papists and Infidels agree but also how their Ceremonies and their Opinions are all one concerning Witches and Spirits For thus writeth Ovid touching that matter Térque senem flammâ ter aquâ ter sulphuro lustrat Englished by Abraham Fleming She purifies with fire thrice Old hoary-headed Aeson With water thrice and sulphur thrice As she thought meet in reason Again the same Ovid
otherwise called Belelah LVridan is a Familiar Domestick Spirit of the North who is now become servant to Balkin Lord and King of the Northern Mountains he calls himself the Astral Genius of Pomonia an Island amongst the Orcades beyond Scotland But he is not particularly resident there for in the dayes of Solomon and David he was in Jerusalem or Salem being then under the name of Belilah after that he came over with Julius Caesar and remained some hundred of years in Cambria or Wales instructing their Prophetical Poets in British Rhimes being then surnamed Urthin-Wadd Elgin from thence he betook himself unto this Island Anno 1500. and continued there for 50 years after which he resigned his Dominion to Balkin and hath continued ever since an attendant unto this Prince He is a Spirit of the Air in the order of Glauron and is said to procreate as mortals do He is often sent by his Master upon errands to Lapland Finland and Strik-finia as also to the most Northern parts of Russia bordering on the Northern frozen Ocean His office being called by Magicians is to demolish strong holds of Enemies destroying every night what they build the day before to extinguish fires and make their Gunshot that it hath no power to be enkindled for his nature is to be at enmity with fire and under his Master with many Legions he wageth continual warrs with the fiery Spirits that inhabit the Mountain Hecla in Ise-land where they endeavour to extinguish these fiery flames and the inhabiting Spirits defend the flames from his Master and his Legions In this contest they do often totally extirpate and destroy one another killing and crushing when they meet in mighty and violent Troops in the Air upon the Sea and at such a time many of the fiery Spirits are destroyed when the Enemy hath brought them off the Mountain to fight upon the water on the contrary when the battle is on the Mountain it self the Spirits of the Air are often worsted and then great mournings and doleful noises are heard both in Iseland and Russia and Norway for many days after O ye Powers of the East Athanaton of the West Orgon of the South Boralim of the North Glauron I charge and command you by the dreadful Names here mentioned and the Consecration of this terrible Mountain to present your selves one of every sort before this Circle by the power of Immanuel and his holy Name After this hath with fervency been thrice repeated the Exorcist will hear great noises of Swords and fighting Horses neighing and Trumpets sounding and at last there will appear four little Dwarfs or Pigmies naked before the Circle their speech will be antient Irish which afterwards being confined to a Triangle they will interpret the substance thereof will be from whence they came last and what wonderful things they can do Then the Magician must ask them if they know one Luridan a familiar they will answer Hamah ni trulloh Balkin he is Secretary or servant unto Balkin and after the Exorcist hath charged them to bring the said Luridan unto him they will immediately bring him like a little Dwarf with a crooked nose and present him before the Magician in the triangle then the Magician shall bind and tye him with the bond of obligation and with his own blood without any contract of conditions to be performed that he will attend him constantly at his thrice repeating Luridan Luridan Luridan And be ever ready to go whether he will to the Turks or to the uttermost parts of the Earth which he can do in an hour and destroy all their Magazines After the Magician hath so bound him he shall receive from the Spirit a scrole written in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Indenture to serve him for a year and a day and then the Magician shall dismiss him for that time in the form of dismission CHAP. IX How to Conjure the Spirit Balkin the Master of Luridan AS in the former Chapter the Exorcist is instructed to draw the form of the Mountain Hecla within the circle so in this form of Conjuration he must do the same adding these names to be written round the Mountain Mathiel Rahuniel Seraphiel Hyniel Rayel Fraciel These are the names of Olympick Angels governing the North and ruling over every airy Spirit that belongs unto the Northern Climate so that the authority of these names must be used in the calling up of this Spirit because he is a great Lord and very lofty neither will he appear without strong and powerful Invocations Therefore the Magician must make upon Virgin Parchment the two Seals of the Earth and provide unto himself a Girdle made of a Bears skin with a rough side next his body and these names wrote round about in the outerside ✚ Alpha ✚ Coronzon Yah Laniah Adonay ✚ Soncas ✚ Damael ✚ Angeli fortes ✚ pur pur ✚ Elibra Elohim ✚ Omega ✚ per flammam ignis ✚ per vitam Coronzon ✚ Amen ✚ Also he must provide a black Priestly Robe to reach to his ankles and a new Sword with Agla on the one side and On upon the other having likewise been very continent and chast for three days before the execution of his design and when the appointed night approacheth he must take with him an earthen pan with fire therein and a little Viol with some of his own blood as also some of the Gum or Rozin that comes from the Firr-tree And coming to the appointed place in some solitary Valley the circle must be drawn with chalk as the former one circle within another and these powerful names in the circumference Otheos on Panthon ✚ Breshit Hashamaim Vaharetz Vahayah ✚ Lohu ✚ va Bohu ★ ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ magnus es tu ben Elohim qui super alas ventorum equitaris ✚ This Circumscription is accounted amongst Magicians of all the most powerful and prevalent After this the Circle Mountain Fire Turpentine Girdle Garments Sword and Blood must be consecrated according to the foregoing forms of Consecration adding also this to the end of the consecration Mighty art thou O Adonay Elohim Ya Ya Aie Aie Acimoy who hast created the light of the day and the darkness of the night unto whom every knee bows in Heaven and on Earth who hast created the Lohu and the Bohu that is stupor or numbness in a thing to be admired and mighty are thy magnificient Angels Damael and Guael whose influence can make the winds to bow and every airy Spirit stoop Let thy right hand sanctifie these consecrated utensils exterminating every noxious thing from their bodies and the circumference of this Circle Amen Calerna Shalom Shalom Agla on Sassur Lafrac Angeli fortes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Amen Amen After that he shall sweep the circle gently with a Foxes tayl and sprinkle the same round with his blood dipping also the Sword or anointing
whole and holy company of Heaven and by the dreadful day of doom and by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and their vertues and powers I conjure thee and bind thee Sibylia that thou shalt not depart out of the circle wherein thou art appeared nor yet to alter thy shape except I give thee licence to depart I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the vertue hereof I conjure thee Sibylia to come to me and to appear to me at all times visibly as the Conjuration of words leadeth written in this Book I conjure thee Sibylia O blessed Virgin of Fairies by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun at the time of his death and by the rising of the dead in the time of his glorious Resurrection and by the unspeakable Name of God ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and by King and Queen of Fairies and by their vertues I conjure thee Sibylia to appear before the Conjuration be read over four times and that visibly to appear as the the Conjuration leadeth written in this Book and to give me good counsel at all times and to come by treasures hidden in the earth and all other things that is to do me pleasure and to fulfil my will without any deceit or tarrying nor yet that thou shalt have any power of my body or soul earthly or ghostly nor yet to perish so much of my body as one hair of my head I conjure thee Sibylia by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues and powers I charge and bind thee by the vertue thereof to be obedient unto me and to all the words aforesaid and this bond to stand between thee and me upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XVIII A License for Sibylia to go and come by at all times I Conjure thee Sibylia which art come hither before me by the commandement of thy Lord and mine that thou shalt have no power in thy going or coming unto me imagining any evil in any manner of wayes in the earth or under the earth of evil doings to any person or persons I conjure and command thee Sibylia by all the royal words and vertues that be written in this Book that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest but shalt remain peaceably invisibly and look thou be ready to come unto me when thou art called by any conjuration of words that be written in this Book to come I say at my commandement and to answer unto me truly and duly of all things my will quickly to be fulfilled Vade in pace in Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti And the holy ✚ cross ✚ between thee and me or between us and you and the Lion of Juda the root of Jess the kindred of David be between thee and me ✚ Christ cometh ✚ Christ commandeth ✚ Christ giveth power ✚ Christ defend me ✚ and his innocent blood ✚ from all perils of body and soul sleeping and waking Fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XIX To know of Treasure hidden in the Earth WRite in paper these characters following on the Saturday in the hour of ☽ and lay it where thou thinkest Treasure to be if there be any the paper will burn else not And these be the characters This is the way to go invisible by these three Sisters of Fairies IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost First go to a fair Parlor or Chamber and an even ground and in no loft and from people nine dayes for it is the better and let all thy cloathing be clean and sweet Then make a Candle of Virgin Wax and light it and make a fair fire of Charcoles in a fair place in the middle of the Parlour or Chamber Then take fair clean water that runneth against the East and set it upon the fire and if thou washest thy self say these words going about the fire three times holding the Candle in thy right hand ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muriton ✚ Bisecognaton ✚ Siston ✚ Diaton ✚ Maton ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Agla ✚ Agarion ✚ Tegra ✚ Pentessaron ✚ Tendicata ✚ Then rehearse these names ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ Sibylia ✚ In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen I conjure you three sisters of Fairies Milia Achilia Sibylia by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost and by their vertues and powers and by the most merciful and living God that will command his Angel to blow the trump at the day of Judgment and he shall say Come come come to judgment and by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure you thre sisters by the vertue of all the royal words aforesaid I charge you that you do appear before me visibly in form and shape of fair women in white vestures and to bring with you to me the Ring of Invisibility by the which I may go invisible at mine own will and pleasure and that in all hours and minutes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Being appeared say this bond following O blessed Virgins ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ I conjure you in the Name of the Father in the Name of the Son and the Name of the Holy Ghost and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace for a time And Sibylia I conjure thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the vertue of his flesh and precious blood that he took of our blessed Lady the Virgin and by all holy company in Heaven I charge thee Sibylia by all the vertues aforesaid that thou be obedient unto me in the Name of God that when and what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid Conjuration written in this Book look thou be ready to come unto me at all hours and minutes and to bring unto me the Ring of Invisibility whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure and that at all hours and minutes Fiat fiat Amen And if they come not at the first night then do the same the second night and so the third night until they do come for doubtless they will come and lie thou in thy bed in the same Parlor or Chamber And lay thy right hand out of the bed and look thou have a fair silken Kercher bound about thy head and be not afraid they will do thee no harm For there will come before thee three fair women and all in white cloathing and one of them will put a Ring upon thy finger wherewith thou shalt go invisible Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid When thou hast this Ring on thy finger look in
a Glass and thou shalt not see thy self And when thou wilt go invisible put it on thy finger the same finger that they did put it on and every new ☽ renew it again For after the first time thou shalt ever have it and ever begin this work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ and the ♋ ♠♓ CHAP. XX. An Experiment following of Citrael c. Angeli diei Dominici Michael ☉ Gabriel ☽ Samael ♂ Raphael ☿ Sachiel ♃ Anael ♀ Cassiel ♄ SAy first the Prayers of the Angels every day for the space of seaven dayes O ye glorious Angels written in this square be you my coadjutors and helpers in all questions and demands in all my business and other causes by him which shall come to judge both the quick and the dead and the world by fire O Angeli gloriosi in hac quadra scripti estote coadjutores auxiliatores in omnibus quaestionibus interrogationibus in omnibus negotiis caeterisque causis per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos mundum per ignem Say this Prayer fasting called Regina linguae ✚ Lemae ✚ Solmaac ✚ Elmay ✚ Gezagra ✚ Raamaasin ✚ Ezierego ✚ Mial ✚ Egziephiaz ✚ Iosamin ✚ Sahach ✚ ha ✚ aem ✚ re ✚ he ✚ esapha ✚ Sephar ✚ Ramar ✚ Semoit ✚ Lamajo ✚ Pheralon ✚ Amic ✚ Phin ✚ Gergain ✚ Letos ✚ Amin ✚ Amin ✚ In the Name of the most pitifulliest and mercifulliest God of Israel and of Paradise of Heaven and of Earth of the Seas and of the Infernals by thine Omnipotent help I may perform this work which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O most strongest and mightiest God without beginning or ending by thy clemency and knowledge I desire that my questions work and labour may be fully and truly accomplished through thy worthyness good Lord which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O holy patient and merciful great God and to be worshipped the Lord of all wisdom clear and just I most heartily desire thy holiness and clemency to fulfil perform and accomplish this my whole work through thy worthiness and blessed power which livest and reignest ever one God Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen CHAP. XXI Howw to inclose a Spirit in a Crystal-stone THis operation following is to have a Spirit inclosed into a Crystal-stone or Beryl-glass or into any other like instrument c. First thou in the new of the ☽ being cloathed with all new and fresh and clean aray and shaven and that day to fast with bread and water and being clean confessed say the seven Psalms and the Letany for the space of two days with this Prayer following I desire thee O Lord God my merciful and most loving God the giver of all graces the giver of all Sciences grant that I thy wel-beloved N. although unworthy may know thy grace and power against all the deceits and craftiness of Devils And grant to me thy power good Lord to constrain them by this Art for thou art the true and lively and eternal God which livest and reignest ever one God through all Amen Thou must do this five dayes and the sixt day have in a readiness five bright Swords and in some secret place make one circle with one of the said Swords And then write this name Sitrael which done standing in the circle thrust in thy Sword into that name And write again Malanthon with another sword and Thamaor with another and Falaor with another and Sitrami with another and do as ye did with the first All this done turn thee to Sitrael and kneeling say thus having the Crystal-stone in thine hands O Sitrael Malantha Lhamaor Falaur and Sitrami Written in these circles appointed to this work I do conjure and I do exorcise you by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by him which cast you out of Paradise and by him which spake the word and it was done and by him which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire that all you five infernal Masters and Princes do come unto me to accomplish and to fulfil all my desire and request which I shall command you Also I conjure you Devils and command you I bid you and appoint you by the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the most highest God and by the blessed and glorious Virgin Mary and by all the Saints both of men and women of God and by all the Angels Archangels Patriarchs and Prophets Apostles Evangelists Martyrs and Confessors Virgins and Widows and all the elect of God Also I conjure you and every of you ye infernal Kings by the Heaven by the Starrs by the ☉ and by thee ☽ and all the Planets by the Earth Fire Air and Water and by the terrestrial Paradise and by all things in them contained and by your Hell and by all the Devils in it and dwelling about it and by your vertue and power and by all whatsoever and with whatsoever it be which may constrain and bind you Therefore by all the aforesaid vertues and powers I do bind you and constrain you into my will and power that you being thus bound may come unto me in great humility and to appear in your circles before me visibly in fair form and shape of mankind Kings and to obey unto me all things whatsoever I shall desire and that you may not depart from me without my licence And if you do against my precepts I will promise unto you that you shall descend into the profound deepness of the Sea except that you do obey unto me in the part of the living Son of God which liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost by all world of worlds Amen Say this true Conjuration five courses and then shalt thou see come out of the North-part five Kings with a marvellous company which when they are come to the circle they will alight down off from their Horses and will kneel down before thee saying Master command us what thou wilt and we will out of hand be obedient unto thee Unto whom thou shalt say See that ye depart not from me without my licence anll that which I will command you to do let it be done truly surely faithfully and essentially And then they all will swear unto thee to do all thy will and after they have sworn say the Conjuration immediately following I conjure charge and command you and every of you Sitrael Malanthan Lhamaar Falaur and Sitrami you Infernal Kings to put into this Crystal-stone one spirit learned and expert in all Arts and Sciences by the vertue of this Name of God Tetragrammaton and by the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the blood of the innocent Lamb which redeemed all the world and by all their vertues and power I charge you ye noble Kings that the said spirit may
what time he will be in such a place what day and hour and this and all other things to declare plainly on pain of Hell fire Fiat Amen A Licence to Depart DEpart out of the sight of this Crystal-stone in peace for a time and ready to appear therein again at any time or times I shall call thee by vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the bonds of words which are written in this Book and to appear visibly as the words be rehearsed I constrain thee Spirit N. by the divinity of the Godhead to be obedient unto these words rehearsed upon pain of everlasting condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XXIX When to talk with Spirits and to have true answers to find out a Theif THe days and hours of ♄ ♂ ☿ and the ☽ is best to do all crafts of Necromancy and for to speak with Spirits and for to find theft and to have true answer thereof or of any other such like And in the days and hours of ☉ ♃ ♀ is best to do all experiments of love and to purchase grace and for to be invisible and to do any operation whatsoever it be for any thing the ☽ being in a convenient sign * As when thou labourest for theft see the Moon be in an earthy sign as ♉ ♠♑ or of the air as ♊ ♎ ♒ * And if it be for love favour or grace let the ☽ be in a sign of the fire as ♈ ♌ ♠and for hatred in a sign of the water as ♋ ♠♓ For any other experiment let the ☽ be in ♈ * And if thou findest the ☉ and the ☽ in one sign that is called in even number then thou mayst write consecrate conjure and make ready all manner of things that thou wilt do c. To speak with Spirits CAll these names Orimoth Beltmoth Lymock and say thus I conjure you up by the names of the Angels Satur and Azimor that you intend to me in this hour and send unto me a Spirit caded Sagrigrit that he do fulfill my commandement and desire and that also can understand my words for one or two years or as long as I will CHAP. XXX A Confutation of Conjuration especially of the raising binding and dimissing of the Divel of going invisible and other lewd practices THus far have we waded in shewing at large the vanity of Necromancers Conjurors and such as pretend to have real conference consultation with Spirits and Divels wherein I trust you see what notorious blasphemy is committed besides other blind superstitious Ceremonies a disordered heap which are so far from building up the endeavors of these Black Art practitiers that they do altogether ruinate and overthrow them making them in their follies and falsehoods as bare and naked as an Anatomy As for these ridiculous Conjurations last rehearsed being of no small reputation among the ignorant they are for the most part made by T.R. for so much of his name he bewrayeth and John Cockars invented and devised for the augmentation and maintenance of their living for the edifying of the poor and for the propagating and inlarging of Gods glory as in the beginning of their Book of Conjurations they protest which in this place for the further manifestation of their impiety and of the Witchmongers folly and credulity I thought good to insert whereby the residue of their proceeding may be judged or rather detected For if we seriously behold the matter of Conjuration and the drift of Conjurors we shall find them in mine opinion more faulty then such as take upon them to be Witches as manifest offenders against the Majesty of God and his holy Law as apparent violators of the laws and quietness of this Realm although indeed they bring no such thing to pass as is surmised and urged by credulous persons coseners lyars and Witchmongers For these are alwayes learned and rather abusers of others than they themselves by others abused But let us see what appearance of truth or possibility is wrapped within these mysteries and let us unfold the deceit They have made choice of certain words whereby they say they can work miracles c. And first of all that they call Divels and souls out of Hell though we find in the Scripture manifest proofs that all passages are stopped concerning the egress out of Hell so as they may go thither but they shall never get out for Ab inferno nulla est redemptio out of hell there is no redemption Well when they have gotten them up they shut them in a circle made with Chalk which is so strongly beset and invironed with crosses and names that they cannot for their lives get out which is a very probable matter Then can they bind them and loose them at their pleasures and make them that have been lyers from the beginning to tell the truth yea they can compel them to do any thing And the Devils are forced to be obedient unto them and yet cannot be brought to due obedience unto God their Creator This done I say they can work all manner of miracles saving blew miracles and this is to believed of many to be ttue Tam credula mens hominis arrectae fabulis aures Englished by Abraham Fleming So light of belief is the mind of man And attentive to tales his ears now and than But if Christ only for a time left the power of working miracles among his Apostles and Disciples for the confirmation of his Gospel and the faith of his elect yet I deny altogether that he left that power with these Knaves which hide their cosening purposes under those lewd and foolish words according to that which Peter saith With faigned words they make merchandize of you And therefore the counsel is good that Paul giveth us when he biddeth us Take heed that no man deceive us with vain words For it is the Lord only that worketh great wonders and bringeth mighty things to pass It is also written that Gods Word and not the words of Conjurors or the Charms of Witches healeth all things maketh tempests and stilleth them But put case the Devil could be fetched up and fettered and loosed again at their pleasure c. I marvel yet that any can be so bewitched as to be made to believe that by vertue of their words any earthly creature can be made invisible We think it a lye to say that white is black and black white but it is a more shameless assertion to affirm that white is not or black is not at all and yet more impudency to hold that a Man is a Horse but most apparent impudency to say that a Man is no Man or to be extenuated into such a quantity as thereby he may be invisible and yet remain in life and health and that in the clear light of the day even in the presence of them that are
The fift under the Earth The sixt sort are Lucifugi that is such as delight in darkness and are scant indued with sense and so dull as they can scarse be moved with Charms or Conjurations The same man saith That some Devils are worse than other but yet that they all hate God and are enemies to man But the worser moity of Devils are Aquei Subterranei and Lucifugi that is watery under the Earth and shunners of light Because saith he these hurt not the souls of men but destroy mens bodies like mad and ravening beasts molesting both inward and outward parts thereof Aquei are they that raise tempests and drown Seafaring men and do all other mischiefs on the water Subterranei and Lucifugi enter into the Bowels of men and torment them that they possâ—ss with the phrinsie and the falling evill They also assault them that are miners or pioners which use to work in deep and dark holes under the earth Such Devils as are earthy and airy he saith enter by subtilty into the minds of men to deceive them provoking men to absurd and unlawful affections But herein his Philosophy is very unprobable for if the Divel be earthy he must needs be palpable if he palpable he be must needs kill them into whose bodies he entereth Item if he be of earth created then must he also be visible and untransformable in that point for Gods creation cannot be annihilated by the creature So as though it were granted that they might add to their substance matter and form c. yet it is most certain that they cannot diminish or alter the substance whereof they consist as not to be when they list spiritual or to relinquish and leave earth water fire air or this and that element whereof they are created But howsoever they imagine of water air or fire I am sure earth must alwayes be visible and palpable yea and air must alwayes be invisible and fire must be hot and water must be moist And of these three latter bodies specially of water and air no form nor shape can be exhibited to mortal eyes naturally or by the power of any creature CHAP. IV. More absurd Assertions of Psellus and such others concerning the actions and passions of Spirits his definition of them and of his experience therein MOreover the same Author saith That Spirits whisper in our minds and yet not speaking so lowd as our ears may hear them but in such sort as our souls speak altogether when they are dissolved making an example by lowd speaking afar off and a comparison of soft whispering neer at hand so as the Devil entreth so neer to the mind as the Ear need not hear him and that every part of a Devil or Spirit seeth heareth and speaketh c. But herein I will believe Paul better then Psellus or his Monk or the Monks Devil For Paul saith If the whole body were an eye where were hearing If the whole body were hearing where were smelling c. Whereby you may see what accord is betwixt Gods Word and Witchmongers The Papists proceed in this matter and say That these Spirits use great knavery and unspeakable bawdery in the breach and middle parts of man and woman by tickling and by other lecherous devices so that they fall jump in judgment and opinion though very erroneously with the foresaid Psellus of whose doctrine also this is a parcel to wit That these Devils hurt not Cattel for the hate they bear unto them but for love of their natural and temperate heat and moisture being brought up in deep dry and cold places Marry they hate the heat of the Sun and the Fire because that kind of heat dryeth too fast They throw down stones upon men but the blows thereof do no harm to them whom they hit because they are not cast with any force for saith he The Devils have little and small strength so as the stones do nothing but fray and terrifie men as scare-crows do Birds out of the Corn-fields But when these Devils enter into the pores then do they raise wonderful tumults in the body and mind of man And if it be a subterrene Devil it doth writhe and bow the possessed and speaketh by him using the spirit of the Patient as his instrument But he saith that when Lucifugus possâ—ssâ—th a man he maketh him dumb and as it were dead and these be they that are cast out saith he only by Fâ—sting and Prayer The same Psellus with his mates Bodin and the penners of M. Mal. and others do find fault with the Physitians that affirm such infirmities to be curable with diet and not by inchantments saying That Physitians do only attend upon the body and that which is perceiveable by outward sense and that as touching this kind of divine Philosophy they have no skill at all And to make Dâ—vels and Spirits seem yet more corporal and terrene he saith That certain Devils are belonging to certain Countries and speak the language of the same Countries and none other some the Assyrian some the Chaldaean and some the Persian tongue and that they feel stripes and fear hurt and specially the dint of the Sword in which respect Conjurors have Swords with them in their Circles to terrifie them and that they change shapes even as sodainly as men do change colour with blushing fear anger and other moods of the mind He saith further That there be brute beasts among them and yet Devils and subject to any kind of death insomuch as they are so foolish as they may be compared to Flies Fleas and Worms who have no respect to any thing but their food not regarding or remembring the whole from out of whence they came last Marry Devils compounded of Earth cannot often transform themselves but abide in some one shape such as they best like and most delight in to wit in the shape of Birds or Women and therefore the Greeks call them Neidas Nereidas and Dreidas in the feminine gender which Dreidae inhabited as some write the Islands beside Scotland called Druidae which by that means had their denomination and name Other Devils that dwell in dryer places transform themselves into the masculine kind Finally Psellus saith They know our thoughts and can prophesie of things to come His definition is That they are perpetual mindes in a passible body To verifie these toyes he saith That he himself saw in a certain night a man brought up by Aletus Lybius into a Mountain and that he took an hearb and spat thrice into his mouth and anointed his eyes with a certain Ointment so as thereby he saw great troops of Devils and perceived a Crow to flie into his mouth and since that hour he could prophesie at all times saving on Good-friday and Easter-sunday If the end of this tale were true it might not only have satisfied the Greek Church in keeping the day of Easter together with the Church
as trouble private houses and are set to oversee Cross-wayes and Cities Larvae are said to be spirits that walk only by night Genii are the two Angels which they supposed were appointed to wait upon each man Manes are the spirits which oppose themselves against men in the way Daemones were feigned gods by Poets as Jupiter Juno c. Virunculi terrei are such as was Robin Good-fellow that would supply the office of Servants specially of Maids as to make a fire in the morning sweep the house grind Mustard and Malt draw Water c. these also rumble in houses draw latches go up and down stairs c. Dii geniales are the gods that every man did sacrifice unto at the day of their birth Tetrici be they that make folk afraid and have such ugly shapes which many of our Divines do call Subterranei Cobali are they that follow men and delight to laugh with tumbling juggling and such like toyes Virunculi are Dwarfs about three handfuls longs and do no hurt but seem to dig in minerals and to be very busie and yet do nothing Guteli or Trulli are spirits they say in the likeness of women shewing great kindness to all men and hereof it is that we call light women trulls Daemones montani are such as work in the minerals and further the work of the labourers wonderfully who are nothing afraid of them Hudgin is a very familiar Devil which will do no body hurt except he receive injury but the cannot abide that nor yet be mocked he talketh with men friendly sometimes visibly and sometimes invisibly There go as many tales upon this Hudgin in some parts of Germany as there did in England of Robin Good-fellow But this Hudgin was so called because he alwayes wore a Cap or a Hood and therefore I think it was Robin Hood Fryer Rush was for all the world such another fellow as this Hudgin and brought up even in the same School to wit in a Kitchin in so much as the self same tale is written of the one as of the other concerning the Skullion which is said to have been slain c. for the reading whereof I referr you to Fryer Rush his story or else to John Wierus De praestigiis Daemonum There were also Familiares Daemones which we call Familiars such as Socrates and Caesar were said to have and such as Feats sold to Doctor Burcot Quintus Sertorius had Diana her self for his familiar and Numa Pompilius had Aegeria but neither the one nor the other of all these could be preserved by their familiars from being destroyed with untimely death Simon Samareus boasted that he had gotten by Conjuration the soul of a little child that was slain to be his familiar and that he told him all things that were to come c. I marvel what priviledge souls have which are departed from the body to know things to come more than the Souls within Mans Body There were spirits which they called Albae mulieres and Albae Sybillae which were very familiar and did much harm they say to women with child and to suckling children Denmus as a Devil is worshipped among the Indians in Calecute who as they think hath power given him of God to judge the Earth c. his Image is horribly pictured in a most ugly shape Thevet saith that a Devil in America called Agnan beareth sway in that Country In Ginnie one Grigrie is accounted the great Devil and keepeth the Woods these have Priests called Charoibes which prophesie after they have lien by the space of one hour prostrate upon a wench of twelve years old and all that while say they he calleth upon a Devil called Hovioulsira and then cometh fourth and uttereth his prophesie For the true success whereof the people pray all the while that he lieth groveling like a lecherous knave There are a thousand other names which they say are attributed unto Devils and such as they take to themselves are more ridiculous than the names that are given by others which have more leisure to devise them In little Books containing the cosening possessed at Maidstone where such a wonder was wrought as also in other places you may see a number of counterfeit Devils names and other trish trash CHAP. XXII Of the Romans chief gods called Dii selecti and of other Heathen gods their Names and Offices THere were among the Romans twenty idolatrous gods which were called Dii selecti sive electi chosen gods whereof twelve were male and eight female whose names do thus follow Janus Saturnus Jupiter Genius Mercurius Apollo Mars Vulcanus Neptunus Sol Orcus and Vibar which were all he-gods Tellus Ceres Juno Minerva Luna Diana Venus and Vesta were all she-gods No man might appropriate any of these unto himself but they were left common and indifferent to all men dwelling in one Realm Province or notable City These Heathen Gentiles had also their Gods which served for sundry purposes as to raise Thunder they had Statores Tonantes Feretrii and Jupiter Elicius They had Cantius to whom they prayed for wise children who was more apt for this purpose than Minerva that issued out of Jupiters own brain Lucina was to send them that were with childe safe delivery and in that respect was called the mother of Childwives Opis was called the mother of the Babe new born whose image women with child hanged upon their girdles before their bellies and bare it so by the space of nine moneths and the Midwife alwayes touched the child therewith before she or any other layed hand thereon If the child were well born they sacrificed thereunto although the mother miscarried but if the child were in any part unperfect or dead c. they used to beat the image into powder or to burn or drown it Vagianus was he that kept their children from crying and therefore they did alwayes hang his picture about Babes necks for they thought much crying in youth portended ill fortune in age Cuninus otherwise Cunius was he that preserved as they thought their children from misfortune in the Cradle Ruminus was to keep their dugs from corruption Volumnus and his wise Volumna were gods the one for young men the other for maids that desired marriage for such as prayed devoutly unto them should soon be marryed Agrestis was the god of the fields and to him they prayed for fertility Bellus was the god of War and warriers and so also was Victoria to whom the greatest Temple in Rome was built Honorius was he that had charge about Inkeepers that they should well intreat Pilgrimes Berecinthia was the mother of all the gods Aesculanus was to discover their mines of Gold and Silver and to him they prayed for good success in that behalf Aesculapius was to cure the sick whose Father was Apollo and served to keep weeds out of the Corn. Segacia was to make seeds to grow Flora preserved the Vines from frosts
and Latine Poets all together to be sleighted in this particular for many verities are inter-woven with their fictions they speak of vocal Forrests as Dodona of Talkative Rivers as Seamander of sensitive Fountains as Arethusa Menippa and Aegle Which more credible Historians have partly confirmed in the Relation of Dodona asserting that the trees do seem to speak by reason of the various Apparitions Phantasms that attend the Forrest And also in the Story of the River Scamander which is sayd at this day to afford plenty of spectres and prophetical Spirits that have nightly conversation with the Turkish Sailers coming by that way with Gallyes into the Mediterranean 21. The like is reported of a Castle in Norweigh standing over a Lake wherein a Satyr appeareth sounding a Trumpet before the death of any Souldier or Governour belonging to the same t is sayd to be the Ghost of some murdered Captain that hath become so Fatal and Ominous to his Successors But with more probability may be called a Spectre proper to the place according to the Constellation 22. And it hath been the conjecture of eminent speculators that from the Loins of such arise the numerous brood of Elves Faeryes Lycanthropi And Pigmyes sometimes visible sometimes invisible in Green-Land and the adjacent rocks where they have no concomitants but bears and scurvy-grass to mix and make merry withal except they pass from thence to the Northern parts of America where they shall find their off-spring adored for Gods and Goddesses by the ignorant Inhabitants about new Albion and as far South as Mexico as is amply related in the discourses of Drake Cortes and Purchas concerning the conquest and discovery of these Territoryes 23. By Apparitions upon the water many have been tempted to leap into the Sea in pursuit thereof till they were drowned of which spectres there is a sort called by Psellus Ordales who do appear like Ducks or other Water fouls till they by fluttering upon the water do entice their followers to pursue them so farr that many perish in the attempt which doth greatly delight these faithless Spirits who as we have said before do long to accompany their Astral Spirits after their decease An Example of this kinde I my self knew besides the numerous relations I have had from the mouths of others which confirm the opinions of the antient Magicians concerning these water Spirits that of all the rest they are the most deceitful and dangerous like the flattering Seas and swift gliding Torrents that when they have wonn any thing to admire and sound them do carry them violently into the abysse of their own Element 24. But we will leave the waters and insist a little on the nature of Igneous or Fiery Spirits that inhabit the Mountains in Hecla Aetna Propo Champ and Poconzi Where the Courts and Castles of these puissant Champions are kept The opinion of some is That they are not Astral but Infernal Spirits and Dâ—mned Souls that for a term of years are confined to these burning Mountains for their Iniquities Which opinion although it be granted yet we may assert That for the most part the apparitions sounds noices clangors and clamors that are heard about the Mountan Hecla in Island and other places are the effects of separated Starry beings who are neither capable of good nor evill but are of a middle vegetative nature and at the dissolution of the Media Natura shall be again reduced into their primary Aether 25. And from natural Causes it may be easily demonstrated That there is great Correspondence betwixt such substances and the Element of fire by reason of the Internal Flagrat and Central Life proceeding from the Quintessence or one only Element which upholds them in Motion Life and Nourishment As every natural and supernatural being is upheld and maintain'd out of the self-same root from whence it had its original or rise So the Angels feed upon the Caelestial Manna The Devils of the fruits of Hell which is natural to their appetite as trash for swine the Astral beings of the source of the stars the Beasts Birds or Reptiles of the fruits of the Earth and the gas of the Air the fishes of the blass of the Water But more particularly every thing is nourished by its Mother as Infants at the Breast either by exhausting or fomentation 26. Such Spirits are very officious in the burnings of Towns or Cole-pits delighting much to dance and exult amidst the flames and become Incendiaries worse then the material Cause of the Combustion often tempting men in drukenness to burn their own Houses and causing Servants carelesly to sleep that such unlucky accidents may happen As the Story of Kzarwilwui a Town in Poland doth confirm which was reduced to ashes by three of these pestilentious Animals called Saggos Broundal and Baldwin who after many open Threatnings for six months together that they would destroy the City and Citizens did on a dark and stormy night set all on fire on a suddain in twenty or thirty several places which irrecoverably destroyed the Inhabitants 27. As for the nourishment of fiery Spirits it is radical heat and the influence of the Aery Region their sport and pastime consisteth for the most part in tumbling and fooling one with another when the flames are most impetuous and violent in the Mountains And it is likewise credited by some that their office is to cruciate and punish some Evil Livers retaining and tormenting their Souls or Astral Spirits for many years after the Bodies decease which is too empty a notion to be hearkened unto by any that are well informed of their natures 28. Neither is it to be wondered at that they are so much delighted with the fiery quality in regard of their affinity and appropriation with infernal spirits whose state and being is altogether damnable and deplorable for although they have not the ability of attaining either the Heavenly or Infernal quality by reason that they are utterly voyd of the innermost Center and may be rather called bruits then rational Animals yet because they belong to the outermost principle such is their innate Affinity and Unity with the dark World or infernal Kingdome that they do often become the Devils Agents to propagate his works upon the face of the Earth 29. By the Instigations of infernal Spirits they are often sent to terrifie men with nocturnal visions in the likeness of monstrous Beasts or Ghosts of their deceased Friends They are moreover often abetted to tempt and provoke melancholy people to execute themselves besides innumerable wayes they have of executing the pleasures of iniquous Spirits through malicious Instigations and secret Stratagems projected by them to the destruction of mortal men especially when the work to be effected by the Devil is too too hard for his subtle and spiritual nature to bring to pass because the same belongs to the Astral source or outward principle to which