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A36504	Daimonomageia a small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes : never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations.	Drage, William, 1637?-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing D2117; ESTC R37769	35,637	43

its face Mr. Sanders the Astrologer Chiromancer was there who told Dr. Woodhouse It was bewitched accordingly with other Rem 〈…〉 it was cured but the chief thing he trusteth to is a Sigil to hang a 〈…〉 their Necks He cured one in Barkamsted also that two leaned Physicians many there be that know Greek and Latin though perhaps nothing else truly and as they ought which many a Boy of twelve or fourteen years old knows said had Hysterick Fits said he You will not believe that there be Witches but you shall see that the Party is not handled as you imagine for Hysterick Medicines will do her no good but I will cure her with one thing once given in the third part of a Grain which was accomplished A Friend of his used Amara Dulcis a Mercury Placit gathered when Mercury was strong essentially and accidentially and applyed about the parties Neck when Mercury was well posited in House and aspected friendly by the Fortunes and most significant Planets And Tragus saith The People in Germany used to hang Amara Dulcis or Wood-night-shade about their Cattels Necks when they feared Witchcraeft The Spirits in Mary Hall told them That if they would go to Redman of Amersom whom some say is a Conjurer others say He is an honest and able Physician and doth abundance of good he would cast them out This Redman by relation is unlearned in the Languages but hath abundance of Practice and is much talked of in remote parts he was once sent to Prison for these things A Child being very sick likely to die Redman bids them Take the length of the Child with a Stick and measure so much ground in the Church-yard and there dig and bury the Stick of the Childs length and the Child suddenly recovered Another troubled with an Ague he bid go into the Medow and where two Cart ruts crossed one another just there to dig an hole with his stick and make water therein and the party thus doing was freed of his ague A third was wished to boil an Egg in his Urine and bury it in an Ant-hill where were many Ants or Pismires and he presently recovered of his distemper But the Judge could not for these things do any thing to him and set him free these do not deny but he may be Witch or Wizard as some will have men to be called but do not prove he must be so and I have in my Observations collected from the Vulgar diverse of their practices of this kinde ridding their selves thereby of divers distempers especially Agues which we have shewn in our Puretology or Treatise of Agues writ in Latine and in the chapter of Transplantation Redman as I am informed pretends to do these and the like feats by Astrology much indeed may be done lawfully by Astrology but there be many that make that their pretence and defence and probably use other Arts that may be unlawful that go beyond Astrology Goodwife Hall told me that her Daughter was worse when the Spirits lay still and did not actuate her parts for then she was heavy and Melancholy and like a weight lay at her Stomack The Maid is very young and seems bashful and modest her Parents and Kinred are held by all very conscientious and honest People and wealthy so that they need use no such impostures to get money nor would use such blasphemies and abuses of God to gain pity or admiration Indeed many a Jugler or Tumbler may by use come nigh to imitate these things but what can such a silly young bashful well-disposed and religiously-educated Maid do in these things Since one told me that a Minister that was with Mary Hall told her that when he came in presence the Spirits said What do you do with that little Book in your Pocket he wondred when as he knew none saw or heard of it if this be true it is Praecognition and that is not Natural it was a little Pious Book that troubled them We think it necessary here to write down some discoveries of Witches according to the manifold examination we have took of experienced People 1. Is from their swiming 2. From their Teats 3. From their non-ability to call upon God as others do A friend of mine saw two suspected persons ducked at Baldock diverse years since one sunk presently down-right the other though tyed Toes and Thumbs together could not be made to sink Domina 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hujus oppidi some years since saw a Witch ducked at Saint Albans and could not be made sink though she strove by putting her head under the Water and was thrust down with Poles and she confessed One of her Imps leaped upon her Breast in the Water and she could not sink She and another man in Prison did shew their Teats the Man had like a Breast on his side and I suppose it was this party that Dom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Saint Albans told me of 〈◊〉 she confessed She did exactly all those things that were alledged against her Both these persons were Eye-witnesses and Ear-witnesses and also that the Maid could not say Our Father but Your Father as oft as they demanded her to say the Lord's Prayer And the like I have heard from divers that they cannot call upon and own God and renounce the Devil and call God to Witness that they disclaim him and all his Service as others can Mary by 〈◊〉 so nick-named 't is here publickly known how she swam and could not sink with all the means she could use and some say She 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iron next her to make her sink 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hujus oppidi a very honest Man told me he saw it That about the year 1637. Gfe Rose of Bedf ●●● for bewitching a Maid's Pease that had denied her some to be 〈◊〉 and each worm-eaten and another-fellow to be alwayes lowsie though shifted every day and never was afore was ducked and could by no means sink the Maid that she bewitched as to her Pease offered to be ducked with her to make the other the more willing and the sank presently and they could scarce bring her to life with all their hast and Arts. We must make these distinctions The Devil can cause all Diseases that are Natural but Nature cannot cause all Diseases that are Diabolical the Devil quatenus a Spirit can do all manner of mischief but Quatenus Inferiour he cannot do all the evil he will and Quatenus Evil he will not do all the good he can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They that leap five or six yards that speak Tongues they never learned that foretel things to come that are stronger then four or five men that fly or stand in the Air or run up Walls without use of their Hands or have their Face bent quite behind them so long remaining Consideratis considerandis must be possessed of Spirits but they that are not thus handled may be possessed of Spirits Those that

for as these differ one from another so others from these how doth the ebbing and flowing of the Sea magnitudine et numero differ in diverse places and why should the Needle touched turn alwayes to the North-Pole the stony birth at Agendicum whole Towns and Armies turned Stone suddainly and secretly with the Air the birth of a Childe at Prague having all its interne Bowels hanging forth from its Mother seeing a Calf so exenterated three Months afore her delivery the force of Imagination the Causes of Sympathies and Antipathies are difficult to find out some swoond at Cheese and yet eat Cheese-Curd some sweat and are in an Agony when brought afore a roasted Pigg and yet love Pork some swoond at a Breast and yet eat a Shoulder of Mutton and some swoond at Cats and others at Eeles that are in the room with them though unseen and unknown whence is it that some long for Posies and Kisses and to eat mans Flesh and rotten Carcasses But we must passe by many to speak of many why do some Trees in America bring forth twelve times in a Year and Rice in Cochin China thrice when our Fruits and Grain come but once and why have our Women commonly but one at a Birth when those of Egypt have often three or four whence is it that many and huge Fishes that swallow many and huge things swallow with them no Water and we must it runs in by our Nostrils why is our meat other animals poyson and how come some to live as well under the torrid as others under the frozen Zone Thousands more of Natures Aenygma's Problems and Phaenomena's may be produced but we guesse by a peny how a shilling is coyned and these may confute the Pride and Presumption of those that will undertake to solve all by their Imaginary Reason and not only these but supernatural things too or else they will not believe them to be true These things neglected have been the cause of all falsness stubbornness and mistakes in Learning 1. The not making Experience which should be manifold as well as manifest the foundation of that that Reason is made the superstructure o● 2. The want of distinction betwixt likes 3. The binding Nature up to one Method and Rule and not allowing every thing its varieties of manner and degrees of measure 4. The making general Rules before particulars were truely and fully known 5. The too great confidence and idleness in judging all things we do not know by those we know 6. The mistake of things Casual for Ominous and Ominous for Casual 7. The too great Superstition men yield to and unquestioned belief they have in received Opinions Traditions of Ancestors and what ever is in popular applause defending their own belief not by their own Experience but others coniectures 8. The proving some things not to be true by proving others to be false as Mr. Scot c. about Witches and Spirits have done who think they have proved Witches Juglers by proving Juglers to do their tricks by slight of hand and deceptio visus 9. The judging all by one when as we should judge one by all one sheweth that another may be so but not proveth that all must be so 10. The want of the consideration of Gods consideration in making this world every thing was made for another nothing in vain Creatures had particular parts made for every particular office and wisdom given to all answerable to their parts made to be used every thing hath its extreams of little and much and mediocrity its Friends and Foes in the Creation every place must be filled and every office occupied somewhat was made for every Genius and some Genius's were made purposely to know and see the Mysteries and variety in the Creation these not well known and weighed are the maintainers of Ignorance and perperual Controversies to which we might add the putting the Cause for the Effects and the Effects for the Cause and the particular Phantasies of Men for the general Reason of Man Some critical distinctions needfully may follow neither are all Juglers Tumblers and Trick-shewers quatenus Juglers Tumblers c. Witches so that those that shew no such Tricks may be Witches and they that shew such Tricks may not nor are all that be Witches quantenus Witches Juglers Trick-shewers c. therefore those that deny the being of reality in Witchcraft because there is fraud and delusion in another thing prove things by mistaken and unnecessary consequents neither have all that have been condemned for Witches been Witches nor have all that were Witches been condemned for or reputed the same neither are all things that are reported true nor all things that are true are reported the proving one thing false doth not deny another to be true and the proving falsness in any one thing doth not prove there is onely falsness in that thing Shall we judge because there be some Hypocrites in Religion that there be none sincere or because one Man lyed therefore no Man may speak true for he lyed not quoad a Man but quoad untrue we must see where the distinction and stress of an Argument lies whether in the Thing or its Attribute and therein concerning Witchcraft many mistake themselves if we will go about to prove in any Profession that there be Impostors and Dissemblers we shall sufficiently prove thereby that there is truth in the thing from which these Impostors and Dissemblers do recede and deviate else they will be proved not to be Impostors and Dissemblers It doth not follow that because one Man lies awake with his eyes shut and another lies asleep with his eyes open that all men must do so Witches may do all that Juglers do but Juglers cannot do all that Witches can do and to condemn the fraud and impotence of the greater by the fraud and impotence of the lesse is an impertinent proof and also they differ more then quoad gradum et modum we must not prove by sleep that death is the same because it is like it Somnus est mortis imago omne simile non est idem Some believe concerning Witches and not concerning Spirits and some believe concerning Spirits and not concerning Witches and some believe both and some neither and as many men did commit that that was false to writing so many men did omit that that was true in writing and many things are written that are true that are not fully written as they are true But sometime there is more controversie and dispute about the word one speakes Witch as to its vulgar acceptation another as to its genuine signification and perhaps both may mean one thing I perceive many things we have writ in this Book are not so strange to most Londoners as to Country People and many things are more familiar to Country People then Londoners and the Vulgar do commonly judge all by that little Experience they have and I am confident ten thousand People in the

if she would run up the Spirits would precipitate her in diverse manners but that they wanted Power as sometimes they said they could not hurt an hair of her head and though they tortured her body they could not damnifie her Soul her mind was free and unhurt when her fits were off and when the Spirits were no way occasionally moved Assoon as Doctor Woodhouse had given her a Spoonful of some Liquor being scarce got down her Throat she fell down in a swoond so that it is apparant some things are Antipathetick to Daemons I told them I doubted natural Remedies would do no good otherwise I could have advised them to give her Powder of Coral of Piony of Misleto of Herb True-Love and of Saint Iohns-wort severally now some of one and anon some of another and to have hung Rosemary Misleto Ivy and Coral in the house and about her neck or to have given her the De●●ction of them at any time specially in the fits in such manner as she could best take them The Evil Spirits would rarely take notice of any or speak to them if they stood civily in the Room unless that they first spake to or concerning the Spirits they would sometime say We may easily be cast out one word will cast us out the standers-by would presently ask What word Adjure said the Spirits but they tryed that many other ineffectually I went over to have seen her but she was not at home and her Father and Uncle said they-knew not whither she was carryed by some other friends she had that used to pray with her Therefore I made it my business to examine strictly her Father Brother and Sister at different times and also her Uncle who were most constantly with her and saw all her changes and also in the Town I examined some that were present with her in her fits and of some Neighbour 〈◊〉 who held alike in their confession Since in September October and November little talk hath been of her but I hear she is so afflicted still but the Spirits lie still for the most part unless by questions or praying they are disturbed sometimes they say they lift her upto a great height but say they cannot hurt one Hair of her head Since on December 1. I was there and saw the postures and carriage of the Maid when I went first into the house the Maid was feeding and looked well-bleed seemingly she was very well I asked the Spirits some questions and they answered me but very foolishly they said They were sent by Gfe Harod who gave them her Soul to come into Mary Hall I asked them if they were sent by a Councel of Superiour Daemons they answered thus We will not tell you that we won't that we won't that we won't I asked them if they did not fear Gods punishing them to all Eternity for these endeavours of wrong to mankind they answered We do not fear God we care not for God I asked if their Superiour Daemons or Masters sat in a Local Hell to give out commission to such as they to go and do their service or whether the chiefer Spirits also did possesse any as they did they said We won't tell you that we won't I asked them how they liked the Bible they made no answer I asked to what purpose were their foolish idle unnecessary tricks they tended not to advance the interest of their Masters Kingdom they answered nothing Both in her reading and feeding both her fits of speaking and convulsive fits molested her alwayes when she spoke her voice was intelligible plain and modest they spoke scarce to be understood alwayes afore they spoke her Throat swelled her Face grew red her head shook and was wreathed about until they had done when I caused her tongue to be held out of her mouth their voice was more obscure it is sometimes hoarser sometimes shriller sometimes small sometimes great sometimes her Throat swells more sometimes lesse and her Breast is elevated she went to read they told her she should not yet she did she then had a shaking of one Leg I laid my hand upon her knee and then the motion ceased there and writhed her body in her going one Leg was took as it were with a cramp but sometimes she goeth very well nothing happens alwayes and each sometimes sometime one member sometime another sometime in one manner and sometime in another sometimes almost all the members and sometimes scarce any While I was there Goodwife Hall told me that the night before the Spirits told her she should not sleep and would sometimes heave her up in bed and tell her Mary we will buy you a black Gown Hoods and Scarfs and Ribbins Hay Ribbins Ribbins Ribbins Ribbins Not being satisfied with what I saw I went over to Barkinsted to Doctor Woodhouse who was her Physitian and he told me he really thought she was possessed and he told me two able Physitians whose names I have now forgotten were with her and told him she was Daemoniacally possessed and that they being very lately in France saw there a whole Covent of Nunns so handled as Mary Hall was with their Abbatesse onely this Symptome was more in Mary Hall then any of that Covent who were to the number of thirty possessed with Devils that ere when the Spirits spoke in Mary Hall in their presence her Throat on each side was extended to the bigness of a mans fist Also Doctor Woodhouse said one of her keepers told him that he and another man held her in her Chair and she leaped up from them and they thought she would have gone out of their reach had they not pulled her down and held her and another time two men held her and she leaped out of her Chair and until her fit was over they could not force her down again her fits commonly are very short especially when they are very often When she came to be cured with Doctor Woodhouse she sat very still a while in his Physick room and on a suddain she fell a stamping and so continued half an hour till she was all on a sweat and made the house shake Doctor Woodhouse gave her a Venificifuge a Chymical preparation given in the third part of a grain for one dose Opium the strongest of all things many times in a Grain makes very little alteration in the body but this rid her in part for a while of her fits but then the Spirits had never spoke in her he hath used that Venificifuge to other bewitched persons with good successe and to a Child of his own Town that the People brought information it was in convulsion fits he sent convulsive Remedies they did no good then he questioned the Querents what fits they were They come said they every day at six of the Clock he went then to see it and found it to begin its fit with pulling off its headcloaths then it fell a pulling off its Hair and then scratching the skin off