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A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

sinful Mortals so they generally startle and awaken a secure and sinful World to meet God in the way of his Judgments or if they have not that good effect on the sensual and Disobedient they are at least Messengers of Joy and Harbingers of Grace to those who apply themselves to Study the Voice of God in his Providences Whilst we are foretold in the Holy Scripture that Wicked men and seducers shall wax worse worse deceiving and being deceived For the Spirit of Delusion to which they adhere shall betray them into gross mistakes and palpable deviations such are Generally Impenetrable by the Warning of Heaven they are Judicially Blinded and Infatuated that they should not come to the knowledge of the Truth Thus the Prophet Ezekiel tells us of a Spirit of Lying which entered into the False Prophets and they cryed Peace Peace when a sudden desolation and destruction from the Lord was coming upon them And this will be the dreadful case of those miserable Wretches who have given themselves up to the Conduct of the Father of Lyes Who either out of a belief that they have no souls have given themselves over to work Wickedness Or else despising the Glories of a Blessed Eternity have Listed themselves under the Banner of Satan to Fight against the Power of the Omnipotent And that Atheism Idolatry Sensuality and Debauchery have a Natural Tendence to promote this Impious and Diabolical Confederacy hath been hinted in the forgoing Pages Which being so Regulary Learnedly and Largely Treated of by the Excellent pens of Dr. H. M. and Mr. J. G. before mentioned in the second part of Saducismus Triumphatus I shall presume to Wade no further in the Argumentative and Philosophical part but proceed now to give an Account of the most Atested Relations of Ancient Witches and thence descend to some very remarkable and Credible Modern Relations most of which have happened in these Few years and will be attested by persons of Unquestionable Worth and Reputation now alive amongst us CHAP. VI. Examples of Witchcraft and Familiarity with Devils amongst the Antient Druids Sybils Vestal Virgins and Heathen Priests IT is one of the Black Marks which the Apostle of the Gentiles gives us of Antichrist That he shall sit in the Temple of God and shew himself to be worshipped as God And if we consider the Temples Groves Altars Sacrifices and Priests that the Antients in the days of their Blindness and stupid Idolatry Erected and Consecrated to their Infernal Deities we shall find that this Exaction of Worship and Adoration which Antichrist lays claim to was in the former Ages paid unto the Devil himself and that the Apostate Church of Rome usurped to her Revolted Head those Sacred Rites in conformity to those Sacrifices which their Idolatrous Ancestors paid unto the Revolted and Apostate Angels This Chapter therefore shall be filled with an Enumeration of some of the first Proficients in the Black Infernal Mysteries that we may make way to parallel them with an Account of the Proficience of divers Popes and Orders among the Idolatrous Romanists in the same dark and Diabolical Arts in some of the following Pages But what Astonishment may it well raise in us if we but remark that not only those Barbarous Nations that never knew the true God nor had the Advantages of his Law and his Prophets amongst them should follow the foul Abomination But even the chosen Israelites to whom as the Psalmist elegantly expresses the Almighty arose Early and sent his Prophets who saw his wonders in Egypt in the Red Sea and in the Wilderness who saw the Lightnings heard the Thunders and the solemn noise of Trumpets when their Captain Moses receiv'd the Law from the mouth of the Most High on Mount Sinai and had there that First Positive and Repeated Command against Idol-worship which by the dreadful and amazing Judgments inflicted on them for that provoking sin can be thought to be understood no otherwise than Devil-worship See Exod. 20.23 Yet notwithstanding that this Israel should forsake the God that bought them and marked them by special favours from all the Nations of the Earth This you 'l say is stupendious Ingratitude and tremendous Apostacy What can be thought of that Biggotted Ahab who is said to have Taught Israel to sin He had been nurst up under a Whorish Idolatrous Mother the Patroness of the Priests of Baal And he makes little less than a challenge to the Almighty to contend with his Adored Baalim See 1 Kings 18. They were then so besotted that they thought Baal to be a greater God that he who laid the Foundations of the Earth and whose Thunders their Rebellous Fathers had heard on the Sacred Mountain Was it possible that those Infernal Priests should expect an answer by Fire from their detestable Idol unless they had at some time or other by some Voice or Motion or by some Success of their Impious Adorations been deluded into an Opinion that there was something Sacred in that which they reared their Shrines unto It is I think indubitable that the Devil the Father of Lyes and Blasphemies had some way or other gull'd them into that opprobrious Worship They skipt up and down upon his Altars and lanced themselves until the blood gushed out with their Devils Littany O Baal hear us or We beseech thee to hear us O Baal What can this be but an Invocation of the Devil and bears so near a Resemblance unto Witchcraft as if it were the Original of it Do the False Prophets call upon the Devil in their Idol So do the Witches call upon their Familiar Do they offer Sacrifice to their Gods So do these to their Goblins They allure them with Incense and Perfumes they eat and drink by way of Oblation to them as the Priests used to do in their Idol-Temples And as the Hellish Priests offered their own Blood to Baal so do these Infernal Haggs in their Contracts with Beelzebub So that having now cleared the way by explaining the foul Conformity and Analogy betwixt Idolatry and Witchcraft it may well be expected that I should assume the premised Method and give some Instances of Antient Examples to make good the Thesis Therefore not to look back upon those dreadful Examples which the Sacred Writings afford us of the hardened Israelites I shall proceed with some Remarks upon the Antient and much Celebrated Sybils And that it was the usual Compellation the Ignorant Antients gave to their Familiars Spirits or Genii to call them Gods none need doubt who have read what is related of the Pythoness of Endor in the Book of Samuel where she replies to King Saul I see Gods coming up out of the Earth So in 1 Kings 20.21 The Syrians speak of the Gods of the Hills add of the Valleys by which it is evident they reckon'd those Daemons which used to shew themselves unto them in those places to be Gods nay the Idolatrous Gentiles paid an Adoration to them

distinguish themselves from those of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles And here he admirably distinguishes 1. The Works in themselves 2. The tendency and design of them 3. The Time or period of their Operation Whenas the so much-boasted Popish Miracles have in them 1. An Intrinsical Impertinence and frivolousness 2. A general Aptitude and Tendency to confirm any trifling piece of Superstition rather than any fundamental solid point of Religion 3. An appearing and exerting themselves in the latter times and even those marked out by our Saviour for times of a general defection and delusion and are branded for false Miracles such as Antichrist at his coming should enchant men with 2 Thess 2. Rev. 13.13 As to the first black Character he says whereas the Ancient Miracles of God are grave and serious Works and do carry along with them both some Image of Gods Wisdom and some holy Impression of the Divine Hand that causes them The Modern and Roman Miracles are commonly such Sports and Pranks as can become but Fairies and Hobgoblins What is there in the whole World more Impertinent then to make the most Blessed and Holy Virgin Mary come purposely out of Heaven whence it was not heard she came before to drudge here and there about Monks about sick Wives about Images and such like things Who could take for a holy Soul or a good Angel much less for that ever blessed Saint that which appears under her name like a Woman shewing her Breast embracing men giving them Suck enticing them with her Favours Hoods Vests and sometimes fine Rings which she makes for them of her own Hairs To such purpose she is said to have brought down her Heavenly train and to have sat in S. Ildephons's own Throne whilst thousands of her Virgins stood singing about her and about the reading Pulpit and all this great appearance to Compliment the Bishop and present him with a White Robe which she said she had taken out of her Sons Wardrobe and it was to be worn only upon her days and all this because the Eye of his Faith was continually bent to her Service for this is the best Eye of Roman Faith he was to wear it in that Church and after to have joy in her Closet or Apartment in Promptuariis meis This Gown is shewn at Toledo At another time they say she came to Church having it seems often before chid Vdo the then Bishop for lying with her Nuns Thou hast had says she sport enough do so no more notwithstanding afterwards she found him a Bed with no meaner Miss than the Mother Abbess her self At which she calls her Son it is not to be supposed to be the second Person in the Trinity and caused their Angels to pluck him off the Bed where they beat him till at every blow he vomited up one of those Hosts which he had Consecrated whilst in that sin And because of her Sons dirty lying if there be such a thing as Transubstantiation it must be so she held the Chalice to take both the Wafers and her Son in it Then the Queen of Heaven says the Historian takes up these vomited Wafers and washes them clean with great care and lays them up reverently on the Altar Abundance more of Feats he reckons up reported in the Roman Historians and Authors of the same Spirit which they would perswade their blinded Bigots to be the Virgin Mary as her going to Orleance with a Box of Ointment to dress the back of a Dean giving special Pills to a Monk to purge his Choler feeding S. Albert with a sort of Bread after which he resolv'd to feed on nought but Herbs and Roots Coming they say down from Heaven but more likely from the power of the Air to uncover her breasts and put her Paps into the Mouth of S. Hubbert and S. Bernard then they make her to woo Sweet-hearts and give them Rings of her own Hair as to S. Alan and S. Harman to both which they say she was married and that in the presence of all her Saints Spirits like her self relating a thousand other ridiculous if not blasphemous stories of her too tedious here to mention Then they bring down whom they would impose upon us to be the Eternal Son of the Father lying as if dead under the hand of a Mass-priest or shewing tricks of Activity like a young Child among the Novices in their Churches and Covents One says he hath seen this little Child creeping out at the mouth of a Crucifix 't is all a Sparrow could do but the Devil can do much more and thence jump into the Lap of an Image thence flying up again the way that he came Another says S. Ida had him and kissed and embraced him ut sponsa sponsum then he must hang about her Neck whilst she sings an Anthem S. Agnes had him too whilst she stole a little Cross out of his bosom They say he was brought by his own Mother to be kissed by S. Catharine of the order of Clara upon a Christmas Eve and that the same Dame brought him to Bed to S. Boniface in swadling Cloths They will have it that S. Lucia of the order of S. Dominick had him three Days and three Nights during which time the Image of the Virgin had no Baby on its left Arm after that they marry him to her when he looked as if he had been but seven years old S. Hostradus and others took this illusion for a real appearance of the Holy Infant and thereupon offered him as we do Children something to eat some would dandle him on their Knees and others play with him and S. John who was his companion at it Thus with grief may pious Souls see according to the Prophesies Jerusalem trodden and danced upon by ugly Owls and wild Satyrs Isa 13.21 So the Roman Church is become a Stage for vile Spirits to act upon for where are the good Saints or Angels that will represent much less act Christ and the Blessed Virgin under such shameful personages Then as for S. Francis you have Sheep and Asses running to hear his Sermons Swine falling dead under his curse for having hurt a poor Lamb all sorts of Cattel recover with the Water he washt his Feet in Women eased of their Travel by applying to them some of the Hay his Mule used to eat of Again you may find S. Dominick at Mass hanging in the Air like a Bird or at the Bed-side of a sick Woman Transubstantiating Worms into Pearls or by the Water side raising the River into a Flood or at his Devotions forcing the Devil to hold Candle to him 'till the poor pugg burn his own Fingers in the Service Or sometimes you may find him changing the sex of a young Girl unto a Boy Nor did the Women come behind hand for extraordinary feasts for if you read but the Life of S. Christina you will find that she rose from the dead twice before she died for good

for which the Heathen Priests were wont to Inspect the Bowels of their Sacrifices according to that in the Poet. Consulit Exta Augur absolvens superis effata recantat These Weather-Gagers were antiently applyed to to secure Corn Ground Vineyards and Cattle as well as Towns and Houses from Storms and Tempests mentioned by Seneca in his Fourth Book of Natural Questions They were deputed to a certain Office to observe give notice to the People when a Storm was coming who upon such warning hastened to kill a Lamb or a Chick or some young thing or other or if they had none of these to offer they were to prick their Finger and that blood was accepted and the Storm ceased or was prevented This was indeed a strange kind of Oblation and one might well conclude with Seneca that the Clouds have little Affinity with blood or a Prickt Finger but what will not the great Enemy of Souls do if he can but abuse and delude poor Men into a belief that by some outward means Tempests may be diverted that they may have the less suspicion of themselves and be less suspected by others whilst in the mean time they are hereby ensnared into a Diabolical Idolatry By Sorcerers such may be understood who having Contracted a Familiarity and entred into a Confederacy with the Devil or some of his Infernal Spirits consult and advise with their Hellish Confederates about the affairs in which they are employed and make their determinations according to the advice of their Familiars Nay many Extraordinary things which seem to be done by the Sorcerer are really done by the Spirit so that they seem to Exchange forms one with the other the Daemon sometimes appears in the shape and resemblance of the Sorcerer at another time the Sorcerer shall haunt ye in semblance of the Daemon Of this more will appear when we come to particular Instances in the subsequent discourse Magician is a name which imports the esteem the Ancients had for such as could perform feats above the reach and Conception of Ordinary men whether by that which is called Natural Magick or some stricter Familiarity with the Inhabitants of the lower world they were by them esteemed Wise-Men for so the word Magi Signifies and that is the name which the Turks give to their Conjurers and such as deal in those forbidden Arts at this day Such were those whom the hardened Pharaoh called for by their Magical Operations to perform things semblable in some sort and like those wrought by Holy Moses by a Divine Command and power for the wicked King saw them turn Water into Blood Rods into Serpents and with Multitudes of Frogs to cover the face of the Earth Nor is it Improbable that the evil Angels were permitted by an Extraordinary providence thus to exert and shew their power by the hand of their evil Ministers in a Judicial way for the hardening of that seared King so that seeing the seeming miracles wrought by his Magicians he might be the more confirmed in his obstinacy against the Counsel of God by his Servant Moses For the sacred Text assures us that he was raised up in an Extraordinary manner to be to future Ages an Example of the Righteous Judgment of God upon hardened self-deluded and deluding Infidels And some we read of are given up to strong delusions that they might believe a Lie By a Witch is Commonly understood a Femal Agent or Patient who is become in Covenant with the Devil having in a literal sense sold her self to work Wickedness such whose chief Negotiation tends to the spoiling their Neighbours persons or goods They have Commonly certain Excrescencies like Teats or Nipples in private parts of their Bodies which their Familiars often suck Sometimes personally and sometimes in a Dream or Trance they Revel with the evil Spirit in nightly Cabals and Consults Those particularly intended here are such as are Commonly called Black Witches there is besides another sort termed White Witches These by a Diabolical Complaisance or good-nature are to uncharm and give ease to those the other have afflicted but sometimes it so happens that one or other of the Witches dyes by force of the Counter-charm Both these are condemned to death by the Divine Law Exod. 22.18 The Suasion of such hath been sometimes sought unto and used to entice young Maids to unclean folly But Witches are themselves Imposed upon as well as they Impose on others The Grand Impostor the Devil deceiveth them as they deceive those that seek unto them and the Cures which by these Imps are performed on the Bodies of their deluded Patients tend to the Tainting and Infection of the Soul There are divers other General names for the Students of this Infernal Art as Enchanters Wizzards Dreamers Observers of times of divers of which there will be Instances in the following Collection of Relations But these being mostly Included under the definitions herein specified being much of the same Import and Signification it will be Superfluous to mention in this place but the further Notion of those Black Scholars will be better discerned as we come to give Relation of their several ways and Methods of their Operations as they appear in the subsequent Chapters Having thus displayed the various degrees and kinds of those Confederates with the Lower World we shall now enter upon the proofs that the Heathen Priests of Old and the Idolatrous Papists of later date have been and are the Great promoters of this Infernal and accursed defection from the Eternal Fountain of happiness and the great encouragers of Daemonolatry as well as Idolatry that is to say of Devil-Worship which is the highest Homage he expects from his Infatuated Vassals and on the Account of which he principally instructs them in the dark and devilish Mysteries of Hell-Craft and Fascination It was alwaies the Custom of the Nations to seek unto their Gods for Counsel in the case of War and other Extremities and as the holy one Commanded his People to seek his face and call upon his name and expresly in the first Table forbids the making any semblance or likeness of any Image in Heaven in Earth or in the Waters under the Earth thereby strictly forbidding all manner of Idolatry so the wicked Angel hath at all times been seducing and alienating the hearts of Men from their Obedience to the Righteous Command by setting up false Gods And as the Prophets and Holy Men of God spake as they were Inspired by the Holy Ghost So the Idol Priests and Pythonists delivered the Devils Oracles to the People They were enquired of and sought unto in relation to future events and Contingencies Nay so far had these Infernal Priests Imposed upon the Biggotted World that their Daemons or Familiars for their Deities were no better obtained Divine Adoration and wanted not their High-places Groves and Altars so this Devil-Worship was Promoted under the Notion of Religion and their Services abounded with the

of Enquiring of her was supposed verse 7th Besides it seems evident that the Samuel there raised up was not by the power of the Witch for she was affrighted when she saw Samuel and cryed out like one in a surprise and under a Disappointment of what she Expected This was none of her Familiars that appeared for then we may conclude she had not been transported with such a fear Her Confederates were tyed up and could not answer her but it is most probable to be the Prophet Samuel raised by the power of God to pronounce the Sentence of death upon Saul and his Sons for his Disobedience which the Holy man had told him was as the sin of Witchcraft and for Violating the Righteous Command in applying himself to the Witch of Endor contrary to the declared will of God Not unlike to this was that dreadful Judgment of Fire from Heaven which at the prayer of Eliiah fell upon the two Captains and their Fifty's when Ahaziah King of Samaria had sent his servants to Enquire of Baalzebub the Idol or Daemon of Ekron in 1. chap. 2 Book of Kings But how many more of this kind are mentioned in Scripture besides the Witch of Endor will appear if we read what is recorded of Manasseh Jesebell Simon Magus and Elimas the Sorcerer with many other Instances of the same kind whereof the New Testament as well as the Old hath divers extraordinary Relations but of that the passage in the Prophesie of Isaiah chap. 2. ver 6. they are southsayers like the Philistines And it is evident by the 19. verse of the 18. chap. of the same Prophesie that the Jewish Nation were in a great measure given up to the Satanicall delusion of enquiring after Witches and Sorcerers and such as divined to them by Pythons so that they forsook the holy Oracles of the Divine Law and in their difficulties they counselled one another to apply themselves to those forbidden abominations Therefore it must proceed from a Neglect or careless Perusal of the Sacred Books that any one should be ignorant of other instances of Witches besides that of the Pythoness of Endor Suidas has a most considerable proof of the Daemons answering the Heathens by Oracles where speaking of Augustus Caesar's enquiring at an Oracle who should be his Successor the Oracle returned him this answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may thus be Englished A Boy Of Hebrew Offspring whom the Gods Adore Commands me hence to Hell my proper shore Henceforth forbear Our Altars to implore The Emperour at his return commanded an Altar to be Erected in the Capital having this Inscription Haec est Ara Primogeniti Dei This is the Altar of the first-born of God Now it is plain that our Saviour was born dureing the Reign of this Augustus for in the second chap. of St. Luke we find that Joseph and Mary went up to Judea to be taxed at that time when Augustus had imposed a General Tax upon the World and that during their abode at Bethlehem the blessed Nativity happened of which the Eastern Sages had notice by his Star and that the Roman Cesar had some such apprehension or Impression at least the words upon the Altar do plainly manifest And if this relation of Suidas obtain credit it may easily be Evinced that they were Daemons or Crafty Spirits which answered at the Oracles of the Heathens for if we admit that many answers were given by the Cunning and Jugling of their Priests Yet it could not make for their interest to discredit their Oracle nor for the Credit of their Deity But the almighty power of the Son of God forced those Infatuating Spirits to acknowledge his Soveraign Divinity as the unclean Spirit in the 8. chap. of Luke verse 28. What have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of the most High God Thus at the arising of the Son of Righteousness did the Dark Oracles vanish as the shadows of the night are chased away by the Appearing of the Sun beames To which may be added what Plutarch relates in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He tells yee that a certain company sailing from Greece towards Italy happened of a sudden to be becalmed and one Thamus an Egyptian who was of the Ships Crew was called three times at the third call he made answer Here am I whereupon the voice bad him when he came to the Palodes certain Shelves in the Ionian Sea that then he should publish that the great Pan was dead And then the Ship was discharged of her restraint and went forward so that wh●n they came to the place appointed Thamus from the Poop of the Ship published what he had been commanded whereupon followed a great noise of shrieking and lamenting together so that the Sea resounded with the lamentation The Emperour Tiberius having been made acquainted with this passage demanded of his wise men who this great God Pan might be But the best answer they could give him was that he was the Son of Mercury and Penelope But this circumstance happening just at the time when our Saviour was crucified it was concluded by more intelligent and considerate men that by the Great God Pan was meant the Blessed Redeemer of Mankind who by his Death on the cross Overthrew the Kingdom and power of Satan so that the Devils were now to Quit those Oracles by which they had so long deceived the World and on this account those Spirits might be thought to make that great and dismall lamentation For from that time they soon ran into decay and the Delphi Oracula cessant which Juvenal records makes it plain that they were but of short continuance after the fatal blow given them on the Cross when our blessed Saviour gave up the Ghost with an It is Finished Now had these Oracles been managed only by the subtilty and artifice of the Priest it is very improbable but they might have been of longer continuance for the Priests continue to be as Crafty and Covetous as ever and as dexterous at all the feats of Juggling and Legerdemain But it is plain the time of their delusions was expired and it is no small Argument of the power of the Gospel of Truth that those vanquished Spirits flye before it they retire with the molten and Carved Images to the Owls and to the Batts not being able to endure the splendour of the Tidings of Salvation Hence it is that in those Countries where there is least Idolatry and where the sincere preaching of the Word of Power is countenanced there it is very rare comparatively to meet with instances of the Satanical craft and power his strong holds are beaten down tho some small forts he still retains amongst the ignorant and superstitious but in countries where Idolatry and Paganism prevail he Governs as among the Children of disobedience Here he hath his Groves his Cells and Hermitages and Altars He