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A42824	Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions in two parts : the first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence / by Joseph Glanvil. With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject and an authentick but wonderful story of certain Swedish witches done into English by Anth. Horneck.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.; More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing G822; ESTC R25463	271,903	638

therefore begg'd of the Lords Commissioners to root out these Witches that they might regain their former rest and quietness and the rather because the Children which used to be carried away there in the County or District of Elfdale since some Witches had been burnt there remained unmolested That day being the last Humiliation day Instituted by Authority for the removing of this judgment the Commissioners went to Church where there appeared a considerable Assembly both of young and old the Children could read most of them and sing Psalms and so could the Women though not with any great zeal or fervor There were preached two Sermons that day in which the miserable case of those people that suffered themselves to be deluded by the Devil was laid open and these Sermons were at last concluded with very ferverit prayer The Publick Worship being over all the people of the Town were called together to the Parsons House near three thousand of them Silence being commanded the Kings Commission was read publickly in the hearing of them all and they were charged under very great penalties to conceal nothing of the truth and to say nothing but the truth those especially who were guilty that the Children might be delivered from the Clutches of the Devil They all promised obedience the guilty feignedly but the guiltless weeping and crying bitterly On the 14th of August the Commissioners met again consulting how they might withstand this dangerous flood after long deliberation an Order also coming from his Majesty they did resolve to execute such as the matter of sact could be proved upon Examination being made for there were discovered no less than Threescore and ten in the Village aforesaid Three and twenty of which freely confessing their Crimes were condemned to dye the rest one pretending that she was with Child and the other denying and pleading not guilty were sent to Fahluna where most of them were afterwards Executed Fifteen Children which likewise confessed that they were engaged in this Witchery died as the rest six and thirty of them between nine and sixteen years of age who had been less guilty were sorced to run the gantlet twenty more who had no great inclination yet had been seduced to those Hellish Enterprizes because they were very young were condemned to be lash'd with Rods upon their hands for three Sundays together at the Church-door and the aforesaid six and thirty were also deem'd to be lashed this way once a week for a whole year together The number of the Seduced Children was about three hundred On the twenty fifth of August Execution was done upon the notoriously guilty the day being bright and glorious and the Sun shining and some thousands of people being present at the spectacle The Order and Method observed in the Examination was thus First the Commissioners and the Neighbouring Justices went to prayer this done the Witches who had most of them Children with them which they either had Seduced or attempted to Seduce from four years of age to sixteen were set before them Some of the Children complained lamentably of the misery and mischief they were forced sometime to suffer of the Witches The Children being asked whether they were sure that they were at any time carried away by the Devil they all declared they were begging of the Commissioners that they might be sreed from that intolerable yoak Hereupon the Witches themselves were asked whether the Confessions of these Children were true and admonished to confess the truth that they might turn away from the Devil unto the living God At first most of them did very stifly and without shedding the least tear deny it though much against their will and inclination After this the Children were Examined every one by themselves to see whether their Confessions did agree or no and the Commissioners found that all of them except some very little ones who could not tell all the Circumstances did punctually agree in the confession of particulars In the mean while the Commissioners that were of the Clergy examined the Witches but could not bring them to any Confession all continuing stedfast in their denyals till at last some of them burst out into tears and their Consession agreed with what the Children had said And these expressed their abhorrency of the fact and begg'd pardon adding that the Devil whom they call'd Loeyta had stopt the Mouths of some of them and stopt the Ears of others and being now gone from them they could no longer conceal it for they now perceived his Treachery The Confession which the Witches made in Elfdale to the Judges there agreed with the Consession they made at Mohra and the chief things they confessed consisted in these three points 1. Whither they used to go 2. What kind of place it was they went to called by them Blockula where the Witches and the Devil used to meet 3. What evil or mischief they had either done or designed there 1. Of their Journey to Blockula The Contents of their Confession WE of the Province Elfdale do confess that we used to go to a gravel-pit which lay hard by a cross-way and there we put on a garment over our heads and then danced round and after this ran to the cross-way and called the Devil thrice first with a still voice the second time somewhat louder and the third time very loud with these words Antecessor come and carry us to Blockula Whereupon immediately he used to appear but in different Habits but for the most part we saw him in a gray Coat and red and blue Stockings he had a red Beard a high-crown'd Hat with Linnen of divers colours wrapt about it and long Garters upon his Stockings Then he asked us whether we would serve him with Soul and Body If we were content to do so he set us on a Beast which he had there ready and carried us over Churches and high walls and after all we came to a green Meadow where Blockula lies We must procure some shavings of Altars and Church-Clocks and then he gives us a horn with a Salve in it wherewith we do anoint our selves and then he gives us a Saddle with a Hammer and a wooden nail thereby to fix the Saddle whereupon we call upon the Devil and away we go Those that were at the Town of Mohra made in a manner the same Declaration being asked whether they were sure of a real personal Transportation and whether they were awake then when it was done they all answered in the Affirmative and that the Devil sometimes laid something down in the place that was very like them But one of them confessed that he did onely take away her strength and her body lay still upon the ground yet sometimes he took even her body with him Being asked how they could go with their Bodies through Chimneys and broken panes of Glass they said that the Devil did first remove all that might hinder them in their flight and so they had room enough

the particular condition of the other World The Angels Devils and Souls happiness and misery we know but what kinds are under these generals and what actions circumstances and ways of Life under those States we little understand These are my Postulata or demands which I suppose will be thought reasonable and such as need no more proof Proof of Apparitions Spirits and Witches from Holy-Scripture SECT I. The Authours purpose of proving Apparitions and Witchcraft to such as believe Scripture as first from the Apparition of Angels ANd having thus prepared my way I come to prove that there are Witches against both the sorts that deny their Existence viz. Those that believe the Scriptures and the Wits or Witlings that will not admit their Testimony To the first I shall prove the being of Witches by plain Evidence taken from the Divine Oracles and to the other and indeed to both I shall evince the same by as full and clear Testimonies as matter of fact is capable of and then answer the opposite Objections and those particularly of the three late confident Exploders of Witchcraft * Mr. Webster Mr. Wagstaffe and the Authour of the Doctrine of Devils The Proof I intend shall be of these two things viz. That Spirits have sensibly transacted with Men and that some have been in such Leagues with them as to be enabled thereby to do wonders These sensible Transactions of Spirits with Men are evident from Apparitions and Possessions The Apparition of Angels their discourses and predictions sensible converses with Men and Women are frequently recorded in the Scripture An Angel appeared to Hagar Gen. 16. Three Angels in the shape of Men appeared to Abraham Gen. 18. Two to Lot in the same likeness Gen. 19. An Angel called to Hagar Gen. 21. 17. and so did one to Abraham Gen. 22. An Angel spake to and conversed with Jacob in a Dream Gen. 31. One of the same appeared to Moses in the Bush Exod. 3. An Angel went before the Camp of Israel Exod. 14. An Angel met Balaam in the way Numb 22. An Angel spake to all the People of Israel Judges 2. An Angel appeared to Gideon Judges 6. and to the Wife of Manoah Judges 13. An Angel destroyed the People 2 Sam. 24. An Angel appeared to Eliab 1 Kings 19. An Angel smote in the Camp of the Assyrians 184000. 2 Kings 35. An Angel stood by the Threshing-floor of Ornan 1 Chron. 21. 15. An Angel talked with Zachariah the Prophet Zach. 1. An Angel appeared to the two Mary's at our Lords Sepulchre Matth. 28. An Angel foretold the Birth of John Baptist to Zachariah the Priest Luke 1. Gabriel was sent to the Holy Virgin Luke 1. 26. An Angel appeared to the Shepherds Luke 2. An Angel opened the Prison Door to Peter and the rest Acts 5. I might accumulate many more instances but these are enough And many circumstances of sensible Converse belong to most of them which may be read at large in the respective Chapters And since the Intercourses of Angels were so frequent in former days why should we be averse to the belief that Spirits sometimes transact with Men now ADVERTISEMENT * I find amongst Mr. Glanvil 's Papers the first Lineaments or Strokes of an Answer to Mr. Wagstaffe and to the Authour of the Doctrine of Devils but more fully to Mr. Webster at least Seventeen Sheets where he answers solidly and substantially where I can read his Hand but it reaches but to the Sixth Chapter And in truth he has laid about him so well in these Sheets that are published that those may well seem the less necessary SECT II. The Evasions his Adversaries use to escape the force of these Proofs of Scripture from the Apparition of Angels with the Authours Answer THere are several Evasions by which some endeavour to escape these Texts as First the Sadducees of old and Familists of later days who hold to wit these that the Angels we read of were but Divine Graces the other that they were Divine Phantasmes created to serve a present occasion which ceased to be as soon as they disappeared One would think that none that ever had read the Scriptures should entertain such a conceit as this that is so contrary to the account they every where give of those celestial Creatures But there is nothing so absurd but some Men will embrace to support their Opinions Let us consider a little how differently from this vain Fancy the Scripture describes them They are called Spirits an Attribute given to God himself the prime Subsistence who is by way of eminence called the Father of Spirits not of Phantasmes And Spirit imports as much Substance as Body though without gross bulk We read of Elect Angels and the Angels that stand before the Throne of God continually and that always behold the Face of God Of the Faln Angels that kept not their first Station that are held in the Chains of Darkness and of everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels against the Judgment of the great Day Both had their Order of Superiority and Inseriority Michael and his Angels the Dragon and his Angels We are made little lower than the Angels In Heaven we shall be as the Angels of God Of the Day of Judgment knoweth no Man no not the Angels Let all the Angels of God Worship him Which Descriptions of the Nature Order Condition Attributes of Angels and infinite more such up and down the Scriptures are not applicable to Phantasms but demonstratively prove that the Angels of whose Apparitions we hear so frequently there were real permanent subsistences and not mere Phantasms and Shadows SECT III. That the Angels that are said to have appeared in Scripture were not Men-Messengers but Inhabitants of the Invisible World And whether they ate and drank or no. BUt were not those Angels that so appeared special Prophets Divine Messengers sometimes in Scripture confessedly called Angels They did eat and drink with Abraham and with Lot by which it should seem that they were real Men. But whoever shall look over the Instances alledged of the Apparition of Angels and read them in all the Circumstances of the Text will plainly see that they could not be Men. Such could not be the Angel that spake to Abraham and Hagar out of Heaven that conversed with Jacob in a Dream that appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush that appeared to Manoah and ascended in his and his Wife's presence in the slame of the Sacrifice that went before the Camp of Israel that stood before Balaam in the way unseen by him that smote the Army of the Assyrians that appeared to Zacharias in the Temple and to the Mary's at the Sepulchre These must be a sort of Beings superiour to Mankind Angels in the proper sense who are sometimes in Scripture called Men because they appear in our likeness But whether these do receive refection or sustinence in their own World and State or not I will not dispute It is

present could not for a long time bow either of his Arms or Leggs Between the mentioned 15. of Nov. and the 11. of Jan. the two Women appeared often to the Boy their Hands cold their Eyes staring and their Lips and Cheeks looking pale In this manner on a Thursday about Noon the Boy being newly laid into his bed Jane Brooks and Alice Coward appeared to him and told him that what they had begun they could not perform But if he would say no more of it they would give him Money and so put a Two-pence into his Pocket After which they took him out of his bed laid him on the ground and vanished and the Boy was found by those that came next into the room lying on the flour as if he had been dead The Two-pence was seen by many and when it was put into the fire and hot the Boy would fall ill but as soon as it was taken out and cold he would be again as well as before This was seen and observed by a Minister a discreet Person when the Boy was in one room and the Two-pence without his knowledge put into the fire in another and this was divers times tried in the presence of several Persons Between the 8. of Dec. and the 17. of Feb. in the Year mentioned divers Persons at sundry times heard in the Boy a noise like the croaking of a Toad and a voice within him saying Jane Brooks Alice Coward twelve times in near a quarter of an hour At the same time some held a Candle before the Boys face and earnestly looked on him but could not perceive the least motion of his Tongue Teeth or Lips while the voice was heard On the 25. of Feb. between two and three in the Afternoon the Boy being at the house of Richard Isles in Shepton Mallet went out of the room into the Garden Isles his Wife followed him and was within two Yards when she saw him rise up from the ground before her and so mounted higher and higher till he passed in the Air over the Garden wall and was carried so above ground more than 30 Yards falling at last at one Jordan's Door at Shepton where he was found as dead for a time But coming to himself told Jordan that Jane Brooks had taken him up by the Arm out of Isles his Garden and carried him in the Air as is related The Boy at several other times was gone on the suddain and upon search after him found in another room as dead and at sometimes strangely hanging above the ground his hands being flat against a great Beam in the top of the room and all his Body two or three foot from ground There he hath hung a quarter of an hour together and being afterwards come to himself he told those that found him that Jane Brooks had carried him to that place and held him there Nine People at a time saw the Boy so strangely hanging by the Beam From the 15. of Nov. to the 10. of March following he was by reason of his fits much wasted in his body and unspirited but after that time being the day the two Women were sent to Gaol he had no more of those fits Jane Brooks was Condemned and Executed at Charde Assizes March 26. 1658. This is the sum of Mr. Hunts Narrative which concludes with both the Justices attestation thus The aforesaid passages were some of them seen by us and the rest and some other remarkable ones not here set down were upon the examination of several credible witnesses taken upon Oath before us Subscribed Rob. Hunt John Cary. This I think is good evidence of the being of Witches if the Sadducee be not satisfied with it I would fain know what kind of Proof he would expect Here are the Testimonies of sense the Oaths of several credible attesters the nice and deliberate scrutiny of quick-sighted and judicious examiners and the judgment of an Assize upon the whole And now the security of all our lives and fortunes depends upon no greater circumstances of evidence than these If such proof may not be credited no Fact can be proved no wickedness can be punished no right can be determined Law is at an end and blind Justice cannot tell how to decide any thing ADVERTISEMENT The most fit Advertisement here is Mr. Glanvills Transition to fresh Evidences out of Mr. Hunts examinations which is this Thus far saith he the Evidence of Fact went in the former Editions but having resolved upon this Reenforcement I writ again to my Honoured Friend Mr. Hunt knowing that he had more materials for my purpose and such as would afford proof sufficient to any modest doubter In Answer he was pleased to send me his Book of Examinations of Witches which he kept by him fairly written It contains the discovery of such an hellish Knot of them and that discovery so clear and plain that perhaps there hath not yet any thing appeared to us with stronger Evidence to confirm the belief of Witches And had not his discoveries and endeavours met with great opposition and discouragements from some then in Authority the whole Clan of those hellish Confederates in these parts had been justly exposed and punished Out of that Book I have Collected some main instances the clearness of which I think will be enough to overcome and silence any indifferent prejudice But some are so settled and obdurate that no proof in the World is sufficient to remove them I begin with the Witchcrafts of Elizabeth Style RELAT. III. Which containeth the Witchcrafts of Elizabeth Style of Bayford Widow THis Elizabeth Style of Stoke Trister in the County of Somerset was accused by divers Persons of Credit upon Oath before Mr. Hunt and particularly and largely confessed her guilt her self which was found by the Jury at her Trial at Taunton But she prevented Execution by dying in Gaol a little before the expiring of the term her Confederate Daemon had set for her enjoyment of Diabolical pleasures in this life I have shortned the examinations and cast them into such an order as I think fittest for the rendring the matter clear and intelligible 1. Exam. Rich. Hill of Stoke Trister in the County of Somerset Yeoman being examined upon Oath Jan. 23. 1664. before Rob. Hunt Esq one of His Majesties Justices for that County concerning the bewitching of his Daughter by Eliz. Style declareth That his Daughter Eliz. Hill about the Age of 13 Years hath been for about two Months last past taken with very strange fits which have held her an hour two three and more and that in those fits the Child hath told her Father the Examinant and others that one Eliz. Style of the same Parish appeared to her and is the Person that Torments her She also in her fits usually tells what Clothes Eliz. Style hath on at the time which the informant and others have seen and found true He saith further that about a Fortnight before Christmas last he told Style

them and this indeed all confessed That he had carnal knowledge of them and that the Devil had Sons and Daughters which he did marry together and they did couple and brought forth Toads and Serpents One day the Devil seemed to be dead whereupon there was great lamentation at Blockula but he soon awaked again If he hath a mind to be merry with them he lets them all ride upon Spits before him takes afterwards the Spits and beats them black and blue and then laughs at them And he bids them believe that the day of Judgement will come speedily and therefore sets them on work to build a great House of Stone promising that in that House he will preserve them from God's Fury and cause them to enjoy the greatest delights and pleasures but while they work exceeding hard at it there falls a great part of the Wall down again whereby some of the Witches are commonly hurt which makes him laugh but presently he cures them again They said they had seen sometimes a very great Devil like a Dragon with fire round about him and bound with an Iron Chain and the Devil that converses with them tells them that if they confess any thing he will let that Great Devil loose upon them whereby all Swedeland shall come into great danger They added That the Devil had a Church there such another as is in the Town of Mohra When the Commissioners were coming He told the Witches they should not fear them for he would certainly kill them all And they confessed that some of them had attempted to murther the Commissioners but had not been able to effect it Some of the Children talked much of a white Angel which used to forbid them doing what the Devil had bid them do and told them that those doings should not last long what had been done had been permitted because of the wickedness of the People and the carrying away of the Children should be made manifest And they added that this white Angel would place himself sometimes at the Door betwixt the Witches and the Children and when they came to Blockula he pulled the Children back but the Witches they went in 3. Of the Mischief or Evil which the Witches promised to do to Men and Beasts THey confessed that they were to promise the Devil that they would do all that 's Ill and that the Devil taught them to milk which was in this wise They used to stick a Knife in the Wall and hang a kind of a Label on it which they drew and stroaked and as long as this lasted the persons that they have power over were miserably plagued and the Beasts were milked that way till sometimes they died of it A Woman confessed That the Devil gave her a wooden Knife wherewith going into houses she had power to kill any thing she touched with it yet there were few that would confess that they had hurt any man or woman Being asked whether they had murthered any Children they confessed that they had indeed tormented them but did not know whether any of them had died of those plagues And added That the Devil had shewed them several places where he had power to do mischief The Minister of Elfdale declared That one night these Witches were to his thinking upon the crown of his Head and that from thence he had had a long continued pain of the Head One of the Witches confessed too that the Devil had sent her to torment that Minister and that she was ordered to use a Nail and strike it into his head but it would not enter very deep and hence came that Head-ach The aforesaid Minister said also That one night he felt a pain as if it were torn with an Instrument that they cleanse Flax with or a Flax-comb and when he waked he heard some-body scratching and scraping at the Window but could see no-body And one of the Witches confessed that she was the person that did it being sent by the Devil The Minister of Mohra declared also that one night one of these Witches came into his house and did so violently take him by the Throat that he thought he should have been choaked and waking he saw the person that did it but could not know her and that for some Weeks he was not able to speak or perform Divine Service An Old woman of Elfdale confessed that the Devil had holpen her to make a Nail which she struck into a boys Knee of which stroke the Boy remained lame a long time And she added that before she burnt or was Execut●…d by the hand of Justice the boy would recover They confessed also that the Devil gives them a Beast about the bigness and shape of a young Cat which they call a Carrier and that he gives them a Bird too as big as a Raven but white And these two creatures they can send any where and where-ever they come they take away all sorts of Victuals they can get Butter Cheese Milk Bacon and all sorts of Seeds whatever they find and carry it to the Witch What the Bird brings they may keep for themselves but what the Carrier brings they must reserve for the Devil and that 's brought to Blockula where he doth give them of it so much as he thinks fit They add likewise that these Carriers fill themselves so full sometimes that they are forced to spew by the way which spewing is found in several Gardens whereColworts grow and not far from the houses of those Witches It is of a yellow colour like Gold and is called Butter of Witches The Lords Commissioners were indeed very earnest and took great pains to perswade them to shew some of their Tricks but to no purpose for they did all unanimously confess that since they had confessed all they found that all their Witchcraft was gone and that the Devil at this time appeared to them very terrible with Claws on his Hands and Feet and with Horns on his Head and a long Tail behind and shewed to them a Pit burning with a Hand put out but the Devil did thrust the person down again with an Iron-fork and suggested to the Witches that if they continued in their Confession he will deal with them in the same manner The abovesaid Relation is taken out of the Publick Register where all this is related with more Circumstances And at this time through all the Country there are Prayers weekly in all Churches to the end that Almighty God would pull down the Devils Power and deliver those poor Creatures which have hitherto groaned under it FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THe Swedish Narrative with the Preface being Printed in the Translator's absence several gross Errata's have crept in which the Reader is entreated to pardon and to Correct with his Pen. Preface pagé 3. lin 25. read plain pres p. 6. l. 6. r. His committing pres p. 7. l. 17. r. Crossen in Silesia l. 18. r. Mon●…gk p. 312. l. 9. r. yet they were carried l. 14. r. carried away in the County p. 313. l. 17. r. Examination being made there p. 317. l. 8. r. of the Town p. 322. l. 13. r. singer p. 326. l. 7. r. as if he were p. 328. l. 1. r. he would deal ERRATA sic corrige In Part the First PAg. 16. l. 4. r. Grammar p. 43. l. 9. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 53. l. 29. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 30. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 57. l. 4. r. Imposture Considerations about Witchcraft P. 13. l. 9. r. shewing p. 86. l. 19. r. silaments p. 107. l. 17. r. trifling p. 112. l. 3. r. Marsilius p. 142. l. 30. r. Being as Being is p. 143. l. 30. r. Genus p. 179. l. 12. r. so solemnly In the Second Part. P. 128. l. 21. r. Father the Examinant p. 132. l. 14. r. wrest p. 164. l. 22. r. She saith p. 164. l. 28. r. fide p. 202. l. 20. r. aversation p. 275. l. 2. r. saying p. 286. l. 17. r. Ban-water p. 303. l. 10. r. healing p. 310. l. 18. r. verae See Figure 2. Sect. 11.