2 King 23. Isai 19. To be short the opinion of them that are most skilful in the tongues is that it comprehendeth all them which take upon them to know all things part and to come and to give answers accordingly It alwayes followeth the word Ob and in the Scriptures is not named severally from it and differeth little from the same in sense and do both concern Oracles uttered by Sririts possessed people or Coseners What will not Coseners or Witches take upon them to do Wherein will they profess ignorance Ask them any question they will undertake to resolve you even of that which none but God knoweth And to bring their purposes the better to pass as also to win further credit unto the counterfeit Art which they profess they procure confederates whereby they work Wonders And when they have either learning eloquence or nimbleness of hands to accompany their confederacy or rather knavery then forsooth they pass the degree of Witches and intitle themselves to the name of Conjurors And these deal with no inferiour causes these fetch Devils out of Hell and Angels out of Heaven these raise up what bodies they list though they were dead buried and rotten long before and fetch souls out of Heaven or Hell with much more expedition than the Pope bringeth them out of Purgatory These I say among the simple and where they fear no law nor accusation take upon them also the raising of Tempests and Earthquakes and to do as much as God himself can do These are no small fools they go not to work with a baggage Toad or a Cat as witches do but with a kind of Majesty and with Authority they call up by name and have at their commandement Seventy and nine Principal and Princely Devils who have under them as their ministers a great multitude of Legions of petty Devils as for example CHAP. XI An Inventary of the Names Shapes Powers Govenment and effects of Devils and Spirits of their several segniories and degrees a strange discourse worth the reading THeir first and principal King which is of the power of the East is called Baell who when he is conjured up appeareth with three heads the first like a Toad the second like a Man the third like a Cat. He speaketh with a hoarse voice he maketh a man go invisible he hath under his obedience and rule Sixty and six Legions of Devils The first Duke under the power of the East is named Agares he cometh up mildly in the likeness of a fair old man riding upon a Crocodile and carrying a Hawk on his fist he teacheth presently all manner of tongues he fetcheth back all such as run away and maketh them run that stand still he overthroweth all Dignities supernatural and temporal he maketh Earthquakes and is of the order of Vertues having under his regiment Thirty one Legions Marbas aliàs Barbas is a great president and appeareth in the form of a mighty Lyon but at the commandement of a Conjuror cometh up in the likeness of a Man and answereth fully as touching any thing which is hidden or secret he bringeth diseases and cureth them he promoteth wisdom and the knowledge of Mechanical Arts or Handicrafts he changeth men into other shapes and under his presidency or Government are Thirty six Legions or Devils contained Amon or Aamon is a great and mighty Marquess and cometh abroad in the likeness of a Wolf having a Serpents tail spetting out and breathing flames of fire when he putteth on the shape of a man he sheweth out dogs teeth and a great head like to a mighty Raven he is the strongest Prince of all other and understandeth all things past and to come he procureth favour and reconcileth both friends and foes and ruleth Forty Legions of Devils Barbatos a great County or Earl and also a Duke he appeareth in Signo sagittarii Sylvestris with four Kings which bring companies and great troops He understandeth the singing of Birds the barking of Dogs the lowing of Bullocks and the voyce of all living creatures He detecteth treasures hidden by Magicians and Inchanters and is of the order of virtues which in part bear rule he knoweth all things past and to come and reconcileth friends and powers and governeth Thirty Legions of Devils by his authority Buer is a great president and is seen in this sign he absolutely teacheth Philosophy moral and natural and also Logick and the vertue of Herbs he giveth the best familiars he can heal all Diseases specially of men and reigneth over Fifty Legions Gusoin is a great Duke and a strong appearing in the form of a Xenophilus he answereth all things present past and to come expounding all questions he reconcileth friendship and distributeth honours and dignities and ruleth over Forty Legions of Devils Botis otherwise Otis a great President and an Earl he cometh forth in the shape of an ugly Viper and if he put on humane shape he sheweth great teeth and two horns carrying a sharpe sword in his hand he giveth answers of things present past and to come and reconcileth friends and foes ruling Sixty Legions Bathin sometimes called Mathim a great Duke and a strong he is seen in the shape of a very strong man with a Serpents tail sitting on a pale horse understanding the vertues of herbs and pretious stones transferring men suddenly from Countrey to Countrey and ruleth Thirty Legions of Devils Purson aliàs Curson a great King he cometh forth like a Man with a Lyons face carrying a most cruel Viper and riding on a Bear and before him go alwayes trumpets he knoweth things hidden and can tell all things present past and to come he bewrayeth treasure he can take a body either humane or aiery he answereth truly of all things earthly and secret of the divinity and creation of the World and bringeth forth the best familiars and there obey him Two and twenty Legions of Devils partly of the order of Vertues and partly of the order of Thrones Eligor aliàs Abigor is a great Duke and appeareth as a goodly Knight carrying a Lance an Ensign and a Scepter he answereth fully of things hidden and of Wars and how Souldiers should meet he knoweth things to come and procureth the favour of Lords and Knights governing Sixty Legions of Devils Leraje aliàs Oray a great Marquess shewing himself in the likeness of a gallant Archer carrying a Bow and a Quiver he is author of all battels he doth putrifie all such wounds as are made with Arrows by Archers Quos optimos objicit trilus dielus and he hath regiment over Thirty Legions Valefar aliàs Malephar is a strong Duke cometh forth in the shape of a Lyon and the head of a thief he is very familiar with them to whom he maketh himself acquainted till he hath brought them to the gallows and ruleth Teu Legions Morax aliàs Foraji a
off their phantasms will at last present themselves before the Exorcist in humane form Then the Master must be mindful to take the consecrated Sword and the cup of Wine into his hands the Wine he shall pour into the fire and the Sword he shall brandish in his right arm being girded about with a Scarlet Ribbon after this the Magician shall say Gahire Gephna Anephexaton then the Spirits will begin to bow unto the Exorcist saying We are ready to fulfil thy pleasure So that when the Magician hath brought the Spirits to this length he may ask what ever he desireth and they will answer him provided the questions belong to that order whereof they are Now the properties wherein they excel are these They can give the gift of Invisibility and the fore-knowledge of the change of weather they can teach the Exorcist how to excite Storms and Tempests and how to calm them again they can bring news in an hours space of the success of any Battle Seidge or Navy how farr off soever they can also teach the language of Birds and how to fly through the air invisibly 'T was through the assistance of these airy Spirits that Charchiancungi the Tartarian Emperour did give the Chinois such a desperate rout near the year 1646. for it is reported that he had constantly in his presence two Magicians named Ran and Sionam who perceived every motion of the China's Army and had intelligence by these Spirits of the Emperours private Counsels and Consultations And it is credibly reported by Magicians that wonderful things may be with facility effected through the assistance of these aforesaid Spirits so that the Exorcist must be very affable unto them and gently dismiss them when he is satisfied in this following manner Seeing ye have willingly answered all our Interrogations and desires we give you leave and licence In the Name of the Father Son and Holy-Ghost to depart unto your place and be ever ready to attend our call Depart I say in peace and peace be confirmed betwixt us and you Amen ✚ ✚ ✚ After all these Ceremonies are finished the Spirits will begin to depart making obeysance as they go and then the Master must demolish the Circle and taking up all the Utensils repeat the Pater Noster as they are going away from the place of Conjuration CHAP. VII How to obtain the familiarity of the Genius or Good Angel and cause him to appear ACcording to the former Instructions in conjuring Spirits we must proceed to consult with the Familiars or Genii first after the manner prescribed by Magicians the Exorcist must inform himself of the name of his good Genius which he may find in the Rules of Travius and Philermus as also what Character and Pentacle or Lamin belongs to every Genius After this is done Let him compose an earnest Prayer unto the said Genius which he must repeat thrice every morning for seven dayes before the Invocation The Magician must also perfectly be informed to what Hierarchy or Order the Genius belongs and how he is dignified in respect of his Superiours and Inferiours for this form of Conjuration belongs not to the Infernal or Astral Kingdom but to the Celestial Hierarchy and therefore great gravity and sanctity is herein required besides the due observation of all the other injunctions until the time approach wherein he puts the Conjuration in execution When the day is come wherein the Magician would invocate his proper Genius he must enter into a private closet having a little Table and Silk Carpet and two Waxen Candles lighted as also a Chrystal Stone shaped triangularly about the quantity of an Apple which Stone must be fixed upon a frame in the center of the Table And then proceeding with great devotion to Invocation he must thrice repeat the former Prayer concluding the same with Pater Noster c. and a Missale de Spiritu Sancto Then he must begin to Consecrate the Candles Carpet Table and Chrystal sprinkling the same with his own blood and saying I do by the power of the holy Names Aglaon Eloi Eloi Sabbathon Anephexaton Iah Agian Iah Iehovah Immanuel Archon Archonton Sadai Sadai Ieovaschah c. sanctifie and consecrate these holy utensils to the performance of this holy work In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Which done the Exorcist must say this following Prayer with his face towards the East and kneeling with his back to the consecrated Table O thou blessed Phanael my Angel Guardian vouchsafe to descend with thy holy Influence and presence into this spotless Chrystal that I may behold thy glory and enjoy thy society O thou who art higher then the fourth Heaven and know'st the secrets of Elanel Thou that ridest upon the wings of the wind and art mighty and potent in thy celestial and super-lunary motion do thou descend and be present I pray thee and desire thee if ever I have merited thy society or if my actions and intentions be pure and sanctified before thee bring thy external presence hither and converse with thy submissive Pupil by the tears of Saints and Songs of Angels In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost who are one God for ever and ever This Prayer being first repeated towards the East must be afterwards said towards all the four winds thrice And next the 70. Psalm repeated out of a Bible that hath been consecrated in like manner as the rest of the utensils which ceremonies being seriously performed the Magician must arise from his knees and sit before the Crystal bare-headed with the consecrated Bible in his hand and the Waxen Candles newly lighted waiting patiently and internally for the coming and appearance of the Genius Now about a quarter of an hour before the Spirit come There will appear great variety of apparitions and sights within the glass as first a beaten road or tract and travelers men and women marching silently along next there will Rivers Wells Mountains and Seas appear after that a Shepherd upon a pleasant hill feeding a goodly flock of Sheep and the Sun shining brightly at his going down and lastly innumerable shews of Birds and Beasts Monsters and strange appearances noises glances and affrightments which shews will all at last vanish at the appearance of the Genius And then the Genius will present it self amidst the Crystal in the very same apparel and similitude that the person himself is in giving instructions unto the Exorcist how to lead his life and rectifie his doings But especially which is the proper work of every Genius he will touch his heart and open his senses and understanding so that by this means he may attain to the knowledge of every Art and Science which before the opening of his Intellect was lockt and kept secret from him After which the Genius will be familiar in the Stone at the Prayer of the Magician CHAP. VIII A form of Conjuring Luridan the Familiar
it may not be thought or presumed that the Mother killed it except she be supposed a Witch and in that case it is otherwise for she must upon that presumption be executed except she can prove the negative or contrary Item If the child of a woman that is suspected to be a Witch be lacking or gone from her it is to be presumed that she hath sacrificed it to the Devil except she can prove the negative or contrary Item Though in other persons certain points of their Confessions may be thought erroneous and imputed to error yet in Witches causes all oversights imperfections and escapes must be adjudged impious and malicious and tend to her confusion and condemnation Item Though a Theif be not said in law to be infamous in any other matter than in theft yet a Witch defamed of witchcraft is said to be defiled with all manner of faults and infamies universally though she were not condemned but as I said defamed with the name of Witch For rumors and reaports are sufficient saith Bodin to condemn a Witch Item If any man woman or child do say that such a one is a Witch it is a most vehement suspicion saith Bodin and sufficient to bring her to rack though in all other cases it be directly against law Item In presumptions and suspicions against a Witch the common brute or voyce of the people cannot err Item If a woman when she is apprehended cry out or say I am undone Save my life I will tell you how the matter standeth c. she is thereupon most vehemently to be suspected and condemned to dy Item Though a Conjurer be not to be condemned for curing the diseased by vertue of his Art yet must a Witch die for the like case Item The behaviour looks becks and countenance of a woman are sufficient signes whereby to presume she is a Witch for always they look down to the ground and dare not look a man full in the face Item If their Parents were thought to be Witches then it is certainly to be presumed that they are so but it is not so to be thought of Whores Item It is a vehement presumption if she cannot weep at the time of her examination and yet Bodin saith that a Witch may shed three drops out of her right eye Item It is not only a vehement suspition and presumption but an evident proof of a Witch if any man or beast dye suddenly where she hath been seen lately although her witching-stuffe be not found or espyed Item If any body use familiarity or company with a Witch convicted it is a sufficient presumption against that person to be adjudged a Witch Item That evidence that may serve to bring in any other person to examination may serve to bring a Witch to her condemnation Item Herein judgment must be pronounced and executed as Bodin saith without order and not like to the orderly proceeding and form of judgment in other crimes Item A Witch may not be brought to the torture suddenly or before long examination least she go away scot-free for they feel no torments and therefore care not for the same as Bodin affirmeth Item Little children may be had to the torture at the first dash but so may it not be done with old women as is aforesaid Item If she have any privy mark under her arm-pits under her hair under her lip or in her buttock or in her privities it is a presumption sufficient for the Judge to proceed and give sentence of death upon her The only pity they shew to a poor woman in this case is that though she be accused to have slain any body with her Inchantments yet if she can bring forth the party alive she shall not be put to death Whereat I marvel in as much as they can bring the Devil in any bodies likeness and representation Item Their Law saith that an uncertain presumption is sufficient when a certain presumption faileth CHAP. VI. Particular Interrogatories used by the Inquisitors against Witches I Need not stay to confute such partial and horrible dealings being so apparently impious and full of tyranny which except I should have so manifestly detected even with their own writings and assertions few or none would have believed But for brevities sake I will pass over the same supposing that the citing of such absurdities may stand for a sufficient confutation thereof Now therefore I will proceed to a more particular order and manner of examinations c. used by the Inquisitors and allowed for the most part throughout all Nations First the Witch must be demanded why she touched such a child or such a cow c. and afterward the same child or cow fell sick or lame c. Item Why her two Kine give more milk than her neighbours And the note before mentioned is here again set down to be specially observed of all men to wit that though a Witch cannot weep yet she may speak with a crying voyce Which assertion of weeping is false and contrary to the saying of Seneca Cato and many others which affirm that a woman weepeth when she meaneth most deceipt and therefore saith M. Mal. she must be well looked unto otherwise she will put spittle privily upon her cheeks seem to weep which rule also Bodin saith is infallible But alas that tears should be thought sufficient to excuse or condemn in so great a cause and so weighty a tryal I am sure that the worst sort of the children of Israel wept bitterly yea if there were any Witches at all in Israel they wept For it is written That all the children of Israel wept Finally if there be any Witches in Hell I am sure they weep for there is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth But God knoweth many an honest Matron cannot sometimes in the heaviness of her heart shed tears the which oftentimes are more ready and common with crafty queans and strumpets than with sober women For we read of two kinds of tears in a womans eye the one of true grief the other of deceipt And it is written that Dediscere flere foeminium est mendacium which argueth that they lye which say that wicked women cannot weep But let these Tormentors take heed that the tears in this case which run down the widows cheeks with their cry spoken by Jesus Syrach be not heard above But lo what learned godly and lawful means these Popish Inquisitors have invented for the trial of true or false tears CHAP. VII The Inquisitors tryal of Weeping by Conjuration I Conjure thee by the amorous tears which Jesus Christ our Saviour shed upon the Cross for the salvation of the world and by the most earnest and burning tears of his Mother the most glorious Virgin Mary sprinkled upon his wounds late in the evening and by all the tears which every Saint and elect Vessel of God hath poured out here in the world and
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
himself teacheth to make a Chicken have four legs and as many wings only by a double yolked Egg whereby also a Serpent may be made to have many legs Or any thing that produceth Egs may likewise be made double or membred dismembred and the viler creature the sooner brought to monstrous deformity which in more noble creatures is more hardly brought to pass There are also pretty experiments of an Egg to produce any fowl without the natural help of the Hen the which is brought to pass if the Egg be laid in the powder of the Hens dung dryed and mingled with some of the Hens feathers and stirred every fourth hour You may also produce as they say the most venomous noisom and dangerous Serpent called a Cockatrice by melting a little Arsenick and the poyson of Serpents or some other strong venom and drowning an Egg therein which there must remain certain dayes and if the Egg be set upright the operation will be the better This may also be done if the Egg be laid in dung which of all other things giveth the most singular and natural heat and as J. Bap. Neap. saith is Mirabilium rerum parens who also writeth that Crines faeminae menstruosae the hairs of a Menstruous woman are turned into Serpents within short space and he further saith that Basil being beaten and set out in a moist place betwixt a couple of Tiles doth engender Scorpions The ashes of a Duck being put between two dishes and set in a moist place doth ingender a huge Toad Quod etiam efficit sanguis menstruosus which also doth menstruous Blood Many Writers conclude that there be two manner of Toads the one bred by natural course and order of Generation the other growing of themselves which are called temporary being only ingendered of showers and dust and as J. Bap. Neap. saith they are easie to be made Plutarch and Heraclides do say that they have seen these to descend in rain so as they have lain and crawled on the tops of houses c. Also Aelianus doth say that he saw Frogs and Toads whereof the heads and shoulders were alive and became flesh the hinder parts being but earth and so crawled on two feet the other being not yet fashioned or fully framed And Macrobius reporteth that in Egypt mice grow of earth and showers as also Frogs Toads and Serpents in other places They say that Damnatus Hispanus could make them when and as many as he listed He is no good Angler that knoweth not how soon the entrails of a Beast when they are buried will engender Maggots which in a civiler term are called Gentles a good bait for small fishes Whosoever knoweth the order of preserving of Silk-worms may perceive a like Conclusion because in the Winter that is a dead seed which in the Summer is a lively creature Such and greater experiments might be known to Jannes and Jambres and serve well to their purpose especially with such excuses delayes and cunning as they could joyn therewithall But to proceed and come a little nearer to their feats and to shew you a knack beyond their cunning I can assure you that of the fat of a man a woman lice are in very short space ingendred and yet I say Pharaohs Magicians could not make them with all the cunning they had Whereby you may perceive that God indeed performed the other actions to indurate Pharaoh though he thought his Magicians did with no less dexterity than Moses work miracles and wonders But some of the Interpreters of that place excuse their ignorance in that matter thus The Devil say they can make no creature under the quantity of a Barly-corn and Lice being so little cannot therfore be created by them As though he that can make the greater could not make the less A very gross absurdity And as though that he which hath power over great had not the like over small CHAP. XIX That great Matters may be wrought by this Art when Princes esteem and maintain it of divers wonderful Experiments and of strange Conclusions in Glasses of the Art perspective c. HOwbeit these are but trifles in respect of other experiments to this effect specially when great Princes maintain and give countenance to students in those magical Arts which in these Countries and in this Age is rather prohibited than allowed by reason of the abuse commonly coupled therewith which in truth is it that moveth admiration and estimation of miraculous workings As for example if I affirm that with certain Charms and Popish Prayers I can set an Horse or an Asses head upon a mans shoulders I shall not be believed or if I do it I shall be thought a Witch And yet if J. Bap. Neap. experiments be true it is no difficult matter to make it seem so and the Charm of a Witch or a Papist joyned with the experiment will also make the wonder seem to proceed thereof The words used in such case are uncertain and to be recited at the pleasure of the Witch or Cosener But the conclusion of this cut off the head of a Horse or an Ass before they be dead otherwise the vertue or strength thereof will be the less effectual and make an earthen vessel of fit capacity to contain the same and let it be filled with the oyl and fat thereof cover it close and dawb it over with lome let it boyl over a soft fire three days continually that the flesh boyled may run into oyl so as the bare bones may be seen beat the hair into powder and mingle the same with the oyl and annoint the heads of the standers by and they shall seem to have Horses or Asses heads If Beasts heads be anointed with the like oyl made of a mans head they shall seem to have mens faces as divers Authors soberly affirm If a Lamp be anointed herewith every thing shall seem most monstrous It is also written that if that which is called Sperma in any beast be burned and any bodies face therewithal anointed he shall seem to have the like face as the Beast had But if you beat Arsenick very fine and boyl it with a little sulphur in a covered pot and kindle it with a new candle the standers by will seem to be headless Aqua composita and salt being fired in the night and all other lights extinguished make the standers by seem as dead All these things might be very well perceived and known and also practised by Jannes and Jambres But the wondrous devices and miraculous sights and conceits made and contained in glass do far exceed all other whereto the Art perspective is very necessary For it shews the illusions of them whose experiments be seen in divers sorts of Glasses as in the hollow the plain the embossed the columnary the pyramidate or piked the turbinal the bounched the round the cornered the inversed the eversed the massie the regular the irregular the
face and as soon as you perceive him to look in your face or from your hand suddenly take away your thumb and close his hand and so will it seem to him that the Testor remaineth even as if you wring a Testor upon ones fore-head it will seem to stick when it is taken away especially if it be wet Then cause him to hold his hand still and with speed put it into another mans hand or into your own two Testors instead of one and use words of course whereby you shall make not only the beholders but the holders believe when they open their hands that by Inchantment you have brought both together To throw a piece of Money into a deep Pond and to fetch it again from whence you list THere be a marvellous number of feats to be done with Money but if you will work by private confederacy as to mark a shilling or any other thing and throw the same into a River or deep Pond and having hid a shilling before with like marks in some other secret place bid some go presently and fetch it making them believe that it is the very same which you threw into the River the beholders will marvail much at it And of such feats there may be done a marvellous number but many more by publick confederacy whereby one may tell another how much Money he hath in his Purse and a hundreth like toyes and all with Money To convey one Shilling being in one hand into another holding your hands abroad like a Rood EVermore it is necessary to mingle some merry toyes among your grave miracles as in this case of Money to take a Shilling in each hand and holding your arms abroad to lay a wager that you would put them both into one hand without bâ—inging them any whit neerer together The wager being made hold your arms abroad like a Hood and turning about with your body lay the Shilling out of one of your hands upon the Table and turning to the otherside take it up with the other hand and so you shall win your wages How to Rap a Wag on the Knuckles DEliver one piece of Money with the left hand to one and to a second person another and offer him that you would rap on the fingers the third for he though he be ungratious and subtle seeing the other receive Money will not lightly refuse it and when he offereth to take it you may rap him on the fingers with a Knife or somewhat else held in the right hand saying that you knew by your familiar that he meant to have kept it from you CHAP. XXVI To Transform any one small thing into any other form by folding of Paper TAke a sheet of Paper or a Handkercher and fold or double the same so as one side be a little longer then another then put a counter between the two sides or leaves of the Paper or Handkercher up to the middle of the top of the fold holding the same so as it be not perceived and lay a groat on the outside thereof right against the Counter and fold it down to the end of the longer side and when you unfold it again the Groat will be where the Counter was and the Counter where the Groat was so as some will suppose that you have transubstantiated the Money into a Counter and with this many feats may be done The like or rather stranger than it may be done with two Papers three inches square a piece divided by two folds into three equal parts at either side so as each folded Paper remain one inch square then glew the backsides of the two Papers together as they are folded and not as they are open and so shall both Papers seem to be but one and which side soever you open it shall appear to be the same if you hide handsomely the bottom as you may well do with your middle finger so as if you have a Groat in the one and a Counter in the other you having shewed but one may be turning the Paper seem to transubstantiate it This may be best performed by putting it under a Candlestick or a Hat c. and with words seem to do the feat CHAP. XXVII Of Cards with good Cautions how to avoid Cosenage therein special Rules to convey and handle the Cards and the manner and order how to accomplish all difficult and strange things wrought with Cards HAving now bestowed some waste money among you I will set you to Cards by which kind of Witchcraft a great number of people have juggled away not only their Money but also their Lands their health their time and their honesty I dare not as I could shew the lewd juggling that Cheaters practice lest it minister some offence to the well disposed to the simple hurt and losses and to the wicked occasion of evil doing But I would wish all Gamesters to beware not only with what Card and Dice they play but especially with whom and where they exercise gaming And to let Dice pass as whereby a man may be inevitably cosened one that is skilful to make and use Bumcards may undo a hundred wealthy men that are given to gaming but if he have a confederate present either of the players or standers by the mischief cannot be avoided If you play among strangers beware of him that seems simple or drunken for under their habit the most special coseners are presented and while you think by their simplicity and imperfections to beguile them and thereof perchance are perswaded by their confederates your very friends as you think you your self will be most of all overtaken Beware also of the bettors by and lookers on and namely of them that bet on your side for whilest they look on your game without suspition they discover it by signs to your Adversaries with whom they bet and yet are their confederates But in shewing feats and juggling with Cards the principal point consisteth in shuffling them nimbly and alwayes keeping one certain Card either in the bottom or in some known place of the stock four or five Cards from it Hereby you shall seem to work wonders for it will be easie for you to see or spie one Card which though you be perceived to do it will not be suspected if you shuffle them well afterwards And this note I must give you that in reserving the bottom Card you must alwayes whilest you shuffle keep him a little before or a little behind all the Cards lying underneath him bestowing him I say either a little beyond his fellows before right over the fore-finger or else behind the rest so as the little finger of the left hand may meet with it which is the easier the readyer and the better way In the beginning of your shuffling shuffle as thick as you can and in the end throw upon the stock the neather Card with so many moe at the least as you would have preserved for
same with the sweat of his brows and nevertheless hath the best hand and conveyance I think of any man that liveth this day Neither do I speak as they say without Book herein For if time place and occasion serve I can shew so much herein that I am sure Bodin Spinaeus and Vairus would swear I were a Witch and had a familiar Devil at Commandement But truly my study and travel herein hath only been employed to the end I might prove them fools and find out the fraud of them that make them fools as whereby they may become wiser and God may have that which to him belongeth And because the manner of these juggling conveyances is not easily conceived by discourse of words I have caused to be set down divers forms of Instruments used in this Art which may serve for patterns to them that would throughly see the secrets thereof and make them for their own private practices to try the event of such devices as in this Tract of Legierdemain are shewed Where note that you shall find every Instrument that is most necessarily occupied in the working of these strange feats to bear the just and true number of the page where the use hereof is in ample words declared Now will I proceed with another cosening point of Witchcraft apt for the place necessary for the time and in mine opinion meet to be discovered or at the least to be defaced among deceitful Arts. And because many are abused hereby to their utter undoing for that it hath had passage under the protection of learning whereby they pretend to accomplish their works it hath gone freely without general controlment through all Ages Nations and People Here follow patterns of certain Instruments to be used in the former juggling knacks To pull three Bead-stones from off a Cord while you hold fast the ends thereof without removing of your hand To draw a Cord through your Nose Mouth or Hand which is called the Bridle To be instructed in the right use of the said Bead-stones read pag. 190. 191. As for the Bridle read pag. 198. To thrust a Bodkin into your Head and through your Tongue c. The hithermost is the Bodkin with the Bowt the middlemost is the Bodkin with the hollow haft the furthermost is the plain Bodkin serving for shew To be instructed and taught in the right use and ready practice of these Bodkins read pag. 196. To thrust a Knife through your Arm and to cut half your Nose asunder c. The middlemost knife is to serve for shew the other two be the Knives of device To be ready in the use and perfect practice of these Knives here portrayed see pag. 196. To Cut off ones Head and to lay it in a Platter which the Jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist The form of the plancks c. The order of the action as it is to be shewed What order is to be observed for the practising hereof with great admiration read pag. 197 198. BOOK XIV CHAP. I. Of the Art of Alchymistry of their words of Art and devices to blear mens Eyes and to procure credit to their Profession HEre I thought it not impertinent to say somewhat of the Art or rather the craft of Alchymistry otherwise called Multiplication which Chaucer of all other men most lively deciphereth In the bowels hereof doth both Witchcraft and Conjuration lie hidden as whereby some cosen others and some are cosened themselves For by this mystery as it is said in the Chanons mans prologue They take upon them to turn upside down All the Earth between Southwark and Canterbury town And to pave it all of silver and gold c. But ever they lack of their conclusion And to much folk they do illusion For their stuffe slides away so fast That it makes them beggers at the last And by this craft they do never win But make their purse empty and their wits thin And because the practicers hereof would be thought wise learned cunning and their crafts Masters they have devised words of Art Sentences and Epithets obscure and confections so innumerable which are also compounded of strange and rare simples as confound the capacities of them that are either set on work herein or be brought to behold or expect their conclusions For what plain man would not believe that they are learned and jolly fellows that have in such readiness so many mystical terms of Art as for a taste their subliming amalgaming englutting imbibing incorporating cementing retrination terminations mollifications and indurations of bodies matters combust and coagular ingots tests c. Or who is able to conceive by reason of the abrupt confusion contrariety and multitudes of drugs simples and confections the operation and mystery of their stuffe and workmanship For these things and many more are of necessity to be prepared and used in the execution of this indeavour namely orpiment sublimed Mercury Iron squames Mercury crude groundly large Bole Armoniack Verdigreece Horace Boles Gall Arsenick Sal Armoniack Brimstone Salt Paper burnt Bones unslaked Lime Clay Salt-Peter Vitriol Saltartre Alcalie Sal preparat Clay made with Horse-dung Mans-hair Oil of Tartre Allum Glass Wort Yest Argol Refagor Gleir of an eye Powders Ashes Dung Piss c. Then have they Waters corrosive and lincal Waters of Albification and Water ruâ—ifying c. Also Oils Ablutions and Metals fusible Also their Lamps their Urinals Discensories Sublimatories Alembecks Viols Crossets Cucurbits Stillatories and their Furnace of Calcination also their soft and subtle fires some of Wood some of Coal composed specially of Beech c. And because they will not seem to want any point of cosenage to astonish the simple or to move admiration to their enterprizes they have as they affirm four spirits to work withal whereof the first is Orpiment the second Quick-silver the third Sal-Armoniack the fourth Brimstone Then have they seven celestial Bodies namely Sol Luna Mars Mercury Saturn Jupiter and Venus to whom they apply seven terrestrial bodies to wit Gold Silver Iron Quick-silver Lead Tin and Copper attributing unto these the operation of the other specially if the terrestrial bodies be qualified tempered and wrought in the hour and day according to the feats of the celestial bodies with more like vanity CHAP. II. The Alchymisters drift the Chanons Yeomans Tale of Alchymistical Stones and Waters NOw you must understand that the end and drift of all their works is to attain unto the composition of the Philosophers Stone called Allâ—er and to the stone called Titanus and to Magnatia which is a Water made of the four Elements which they say the Philosophers are sworn neither to discover nor to write of And by these they mortifie Quicksilver and make it malleable and to hold touch hereby also they convert any other metal but specially Copper into Gold This Science forsooth is the secret of secrets even as Solomon's Conjuration is said among the Conjurers to be
it with the same and brandishing the same in his right hand he shall begin to conjure the Spirit on this following manner I Exorcize and Conjure thee thou great and powerful Balkin Lord of Glauron Lord of Luridan and of fifteen hundred Legions Lord of the Northern Mountains and of every Beast that dwells thereon by the holy and wonderful Names of the Almighty Iehovah Athanato ✚ Aionos ✚ Dominus sempiternus ✚ Aletheios ✚ Saday ✚ Iehovah Kedesh El gabor ✚ Deus fortissimus ✚ Anaphexaton Amorule Ameron ✚ ✚ ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muridon ✚ Iah Iehovah Elohim pentasseron ✚ ✚ trinus et unus ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ I Exorcize and Conjure I Invocate and Command thee thou aforesaid Spirit by the powers of Angels and Archangels Cherubim and Seraphim by the mighty Prince Coronzon by the blood of Abel by the righteousness of Seth and the Prayers of Noah by the voyces of Thunder and dreadful day of Judgment by all these powerful and royal words abovesaid that without delay or malitious intent thou do come before me here at the circumference of this consecrated Circle to answer my proposals and desires without any manner of terrible form either of thy self or attendants but only obediently fairly and with good intent to present thy self before me this Circle being my defence through his power who is Almighty and hath sanctified the same In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen After the Magician hath thrice repeated this Conjuration Let him immediately set the fire before him and put the Rozin thereon to fumigate at the appearance of the conjured Spirits and at the instant of their appearance he shall hold the Censer of fire in his left hand and the Sword in his right still turning round as the Spirits do For in a little space after the Invocation is repeated he shall hear the noise of Thunders and perceive before him in the Valley a mighty storm of Lightning and Rain after a while the same will cease and an innumerable company of Dwarfs or Pigmies will appear mounted upon Chamelions to march towards the Circle surrounding the same Next comes Balkin with his Attendants he will appear like the god Bacchus upon a little Goat and the rest that follow will march after him afoot Assoon as they come near the Circle they will breath out of their mouths a mist or fog which will even obscure the light of the Moon and darken the Magician that he cannot behold them nor himself yet let him not be discomfited or afraid for that fog will be quickly over and the Spirits will run round the Circle after Balkin their Lord who rides upon a Goat they will continue to surround the Circle till the Magician begin the form of obligation or binding their Leader or King in this form with the Sword in his right hand the Fire and Rozin burning before him I conjure and bind thee Balkin who art appeared before me by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by all the holy Consecrations I have made by the powerful Names of Heaven and of Earth and of Hell that I have used and uttered in calling upon thee by the Seals which thou here beholdest and the Sword which I present unto thee by this sanctified Girdle and all the sanctified and potent things aforesaid That here thou remain peaceably and of thy present shape before the Northern quarter of this Circle without injury to me in body soul or fortune but on the contrary to answer faithfully unto my demands and not hence to remove till I have licenced thee to depart In the Name of the Father Son and holy Spirit Amen When he is thus obliged he will alight from his Goat and cause his Attendants to remove further into the Valley then will he stand peaceably before the Circle to answer the Magician After this the Magician shall begin to demand into his own possession a Familiar to build or pull down any Castle or strong hold in a night and that this Familiar bring with him the Girdle of Conquest or Victory that the Magician being girded with the same may overcome all enemies whatsoever And further the Spirit is able to inform him of all questions concerning Thunder and Lightning the Motions of the Heavens the Comets and Apparitions in the air Pestilence and Famine noxious and malevolent blasts as also of the Inhabitants of the Northern Pole and the wonders undiscovered throughout the world Likewise if the Exorcist inquire concerning the habitations of starry Spirits he will readily answer him describing their orders food life and past-time truly and exactly After the Magician hath satisfied himself with inquiries and curious questions unto the Spirit there will come from amongst the company a little Spirit of a span long like a little Ethiop which the great King Balkin will deliver unto the Exorcist to continue as a Familiar with him as long as his life shall last This familiar the possessor may name at it pleaseth him The three last who had this Spirit into possession were three Northern Magicians the first Honduros a Norwegian who called it Philenar and commanded it at his pleasure with a little Bell. After him Benno his eldest Son injoy'd the same under the same name And Swarkzar a Polonian Priest was the last who enjoy'd it under the Name of Muncula all which names were imposed upon it according to the pleasure of the Masters and therefore the naming of this familiar is left to the discretion of the Exorcist Now when the Master hath taken this familiar into his custody and service the Spirit Balkin will desire to depart being wearied if the action continue longer then an hour Therefore the Magician must be careful to dismiss him in this following form Because thou hast diligently answered my demands and been ready to come at my first call I do here licence thee to depart unto thy proper place without injury or danger to man or Beast depart I say and be ever ready at my call being duly exorcized and conjured by sacred Rites of Magick I charge thee to withdraw with quiet and peace and peace be continued betwixt me and thee In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then the Spirits company will begin to march about their Prince and in a formal Troop will march along the Valley whilest the Magician repeateth Pater Noster c. until the Spirits be quite out of sight and vanished This is a compleat form of conjuring the aforesaid Spirit according to the Rules of Vaganostus the Norwegian CHAP. X. The exposition of Iidoni and where it is found whereby the whole Art of Conjuration is deciphered THis word Iidoni is derived of Iada which properly signifieth to know it is sometimes translated Divinus which is a Diviner or Soothsayer as in Deut. 18. Levit. 20. sometimes Ariolus which is one that also taketh upon him to foretel things to come and is found Levit. 19.
great Earl and a President he is seen like a Bull and if he take unto him a Mans face he maketh men wonderful cunning in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he giveth good familiars and wise knowing the power and virtue of herbs and stones which are pretious and ruleth Thirty six Legions Ipos aliàs Ayporos is a great Earl and a Prince appearing in the shape of an Angel and yet indeed more obscure and filthy than a Lyon with a Lyons head a Gooses feet and a Hares tail he knoweth things to come and past he maketh a man witty and bold and hath under his jurisdiction Thirty six Legions Naberius aliàs Carberus is a valiant Marquess shewing himself in the form of a Crow when he speaketh with a hoarse voyce he maketh a man amiable and cunning in all Arts and specially in Rhetorick he procureth the loss of Prelacies and Dignities Nineteen Legions hear and obey him Glasya Labolas aliàs Caacrinolaas or Caassimolar is a great President who cometh forth like a Dog and hath wings like a Griffin he giveth the knowledge of Arts and is the Captain of all Manslayers he understandeth things present and to come he gaineth the minds and love of friends and foes he maketh a man go invisible and hath the rule of Thirty six Legions Zepar is a great Duke appearing as a Souldier inflaming Women with the love of Men and when he is hidden he changeth their shape until they may enjoy their beloved he also maketh them barren and Twenty six Legions are at his obey and commandement Bileth is a great King and a terrible riding on a pale Horse before whom go Trumpets and all kind of melodious Musick When he is called up by an Exorcist he appeareth rough and furious to deceive him Then let the Exocist or Conjuror take heed to himself and to allay his courage let him hold a hazel bat in his hand wherewithal he must reach out toward the East and South and make a triangle without besides the Circle but if he hold not out his hand unto him and he bid him come in and he still refuse the bond or chain of Spirits let the Conjuror proceed to reading and by and by he will submit himself and come in and do whatsoever the Exorcist commandeth him and he shall be safe If Bileth the King be more stubborn and refuse to enter into the Circle at the first call and the Conjuror shew himself fearful or if he have not the chain of Spirits certainly he will never fear nor regard him after Also if the place be unapt for a triangle to be made without the Circle then set there a boll of Wine and the Exorcist shall certainly know when he cometh out of his house with his fellows and that the aforesaid Bileth will be his helper his friend and obedient unto him when he cometh forth And when he cometh let the Exorcist receive him courteously and glorifie him in his pride and therefore he shall adore him as other Kings do because he saith nothing without other Princes Also if he be cited by an Exorcist alwayes a silver Ring of the middle finger of the left hand must be held against the Exorcists face as they do for Amaimon And the dominion and power of so great a Prince is not to be determined for there is none under the power and dominion of the Conjuror but he that detaineth both men and women in doting love till the Exorcist hath had his pleasure He is of the orders of Powers hoping to return to the seventh Throne which is not altogether credible and he ruleth Eighty five Legions Sitri aliàs Bitru is a great Prince appearing with the face of a Leopard and having wings as a Griffin when he taketh humane shape he is very beautiful he inflameth a man with a womans love and also stirreth up women to love men being commanded he willingly detaineth secrets of Women laughing at them and mocking them to make them luxuiously naked and there obey him Sixty Legions Paimon is more obedient to Lucifer than any other Kings are Lucifer is here to be understood he that was drowned in the depth of his knowledge he would needs be like God and for his arrogancy was thrown out into destruction of whom it is said Every pretious stone is thy covering Paimon is constrained by divine virtue to stand before the Exorcist where he putteth on the likeness of a man he sitteth on a beast called a Dromedary which is a swift runner and weareth a glorious crown and hath an effeminate countenance there goeth before him an host of men with Trumpets and well sounding Cymbals and all Musical Instruments At the first he appeareth with a great cry and roaring as in Circulo Solomonis and in the Art is declared And if this Paimon speak sometimes that the Conjuror understand him not let him not therefore be dismayed But when he hath delivered him the first obligation to observe his desire he must bid him also answer him distinctly and plainly to the questions he shall ask you of all Philosophy Wisdome and Science and of all other secret things And if you will know the disposition of the World and what the earth is or what holdeth it up in the water or any other thing or what is Abyssus or where the wind is or from whence it cometh he will teach you abundantly Consecrations also as well as Sacrifices as otherwise may be reckoned He giveth dignities and confirmations he bindeth them that resist him in his own chains and subjecteth them to the Conjuror he prepareth good familiars and hath the understanding of all Arts. Note that at the calling up of him the Exorcist must look toward the Northwest because there is his house When he is called up let the Exorcist receive him constantly without fear let him ask what questions or demands he list and no doubt he shall obtain the same of him And the Exorcist must beware he forget not the Creator for those things that have been rehearsed before of Paimon some say he is of the order of Dominions others say of the order of Cherubims There follow him Two hundred Legions partly of the order of Angels and partly of Potestates Note that if Paimon be cited alone by an offering or sacrifice two Kings follow him to wit Bebal and Abalam and other Potentates in his host are Twenty five Legions because the Spirits subject to them are not alwayes with them except they be compelled to appear by divine vertue Some say that the King Belial was created immediately after Lucifer and therefore they think that he was father and seducer of them which fell being of the orders For he fell first among the worthier and wiser sort which went before Michael and other heavenly Angels which were lacking Although Belial went before all them that were thrown down to the earth yet he went not
before them that tarryed in heaven This Belial is constrained by Divine virtue when he taketh Sacrifices Gifts and Offerings that he again may give unto the Offerers true answers But he tarryeth not one hour in the truth except he be constrained by the Divine power as is said He taketh the form of a beautiful Angel sitting in a fiery Chariot he speaketh fair he distributeth preferments of Senatorship and the favour of friends and excellent familiars He hath rule over Eighty Legions partly of the order of Virtues partly of Angels he is found in the form of an Exorcist in the bonds of Spirits The Exorcist must consider that this Belial doth in every thing assist his subjects If he will not submit himself let the bond of Spirits be read the Spirits chain is sent for him wherewith wise Solomon gathered them together with their Legions in a brasen vessel where were inclosed among all the Legions Seventy two Kings of whom the chief was Biloth the second was Belial the third Asmoday and above a thousand thousand Legions Without doubt I must confess I learned this of my master Solomon but he told me not why he gathered them together and shut them up so but I believe it was for the pride of this Belial Certain Negromancers do say that Solomon being on a certain day seduced by the craft of a certain Woman inclined himself to pray before the same idol Belial by name which is not credible And therefore we must rather think as it is said that they were gathered together in that great brasen vessel for pride and arrogancy and thrown into a deep lake or hole in Babylon for wise Solomon did accomplish his works by the Divine power which never forsook him And therefore we must think he worshipped not the image of Belial for then he could not have constrained the Spirits by Divine virtue for this Belial with three Kings were in the lake But the Babylonians wondering at the matter supposed that they should find therein a great quantity of treasure and therefore with one consent went down into the lake and uncovered and brake the vessel out of the which immediately flew the Captain Devils and were delivered to their former and proper places But this Belial entred into a certain image and there gave answer to them that offered and sacrificed unto him as Toex in his sentences reporteth and the Babylonians did worship and sacrifice thereunto Bune is a great and a strong Duke he appeareth as a Dragon with three heads the third whereof is like a Man he speaketh with a Divine voyce he maketh the dead to change their place and Devils to assemble upon the sepulchres of the dead he greatly inricheth a man and maketh him eloquent and wise answereth truly to all demands and Thirty Legions obey him Forneus is a great Marquess like unto a Monster of the Sea he maketh men wonderful in Rhetorick he adorneth a man with a good name and the knowledge of tongues and maketh one beloved as well of foes as friends there are under him Twenty nine Legions of the order partly of Thrones and partly of Angels Ronove a Marquess and an Earl he is resembled to a Monster he bringeth singular understanding in Rhetorick faithful servants knowledge of tongues favour of friends and foes and Nineteen Legions obey him Berith is a great and a terrible Duke and hath three Names of some he is called Beal of the Jews Berith of Necromancers Bolfry he cometh forth as a red Souldier with red clothing and upon a Horse of that colour and a Crown on his head he answereth truly of things present past and to come he is compelled to a certain hour through Divine virtue by a ring of Art Magick he is also a lyer he turneth all metals into gold he adorneth a man with Dignities and confirmeth them he speaketh with a clear and subtil voyce and Twenty six Legions are under him Astaroth is a great and a stronge Duke coming forth in the shape of a foul Angel sitting upon an infernal Dragon and carrying on his right hand a Viper he answereth truly to matters present past and to come and also of all secrets he talketh willingly of the creator of Spirits and their fall and how they sinned and fell he saith he fell not of his own accord he maketh a man wonderful learned in the Liberal Sciences he ruleth Forty Legions Let every Exorcist take heed that he admit him not too near him because of his stinking breath And therefore let the Conjuror hold near to his face a Magical Ring and that shall defend him Foras aliàs Forcas is a great President and is seen in the form of a strong Man and in humane shape he understandeth the virtue of hearbs and pretious stones he teacheth fully Logick Ethicks and their parts he maketh a man Invisible Witty Eloquent and to live long he recovereth things lost and discovereth treasures and is Lord over Twenty nine Legions Furfur is a great Earl appearing as an Hart with a fiery tail he lyeth in every thing except he be brougnt up within a triangle being bidden he taketh Angelical form he speaketh with a hoarse voyce and willingly maketh love between man and wife he raiseth Thunders Lightnings and Blasts Where he is commanded he answereth well both of secret and also of Divine things and hath rule and dominion over Twenty six Legions Marchosias is a great Marquess he sheweth himself in the shape of a cruel she Wolf with Griffins wings with a Serpents tail and spetting I cannot tell what out of his mouth When he is in a mans shape he is an excellent fighter he answereth all questions truly he is faithful in all the Conjurors business he was of the order of Dominations under him are Thirty Legions he hopeth after 1200 years to return to the seventh Throne but he is deceived in that hope Malphas is a great President he is seen like a Crow but being cloathed with humane Image speaketh with a hoarse voyce he buildeth houses and high towers wonderfully and quickly bringeth Artificers together he throweth down also the enemies edifications he helpeth to good familiars he receiveth Sacrifices willingly but he deceiveth all the Sacrificers there obey him Forty Legions Vepar aliàs Separ a great Duke and a strong he is like a Mermaid he is the guide of the waters and of ships laden with armour he bringeth to pass at the commandement of his Master that the Sea shall be rough and stormy and shall appear full of ships he killeth men in three dayes with putrifying their wounds and produceth Maggots into them howbeit they may be all healed with diligence he ruleth Twenty nine Legions Sabnack aliàs Salmack is a great Marquess and a strong he cometh forth as an armed Souldier with a Lyons head sitting on a pale Horse he doth marvellously change mans form and favour he
buildeth high towers full of weapons and also Castles and Cities he inflicteth men thirty dayes with wounds both rotten and full of maggots at the Exorcists commandement he provideth good familiars and hath dominion over Fifty Legions Sidonay aliàs Asmoday a great King strong and mighty he is seen with three heads whereof the first is like a Bull the second like a man the third like a Ram he hath a Serpents tail he belcheth flames out of his mouth he hath feet like a Goose he sitteth on an infernal Dragon be carryeth a launce and a flag in his hand he goeth before others which are under the power of Amaymon When the Conjuror exerciseth this office let him be abroad let him be wary and standing on his feet if his cap be on his head he will cause all his doings to be bewrayed which if he do not the Exorcist shall be deceived by Amaymon in every thing But so soon as he seeth him in the form aforesaid he shall call him by his name saying Thou art Asmoday he will not deny it and by and by he boweth down to the ground he giveth the ring of virtues he absolutely teacheth Geometry Arithmetick Astronomy and handicrafts To all demands he answereth fully and truly he maketh a man invisible he sheweth the places where treasure lyeth and gardeth it if it be among the Legions of Amaymon he hath under his power Seventy two Legions Gaap aliàs Tap a great President and a Prince he appeareth in a meridional sign and when he taketh humane shape he is the guide of the four principal Kings as mighty as Bileth There were certain Necromancers that offered sacrifices and burnt offerings unto him and to call him up they exercised an art saying that Solomon the wise made it which is false for it was rather Cham the son of Noah who after the flood began first to invocate wicked Spirits He invocated Bileth and made an Art in his name and a book which is known to many Mathematitians There were burnt offerings and sacrifices made and gifts given and much wickedness wrought by the Exorcist who mingleth therewithal the holy Names of God the which in that Art are everywhere expressed Marry there is an Epistle of those names written by Solomon as also write Helias Aierosolymitanus and Helisaeus It is to be noted that if any Exorcist have the Art of Bileth and cannot make him stand before him nor see him I may not bewray how and declare the means to contain him because it is an abomination and for that I have learned nothing from Solomon of his dignity and office But yet I will not hide this to wit that he maketh a man wonderful in Philosophy and all the Liberal Sciences he maketh love hatred insensibility consecration and consecration of those things that are belonging unto the domination of Amaymon and delivereth familiars out of the possession of other Conjurors answering truly and perfectly of things present past and to come and transferreth men most speedily into other Nations he ruleth Sixty six Legions and was of the order of Potestates Shax aliàs Scox is a dark and great Marquess like unto a Stork with a hoarse and subtil voyce he doth marvellously take away the sight hearing and understanding of any man at the commandement of the Conjuror he taketh away money out of every Kings house and carryeth it back after 1200 years if he be commanded he is a horse-stealer he is thought to be faithful in all commandements and although he promise to be obedient to the Conjuror in all things yet he is not so he is a lyer except he be brought into a triangle and there he speaketh divinely and telleth of things that are hidden and not kept of wicked Spirits he promiseth good familiars which are accepted if they be not deceivers he hath Thirty Legions Procel is a great and strong Duke appearing in the shape of an Angel but speaketh darkly of things hidden he teacheth Geometry and the Liberal Arts he maketh great noises and causeth the waters to roar where are none he warmeth waters and distempereth baths at certain times as the Exorcist appointeth him he was of the order of Potestates and hath Forty eight Legions under his power Furcas is a Knight and cometh forth in the similitude of a cruel Man with a long beard and a hoary head she sitteth on a pale horse carrying in his hand a sharp weapon he perfectly teacheth practick Philosophy Rhetorick Logick Astronomy Chiromancy Pyromancy and their parts there obey him Twenty Legions Murmur is a great Duke and an Earl appearing in the shape of a Souldier riding on a Griffin with a Dukes crown on his head there go before him two of his Ministers with great trumpets he teacheth Philosophy absolutely he constraineth souls to come before the Exorcist to answer what he shall ask them he was of the order partly of Thrones and partly of Angels and ruleth Thirty Legions Caim is a great President taking the form of a Thrush but when he putteth on mans shape he answereth in burning ashes carrying in his hand a most sharpe sword he maketh the best disputers he giveth men the understanding of all birds of the lowing of bullocks and barking of Dogs and also of the sound and noise of waters he answereth best of things to come he was of the order of Angels and ruleth Thirty Legions Raum or Raim is a great Earl he is seen as a Crow but when he putteth on humane shape at the commandement of the Exorcist he stealeth wonderfully out of the Kings house and carryeth it whether he is assigned he destroyeth Cities and hath great despite unto dignities he knoweth things present past and to come and reconcileth friends and foes he was of the order of Thrones and governeth Thirty Legions Halphas is a great Earl and cometh abroad like a Stork with a hoarse voyce he notably buildeth up Towns full of amunition and weapons he sendeth men of war to places appointed and hath under him Twenty six Legions Focalor is a great Duke cometh forth as a man with wings like a Griffin he killeth men and drowneth them in the waters and overturneth ships of war commanding and ruling both Winds and Seas And let the Conjuror note that if he bid him hurt no man he willingly consenteth thereto he hopeth after 1000 years to return to the seventh Throne but he is deceived he hath Three Legions Vine is great King and an Earl he sheweth himself as a Lyon riding a black Horse and carryeth a Viper in his hand he gladly buildeth large Towres he throweth down stone walls and maketh waters rough At the commandement of the Exorcist he answereth of things hidden of Witches and of things present past and to come Bifrons is seen in the similitude of a Monster when he taketh the image of man he maketh one wonderful cunning in Astrology absolutely
a great he cometh forth like a Souldier riding on a great Horse he hath a Lyons face very red and with flaming eyes he speaketh with a big voyce he maketh a man wonderful in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he bringeth good familiars and ruleth Thirty six Legions Saleos is a great Earl he appeareth as a gallant Souldier riding on a Crocodile and weareth a Dukes crown peaceable c. Vuall is a great Duke and a strong he is seen as a great and terrible Dromedary but in humane form he soundeth out in a base voyce the Aegyptian tongue This man above all other procureth especial love of Women and knoweth things present past and to come procuring the love of friends and foes he was of the order of Potestates and governeth Thirty seven Legions Haagenti is a great President appearing like a great Bull having the wings of a Griffin but when he taketh humane shape he maketh a man wise in every thing he changeth all metals into gold and changeth Wine and Water the one into the other and commandeth as many Legions as Zagan Phoenix is a great Marquess appearing like the bird Phoenix having a childs voyce but berore he standeth still before the Conjuror he singeth many sweet notes Then the Exorcist with his companions must beware he give no ear to the melody but must by and by bid him put on humane shape then will he speak marvellously of all wonderful Sciences He is an excellent Poet and obedient he hopeth to return to the seventh Throne after a thousand two hundred years and governeth Twenty Legions Stolas is a great Prince appearing in the form of a Night-raven before the Exorcist he taketh the image and shape of a man and teacheth Astronomy absolutely understanding the vertues of herbs and pretious stones there are under him Twenty six legions Note that a Legion is 6666. and now by Multiplication count how many Legions do arise out of every particular ✚ Secretum secretorum The secret of secrets Tu operans sis secretus horum Thou that workest them be secret in them CHAP. XII The hours wherein principal Devils may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt AMaymon King of the East Corson King of the South Zimimar King of the North Goap King and Prince of the West may be bound from the third hour till noon and from the ninth hour till evening Marquesses may be bound from the ninth hour till compline and from compline to the end of the day Dukes may be bound from the first hour till noon and clear weather is to be observed Prelates may be bound in any hour of the day Knights from day dawning till Sun rising or from evensong till the Sun set A President may not be bound in any hour of the day except the King whom he obeyeth be invocated nor in the shutting of the evening Counties or Earls may be bound at any hour of the day so it be in the woods or fields where men resort not CHAP. XIII The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear WHen you will have any Spirit you must know his Name and Office you must also fast and be clean from all pollution three or four days before so will the Spirit be the more obedient unto you Then make a Circle and call up the Spirit with great intention and holding a ring in your hand rehearse in your own name and your companions for one must alwayes be with you this Prayer following and so no Spirit shall annoy you and your purpose shall take effect And note how this agreeth with Popish Charmes and Conjurations In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the ✚ Father ✚ and the Son ✚ and the Holy Ghost ✚ holy Trinity and unspeakable Unity I call upon thee that thou mayst be my salvation and defence and the protection of my body and soul and of all my goods through the virtue of thy holy Cross and through the vertue of thy passion I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by the merits of thy blessed Mother S. Mary and of all thy Saints That thou give me Grace and Divine power over all the wicked Spirits so as which of them soever I do call by name they may come by and by from every coast and accomplish my will that they neither be hurtful nor fearful unto me but rather obedient and diligent about me And through thy virtue streightly commanding them let them fufil my commandements Amen Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth which wilt come to judge the quick and the dead thou which art Α and Ω first and last King of Kings and Lord of Lords Ioth Aglanabrath El Abiel Anathiel Amazim Sedomel Grayes Heli Messias Tolimi Elias Ischiros Athanatos Imas By these thy holy Names and by all other I do call upon thee and beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by thy Nativity and Baptism by thy Cross and Passion by thine Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost by the bitterness of thy soul when it departed from the body by thy five wounds by the blood and water which went out of thy body by thy virtue by the Sacrament which thou gavest thy Disciples the day before thou sufferedst by the holy Trinity and the inseparable Unity by blessed Mary thy Mother by thine Angels Arch-Angels Prophets Patriarchs and by all thy Saints and by all the Sacraments which are made in thine honour I do worship and beseech thee to accept these prayers Conjurations and words of my mouth which I will use I require thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou give me thy virtue and power over all thine Angels which were thrown down from heaven to deceive mankind to draw them to me to tie and bind them and also to loose them to gather them together before me and to command them to do all that they can and that by no means they contemn my voyce or the words of my mouth but that they obey me and my sayings and fear me I beseech thee by thine Humanity Mercy and Grace and I require thee Adony Amay Horta Vegedora Mitai Hel Suranat Yston Ysesy and by all thy holy Names and by all thine holy He-Saints and She-Saints by all thine Angels and Archangels Powers Dominions and Virtues and by that name that Solomon did bind the Devils and shut them up Elbrach Evanher Agle Goth Ioth Othie Venoch Nabrat and by all thine holy Names which are written in this book and by the virtue of them all that thou enable me to congregate all thy Spirits thrown down from heaven that they may give me a true answer of all my demands and that they satisfie all my requests without the hurt of my body or soul or any thing else that is mine through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end
not blind But surely he that cannot make one hair white or black whereof on the other side not one falleth from the head without Gods special Providence can never bring to pass that the visible creature of God shall become nothing or lose the vertue and grace poured therein by God the Creator of all things If they say that the Devil covereth them with a cloud or veil as M. Mal Bodin and many other do affirm yet me thinks we should either see the cover or the thing covered And though perchance they say in their hearts Tush the Lord seeth not who indeed hath blinded them so as seeing they see not yet they shall never be able to perswade the wise but that both God and man doth see both them and their knavery in this behalf I have heard of a fool who was made believe that he should go invisible and naked while he was well whipped by them who as he thought could not see him Into which fools Paradise they say he was brought that enterprised to kill the Prince of Orenge CHAP. XXXI A Comparison between Popish Exorcists and other Conjurors a Popish Conjuration published by a great Doctor of the Romish Church his rules and cautions I See no difference between these and Popish Conjurations for they agree in order words and matter differing in no circumstance but that the Papists do it without shame openly the other do it in hugger mugger secretly The Papists I say have Officers in this behalf which are called Exorcists or Conjurors and they look narrowly to other cosenours as having gotten the upper hand over them And because the Papists shall be without excuse in this behalf and that the world may see their cosenage impiety and folly to be as great as the others I will cite one Conjuration of which sort I might cite a hundred published by Jacobus de Chusa a great Doctor of the Romish Church which serveth to find out the cause of noise and spiritual rumbling in Houses Churches or Chappels and to conjure walking Spirits which evermore is knavery and cosenage in the highest degree Mark the cosening device hereof and confer the impiety with the others First forsooth he saith it is expedient to fast three days and to celebrate a certain number of Masses and to repeat the seven Penitential Psalms then four or five Priests must be called to the place where the haunt or noise is then a Candle hallowed on Candlemas day must be lighted and in the lighting thereof also must the seven Psalms be said and the Gospel of St. John Then there must be a Cross and a Censer with Frankinsense and therewithal the place must be censed or perfumed holy Water must be sprinkled and a holy Stoal must be used and after divers other Ceremonies a Prayer to God must be made in manner and form following O Lord Jesus Christ the knower of all secrets which alwayes revealest all wholesome and profitable things to thy faithful children and which sufferest a Spirit to shew himself in this place we beseech thee for thy bitter Passion c vouchsafe to command this spirit to reveal and signifie unto us thy servants without our terrour or hurt what he is to thine honour and to his comfort In Nomine Patris c. And then proceed in these words We beseech thee for Christs sake O thou spirit that if there be any of us or among us whom thou wouldst answer name him or else manifest him by some sign Is it Fryer P. or Doctor D. or Doctor Burc or sir Feats or sir John or sir Robert Et sic de caeteris circumstantibus For it is well tryed saith the gloss he will not answer every one If the Spirit make any sound of voyce or knocking at the naming of any one he is the Cosenour the Conjuror I would say that must have the charge of this Conjuration or Examination And these forsooth must be the interrogatories to wit Whose Soul art thou Wherefore camest thou What wouldst thou have Wantest thou any Suffrages Masses or Alms How many Masses will serve thy turn three six ten twenty thirty c By what Priest Must he be religious or secular Wilt thou have any Fasts What How many How great And by what persons Among Hospitals Lepers or Beggars What shall be the sign of thy perfect deliverance Wherefore liest thou in Purgatory and such like This must be done in the night If there appear no sign at this hour it must be deferred until another hour Holy water must be left in the place There is no fear they say that such a Spirit will hurt the Conjuror for he can sin no more as being in the mean state between good and evil and as yet in the state of satisfaction If the Spirit do hurt then it is a damned soul and not an elect Every man may not be present hereat specially such as be weak of complexion They appear in divers manners not alwayes in body or bodily shape as it is read in the life of S. Martine that the Devil did but sometimes invisible as only by sound voyce or noise Thus far Jacobus de Chusa But because you shall see that these be not empty words nor slanders but that in truth such things are commonly put in practice in the Romish Church I will here set down an instance lately and truly though lewdly performed and the same in effect as followeth CHAP. XXXII A late Experiment or cosening Conjuration practised at Orleance by the Franciscan Friers how it was detected and the Judgement against the Authors of that Comedy IN the year of our Lord 1534. at Orleance in France the Maiors wife dyed willing and desiring to be buried without any pomp or noise c. Her husband who reverenced the memorial of her did even as she had willed him And because she was buryed in the Church of the Franciscans besides her Father and Grandfather and gave them in reward only six Crowns whereas they hoped for a greater prey shortly after it chanced that as he felled certain Woods and sold them they desired to give them some part thereof freely without money which he flatly denyed This they took very grievously And whereas before they misliked him now they conceived such displeasure as they devised this means to be revenged to wit that his Wife was damned for ever The chief workmen and framers of this tragedy were Colimannus and Stephanus Aterbatensis both Doctors of Divinity this Colimannus was a great Conjuror and had all his implements in a readiness which he was wont to use in such business And thus they handle the matter They place over the Arches of the Church a young novice who about midnight when they came to mumble their Prayers as they were wont to do maketh a great rumbling and noise Out of hand the Monks began to conjure and to charm but he answered nothing Then being requireed to
the battel was fought in the highest Region of the Air Others say In the Firmament Others In Paradise The Thomists also say It continued but one instant or prick of time for they tarryed but two instants in all even from their Creation to their Expulsion The Scotists say That between their production and their fall there were just four instants Nevertheless the greatest number of Schoolmen affirm That they continued only three instants because it stood with Gods justice to give them three warnings so as at the third warning Lucifer fell down like lead for so are the words to the bottom of Hell the rest were left in the Air to tempt man The Sadduces were as gross the other way for they said That by Angels was meant nothing else but the motions that God doth inspire in men or the tokens of his power He that readeth Eusebius shall see many more absurd opinions and asseverations of Angels as how many thousand years they serve as Angels before they come to the promotion of Archangels c. Monsieur Bodin M. Mal. and many other Papists gather upon the seventh of Daniel That there are just ten Millions of Angels in Heaven Many say that Angels are not by nature but by office Finally it were infinite to shew the absurd and curious collections hereabout I for my part think with Calvine That Angels are creatures of God though Moses spake nothing of their creation who only applyed himself to the capacity of the common people reciting nothing but things seen And I say further with him That they are heavenly spirits whose ministration and service God useth and in that respect are called Angels I say yet again with him That it is very certain that they have no shape at all for they are spirits who never have any and finally I say with him That the Scriptures for the capacity of our wit doth not in vain paint out Angels unto us with wings because we should conceive that they are ready swiftly to succour us And certainly all the sounder Divines do conceive and give out that both the names and also the number of Angels are set down in the Scripture by the Holy-Ghost in terms to make us understand the greatness and the manner of their messages which I say are either expounded by the number of Angels or signified by their names Furthermore the School Doctors affirm That four of the Superior Orders of Angels never take any form or shape of bodies neither are sent of any errand at any time As for Archangels they are sent only about great and secret matters and Angels are common Hacknies about every trifle and that these can take what shape or body they list marry they never take the form of women and children Item they say That Angels take most terrible shapes for Gabriel appeared to Mary when he saluted her Facie rutilante veste coruscante ingressu mirabili aspectu terribili c. that is With a bright countenance shining attire wonderful gesture and a dreadful visage c. But of Apparitions I have spoken somewhat before and will say more hereafter It hath been long and continueth yet a constant opinion not only among Papists but among others also that every man hath assigned him at the time of his nativity a good Angel and a bad For the which there is no reason in Nature nor authority in Scripture For not one Angel but all the Angels are said to rejoyce more at one Convert than of ninety and nine just Neither did one only Angel convey Lazarus into Abraham's bosome And therefore I conclude with Calvin That he which referreth to one Angel the care that God hath to every one of us doth himself great wrong as may appear by so many fiery Chariots shewed by Elizaeus to his servant But touching this mystery of Angels let us reverently think of them and not curiously search into the nature of them considering the vileness of our condition in respect of the glory of their creation And as for the foresaid fond imaginations and fables of Lucifer c. they are such as are not only ridiculous but also accomptable among those impious curiosities and vain questions which Paul speaketh of neither have they any title or letter in the Scripture for the maintenance of their gross opinions in this behalf CHAP. XI Whether they became Devils which being Angels kept not their Vocation in Jude and Peter of the fond Opinion of the Rabbins touching Spirits and Bugs with a Confutation thereof WE do read in Jude and find it confirmed in Peter That the Angels kept not their first estate but left their own habitation and sinned and as Job saith committed folly and that God therefore did cast them down into Hell reserving them in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day But many Divines say That they find not anywhere that God made Devils of them or that they became the Princes of the World or else of the Air but rather Prisoners Howbeit divers Doctors affirm That this Lucifer notwithstanding his fall hath greater power than any of the Angels in Heaven Marry they say That there be certain other Devils of the inferior fort of Angels which were then thrust out for smaller faults and therefore are tormented with little pains besides eternal damnation and these say they can do little hurt They affirm also That they only use certain juggling knacks delighting thereby to make men laugh as they travel by the high wayes but other say they are much more churlish For proof hereof they alledge the eighth of Matthew where he would none otherwise be satisfied but by exchange from the annoying of one man to the destruction of a whole herd of Swine The Rabbins and namely Rabbi Abraham writing upon the second of Genesis do say That God made the Fairies Bugs Incubus Robin Good-fellow and other familiar or domestical Spirits and Devils on the Friday and being prevented with the evening of the Sabbath finished them not but left them unperfect and therefore that ever since they use to flie the holiness of the Sabbath seeking dark holes in Mountains and Woods wherein they hide themselves till the end of the Sabboth and then come alroad to trouble and molest men But as these opinions are ridiculous and fondly collected so if we have only respect to the bare word or rather to the letter where Spirit or Devils are spoken of in the Scriptures we shall run into as dangerous absurdities as these are For some are so carnally minded that a Spirit is no sooner spoken of but immediately they think of a black man with cloven feet a pair of horns a tail claws and eyes as broad as a Bason c. But surely the Devil were not so wise in his generation as I take him to be if he would terrifie men with such ugly shapes though he could do it at his pleasure
declaring the mansions of the Planets he doth the like in Geometry and other admeasurements he perfectly understandeth the strength and virtue of herbs pretious stones and woods he changeth dead bodies from place to place he seemeth to light candles upon the sepulchres of the dead and hath under him Twenty six Legions Gamigin is a great Marquess and is seen in the form of a little horse when he taketh humane shape he speaketh with a hoarse voyce disputing of all Liberal Sciences he bringeth also to pass that the souls which are drowned in the Sea or which dwell in Purgatory which is called Cariagra that is affliction of souls shall take airy bodies and evidently appear and answer to interrogatories at the Conjurors commandement he tarryeth with the Exorcist until he have accomplished his desire and hath Thirty Legions under him Zagan is a great King and a President he cometh abroad like a Bull with Griffins wings but when he taketh humane shape he maketh men witty he turneth all metals into the coin of that dominion and turneth water into wine and wine into water he also turneth blood into wine and wine into blood and a fool into a wise man he is head of Thirty three Legions Orias is a great Marquess and is seen as a Lyon riding on a strong horse with a Serpents tail and carryeth in his right hand two great Serpents hissing he knoweth the mansion of Planets and perfectly teacheth the virtues of the Stars he transformeth men he giveth Dignities Prelacies and Confirmations and also the favour of friends and foes and hath under him Thirty Legions Valac is a great President and cometh abroad with Angels wings like a boy riding on a two-headed Dragon he perfectly answereth of treasures hidden and where Serpents may be seen which he delivereth into the Conjurors hands void of any force or strength and hath dominion over Thirty Legions of Devils Gemory a strong and mighty Duke he appeareth like a fair woman with a Dutchess crownet about her middle riding on a Camel he answereth well and truly of things present past and to come and of treasure hid and where it lyeth he procureth the love of women especially of maids hath Twenty six Legions Decarabia or Carabia he cometh like a * and knoweth the force of herbs and pretious stones and maketh all birds flie before the exorcist and to tarry with him as though they were tame and that they shall drink and sing as their manner is and hath Thirty Legions Amduscias a great and a strong Duke he cometh forth as an Unicorn when he standeth before his Master in humane shape being commanded he easily bringeth to pass that Trumpets and all Musical Instruments may be heard and not seen and also that trees shall bend and incline according to the Conjurors will he is excellent among familiars and hath Twenty nine Legions Andras is a great Marquess and is seen in an Angels shape with a head like a black night Raven riding upon a black and a very strong Wolf flowrishing with a sharpe sword in his hand he can kill the Master the Servant and all Assistants he is author of discords and ruleth Thirty Legions Andrealphus is a great Marquess appearing as a Peacock he raiseth great noises and in humane shape perfectly teacheth Geometry and all things belonging to Admeasurements he maketh a man to be a subtil Disputer and cunning in Astronomy and transformeth a man into the likeness of a bird and there are under him Thirty Legions Ose is a great President and cometh forth like a Leopard and counterfeiting to be a Man he maketh one cunning in the Liberal Sciences he answereth truly of divine and secret things he transformeth a Mans shape and bringeth a man to that madness that he thinketh himself to be that which he is not as he that is a King or a Pope or that he weareth a Crown on his head Duratque id regnum ad horam Aym or Haborim is a great Duke and a strong he cometh forth with three heads the first like a Serpent the second like a man having two * the third like a Cat he rideth on a Viper carrying in his hand a light fire brand with the flame whereof Castles and Cities are fired he maketh one witty every kind of way he answereth truly of privy matters and reigneth over Twenty six Legions Orobas is a great Prince he cometh forth like a Horse but when he putteth on him a mans idol he talketh of Divine vertue he giveth true answers of things present past and to come and of the divinity and of the creation he deciveth none nor suffereth any to be tempted he giveth Dignities and Prelacies and the favour of friends and foes and hath rule over Twenty Legions Vapula is a great Duke and a strong he is seen like a Lyon with Griffins wings he maketh a man subtil and wonderful in Handicrafts Philosophy and in Sciences contained in books and is ruler over Thirty six Legions Cimeries is a great Marquess and a strong ruling in the parts of Africa he teacheth perfectly Grammar Logick and Rhetorick he discovereth treasures and things hidden he bringeth to pass that a man shall seem with expedition to be turned into a Souldier he rideth upon a great black Horse and ruleth Twenty Legions Amy is a great President and appeareth in a flame of fire but having taken mans shape he maketh one marvellous in Astrology and in all the liberal Sciences he procureth excellent familiars he bewrayeth treasures preserved by Spirits he hath the government of Thirty six Legions he is partly of the order of Angels partly of Potestates he hopeth after a thousand two hundred years to return to the seventh Throne which is not credible Flauros is a strong Duke is seen in the form of a terrible strong Leopard in humane shape he sheweth a terrible countenance and fiery eyes he answereth truly and fully of things present past and to come if he be in a triangle he lyeth in all things and deceiveth in other things and beguileth in other businesses he gladly talketh of Divinity and of the creation of the World and of the fall he is constrained by Divine vertue and so are all Devils and Spirits to burn and destroy all the Conjurors adversaries And if he be commanded he suffereth the Conjuror not to be tempted and he hath Legions under him Balam is a great and a terrible King he cometh forth with three heads the first of a Bull the second of a Man the third of a Ram he hath a Serpents tail and flaming eyes riding upon a furious Bear and carrying a Hawk on his fist he speaketh with a hoarse voyce answering perfectly of things present past and to come he maketh man invisible and wise he governeth Forty Legions and was of the order of Dominions Allocer is a strong Duke and