Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].

  • Drage, William, 1637?-1669.
Date:
1665
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Credit: Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bleihape, but as it were with Belches, and like Suffocation : He was fometimes dumb £01 long time, fometimes dark mad, fometimes beat himfelf, and endeavoured to make himfelf away • ftrange noifes were heard in him, Tinging and curfing were fometimes prefent; He faid, at firft like a Rat came to him; the Imp of the Witch, or the Witch ‘her felf mi°ht To transform her felf: And iome imagine, that Nebuchad- xez,z,ar was°transformed into thefhapeofamOx, (feeIW.4. 33.36.) and that, that faying, He cat Cjrafs like anOx, (hould be Translated, He eat Grafs, being like an Ob, or vn the hkjnefs of an Ox. The other Relation, in that Paper of Hannah Crtmp of Warwick., had nothing extraordinary, but the Symptoms of madnefs, yet might be bewitched : They went to one in wincheper Park* in Southwark., to un- bewitch her, he asked, Five pound ; for (faid he) I am not fare to cure her, and if 1 do, if / cannot be firong enough for the Witch, after I have taken the afflittion from the Maid, I mufi bear it my felf; but if 1 can be prong enough for the Witch, (he muf bear it, until (he difpofeof it to fome other, for none of her Familiars will bear it: Doubtlefs Spirits are loth to 00 out °f the poffeffed and the Evangelifts Ihews fomereafon, fay- in^ When the unclean Spirit goeth out of any man, he wandreth up and down% faking ref, and findeth none 5 and then he taketh counfel of a greatei number of foul Spirits, and they poffefs the fame party again, or others, more grievoufly. . r . VALEa 4 -A v ~ * Non gens fed mens, non genus fed genius; virtus nobilitat, & Rati® homines a brutis & inter fe diferimmat, Symbols ^£milim & CUm~ dij Impcratorum* Deo Gloria, Homini pax. v: FINIS. T