Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. With some account of Mr. Glanvil's life and writings / [Joseph Glanvill].

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
Date:
1726
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Credit: Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. With some account of Mr. Glanvil's life and writings / [Joseph Glanvill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and impertinent, and falling fo fhort of the Scope he aims at, which was really to prove, that there was no fuch Thing as a Witch or Wizzard, that is, not any Mention thereof in Scripture, by any Name of one that had to do with the De¬ vil, or the Devil with him, than with other wicked Men 5 that is to fay, ot one, who, in vertue of a Covenant, either implicit or explicit, did ftrange Things, by the Help of evil Spirits, but that there are many Sorts of'Deceivers and Jm- foftures, and divers Perfons, under a pajjive Delufion of Melancholy and Fancy, which is Part of his very Title- page. Whereby he does plainly inlinuate, that there is no¬ thing but Couzenage or Melancholy in the whole Bufinefs of the Feats of Witches 5 but, a little to mitigate or fmother the Groftnefs of this falfe Aftertion, he adds, And that there is no corporeal League betwixt the Devil and the Witch -j and that he does not fuck on the Witch's ‘Body, nor has carnal Copulation with her, nor the Witches turned into Dogs, or Cats, See. All which Things, as you may fee in his Book, he underftands in the grofteft Senfe imaginable, as if the Imps of Witches had Mouths of Flefh to fuck them, and Bodies of Flefh to lie with them 5 and at this Rate ho may underhand a corporeal League, as if it were no League or Covenant, unlefs fome Lawyer drew the Inftrument, and engrofted it in Vellum or thick Parchment, and there were fo many Witneffes with the Hand and Seal of the Party : Nor any Transformation into Dogs, or Cats, unlefs it were real and corporeal, or groily carnal $ which none of his Witch-mongers, as he rudely and flovenly calls that learn¬ ed and ferious Perfon, Dr. Cafaubon and the reft, do be* lieve. Only it is a difputable Cafe of their bodily Trans¬ formation, betwixt B minus and Remigius $ of which more in my Scholia. But, that, without this carnal Tranfmuta- tion, a Woman might not be accounted a Witch, is fo fool- ifih a Suppofition, that Webfler himfelf certainly muft be afhamed of it. Wherefore, if his Book be writ only to prove there is no fuch Thing as a Witch, that covenants in Parchment with the Devil, by the Advice of a Lawyer, and is really and carnally turned into a Dog, Cat, or Hare, ife, and, with carnal Lips, fucked by the Devil, and is one with whom