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Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions : in two parts. The first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence. With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject. And an authentick ... story of certain Swedish witches / done into English by Anth. Horneck. By Joseph Glanvill.

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680
Date:
[1689]
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Credit: Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions : in two parts. The first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence. With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject. And an authentick ... story of certain Swedish witches / done into English by Anth. Horneck. By Joseph Glanvill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ie) called a Witch. As for his Stories of counterfeit Y’en- ie) trelogutfis, Cand who knows but fome of his counterfeit | Ventriloguifts may prove true ones) that is but the » | thread- bare Sophiftry of Sadducees and Atheifts to elude « | the faith of all true ftories by thofe that are of coun- |) terfeits or feigned. i, | The feventh word is %iyys CFidegnont] which our wi? Englifh Tranflators rendera Wizzard. And Webjter is | fo kind as to allow them to have tranflated this word fa aright. Wizzards then Webjter will allow, that is to | fay, He-witches, but not She-Witches. How tender the fy) man is of that Sex! But the word invites him to it, il WY LFtdeguont | coming from y7 fcire, and anfwer- y.| ing exactly to Wizzard or Wife-man. And does not Witch, from wit and weer, fignifie as wella W2/e woman, as I noted above? And as to the fence of thofe words from whence-they are derived, there is no hurt herein ; and therefore if that were all, \ny7) [Fidegnoni]} had not been in this black Lift. Wherefore it is here under- {tood in that more reftrict and worft fence: fo as we under{tand ufually now adays Witch and Wizzard, fuch wife Men and Women whofe skill is from the confede- ‘“L Facy of evil Spirits, and therefore are real Wizzards _,) and Witches. In what a bad fence *}'y [Fidegnons] ‘ot 4s underftood, we may learn from Levit. 20, 27. 4d man | alfo or woman that hath a familiar Spirit, or that a Wire } zard [Jidegnoni] fhall be put to death, they fhall ftone | them with ftones, &c. i oe ~ = Le a > . NS ee PTL ——s The laft word is =Synanr wr [Dorelh Hammerhim] which our Tranflators rightly render Necromancers ; “il that is, chofe that either upon their own account, or de- W fired by others, do raife the Ghofts of the deceafed to “} confule with; which is a more particular term than inf Ds 792 [Bagnal Obb:] But he that is Bagnal Obh, i may bealfo Dorefh Hammethim a Necromancer,as appears i gn the Witch of Endor, Here Web/fer by Nan [ Ham- WN methim] the Dead, would underftand dead Statues ; but u'Wdet him, if hecan, any where thew in all the Scripture | . C3 where | !