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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
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[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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    |r Wizzard, according to the definition produced »|, | AOE. |. The reft of the Chapter being fo inconfiderable, and \I having been fo long already upon it, I fhall pafs to the ,, Mext, after I have defired youto take notice how weak sand childifh, or wild and impudent, M* Webfter has ,.;been in the Interpretation of Scripture hitherto, inthe ,,,ibehalf of his fage Dames, to fence off their reproach of |, {being termed Witches ; whenas there is fcarce one word _ }in this place of Deuteronomy that does not imply aWitch jor Wizzard, according to the real definition thereof. ‘| And truly he feems himfelf to be confcious of the weak- 2inefs of his own performance, when, after all this ado, ithe fum at laft amounts to but this; That there are no _ |Names in all theOldTeftament that fignifie fuch a Witch [that deftroy Men or Beafts, that makes a vifible compact “| with the Devil, or on whofe body he fucketh, or with |whom he hath carnal Copulation, or that is really chan- “ged into aCat, Hare, Dog, or fuch like. And to fhew . |it amounts to no more than fo, was the task we under- “(took in this Chapter. “| But aflure your felf, if you perufe his Book carefully, “you fhall plainly find, that the main drift thereof is to ‘| prove, aslabove noted, that there is no fuch Witch as with whom theDevil has any thing more to do than with “any other Sinner; which notwithftanding, this Conclu- “)fion of his a little before recited, comes infinitely fhort ‘lof: and therefore this fixth Chapter, confifting of a- “bout 30 pages in Folio, is a meer piece of impertinency. “) And there will be Witches for allthis, whether thefe “W particularities be noted inthem or no; For it was fuffi- | cient for Adofes to name thofe ijl founding terms in ge- “i neral, which imply a Witch according to that general i) notion I have above delivered, which if it be prohibi- ted, namely the having any thing to do with evil Spi- ‘Writs, their being fuckt by them, or their having any 2 loftful or venereous tranfactions with them, is much