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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    difclaim him, and all his Service, 3s0thefic.fi. Mary by chance, (fo nick-named) ’tis here publickly known how (he fwam, and could not fink with all the means fthe could ufe ; and fome fay, She had got Iron next her to wake her fink: K0^li hujas oppidl * very honeft Man told me, (hefawit) That about the year, 1637. Gfe. Rofe of Bedford (for bewitching a Maid’s Peafe (that had demed her fome ) to be all, and each, worm-eaten ; and another fellow to be alwaves lowfie, though Aiifted every day, and never was afore) was ducked, and could by no means fink; the Maid that ftle bewitched, as to her Peafe, offered to be ducked with her,to make the other the more willing, and fhe Tank pre~ iently,and they could fcarce bring her to life with all their half apdArts. We muff make thefe diftin&ions, The Devil can caufe all Difeafes that are Natural,1but Nature cannotcaufe all Difeafes that are Diaboli¬ cal; the Devil, quatenm a Spirit, can do all manner of mifehief • but Quaienm Inferiour, he cannot do all the evil he will; and Quatenns Evil, he will not do all the good he can. Tin TcZymtQUX) rcJ OicJ) Tto rcu They that leap five or fix yards ; that fpeak Tongues they never learned v that foretel things to come 5 that are ftronger then four or five men; that fly, or ftand in the Air; or run up Walls without ufe of their. Hands ; or-have their Face bent quite behind them, fo long remaining, Canfideratis confiderandis, muff be poffeffed of Spirits : but they that are. not thus handled, may be poffeffed of Spirits. Thofe that were in theEvangdiffs poffeffed, were not a|\ke poffeffed... Different kinds and degrees of a thing, drew it may, but do not prove that it muff be another thing. It is beft judging what may be, by what hath been 5 but Hiffories mention divers that have been fo poffeffed, therefore divers may be fa poffeffed. Some are thought to be bewitched,that are not; and fome are thought. 1 not to be bewitched, that are. - \ If Mary Hall is falfly poffeffed, it doth not prove another not to be truly poffeffed ; or if Mary Hall be truly poffeffed, it doth not prove that there are no fuch counterfeits* Neither have the Imps,,or Inferiour Daemons, the power and know¬ ledge of the Superiour, to exercife ; nor can the Superiour alwayes ex— ercife the power and knowledge they have. Neither are all Difeafes natural,' cureableby Natural Remedies; nor* are all Difeafes Supernatural, incureable by Natural Remedies. F There