A Treatise of Witchcraft eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about A Treatise of Witchcraft.

A Treatise of Witchcraft eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about A Treatise of Witchcraft.
[Footnote z:  Allaricus apud Cassiodorum li. 9 epist. 18. in qua edictum illius: and Cornelius Agrippa, sometime more then well acquainted with this Art, doth retract his owne books written of secret philosophy, & in plaine tearms and expresly giues his iudgement, that all these lewd women (for this title may include the whole rabble of this blacke Guard) with Iannes and Iambres, and Simon Magus, are to be tormented with endlesse paines in eternall fire. Cornelius Agrippa De vanitate Scientiarum ca. 48.]

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[Typographic Errors and Anomalies: 

“Witchcraft” / “Witch-craft”
  The word occurs nine times with a hyphen, four times without, and
  three times at line breaks.  The three line-break occurrences have
  been rendered here with hyphen.  Capitalization is similarly varied.

Daemonomania, lib. 2 cap. *
Irenaeus contra hereses. lib. * cap. 9. 
Aug de Ciuit.  Dei, lib. * cap. 35
Remigius Daemonolog. // l. 3. c. *
  These text citations are either missing or illegible.

Introduction
  —­and voluntarily acknowledged after conference had with me
      text reads wit hme

First Proposition
  Footnote a: 
    dangerous
      text reads dangerons
  Footnote n: 
    ...ta phrarmaka
      so in text
  Footnote hh: 
    Cicero ... de orato primo
      text reads de de

Third Proposition
  Footnote a: 
    Iaquerius flagelli Hereticorum fascinariorum
      text reads fafcinariorum
  Footnote e: 
    Ioh.  Nider in praeceptorio, praecepto 1. cap. 11.
      text reads ...praecepto 1. ca. p11. 
  Footnote f: 
    Weirus de praestigijs daemonum
      so in original:  elsewhere spelled Wierus
  —­that it not onely sufficed the thirst of his distressed Souldiers
      text reads dstiressed
  —­and altogether / incredible, as of Ericus
      text reads incredible (as of with no close parenthesis
  —­would seeme to be meere fictions
      text reads fictious
  —­But through the cooperation of the Diuell
      text reads thorugh
  Footnote aa: 
    Iaquerius in flagello hereticorum fascinariorum
      text reads fafcinariorum

Fourth Proposition
  —­both de esse, and de posse, that there may be
      text reads that that
  Footnote g: 
    Godelmannus de magia ... lib. 1. cap. 2. xº.8.9.10 &c.
      number illegible

Fifth Proposition
  Footnote e: 
    Multa exempl[e,] habet Bodinus
      so in original

Sixt(h) Proposition
  —­the continuance, and the effect
      text reads coutinuance
  Footnote g: 
    Ceolcenus
      so in original:  misreading of handwritten “Cedrenus"?

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