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Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft: : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars; and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise; their flying in the air, &c. To be but imaginary erronious conceptions and novelties; wherein also, the lewde unchristian practises of witchmongers, upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious people in extorting confessions, by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected. Also the knavery and confederacy of conjurors. The impious blasphemy of inchanters. The imposture of soothsayers, and infidelity of atheists. ... The horrible art of poisoning and all the tricks and conveyances of juggling and liegerdemain are fully deciphered. ... Whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c. all written and published in anno 1584. by Reginald Scot, Esquire