Scot's discovery of witchcraft
Subtitle: 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 practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c.
By: all written and published in anno 1584 by Reginald Scot ...
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...
Published: 1651
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Demonology -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Discovery of witchcraft.
Notes: Wing (2nd ed.) 943
Includes bibliographical references.
Signatures: pi1 A⁴ a⁴ B-2A⁴ 2a⁴ 2*⁴ 2[dagger]² 2B-2G⁴ *²  2H-3E⁴.
LC copy has bookplate of Eugene L. Bulson.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.