Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches ...
| LC Control No.: |
92245413
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| Type of Material: | Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) |
| Personal Name: | Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. |
| Uniform Title: | Discoverie of witchcraft |
| Main Title: |
Scot's discovery of witchcraft :
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. /
all written and published in anno 1584 by Reginald Scot ...
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| Published/Created: |
[London] :
Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,
1651.
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| Related Names: |
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
DLC
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| Related Titles: |
Discovery of witchcraft.
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| Description: |
[26], 401 [i.e. 399], [17] p. :
ill. (etchings) ;
18 cm. (4to)
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| Notes: |
Signatures: pi1 A⁴ a⁴ B-2A⁴ 2a⁴ 2*⁴ 2[dagger]² 2B-2G⁴ *² 2H-3E⁴.
Includes bibliographical references. LC copy has bookplate of Eugene L. Bulson. DLC Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955. DLC |
| References: |
Wing (2nd ed.)
943
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| Subjects: |
Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.
Magic--Early works to 1800. Demonology--Early works to 1800. |
| LC Classification: |
BF1565
.S4 1651
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