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July 29. 1676. Jonas Moore Soc. Regiae Vice-Praeses.

THE DISPLAYING OF SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT.

Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors.

AND Divers persons under a passive Delusion of MELANCHOLY and FANCY.

But that there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the DEVIL and the WITCH, Or that he sucks on the Witches Body, has Carnal Copulation, or that Witches are turned into Cats, Dogs, raise Tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved.

Wherein also is handled, The Existence of Angels and Spirits, the truth of Apparitions, the Nature of Astral and Sydereal Spirits, the force of Charms, and Philters; with other abstruse matters.

By John Webster, Practitioner in Physick.

Falsae etenim opiniones Hominum praeoccupantes, non solùm surdos, sed & caecos faciunt, it à ut videre nequeant, quae aliis perspicua apparent. Galen. lib. 8. de Comp. Med.

LONDON, Printed by J. M. and are to be sold by the Booksellers in London. 1677.

EEBO-TCP A65369 (CC0), transcribed from the 1677 edition (Wing W1230). Text: Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal (EEBO-TCP Phase I); original work in the public domain.