Like desires its like.13. Therefore though I would be far from describing an undenyable course of Conjuring Spirits, or of causing Apparitions: Yet this I must assert conclusively from what is before alledged, That if any thing would be called or wrought upon, it must be with something which is of its own nature, as a bait to catch or tempt it; for in catching Birds, Beasts, or Fishes, such esculents as are properly for these Animals, are made use of to allure them, neither can mankinde command them by any threats to come into his custody.Nothing is compelled by contraries.14. How much less is mankind able to compel theInfernal Spirits, the very least of which Kingdom, is able, if let loose, to exterminate a thousand lives, and utterly over-turn poor mortals and their doings, as various by-past accidents can evince: But whosoever hath compacted with them for body, soul, and works, such they are at unity with, and unto such they appear for the advancement of their Kingdom in the destruction of others; for they are grafted into them and incorporated into their very heart and soul, which unavoidably becomes their wages when the body falls away.15. Yet many wayes there be byImages,Telesms, andAmulets, which have little or no dependance upon Conjuration, or the strength thereof, being rather effectual from sympathetical Causes, as many natural conclusions prove. AndParacelsusspeaks of a way by the Image of any Bird or Beast to destroy that Animal, though at a distance; so by hair, fat, blood, excrements, excrescences,&c.of any Animal or Vegetable, the ruin or cure of that thing may be effected.16. Which is seen in the Armary Unguent, and the SympatheticalPowder. In the instance of divers Histories, of such as used Waxen Images, composed in divers postures, and under certain Constellations, whereby several have been tormented and macerated even unto death; and according to the punishment or torment which the Magician intends to afflict, accordingly do they dispose the/71.hour of the Composition, and the posture or semblance of the Image.Of Images of Wax, and what is wrought by them.17. For if a malitious minded Witch intends to consume and pine away the Life or Estate of any miserable Man or Woman, she makes his Image of Wax in such an ominous aspect as may conduce to her design, making several magical Characters upon the sides of the head, describing the Character of the hour or Planetary time upon the breast of the Image; the name of the party on his forehead; the intended effect to be wrought upon him upon his back. When they cause aches, pains, and violent pangs in the sinews and the flesh, they stick thorns and pins in divers places of their arms, breasts, and legs. When they cast them into Feavers and Consumptions, they spend an hour in every day to warm and turn the Image before a doleful and lingring fire, composed of divers exotick Gums, and magical Ingredients of sweet Odours, and strange Roots of shrubs, efficient for their purpose.Further concerning Images.18. Wonderful are the various postures and pranks which Magicians play with Images; neither will I mention the most perfect and prevalent part of the practice of Images, and the powerful operations thereof, least the evil minded should work abominations therewith upon the Persons or Possessions of their neighbours.Of Images provoking Love.19. According to the nature of what they would effect they frame their Images; if by Images they would provoke two parties to love, or be enamoured on one another, they frame their Images naked, with Astrological Observations and Imbraces of those that are Venereal; to provoke unto enmity they place malignant Characters and Aspects, and the Images in a fighting posture.20. If their intentions be for good, all their Characters are engraven upon the foreparts of the body. But if they would afflict the party with Consumption, or with death, they thrust Needles through the hearts, and engrave their Characters upon their Posteriors, or upon their shoulders, using all their Conjurations retrograde, and repeating every Charm opposite to the former.21. Thousands of strange and uncouth Charms might be here described, according to the exact form wherein Tradition hath left them; But I have only insisted upon the description of the natures in General; And as byImagesandTelesms, theEuropeanshave effected admirable things: so theTartarshave a wonderful ways*[*sic]of producing the like effects, byForms of Charms inTartary.Botles,Sheep-skins,Rods,Basins,Letters, orMissives, unto certain Spirits, and many otherwayes unheard of inEurope.The tying of the Point.22. As for theTying of the Point, which is a strong impediment in Conjugal Rites, to restrain the acts of secresie betwixt two marryed persons; This knot or ligament is become so notorious both in the practice and effect throughoutFrance,Italy, andSpain, as also in all theEasternCountries, that the Laws of several Nations have prohibited the performance thereof; neither is it fit to be openly described in this place.Charming by the Sive.23. Other stratagems they have byturning the Sivewith a pair of Sizzers byvoices utteredout ofskins, which is in common amongst theTurksbyLetterswrote unto certain Spirits, which by due appointments will have their answers returned. By theBy Bottles, Skins, Letters, Cords, Lots.Turningof theCordwith several names wrapped round the same, which with certain repetitions will of it self be tyed into several strange knots which unty themselves again. Besides the many wayes byLots, in extractings*[*sic]Scrolls, consulting with the Staff and the empty Pot, with others tedious to be enumerated.Transplantation, Ceremonious.†[† Ceremonies]24. TheArt of Transplantationis also reckoned amongstCharmswith the vulgar. And indeed one member thereof,viz.the Transferring of Diseases is really Magical, and much in practice amongst Witches; for by certain baits given to any domestick Beasts they remove Feavers, Agues, and Consumptions from Martial men, or from one to another by burying certain Images in their neighbours ground they bring all evil fortune to the owner of the ground, yet/72.though they add strange Words and Conjurations in the practice, the effects thereof are more from Nature then Conjuration.And meerly natural.25. For, by the same Cause, those that are profound, can destroy diseases, take off Warts, and other Excrescences, kill, cure, purge and poyson at a distance from the party, by their hair, fatt, blood, nails, excrements,&c.or by any root, or carnuous substance, rubbed upon their hands, breasts or leggs, by burying which, they free them from Diseases, which experiments take effect according to theMediumsand their Consumption under ground.Magical Instruments:26. And as by natural reason every Magical Charm or Receipt had its first institution; In like manner have Magicians disposed the Matter and Manner together with the times of their Utensils and Instruments, according to the Principles of Nature: As the Hour wherein they compose their Garments, must either be in the hour ofLuna, or else ofSaturn, in the Moons increase.Their matter,27. TheirGarmentsthey compose of White Linnen, black Cloth, black Cat-skins, Wolves, Bears, or Swines skins. The Linnen because of its abstracted Quality for Magick delights not to have anyUtensils that are put to common uses. The skins of the aforesaid Animals are by reason of theSaturnineandMagical qualitiesin the particles of these beasts: Their sowing thred is of silk, Cats-guts, mans Nerves, Asses hairs, Thongs of skins from Men, Cats, Bats, Owls, Moles, and all which are enjoyn’d from the like Magical cause.Substance,28. Their Needles are made of Hedge-hog prickles, or bones of any of the abovesaid Animals: TheirWriting-pensare of Owls or Ravens, theirInkof Mans blood: TheirOyntmentsMans fat, Blood, Usnea, Hoggs-grease, Oyl of Whales. TheirCharactersare ancientHebreworSamaritan: TheirSpeechisHebreworLatine. TheirPapermust be of the Membranes of Infants, which they callVirgin-parchment, or of the skins of Cats, or Kids. Besides, they compose theirFiresof sweet Wood, Oyl or Rosin: And theirCandlesof the Fatt or Marrow of Men or Children: TheirVesselsare Earthen, theirCandlestickswith three feet, of dead mens bones: TheirSwordsare steel, without guards, the poynts being reversed. These are their Materials, which they do particularly choose from the Magical qualities whereof they are composed.And Form.29. Neither are the peculiar shapes without a natural cause. TheirCapsare Oval, or like Pyramids with Lappets on each side, and furr within: TheirGownsreach to the ground, being furr’d with white Fox-skins, under which they have a Linnen Garment reaching to their Knee. TheirGirdlesare three inches broad, and have many Caballistical Names, with Crosses, Trines and Circles inscribed thereon. TheirKnivesare Dagger-fashion: and theCirclesby which they defend themselves are commonly nine foot in breadth, but theEasternMagicians give but seven. And these are the matter and manner of their Preparations, which I thought fit here to insist upon, because of their affinity with theInstrumentsofCharms, for both which a natural cause is constantly pretended.The Conclusion.30. Thus I have briefly spoken of the Nature of every Spiritgoodorevil, so farr assafetyorconveniencewould permit; adding also this last Discourse ofCharmsandConjurations, in theirspeculative part, forbearing to describe theForms themselves, because many of them are not onlyfacil, but also ofmighty powerwhen they are seasonably applyed: So that to describe distinctly, by what means Magicianskill,cure, orconquer, were to strengthen the hands of the Envious against their Neighbours Lives and Fortunes. And therefore the Readers must rest contented with what is here related of theNatureofAstralorInfernal Spirits.FINIS.
Like desires its like.13. Therefore though I would be far from describing an undenyable course of Conjuring Spirits, or of causing Apparitions: Yet this I must assert conclusively from what is before alledged, That if any thing would be called or wrought upon, it must be with something which is of its own nature, as a bait to catch or tempt it; for in catching Birds, Beasts, or Fishes, such esculents as are properly for these Animals, are made use of to allure them, neither can mankinde command them by any threats to come into his custody.
Nothing is compelled by contraries.14. How much less is mankind able to compel theInfernal Spirits, the very least of which Kingdom, is able, if let loose, to exterminate a thousand lives, and utterly over-turn poor mortals and their doings, as various by-past accidents can evince: But whosoever hath compacted with them for body, soul, and works, such they are at unity with, and unto such they appear for the advancement of their Kingdom in the destruction of others; for they are grafted into them and incorporated into their very heart and soul, which unavoidably becomes their wages when the body falls away.
15. Yet many wayes there be byImages,Telesms, andAmulets, which have little or no dependance upon Conjuration, or the strength thereof, being rather effectual from sympathetical Causes, as many natural conclusions prove. AndParacelsusspeaks of a way by the Image of any Bird or Beast to destroy that Animal, though at a distance; so by hair, fat, blood, excrements, excrescences,&c.of any Animal or Vegetable, the ruin or cure of that thing may be effected.
16. Which is seen in the Armary Unguent, and the SympatheticalPowder. In the instance of divers Histories, of such as used Waxen Images, composed in divers postures, and under certain Constellations, whereby several have been tormented and macerated even unto death; and according to the punishment or torment which the Magician intends to afflict, accordingly do they dispose the/71.hour of the Composition, and the posture or semblance of the Image.
Of Images of Wax, and what is wrought by them.17. For if a malitious minded Witch intends to consume and pine away the Life or Estate of any miserable Man or Woman, she makes his Image of Wax in such an ominous aspect as may conduce to her design, making several magical Characters upon the sides of the head, describing the Character of the hour or Planetary time upon the breast of the Image; the name of the party on his forehead; the intended effect to be wrought upon him upon his back. When they cause aches, pains, and violent pangs in the sinews and the flesh, they stick thorns and pins in divers places of their arms, breasts, and legs. When they cast them into Feavers and Consumptions, they spend an hour in every day to warm and turn the Image before a doleful and lingring fire, composed of divers exotick Gums, and magical Ingredients of sweet Odours, and strange Roots of shrubs, efficient for their purpose.
Further concerning Images.18. Wonderful are the various postures and pranks which Magicians play with Images; neither will I mention the most perfect and prevalent part of the practice of Images, and the powerful operations thereof, least the evil minded should work abominations therewith upon the Persons or Possessions of their neighbours.
Of Images provoking Love.19. According to the nature of what they would effect they frame their Images; if by Images they would provoke two parties to love, or be enamoured on one another, they frame their Images naked, with Astrological Observations and Imbraces of those that are Venereal; to provoke unto enmity they place malignant Characters and Aspects, and the Images in a fighting posture.
20. If their intentions be for good, all their Characters are engraven upon the foreparts of the body. But if they would afflict the party with Consumption, or with death, they thrust Needles through the hearts, and engrave their Characters upon their Posteriors, or upon their shoulders, using all their Conjurations retrograde, and repeating every Charm opposite to the former.
21. Thousands of strange and uncouth Charms might be here described, according to the exact form wherein Tradition hath left them; But I have only insisted upon the description of the natures in General; And as byImagesandTelesms, theEuropeanshave effected admirable things: so theTartarshave a wonderful ways*[*sic]of producing the like effects, byForms of Charms inTartary.Botles,Sheep-skins,Rods,Basins,Letters, orMissives, unto certain Spirits, and many otherwayes unheard of inEurope.
The tying of the Point.22. As for theTying of the Point, which is a strong impediment in Conjugal Rites, to restrain the acts of secresie betwixt two marryed persons; This knot or ligament is become so notorious both in the practice and effect throughoutFrance,Italy, andSpain, as also in all theEasternCountries, that the Laws of several Nations have prohibited the performance thereof; neither is it fit to be openly described in this place.
Charming by the Sive.23. Other stratagems they have byturning the Sivewith a pair of Sizzers byvoices utteredout ofskins, which is in common amongst theTurksbyLetterswrote unto certain Spirits, which by due appointments will have their answers returned. By theBy Bottles, Skins, Letters, Cords, Lots.Turningof theCordwith several names wrapped round the same, which with certain repetitions will of it self be tyed into several strange knots which unty themselves again. Besides the many wayes byLots, in extractings*[*sic]Scrolls, consulting with the Staff and the empty Pot, with others tedious to be enumerated.
Transplantation, Ceremonious.†[† Ceremonies]24. TheArt of Transplantationis also reckoned amongstCharmswith the vulgar. And indeed one member thereof,viz.the Transferring of Diseases is really Magical, and much in practice amongst Witches; for by certain baits given to any domestick Beasts they remove Feavers, Agues, and Consumptions from Martial men, or from one to another by burying certain Images in their neighbours ground they bring all evil fortune to the owner of the ground, yet/72.though they add strange Words and Conjurations in the practice, the effects thereof are more from Nature then Conjuration.
And meerly natural.25. For, by the same Cause, those that are profound, can destroy diseases, take off Warts, and other Excrescences, kill, cure, purge and poyson at a distance from the party, by their hair, fatt, blood, nails, excrements,&c.or by any root, or carnuous substance, rubbed upon their hands, breasts or leggs, by burying which, they free them from Diseases, which experiments take effect according to theMediumsand their Consumption under ground.
Magical Instruments:26. And as by natural reason every Magical Charm or Receipt had its first institution; In like manner have Magicians disposed the Matter and Manner together with the times of their Utensils and Instruments, according to the Principles of Nature: As the Hour wherein they compose their Garments, must either be in the hour ofLuna, or else ofSaturn, in the Moons increase.
Their matter,27. TheirGarmentsthey compose of White Linnen, black Cloth, black Cat-skins, Wolves, Bears, or Swines skins. The Linnen because of its abstracted Quality for Magick delights not to have anyUtensils that are put to common uses. The skins of the aforesaid Animals are by reason of theSaturnineandMagical qualitiesin the particles of these beasts: Their sowing thred is of silk, Cats-guts, mans Nerves, Asses hairs, Thongs of skins from Men, Cats, Bats, Owls, Moles, and all which are enjoyn’d from the like Magical cause.
Substance,28. Their Needles are made of Hedge-hog prickles, or bones of any of the abovesaid Animals: TheirWriting-pensare of Owls or Ravens, theirInkof Mans blood: TheirOyntmentsMans fat, Blood, Usnea, Hoggs-grease, Oyl of Whales. TheirCharactersare ancientHebreworSamaritan: TheirSpeechisHebreworLatine. TheirPapermust be of the Membranes of Infants, which they callVirgin-parchment, or of the skins of Cats, or Kids. Besides, they compose theirFiresof sweet Wood, Oyl or Rosin: And theirCandlesof the Fatt or Marrow of Men or Children: TheirVesselsare Earthen, theirCandlestickswith three feet, of dead mens bones: TheirSwordsare steel, without guards, the poynts being reversed. These are their Materials, which they do particularly choose from the Magical qualities whereof they are composed.
And Form.29. Neither are the peculiar shapes without a natural cause. TheirCapsare Oval, or like Pyramids with Lappets on each side, and furr within: TheirGownsreach to the ground, being furr’d with white Fox-skins, under which they have a Linnen Garment reaching to their Knee. TheirGirdlesare three inches broad, and have many Caballistical Names, with Crosses, Trines and Circles inscribed thereon. TheirKnivesare Dagger-fashion: and theCirclesby which they defend themselves are commonly nine foot in breadth, but theEasternMagicians give but seven. And these are the matter and manner of their Preparations, which I thought fit here to insist upon, because of their affinity with theInstrumentsofCharms, for both which a natural cause is constantly pretended.
The Conclusion.30. Thus I have briefly spoken of the Nature of every Spiritgoodorevil, so farr assafetyorconveniencewould permit; adding also this last Discourse ofCharmsandConjurations, in theirspeculative part, forbearing to describe theForms themselves, because many of them are not onlyfacil, but also ofmighty powerwhen they are seasonably applyed: So that to describe distinctly, by what means Magicianskill,cure, orconquer, were to strengthen the hands of the Envious against their Neighbours Lives and Fortunes. And therefore the Readers must rest contented with what is here related of theNatureofAstralorInfernal Spirits.
FINIS.