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Demonologia; 0E, Jatural Knowledge Revealed; DEMONOLOGIA; 0E, JATURAL KNOWLEDGE REVEALED; IEING AN EXPOSE 01" Emma an]! maimm gunevstitious, CREDULITY, FANATICISM, ENTHUSIASM, z; IMPOS'I‘URE, AS CONNECTED WITH THE DOCTRINE, CABALLA, AND JARGON, OF AMULETs, HELL, PREDICTIONS. ' [ APPARITIONS, HYPOCRITES, QUACKERY, ASTROLOGY, INCANTATIONS, RELICS, \ . CHARMS, INQUISITION, SAINTS, _ DEMONOLOGY, JUGGLERS, SECOND sum-r, DEVILS, LEGENDS, SIGNS BEFORE DEATH, DIVINATION, MAGIC, soncmw, DREAMS, MAGICIANS, sums, DEUTEROSCOPIA, MIRACLES, SALAMANDERS. EFFLUVXA, MONKS, SPELLS, FATALISM, NYMPHS, TALISMANS, FATE, ORACLES, TRADmuNs, FRJARS, PHYSIOGNOMY, TRIALS, a“. (mos-rs, PURGATORY, wrrcmas, GIPSIES, PREDESTINATION, WITCHCRAFI‘, a". a“. THE WHOLE uuronnmo MANY SINGULAR PHENOMENA IN THE PAGE OF NATURE, $9 $0 50 {fig uU \ € “1" ____. Q “ The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, “ And these are of them.” “ All which, by long discourse, I'l] prove annu." -* LONDON : PRINTED FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO 1831. , ___-__~. .__-_ /57 F 775 CONTENTS. Page Observations an Ancient and Modern Superstitions, 83-0. - 1 Proofs and Trials of Guilt in Superstitions Ages — - 9 Astrology, - - - - - - 18 Practical Astrology, (Syc. - - - - - 25 Natural Astrology - ~ - - - - 26 Judieial or Judiciary Astrology I - - _ - 27 Origin of Astrology - - - - - 28 Astrological Schemes, 8w. - - - - ’29 Table of the Twelve Houses - - - 30 Signs to the Houses of the Planets - - - 32 MUBinder-[omof '556 Angles or Aspects of the Planets - - - 33 The Application of Planets - - - - 34 Prohibition - - - - - 35 Separation - - - v - - 35 Translation of Light and Virtue - - - 35 Refrenation - - - - - 35 Combustion - - - - — 35 Reception - - - . - _ 36 Retrogradation ' - - - - - 36 Frustration - - - - - 36 The Dragon’s Head and Tail - - - 36 Q' Climacteric - ~ - - - - 37 Lucky and Unlucky Days - - - ' “1m ‘ Genethliaci - - - - - 4-1 Genethliacum - - - - - 42 Barclay’s Refiitation of Astrology - " - 43 1..6_ . 3 21. {'i‘;'8-il vi CONTENTS. Page On the Origin and Imaginary Eflicacy qf Amule'ts and Charms, in the Cure If Diseases, Protectioner Evil Spirits, 8;c. “\5}; Definition of Amulets, 8w, - - - 56 Efl'ect of the Imagination on the Mind, &c. - 59 History qf Popular Medicines, Qua—How influenced by Silperlti tion - - - - - . - >6} Alchemy - - - - - - - 73 Origin, Objects, and Practice of Alchemy, 81c. - 81 Alkahest, or Alcahext - - - - - 85 Magician - - . - - - - 91 ‘ Magi, or Mageans - - - - . - 96 Dfagic, Magiu, DIuteia - - ' ' - 99 Magic of the Eastern nations,—a brief View of the Origin and Progress of Magic, &c.— Chaldeans and Persians - - - 101 Indians - - - - - 109 Egyptians - - - - - 110 Jews - - - - - - 115 ‘ Prediction - - - - - - - 123 Fatalism, 0r Predestination - - - - - 136 Divination - - - - - - 142 Artificial Divination - - - - 142 Natural Divination - - -- - 142 _ Axinomancy - - - - 143 ’Kiébtoromantia - - o - 143 rAn'thmomancy - - - - 144 Belomancy - - - - 1—1-4 “Gleromancy - .- - . 145 medonism - - - - 14,5 ; r€oscinomancy - - - - 146 ’ Capnomancy - - - - 146 Catoptromancy - - - - 147 Chiromancy - - - - 147 Dactyliomancy - - - - 14-8 Extispicium - - _ - 14.3 Gaetromancy - - - - 14g 00 NT EN TS . Geomancy - Hydxomancy » N ecromancy - Oneirocritica - Onomancy, or Onomamancy Onycomancy, or Onymancy Ornithomancy - Pyromancy - Pyscomancy, or Sciomancy Rhabdomancy Oracle - - - - Duran, or Uran, Soangus - - Dreams, 85's. - - - Brizomancy - - Origin of interpreting Dreams Opinions on the cause of Dreams Fate -' - - — Physiognomy - - “ Apparitimu - - - Deuterascwia, or Second-sight - Witches, Witchcraft, Wizards, 83'0. - Witchcraft proved by Texts of Scripture Dr. More’s Postscript - The Confessions of certain Scotch Witches, taken out of an authentic copy of their Trial at the Assizes held at Paisley, in Scotland, Feb. 15, 1678, touching the bewitching of Sir George Maxwell 259 Depositions of certain persons, agreeing with confes sions of the above-said. witches 964 The Confession of Agnes Sympson to King James 267 The White Pater-noster - 270 The Black Pater-noster - 270 Sorcery - - - - 272 SMes—Sorfilegium - - 273 Sibst - - - - 982). Talisman: - - - - - 983 viii cou'rrm'rs. Page Philters. Charms, 8g:- - ~ -' ' ‘ 285 Hell - - - - - - - 286 Inquisition - - \ - - .. - 297 Inquisition, or the Holy Oflice - - - 297 Demon - ‘ - - ~ - - - 307 Demonology - - - - .l . 303 Derivation of the strange and hideous forms of Devils, . &c. - - - - - - 315 The Narrative of the Demon of Tedworth, or the dis turbances at Mr. Monpesson’s house, caused by Witchcraft and Villany of a Drummer - - 338 The Demon of Jedburgh . - , - - - 355 The Ghost of Julius Cmsar - - - - - 360 The Ghosts of the slain at the Battle of Marathon - 360 Familiar Spirit, or ancient Brownie - - 361 Gipsieo—Egyptians - - - - - 362 Jugglers, their Origin, Exploits, 8p. - - - - 378 Legends, 8;c.—-Miracles, $0. - - - - - 393 Monks and Friars.—Saints and Hermit; - - - 405 Of the Hermit of the Pillar—(St. Simeon Stylites, St. Telesephorus, St.Sync1etia) - ~ - 427 Holy Relique-Mania, &c. &c. &c. > - - - 431 PREFACE. I AMONG the multifarious absurdities and chicaneries, which at different epocha of society have clung to, and engaged the attention of man, absorbing, as it were, his more active intelligence, the marvellous and the ridiculous have alternately and conjointly had to contend for pie-emi nence ; that, whether it were a mountain in the moon or a bottle conjuror; a live lion stuffed with straw or a mermaid} a Cock lane ghost or a living skeleton ; a giant or a pig-my; the delusive bait‘has invariably been swallowed with avidity, and credited with all the solemnity of absolute devotion. If we look back towards what are called the dark ages of the world, that is, at times when men were mere yokels, and when the reins of tyranny, superstition and idolatry, were controlled by a few knowing ones, we shall see the human mind at its lowest ebb of g debasement, grovelling either under the lash X PREFACE. of despotism, or sunk beneath the scale of hu man nature by the influence of priestcraft,-— a time, when the feelings of men were gallop ped over, rough shod, and the dignity of the creation trampled under foot with impunity and exultation, by a state of the most passive and degenerate sebvility: how much must it now excite our wonder and admiration of that supreme Providence, who, in his merci ful consideration for the frailest of mortals, by a variety of ways and means best suited to his omnipotent ends, has dragged us gra dually, and, as it were, reluctantly to our selves, from darkness to day-light, by ex tinguishing the stench and vapour of the train oil of ignorance and superstition, lighting us up with the brilliant gas of rea son and comparative understanding, while, under less despotic and more tolerant times, we are permitted the rational exercise of those faculties which formerly were rivetted to the floor of tyranny by the most humili ating oppression ! The pranks of popes and priests, con jurors and fire-eaters, have comparatively fled before the piercings of the intellectual ray. Witches no longer untie the winds to PREFACE. xi capsise church-steeples, and “ topple” down castles,-they no longer dance round the en chanted cauldron, invoking the “ ould one” to propitiate their cantrip vows z—Beelze bub himself with his cloven foot is seldom if ever seen above the “bottom of the bottomless pit;” ghosts and apparitions are “jammed hard and fast” in the Red sea; demonsof every cast and colour are eternally spell bound ; legends are consigned to the chim~ ney-corner of long winter-nights f miracles to the “presto,quick, change and begone !” of the nimble-fingered conjuror; and holy relics to the rosary of the bigot. Amulets and charms have lost their influence ; saints are uncanonized, and St. Patrick, St. Dennis, & Co. are flesh and blood like ourselves; monks and holy friars no longer revel in the debauches of the cloister; the hermit re turns unsolicited from the solitude of the de sert, to encounter with his fellow-men ; the pilgrim lays by his staff, leayes the Holy Land to its legitimate possessors, and the tomb of St. Thomas-a-Becket, to enjoy, un molested, the sombre tranquillity of the grave. Quacks and mountebanks begin also to caper within a narrower sphere; to be brief, the word of command, to use a nautical phrase, “_\“_h ‘ xii PREFACE. has long been given, “ every man to his sta tion, and the cook to the fore-sheet,"—worldly occupations have superseded ultramundane speculations. Astrologers themselves, who once ruled the physical world, have long ago been virtually consigned to the grave of the Partridges ; and floods and storms are found to be phenomena perfectly consistentwith the natural world. .VVe also know that the sun is stationary, that the moon is not made of green cheese, and that there are stars yet in the fir mament which the centifold powers of the telescope of a Herschel] will never be able to explore. ' The Reformation, which originated in the trammels of vice itself, gave the Devil in hell and his agents on earth, such a “ belly go-fister,” that they have never since been able to come to the scratch, but in such a petty larceny-like manner, as to set all their demo nological efl'orts at defiance. This is the first time “old Nick” was ever completely floored; though, it would appear, from the recent number of new churches, built no doubt with the pious intention of keeping him in abey ance, that he has latterly been making a little head-way;~—these, however, with the “ Holy alliance,” like stern-chasers on a new rnsracn. xiii construction, should the
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