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    The Discoverie of Witchcraft is a book published by the English gentleman Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early modern witchcraft. It...
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    Reginald Scot (category Witchcraft in England)
    Englishman and Member of Parliament, the author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, which was published in 1584. It was written against the belief in witches...
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    particularly as magic tricks. One of the earliest known books to explain magic secrets, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, was published in 1584. It was created...
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  • to disprove magic and witchcraft, writing in The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), "At this day, it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, 'she is...
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    Daemonologie (category Witchcraft treatises)
    The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Daemonologie included a study of demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. The book endorses the practice...
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    ('On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons'; 1563). In 1584, the English writer Reginald Scot published The Discoverie of Witchcraft, a...
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  • drew in most of its admirers; The Discoverie of Witchcraft also contained details regarding the belief in and practices of witches - it held sections on...
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  • religious movement The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – 1995 book by Carl Sagan The Discoverie of Witchcraft – 1584 book by Reginald...
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    to disprove magic and witchcraft, writing in The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), "At this day it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, 'she is...
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  • described in The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot, published in 1584. Scot describes a table with two concealed holes, where the supposed victim...
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  • Scot, Reginald (c. 1580) The Discoverie of Witchcraft Booke VI Ch. 1. Daniel 2:2 Dickie, Matthew (2003). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Routledge...
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    sixteenth-century England, the writer Reginald Scot wrote The Discoverie of Witchcraft, in which he argued that many of those accused of witchcraft or otherwise claiming...
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    has penetrated. This is repeated with the third ball. In 1584 Reginald Scot wrote The Discoverie of Witchcraft, within which he describes tricks with...
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  • Reginald Scot publishes The Discoverie of Witchcraft, a book designed in part to counter the activities of persecutionists, but at the same time revealing...
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  • Key of Solomon" (Weiser 2001) this is a "bizarre translation of 'si vero coopertus fuerit'" (Page 21 Footnote 57) by Scot in his "Discoverie of Witchcraft"...
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  • the same book". Another early mention is by Reginald Scot in his book The Discoverie of Witchcraft, published in 1584. This work examined witchcraft and...
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    and German; it was one of the principal sources of Reginald Scot's sceptical account of witchcraft, The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Malleus Maleficarum Daemonologie...
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  • (Þuríður) Jónsdóttir, the daughter/sister of the Jónssons, of witchcraft. The case was brought to Þingvellir, was dismissed and the woman let free. She...
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  • claim that the name was derived from the Scots who invaded Dalriada (Argyll) from Ireland. Reginald Scot, author of "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" Scot's...
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    presented with clothes comes from Book Four, Chapter Ten of Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, published in 1584. Sometimes brownies are reported...
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  • part of both Gardnerian and Cochranian rites. The practice is also reference in Reginald Scot's "The Discoverie of Witchcraft". Though a number of Wiccan...
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    Proceedings before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, Robert Kirk's Essay on the Subterranean Commonwealth...
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    who is accused of witchcraft. Events to mark the 400th anniversary of the trials in 2012 included an exhibition, "A Wonderful Discoverie: Lancashire Witches...
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    the vices of the age Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell. Reginald Scot listed Tom in his Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) as one of the creatures...
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  • pamphlets. This is a long list of spirits, fairies, bogies and other creatures, based on an older list in the Discoverie of Witchcraft, dated 1584, with many...
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    Ebenezer Sibly (category Alumni of the University of Aberdeen)
    details of magical procedure, and an account of the spirit world derived from Reginald Scot, in the 1665 edition of Discoverie of Witchcraft. Revised...
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  • Magic and religion (category Witchcraft)
    Reginald (c. 1580) The Discoverie of Witchcraft Booke VI Ch. 1. Bailey, Michael D. (2006). "The Meanings of Magic". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 1 (1): 1–23...
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    is the manipulating of coins to entertain audiences. Because coins are small, most coin tricks are considered close-up magic or table magic, as the audience...
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    John Scott (died 1533) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Kent and a Member of Parliament for New Romney. He was the grandfather of both Reginald Scott, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, a source for Shakespeare's...
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    Torture of witches Discoverie of Witchcraft Salem witch trials Friedrich Spee Daemonologie, a witchcraft-related tract written by King James I of England...
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