Reginald Scot (or Scott) (c. 1538 – 9 October 1599) was an Englishman and Member of Parliament, the author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, which was...
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Discoverie of Witchcraft is a book published by the English gentleman Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early modern witchcraft. It contains...
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Discoverie of Witchcraft, was published in 1584. It was created by Reginald Scot to stop people from being killed for witchcraft. During the 17th century...
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the English writer Reginald Scot published The Discoverie of Witchcraft, a book intended as an exposé of early modern witchcraft. Scot believed that the...
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however. The "mythological theory" dates back at least to 1584, when Reginald Scot identified Robin Hood with the Germanic goblin "Hudgin" or Hodekin and...
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earliest allusions to Tom occur in various 16th-century works such as Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft (1584), where Tom is cited as one of the supernatural...
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Michael Scot (c. 1175 – 1232), Scottish astrologer Reginald Scot (c. 1538 – 1599), English author Robert Scot (1744–1823), American artist Thomas Scot (died...
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Sir Reginald Scott married secondly Mary Tuke, the daughter of Sir Brian Tuke. Sir John Scott. Richard Scott, esquire, the father of Reginald Scot (d....
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Oxford Dictionaries Online The Discovery of Witchcraft (London, 1584) by Reginald Scot p. 6 Pope Francis (24 November 2013). "Evangelii Gaudium : Apostolic...
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Daemonum (these were somehow left out of the English translation by Reginald Scot). He has thirty legions of demons under his command. Decarabia knows...
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elephant for the squealing pig was reported by the English politician Reginald Scot. Polyaenus, "Stratagems" 4.6.3 Aelian, "On Animals" 16.36 Harden, A...
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that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited in Reginald Scot's The Discovery of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not...
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the term three times (1580) and, across the channel, the Englishman Reginald Scot (1585) writing a book in opposition to witch-phobia, uses the term but...
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continued to make use of their services. The English MP and skeptic Reginald Scot sought to disprove magic and witchcraft altogether, writing in The Discoverie...
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James wrote Daemonologie in response to sceptical publications such as Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Daemonologie included a study of demonology...
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Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales) Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia...
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Marvel Pub. ISBN 978-0-785-12188-6. OCLC 62714568. Hudlin, Reginald (writer); Eaton, Scot (pencils) (2006). Black Panther: The Bride (Direct ed.). New...
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and abilities. For instance, in sixteenth-century England, the writer Reginald Scot wrote The Discoverie of Witchcraft, in which he argued that many of...
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By the early 1600s, skeptics in Europe, including the English author Reginald Scot and the Anglican bishop John Bancroft, had begun to criticize the belief...
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continued to make use of their services. The English MP and skeptic Reginald Scot sought to disprove magic and witchcraft, writing in The Discoverie of...
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body, was described in The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot, published in 1584. Scot describes a table with two concealed holes, where the supposed...
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was translated as pharmakeia, meaning 'pharmacy', and on this basis, Reginald Scot claimed in the 16th century that 'witch' was an incorrect translation...
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1995 book by Carl Sagan The Discoverie of Witchcraft – 1584 book by Reginald Scot Enochian magic – System of Renaissance magic Esoteric Christianity –...
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poet (born 1552) June – Henry Porter, English dramatist October 9 – Reginald Scot, English writer on witchcraft (born c. 1538) October 18 – Daniel Adam...
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included Gianfrancesco Ponzinibio (fl. 1520), Johannes Wier (1515–1588), Reginald Scot (1538–1599), Cornelius Loos (1546–1595), Anton Praetorius (1560–1613)...
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was derived from the Scots who invaded Dalriada (Argyll) from Ireland. Reginald Scot, author of "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" Scot's Hall, a landed family...
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ball has penetrated. This is repeated with the third ball. In 1584 Reginald Scot wrote The Discoverie of Witchcraft, within which he describes tricks...
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extended this argument to deny the reality of all diabolical witchcraft. Reginald Scot (1584) put forward similar arguments and cited John Calvin numerous...
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not everyone was convinced. A member of parliament in England called Reginald Scot wrote a book called The Discoverie of Witchcraft which in part presented...
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audience was, in fact, Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft", a book first published in the early seventeenth century in which Scot condemned the cunning...
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