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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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    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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  • 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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    Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic...
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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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    ('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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  • 22:18 Scot, Reginald (c. 1580) The Discoverie of Witchcraft Booke VI Ch. 1. Daniel 2:2 Dickie (2003), pp. 33–35. Book of Deuteronomy 18: 9–10 Exodus 22:17...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Torture of witches Discoverie of Witchcraft Salem witch trials Friedrich Spee Daemonologie, a witchcraft-related tract written by King James VI of Scotland...
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    history of Wales) Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    publication of the proceedings by the clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, and the number...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    or brounie, and also equatable to the Boneless bug or goblin mentioned by Reginald Scot in Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584). Briggs refers to this tale...
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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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    Newcastle witch trials (category English people executed for witchcraft)
    allegations of being a witch. The history of the Newcastle witch trials starts in Scotland. The extension of the Witchcraft Act in 1649 sparked a intense witch...
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