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CONTENTS
THE SECOND PART
TREATING OF THE METHODS BY WHICH THE WORKS OF WITCHCRAFT ARE
WROUGHT AND DIRECTED, AND HOW THEY MAY BE
SUCCESSFULLY ANNULLED AND DISSOLVED
Resolved in but two Questions, yet these are divided into many Chapters.
QUESTION I
Of those against whom the Power of Witches availeth not at allpage 89
Chapter I.
Of the several Methods by which Devils through Witches Entice and Allure the Innocent to the Increase of that Horrid Craft and Company96
Chapter II.
Of the Way whereby a Formal Pact with Evil is made99
Chapter III.
How they are Transported from Place to Place104
Chapter IV.
Here follows the Way whereby Witches copulate with those Devils known as Incubi109
Chapter V.
Witches commonly perform their Spells through the Sacraments of the Church. And how they Impair the Powers of Generation, and how they may Cause other Ills to happen to God’s Creatures of all Kinds. But herein we except the Question of the Influence of the Stars114
Chapter VI.
How Witches Impede and Prevent the Power of Procreation117
Chapter VII.
How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member118
Chapter VIII.
Of the Manner whereby they Change Men into the Shapes of Beasts122
Chapter IX.
How Devils may enter the Human Body and the Head without doing any Hurt, when they cause such Metamorphosis by Means of Prestidigitation124
Chapter X.
Of the Method by which Devils through the Operations of Witches sometimes actually possess Men128
Chapter XI.
Of the Method by which they can Inflict Every Sort of Infirmity, generally Ills of the Graver Kind134
Chapter XII.
Of the Way how in Particular they Afflict Men with Other Like Infirmities137
Chapter XIII.
How Witch Midwives commit most Horrid Crimes when they either Kill Children or Offer them to Devils in most Accursed Wise140
Chapter XIV.
Here followeth how Witches Injure Cattle in Various Wayspage 144
Chapter XV.
How they Raise and Stir up Hailstorms and Tempests, and Cause Lightning to Blast both Men and Beasts147
Chapter XVI.
Of Three Ways in which Men and not Women may be Discovered to be Addicted to Witchcraft: Divided into Three Heads: and First of the Witchcraft of Archers150
QUESTION II
THE METHODS OF DESTROYING AND CURING WITCHCRAFT
Introduction, wherein is Set Forth the Difficulty of this Question.
Chapter I.
The Remedies prescribed by Holy Church against Incubus and Succubus Devils164
Chapter II.
Remedies prescribed for Those who are Bewitched by the Limitation of the Generative Power167
Chapter III.
Remedies prescribed for those who are Bewitched by being Inflamed with Inordinate Love or Extraordinary Hatred170
Chapter IV.
Remedies prescribed for those who by Prestidigitatory Art have lost their Virile Members or have seemingly been Transformed into the Shapes of Beasts173
Chapter V.
Prescribed Remedies for those who are Obsessed owing to some Spell175
Chapter VI.
Prescribed Remedies; to wit, the Lawful Exorcisms of the Church, for all Sorts of Infirmities and Ills due to Witchcraft; and the Method of Exorcising those who are Bewitched179
Chapter VII.
Remedies prescribed against Hailstorms, and for Animals that are Bewitched188
Chapter VIII.
Certain Remedies prescribed against those Dark and Horrid Harms with which Devils may Afflict Men192
