CONTENTS
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THE FIRST PART
TREATING OF THE THREE NECESSARY CONCOMITANTS OF WITCHCRAFT
WHICH ARE THE DEVIL, A WITCH, AND THE
PERMISSION OF ALMIGHTY GOD
PART ONE
Question I.
Whether the Belief that there are such Beings as Witches is so Essential a Part of the Catholic Faith that Obstinacy to maintain the Opposite Opinion manifestly savours of Heresypage 1
Question II.
If it be in Accordance with the Catholic Faith to maintain that in Order to bring about some Effect of Magic, the Devil must intimately co-operate with the Witch, or whether one without the other, that is to say, the Devil without the Witch, or conversely, could produce such an Effect12
Question III.
Whether Children can be Generated by Incubi and Succubi21
Question IV.
By which Devils are the Operations of Incubus and Succubus Practised?28
Question V.
What is the Source of the Increase of Works of Witchcraft? Whence comes it that the Practice of Witchcraft hath so notably increased?31
Question VI.
Concerning Witches who copulate with Devils. Why is it that Women are chiefly addicted to Evil Superstitions?41
Question VII.
Whether Witches can Sway the Minds of Men to Love or Hatred48
Question VIII.
Whether Witches can Hebetate the Powers of Generation or Obstruct the Venereal Act54
Question IX.
Whether Witches may work some Prestidigitatory Illusion so that the Male Organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the Body58
Question X.
Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts61
Question XI.
That Witches who are Midwives in Various Ways Kill the Child Conceived in the Womb, and Procure an Abortion; or if they do not this, Offer New-born Children to Devilspage 66
Question XII.
Whether the Permission of Almighty God is an Accompaniment of Witchcraft66
Question XIII.
Herein is set forth the Question concerning the Two Divine Permissions which God justly allows, namely, that the Devil, the Author of all Evil, should Sin, and that our First Parents should Fall, from which Origins the Works of Witches are justly suffered to take place71
Solutions of the Arguments.
Question XIV.
The Enormity of Witches is Considered, and it is shown that the Whole Matter should be rightly Set Forth and Declared73
Question XV.
It is Shown that, on Account of the Sins of Witches, the Innocent are often Bewitched, yea, Sometimes even for their Own Sins77
Question XVI.
The Foregoing Truths are Set out in Particular, this by a Comparison of the Works of Witches with Other Baleful Superstitions80
Question XVII.
A Comparison of their Crimes under Fourteen Heads, with the Sins of the Devils of all and every Kind82
Question XVIII.
Here follows the Method of Preaching against and Controverting Five Arguments of Laymen and Lewd Folk; which seem to be Variously Approved, that God does not Allow so Great Power to the Devil and Witches as is Involved in the Performance of such Mighty Works of Witchcraft84
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