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The Discoverie of Witchcraft — Reginald Scot

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

Reginald Scot

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 803 pages

The Discoverie of Witchcraft is a 1584 essayistic treatise by Reginald Scot. It argues that accusations of witchcraft often rested on superstition, fraud, and cruelty, and that the accused were generally deluded rather than powerful. It remains valuable as an early skeptical voice and a window into Elizabethan debates about magic.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT
  2. PREFACE
  3. INTRODUCTION.
  4. The Epistle
  5. The summe of everie chapter conteined in the sixteene bookes of this discoverie, with the discourse of divels and spirit
  6. The first Booke.
  7. The second Booke.
  8. The third Booke.
  9. The fourth Booke.
  10. The fift Booke.
  11. The sixt Booke.
  12. The seventh Booke.
  13. The eight Booke.
  14. The ninth Booke.
  15. The tenth Booke.
  16. The eleventh Booke.
  17. The twelfe Booke.
  18. The xiii. Booke.
  19. The xiiii. Booke.
  20. The xv. Booke.
  21. The xvi. Booke.
  22. A Discourse upon divels and spirits, and first of philosophers opinions, also the maner of their reasoning hereupon; and
  23. Appendix I.
  24. Appendix II.
  25. SHAKESPEARE NOTINGS.
  26. MIDDLETON’S “WITCH”.
  27. EXTRACTS FROM WIER.
  28. GENERAL NOTINGS ON SCOT’S TEXT.
  29. GLOSSARY.
  30. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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