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Demonologia

Chapter 1: DEMONOLOGIA; OR, NATURAL KNOWLEDGE REVEALED;
By J. S. Forsyth
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The text surveys ancient and modern superstitions and the practices and beliefs connected with demons, witchcraft, magic, and divination, offering definitions, historical origins, and practical classifications. It examines astrology (natural versus judicial and genethliacal methods), alchemy, amulets, talismans, charms, physiognomy, dreams, second sight, and a wide catalog of divinatory techniques, with procedural descriptions, tables, and terminology. Alongside critical commentary on credulity and fanaticism, the work reproduces trial accounts, confessions, and illustrative anecdotes about apparitions and infernal phenomena to show how superstition functioned socially and legally.

Demonologia;
OR,
NATURAL KNOWLEDGE REVEALED.
W. WILSON, PRINTER, 57, SKINNER-STREET, LONDON.

DEMONOLOGIA;
OR,
NATURAL KNOWLEDGE REVEALED;

BEING
AN EXPOSÉ
OF
Ancient and Modern Superstitions,
CREDULITY, FANATICISM, ENTHUSIASM, & IMPOSTURE,
AS CONNECTED WITH THE
DOCTRINE, CABALLA, AND JARGON,
OF
AMULETS,
APPARITIONS,
ASTROLOGY,
CHARMS,
DEMONOLOGY,
DEVILS,
DIVINATION,
DREAMS,
DEUTEROSCOPIA,
EFFLUVIA,
FATALISM,
FATE,
FRIARS,
GHOSTS,
GIPSIES,
HELL,
HYPOCRITES,
INCANTATIONS,
INQUISITION,
JUGGLERS,
LEGENDS,
MAGIC,
MAGICIANS,
MIRACLES,
MONKS,
NYMPHS,
ORACLES,
PHYSIOGNOMY,
PURGATORY,
PREDESTINATION,
PREDICTIONS,
QUACKERY,
RELICS,
SAINTS,
SECOND SIGHT,
SIGNS BEFORE DEATH,
SORCERY,
SPIRITS,
SALAMANDERS,
SPELLS,
TALISMANS,
TRADITIONS,
TRIALS, &c.
WITCHES,
WITCHCRAFT, &c. &c.
THE WHOLE UNFOLDING
MANY SINGULAR PHENOMENA IN THE PAGE OF NATURE.
By J. S. F.
“The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
“And these are of them.”
“All which, by long discourse, I’ll prove anon.”
London:
JOHN BUMPUS, 23, SKINNER-STREET.
1827.