Reginald Scot

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Reginald Scot


Born
The United Kingdom
Died
October 09, 1599

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Reginald Scot (or Scott) (c. 1538 – 9 October 1599) was an English country gentleman and Member of Parliament, now remembered as the author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, which was published in 1584. It was written against the belief in witches, to show that witchcraft did not exist. Part of its content exposes how (apparently miraculous) feats of magic were done, and the book is often deemed the first textbook on conjuring.

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The Discoverie of Witchcraft

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“they have so fraid us with bull beggers, spirits, witches, urchens, elves, hags, fairies, satyrs, pans, faunes, syrens, kit with the can'sticke, tritons, centaurs, dwarfes, giants, imps, calcars, conjurors, nymphes, changlings, incubus, Robin good fellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke, the hell waine, the fierdrake, the puckle, Tom thombe, hobgobblin, Tom tumbler, boneless, and such other bugs, that we are afraid of our own shadowes. In so much as some never feare the divell, but in a darke night; and then a polled sheepe is a perillous beast and manie times is taken for our father’s soule, speciallie in a churchyard where a right hardie man heretofore scant durst passe by night, but his haire would stand upright”
Reginald Scot, Discovery of Witchcraft

“If our witches' phantasies were not corrupted, nor their wits confounded with this humour, they would not so voluntarilie and readilie confesseth that which calleth their life into question.”
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft

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