Natural law is given by God, but this natural law is essentially physical. Diseases of Witchcraft is a sickness that arises from strange and preternatural causes, and from diabolical power in the use of strange and ridiculous ceremonies by witches or necromances, afflicting with strange and uncontrollable symptoms, and commonly preternaturally violent, very seldom or not at all curable by ordinary and natural remedies. Void is utterly without qualities or powers of any kind and, indeed, would almost be said to be illusory. Those who hold that the void exists think of it as a kind of empty place, deprived of what it contained when it was full of body, that is, of that which is heavy or light. Without the void, there could be no motion, since what is already full cannot contain anything more; compression of bodies and absorption of other bodies implies that some bodies contain void; and void is necessary to separate and distinguish things. However, there can be qualitive change in what is full, and there can also be motion if it is rotatory; also, bodies can be compressed and can absorb other bodies by squeezing something else out or by changing qualitatively. If they void rose-birds at length, sticks, thorns, and bones by stool. #RandolphHarris 1 of 16

If after, and with violent and preternatural pains, the sick vomits gallons of blood, or the like goes by urine, and so continues day, and void 1,200 worms at a time, or several hundreds, and so continues, judge it fascination: That there have been such. A physician of my acquaintance told me he examined strictly eye witnesses, in one town where he was, and where it was a report, that a maid bewitches, vomited wool, hair, needles, pins, and they assured him of the truth, that it was so; and the like have I heard of some tired formerly at some allies of this Kingdom. Another vomited cloth, pieces of iron, stones, and bones; and a maid voided downwards pitch and soap, stones, and pieces of bones, which also she cast up by vomiting, being much pained at stomach, and made very lean, died at last. In the multitude of witnesses there is sure testimony; specially they not allured by gain, or obligated by interest, or superstitionated  by education, or forced by rigour of authority, but one writ in one place, another in another; one in one country, another in another; one in one age, another in another; one the judge, the other the physician: so that they held no confederacy to cheat future ages, but writ their clear experience. #RandolphHarris 2 of 16

This experience induced them to believe such things; as indeed what can any person know truly, but by experience for self it is but imagination, conceit, or fantasy, which only carefully, and by chance is true: And if our country and age did not witness to what authors have writ in other countries and ages, it might be suspected; yet we have not one witch to one hundred that be in other countries, and fewer than formerly; and therefore the fewer are bewitched: However, there are many bewitched which are not thought so, and consequently not cured, that other wife might; and there are divers thought so, that are not, but their sickness is referable to natural causes, and found by the scrutinous in the legitimate order of nature. We will draw up all observations to this first diagnosis sign briefly. Those that vomit, or void by stool, with greater or less torments knives, scissors, birds, whole eggs, dog tails, crooked nails, pins, needles, sometimes threaded, and sometimes with hair, bundles of hair, pieces of wax, pieces of silk, live eels, large pieces of flesh, bones and stones, and pieces of wood, hooks, and pieces of saltpeter; conclude they are bewitched; and that such have been vomited, or voided by stool, and that from witchcraft. #RandolphHarris 3 of 16

The reader is here to be advised, that he mistake not; he must inquire what went before, what was eaten, and if a suspected witch was offended: Secondly, he must consider whether such might not be generated in the body: Thirdly, he must see how many such strange things they vomit some of them; commonly they vomited three or four kinds; one vomited glass, nails, and hair together; another vomited often globs of flesh, brass pins, with wax and hair folded up together, and crooked nails, guess at rest, by there. Some died, and could not get up nor down there things; some were opened; there were found in his stomach four iron knives, partly sharp, and partly like saws, long and smooth pieces of wood, such as possibly could not be swallowed or vomited forth; two rough iron tools, each a span long, and a bundle of hair. If ulcers, boils, or apothems, have in them any of these preternatural things that were never swallowed, if others things correspond therewith, suspect witchcraft. There are those that go up and down, that swallow pebbles, coals, pieces of iron, bones, and there may be use of so facilitate their stomach, that they may vomit them when they will, and so be either admired, or pitted and relieved. #RandolphHarris 4 of 16

Such have been: however, abundance of these things for their shrapnels, roughness, and largeness, could never be swallowed. The person that voided them, and in whom such were found infected were fully men, women, and maids; and then they now not have be so sick, and vomited them so difficulty, and so long together, and have lain so long miserably tormented, yes, and to die at last. Strange and wonderful convulsions, indomitable, all joint aching, and inexpressible torments, with other things preceding, so supervening, gives suspicion of witchcraft. Whosoever after long and violent pains vomits or ejects things preternatural to buried in the body, or unlikely to be received thereinto, suspected witchcraft. If the sick complains of such a woman or man suspected for a witch, and faith, there he (or she) stands; or, now he (or she) comes, though nobody else see anything; for such is the power and cunning of the Devil, and consequently of his Agents. #RandolphHarris 5 of 16

Some may see a spirit, other in the same room, at the same time, shall not; and some that had very good skill in magic would undertake the physiognomy to tell who should see vision of spirits, or angles, which are only distinguished from other spirits by their office; to declare or be sent on a message; so that one spirit may be an angel at one time, and another at another; also, they be in the room with others that see them: If as soon as the sick party cries out of such a one, like a mouse, or fly, or any other creature, enters into the mouth, or goes to the body of the sick, which sometimes only the sick  see, and the sick is raised, and hoven up in his body, and chest moves high and laboriously, and somewhat seem to rise up to suffocate him, with or without, the noise of dogs barking, cats mewing, hog grunting, cows lowing, other their like, heard in him; for these are more common to one peculiarly possessed of the Devil, as also is the long lying in a trance thereupon, as if they party was dead and then with learning and ravine the fit may go off. Indeed, this certainly to be by the power of the Devil, and commonly to be administered by witches through malice, by performance of foolish ceremonies. #RandolphHarris 6 of 16

A fourth sign of witchcraft is, if the sick prophecy, and foretell truly things that afterward to come to pass, and speak beyond the course of nature (Gods Law, beyond which no man lawfully can go) things they never heard, felt, saw, or understood, and language they never learned, or other nation’s tongues they never were taught, and afterward, for the most past, they forget all again, if with these, or without these, for there is difference in all; the sick fly, or run up the walls with their feet uppermost, or leap from one place to another, strongly and fiercely, at a great distance: Be sure it is not naturally; if not naturally, preternaturally, either by God or the Devil; if the Devil they tend to advance his interest or Kingdom, and so do these practices. The nuns told stories of how they were molested with evil spirits, and were sometimes lift up above a man’s height from the ground they climbed to us like cats, and were sometimes carried over men’s heads, and sometimes fell down again headlong; they would sometimes go on the tips of their toes, as well as others on their feet. #RandolphHarris 7 of 16

Sylvia de Hiftoriis Mirabilibus writes a woman called Lady Rose, that would sudden by diabolical power be snatched away, and bound to a bed, a tree; sometimes and hair or a little flax was seen to hold her. Magdalena Crucia, a famous witch, whom Dr. Henry More in his antidote against at thein mentions, an abeles, in such affirmation she was for her miracles, she would sometimes in a pomp on festival day, be lift up several cubits above ground, so flaying herself, holding in her arms the image of a child Jesus, her eyes pouring out tears, and her mouth counterfeiting devotion.   Dr. Henry More only mentions Mr. Phrockmortous Children nigh Huntington, I suppose he meant, as I have heard, how they would fly, and run up walls, being bewitched: Even as Elizabeth Day (whom I well knew, as her kindred with who she lived informed me) did, she would run up the walls with her feet, laying no hand, and on the ceiling with her head downwards, which she could never do before not since; like a mouse leaped from her, with  suffumigation, a physician made, and some ceremonies. #RandolphHarris 8 of 16

The boy of northwest twelve years old, that Mr. Bruen, a pious man, of Bruen Stapleford, recorded, would fly from bed to table, and from table to window, at a great distance, and yet his legs grown up to his buttocks. The carrying of Mr. Silk from his companion, Mr. Marshall, in the fences, on his horse back in the air diverse miles, till he lighted into Sir Oliver Cromwel’s yard, leaping over one wall, and then another to be no delusion, I had it from sober gentleman, who took it from their mouths. Doubtless some witch did it. I since heard, the last Spring at New-Market, a noble man’s horse ran away with a lad, leaped an immense way each step, ran by steep hillsides, and then ran his head against a bank and killed himself. The spectators never saw horse do so before. And some say stakes were to be set at each leap for commemoration. A fifth sign of witchcraft, if the sick is twisted, contorted, and his chin drawn to his forehead, and neck turn behind him, or face rather, through the common expression is the other, and lye long, as if dead, and the like. However, there may more particularly be termed possessed. #RandolphHarris 9 of 16

A great sign, if anything thing that comes from the sick be burnt or harmed, and the suspected woman suffers in such manner, or comes to the house; or if after she is so served, or scratched till blood comes, or threatened, the sick is eased much and clearly, suspected for a witch, and the disease to be from her. All diseases that are caused by nature, may be cured by witchcraft; but all that are caused by witchcraft, cannot be cured by nature. Barrenness, lameness, madness, sterility, and cowlicks, fainting, and sweating, we shall relate in the description of causes, how witches cause the. Now here it remains that we make definition, if any is to be made betwixt the obsessed or possessed with evil spirits, and the bewitched by ceremonies. They use words and incantation to enchant the devilish spirits to enter the body in shape of fly; yet sometimes the witches send their imps, which do so; and I question whether any evil spirits can enter any man, without command from some man; but with that not always, for God gives not leave, but that is secret; sometimes on a worse man they have no power, and yet bewitch a better, or possess the religious. Knowledge is the beginning of action and action the complete know. No one can really know the road, unless they have gone through it.  #RandolphHarris 10 of 16

Also, we must make a distinction betwixt those that are possessed and bewitched, and those that are killed by evil spirits; I know not, but most kind of spirits that appear will harm us, if we resist them; and it is to be doubted that God will give them the permission, if we affront them on bad grounds. A sober man, told me, his father lying at an inn, heard somebody in the chamber, thought a thief, and rose to resist the spirit, as it proved, gave him a blow, small, but of force enough to cause sickness, and his death. A sober and learned professor, told me his man was coming early over New Market Health, it was light when he felt somewhat strike him on the back, no body there, he came back to the house, sickened and died; they never looked to see if the mark of the blow might be seen in his flesh. The mistress Dark of Westminster told Dr. More that her husband very well went through some Streets in London, and was struck on the thigh with an invisible hand; he came home to dinner, was sick, and died within three days, being dead; on the place, he said, the spiritual hand struck him, was clearly seen the figure of a man’s hand, with the four fingers, thumb, and palm, looking black, and impressed deep in the flesh. #RandolphHarris 11 of 16

So histories mention, and Dr. More quotes them, that Phillip Melodeons Kinswoman’s husband, being dead, in a few days appeared to her, being solitary and grieffully, and took her by the hand and comforted her, but her hand, was black always after.  The Barbers boy, about 1660, that was killed in Cambridge by a spectral woman that haunted him, sometimes alone, and sometimes with a man in trunk breeches, adds to these; he had the exact mark in his forehead, being dead, where that spiritual woman did bit him alive; he came from the Life of Ely on purpose to be forsaken by the spectral woman, several scholars took notes in writing thereof; but we write all as short as may be, so that some may object and except again the concordance and dependence of one thing with another. The Devil, upon some affront, dashes out the brains: those that read conjuring books, or otherwise call him to jeer him, are sometimes so served. Some that are hurt by spirits, look strangely, their hair stands upright, mouth or cheek drawn awry, or eye-lid down to the mouth; as the minister of a neighbor town lately told me of one of his parish struck by a spirit in the night, upon no occasion given; some are dumb, some rave, and all almost differing; but we shall not insist on these, thought we could bring many considerable observations. #RandolphHarris 12 of  16

The first and movement cause of witchcraft is some way offended, and she does ill by revenge herself; but sometimes their imps force and persuade them, and Sarah Boatman confessed. We will relate some, ridiculous ceremonies we have heard from learned men, and other sober people, of witches confession and conviction, about the way they bewitch men and cattle (mad cow). Some take a beef skin or hide, and stick it full of thornes, or pins, and call it such an ones skin, and that party is wonderfully pricked and pained in the superficies of his body, but it is very like they mutter some diabolical words in the doing it. Some take a wooden bowl and a knife, and dig the knife point into the bottom of the bowl, and it becomes full of blood, and such an horse as they name, piss blood, until he dies or as they please, with consent of the Devil, and limitation of God, the first, the greatest, the best, to be praised for everyone. Also, legend has it that Aaliyah had started doing research in the dark arts and Egyptianology and discovered something and her entire personality changed from the way she dressed and talked to the way she looked and acted. #RandolphHarris 13 of 16

Aaliyah was supposedly doing research for the role she was playing as a 5,000-year-old vampire queen, and myths have it that people thought she had become too powerful and successful and took down her plane because they fear her, then held her body to bind her powers, and make sure she did not reanimate her body. Others to annoy Houses with Flies, or to choke people, take a sieve and put dust in it, and sift it, and throw up this dust, with some diabolical sentences, and it turns to flies. However, the Devil does these things; for such ceremonies do nothing, or at least most of them, in other people’s hands; the Devil and they make a bargain, he helps them to money, or revenge, and they give him their souls at last, to live in servitude and vassalage eternally with him. Moses and the Egyptian magicians did many preternatural things, by that magic that is called Rabdomania, or Rod-magick, and the ceremonies both used were much alike; so did Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, many ceremonies or similitudes, as eating of book, setting on pots, making like siege, and leaguers, going barefoot, and the like; all causes are Gods, and are good, but the Devil knows them and abuses them. #RandolphHarris 14 of 16

 Our only priority must be to present Jesus Christ crucified–to lift him up all the time. If the worker believes in Jesus Christ and is trusting in the reality of redemption, his words will be compelling to others. In these last days, and perilous times, among the rest of those dreadful evils, which are fore-told should abound in them, a close and disguised contempt of religion may be justly accounted as chief, which cause and brengths upon men all disastrous effects, when although it be shadowed with a beautiful Mask of holiness, faire tongued: yet false-hatred professing they know God, but in works deny him. And among these there be two especially sorts; the one, who entertaining a stubborn, and curious rash boldness, stride by the judgment of reason, to search over-deeply into the knowledge of those things which are fare about the reach of any humane capacity. And so, making shipwreck in this deep and uncountable Sea, overwhelmed themselves in the gulf thereof. #RandolphHarris 15 of 16

The other kind is more sottish, dull, and of a slow wit, and therefore over-credulous, believing everything, especially when they be carried by the violent tempest of their desires, and other ungoverned affections; and among these the Devil visually spreads his nets, as assured of a prey, waiting closely if he can spy any, who either grow discontented and desperate, through want and poetry, or be exasperated with a wrathfully and unruly passion of revenge, or transported by insatiable love to obtain something they desire; and these he taking advantage, assaulted with golden and glorious promises, to performed unto them the wishes of their owned hearts; the drift whereof is (he being as at the first incased in a subtle Serpents skinned) only to enthrall and invisible them slaves to himself. What is extremely important is for the worker’s simple relationship with Jesus Christ to be strong and growing. One’s usefulness to God depends on that, and that alone. #RandolphHarris 16 of 16