A Guide to Grand-Jury Men

[secular] power original: "lari brachio," likely completing "seculari brachio" from the previous page, meaning "the secular arm" of the law., will be more effective original: "auaileable" and will be accepted more readily by all types of people.

The sin of witchcraft and its diabolical practice is the most atrocious of all crimes original: "omnium scelerum atrocissimum"; for those who have the knowledge of God, it is the greatest apostasy The total rejection or abandonment of one's religious faith. from the faith. This is because they renounce God and give themselves to the Devil through a covenant.

Many people prosecute bad witches with great eagerness. However, magicians, necromancers Those who practice the supposed art of communicating with the spirits of the dead. (of whom his late Majesty King James I (1566–1625), who published his treatise Daemonologie in 1597 and was a prominent authority on the prosecution of witches. gives a deadly condemnation in his Daemonologie), and the curing witch—commonly called the "good witch"—are often left alone by everyone. And yet, in many respects, these are worse than the...