A Guide to Grand-Jury Men (1630) - Page 16

The Contents.


XII.	Of the signs to know whether one is bewitched.
XIII.	What are the witches' watchwords and the deeds they do, both acting as signals to their familiars original: "Familiars"; spirits or demons believed to serve a witch, often in animal form. to set them to work.
XIV.	Who they are who are most subject to being hurt by witches, and what the remedies are against them.
XV.	Of the methods original: "meanes" which various people use to help themselves when they suspect they are bewitched.
XVI.	That witches may be discovered, although there are many difficulties in doing so, and what the causes of those difficulties are.
XVII.	Of the strong suspicions original: "great presumptions"; in a legal context, evidence that creates a strong inference of guilt before a final verdict. of the practice of witchcraft, for which the suspected may be brought before authority and examined.
XVIII.	What the main point is by which the suspected may be certainly convicted of