Excerpt from A Dialogue Concerning Witches Witchcrafts A Discourse of the subtill Practises of Dcvilles by Witches and Sorcerers. Six years afterwards, in 1593, appeared the first edition of the present dialogue, of which a second edition was printed in 1603. This latter has been taken as the text of the present edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Scholarly reprint of a classic sixteenth century treatise on witchcraft.

Scholarly reprint of a classic sixteenth century treatise on witchcraft.

Excerpt from A Selection of Latin Stories, And, a Dialogue of Witches and Witchcraft The following Collection of Stories is offered merely as a specimen of the class of literature to which it belongs. The Editor has not had the leisure to carry his researches further than a few manuscripts in the Museum which were ready at his hand. He is aware of the existence of nu merous valuable manuscripts of tales of this kind among the treasures of the universities, which, as well as a still greater number to be found in the libraries of the continent, would, without doubt, add much to our knowledge of the history of me dieval romance. The present volume has already exceeded the limit within which it was originally intended that it should be comprised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.