[These Contents in original end the book as do our Indices.]
The summe of everie chapter con-
teined in the sixteene bookes of this disco-
verie, with the discourse of divels and
spirits annexed thereunto.
¶ The first Booke.
N impeachment of witches power in meteors and elementarie bodies, tending to the rebuke of such as attribute too much unto them. [Pag. 1].
The inconvenience growing by mens credulitie herein, with a reproofe of some churchmen, which are inclined to the common conceived opinion of witches omnipotencie, and a familiar example thereof. [pag. 4].
Who they be that are called witches, with a manifest declaration of the cause that mooveth men so commonlie to thinke, & witches themselves to beleeve that they can hurt children, cattell, &c. with words and imaginations: and of coosening witches. [pag. 7].
What miraculous actions are imputed to witches by witchmongers, papists, and poets. [pag. 9].