On Popular Illuftons. 53 



topher Bartholine heard the following flory from 

 the mouth of the fufferer (a miner.) Going to 

 his work one morning, the devil met him, in 

 form of a little man, and offered him a pinch of 

 fnuff. This, the workman thought proper to 

 decline J the devil, enraged to find his courtefy 

 defpifed, flew upon him, and beat him feverely*. 



In the fame work, is a confultation of Dr. 

 Hannerman on a cafe of impotence j the doftor's 

 firft inquiry is, an naturale, an magicum vitiumJit-\? 



In this country, while the belief in witchcraft 

 ■was fupported by royal authority (for James I. 

 is univerfally knov/n to have written on demono- 

 logy) countenanced by Bacon ;j:, and generally 

 adopted among the people, only one writer was 

 hardy enough to oppofe it. This was Reginald 

 Scott, who publifhed a colle6lion of impoftures 

 detefted, under the title of Difcoveries of Witch- 

 craft. James ordered the book to be burnt by the 

 common executioner, and the judges continued 

 to burn witches as ufual. During the civil wars, 

 upwards of eighty were hanged in Suffolk, on 

 the accufations of Hopkins, the witch finder (f. 

 Webder was the next writer againfl witchcraft, 

 but he had a diff^erent fate from that of Scott, 

 for moft of his arguments were refuted by 



• lb. p. 12. t Aft. Hafn. T. III. 



X Nat. Hift. Cent. X. 



II Baxter, Hutchinfon, and Hudibras, C. III. 



E 3 Glahville. 



