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The author of the 'Discoverie' relates a fact that came under his personal observation: it is a fair example of the trivial origin and of the facility of this sort of charges.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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A report of his findings was sent to Francis I and published in Richard Hakluyt's Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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But some interesting primaries include James' Daemonology, Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, and, for sheer horror and early modern weirdness though continental, Kramer & Sprenger's Malleus Malificarum.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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When to this we add those narratives included in the First Edition, but omitted in the Second, all the voyages printed by Hakluyt or at his suggestion, such as “Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America,” “The Conquest of Terra Florida,”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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“Discoverie of Witchcraft,” enumerates a host of these fireside fancies.
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Rather, the plays tend to draw on a mixture of popular belief and elite tradition, especially Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft.
Bothered and Bewildered Lurie, Alison 1997
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Reginald Scot defended witches in his Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) by claiming that supernatural powers did not exist, thus rendering witchcraft impossible.
Notes to "To Prevent a 'Shipwreck of Souls': Johann Weyer and 'De Praestigiis Daemonum.'" Elisa Slattery Elisa Slattery 1994
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It was he who had helped to popularize the new craze for smoking; and he, too, who had introduced them to Trinidad in his best seller of 1596, The Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana: 'This iland of Trinidado hath the form of a sheep-hook and is but narrow; the north part is very mounteynous, the soile is very excellent '
Triste Trinidad Elliott, J.H. 1970
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In the _Image of Ireland and Discoverie of Woodkarne_, by John
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The first mention of Tom is in Scot's _Discoverie of
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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