A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches WHOLESALE-HIDE As the late Cecil Williamson

As the late Cecil Williamson

As closely as possible

dedication

the Edenic serpent of first transgression whose name in some interpretations is ‘Venom of God’

Mac Gregor Mathers from a French document in 1897

A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches WHOLESALE-HIDE As the late Cecil WilliamsonAuthor: John Brinley First published in 1680, A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers by John Brinley is an important example and contemporary account of the establishments ideas, beliefs and debate surrounding the practices of witchcraft, magic and divination that lay behind the approved persecution of witches and other practitioners. Revealed is an acceptance of the existence of witches, the reality of the Devil and the position of