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scape. Yea many superstitious and magicall Experiments have been used to try witches by: Of this sort is the scratching the witch; the _ southing the urine of the bewitched person, or making a Witch Cake of that [crossed out - that] urine. [crossed out - & l] [line scratched out - illegible -ing- illegible] [line scratched out - illegible] and that of stick = ing an a [scratched out - illegible] [illegible] under the seat of the Suspected [crossed out - pa] party, yea and

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partial line: these things partial line: against it. Ss! It has bin [been] rejected long agoe by Christian Nations as a thing Superstitious & Diabolical. In Italy & in Spain it is wholly Dissuto (u) & in ye Low Countryes & in France where ye Judges are men of Learning. In some parts of Germany, old Paganish Customs are observed more then in other Countries, Neverthelesse, all ye (f) Academies throughout Germ[a?] ny have dissapproved of this way of Purgation. [illegible]. The Devill is in it. All superstition is for him. And where [crossed out word] seaket things or Latent Crimes are discovered by Super- stitious practices, some Compact & Command with ye Devill is ye cause of it, as Austin (c) hath truly Intimated. For if a witch cannot be drowned; this must proceed [illegible]. Some Natural Cause, w ch it doth not; for it is against Nature for humane.