The middle volume (Tome II) of the Jesuit Martin Del Rio's six-book Investigations into Magic, the most influential early-modern treatise on magic and superstition. Book III treats harmful magic and vain observance; Book IV treats divination in all its kinds — prophecy and how true revelation is discerned from false, divination with and without open invocation, conjectation from stars, dreams, and faces, and the vulgar proofs by fire and water, which Del Rio examines and rejects. With the author's own summaries, marginal citations, and both printed indexes. Mainz, 1606. In English for the first time. Books I–II and V–VI of the treatise are not yet translated.
Moral & Pastoral Theology · 17th century
Investigations into Magic, Books III–IV
Martin Delrio, S.J. (1551–1608) · translated from the Latin of the 1606 Mainz edition (Tome II)
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Contents
Front Matter
- Title Page
- Dedication
- A Little Ode on Martin Del Rio's Newly Printed *Magic*
- Another on the Same
- Approvals of the Superior and Censors
Summaries
- Summaries of Book III, Part I — On Harmful Magic
- Summaries of Book III, Part II — On Vain Observance
Book III, Part I — On Harmful Magic
- Question I. What is harmful magic, and how many kinds are there?
- Question II. On Sleep-Inducing Harmful Magic
- Question III. On Love-Producing Harmful Magic
- Question III, Section II
- Question III, Section III
- Question IV. On Hostile Harmful Magic
- Question IV, Section I. On Fascination
- Question IV, Section II. On Poison-Workings
- Question IV, Section III. On Abortion, Difficult Childbirth, and the Drying Up of Milk
- Question IV, Section IV. On Archers, Assassins, and Makers of Harmful Magical Images
- Question IV, Section V. On Various Diseases Inflicted by a Demon
- Question IV, Section VI. On the Marvelous Ingestion and Egestion of Solid and Large Things into and from the Body
- Question IV, Section VII. On the Harmful Magic of Devoting Someone to a Demon
- Question IV, Section VIII. On the Harmful Magic of Binding
- Question IV, Section IX. On the Harmful Magic of Hatred
- Question IV, Section X. On Incendiary Harmful Magic
- Question V. Which Persons Harmful-Magicians Can Harm
- Question VI. Why God Allows Harmful-Magicians to Abuse Sacred Things in This Way
- Question VII. Why God Permits the Demon to Rage in This Way Through Harmful Magic
- Question VII, Section I. The Glory of God and Human Utility
- Question VII, Section II. Vengeance for Sin
- Question VIII. Why, Since the Devil Can Usually Inflict Harms by Himself, He Prefers to Use the Work of Harmful-Magicians
Book III, Part II — On Vain Observance
- Question I. What It Is
- Question II. What Kind of Sin It Is
- Question III. How Many Kinds There Are
- Question IV, Section I
- Question IV, Section II
- Question IV, Section III
- Question IV, Section IV
- Question IV, Section V
- Question IV, Section VI
- Question IV, Section VII
- Question IV, Section VIII
- Question IV, Section IX
Summaries
- Summaries of Book IV — On Divination
- Summaries of Book IV: Chapter I — On Divine Foreknowledge or Prophecy
- Summaries of Book IV: Chapter II — On Divination
- Summaries of Book IV: Chapter III — On Conjectation
- Summaries of Book IV: Chapter IV — On Political Conjectation, or Lots
Book IV, Chapter I — On Divine Foreknowledge, or Prophecy
- Question I. On the Nature and Name of Prophecy
- Question II. What the Species of Prophecy Are
- Question II, Section I. On the Rational, and Urim and Thummim
- Question II, Section II. On the Oracles of the Prophets
- Question III. In What Way Prophecy, or Divine Revelation, Is to Be Distinguished from Divination, or Diabolic Revelation
- Question III, Section I. On What Is Necessary for Someone Who Will Judge Concerning a Revelation
- Question III, Section II. On the Person to Whom the Revelation Has Been Made
- Question III, Section III. On Revelations of Women Who Are Not Saints
- Question III, Section IV. On Prophecies or Revelations of Virgins or Women Who Have Been Canonized and Are Known for Sanctity
- Question III, Section V. On Indications Drawn from the Nature of the Revelation Itself
- Question III, Section VI. On Indications Sought from the Circumstances of Revelations
Book IV, Chapter II — On Divination
- Question I. What Is Divination?
- Question II. What Hidden Things Can a Demon Reveal?
- Question III. How Divination Is Distinguished from Prophecy and Conjectation
- Question IV. What Kind of Sin Is Divination?
- Question V. How Many Kinds of Divination Are There?
- Question VI. On the Species of Divination in Which Open Invocation Intervenes
- Question VI, Section II. On Various Modes of Mangany, and First on Necromancy
- Question VI, Section III. On Hydromancy
- Question VI, Section IV. On Other Kinds of Mangany
- Question VII. On the Species of Mangany in Which There Is Either No Explicit Pact, or a Pact Very Much Hidden
- Question VII, Section I. On Haruspicy or Ariolation
- Question VII, Section II. On Augury and Auspice
- Question VII, Section III. On Illicit Lots
- Question VII, Section IV. What Kind of Sin Is in These Things?
Book IV, Chapter III — On Conjectation
- Question I. On Conjectation from the Stars
- Question II. On Conjectation from the Elements, Meteors, Plants, Trees, and Brute Animals
- Question III. On the Conjectation of Physicians
- Question IV. On Physiognomic Foreknowledge
- Question V. On Chiromancy
- Question VI. On Conjectation from Dreams
Book IV, Chapter IV — On Political Conjectation, or On Lots
- Question I. On the Divisory Lot
- Question II. On the Contract of Chance, or Lottery
- Question III. On Canonical Purgation
- Question IV. On Vulgar Purgations
- Question IV, Section I. On Provocation to Divine Judgment
- Question IV, Section II. On Purgation by Monomachy
- Question IV, Section III. On Vulgar Purgation by Fire
- Question IV, Section IV. On Vulgar Purgation by Water
- Question V, Section I. The Opinion and Arguments of Adolf Scribonius Are Discussed
- Question V, Section II. The Opinion and Arguments of a Certain Catholic Jurist Are Examined
- Question V, Section III. The True Negative Opinion Is Proposed and Proved
- Question VI. On Certain Other Vulgar Proofs