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The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And…
The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And the spiritual navigator, bound for the Holy Land. In three sermons. By Thomas Adams.The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And the spiritual navigator, bound for the Holy Land. In three sermons. By Thomas Adams.
London: printed by William Jaggard, 1615London: printed by William Iaggard, 1615
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LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBS.LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBES.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To come home, there be wolves every where in abundance. I do not mean literally those, whom the Greeks call [Greek or Hebrew]: whereof I have read in divers stories. And more authentically reported by Doctor Joseph Hall, in his short Epistolical discourse of his Travels, to abound in Ardenna; called by the Inhabitants Lougarous; in English, Witchwolues; witches that had put on the form of those cruel beasts. Aristotle in his second book of the nature of beasts, saith that in India is a wolf, that ⟨p. 27⟩hath 3. rows of teeth above, hath feet like a Lyon, face like a man, and the tail of a Scorpion: his voice like a mans voice, and shrill as a Trumpet: and is [Greek or Hebrew], as these wolves are.
To come home, there bee wolues euery where in abundance. I doe not meane literally those, whō the Greekes call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: whereof I haue read in diuers stories. And more authentically reported by Doctor Ioseph Hall, in his short Epistolicall discourse of his Trauels, to abound in Ardenna; called by the Inhabitants Lougarous; in English, VVitchwolues; witches that had put on the forme of those cruell beasts. Aristotle in his second booke of the nature of beasts, saith that in India is a wolfe, that ⟨p. 27⟩hath 3. rowes of teeth aboue, hath feet like a Lyon, face like a man, and the tayle of a Scorpion: his voice like a mans voice, and shrill as a Trumpet: and is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as these wolues are.
But mystical wolves: ravenous in the forms of men: having a greater similitude to wolves in the disposition of their minds, then dissimilitude in the composition of their bodies. The wicked have many resemblances to wolves. Desire of brevity shall reduce them to four. Sterility, ferocity, voracity, subtlety.