General Essay on Magic
Divine names corresponding to the number of 72
Virtues of the Sun-flower
To prevent one from the fear of apparitions
To draw fish together to one place
To impregnate a female with one of its species
To provoke one to a quarrelsome disposition
To know if a sick person will live or die
To create affection between man and wife
To make an animal drop down as if dead
To prevent bees from going away
To collect a multitude of dogs together
To prevent a dog barking
To kill a mad dog instantaneously
To break a silver cup into small particles
To bring a number of hares together
To prevent a person from sleeping
How a cow’s milk may be taken away
To open any lock whatever
How a person may know what will happen
To draw a flock of birds together
How to enchant all the company in a room
To make the stars appear fighting together
To make a person run out of breath for fear
To produce a worm with a tail like a blackbird
To make a room seem full of serpents
A specific for the epilepsy or fits
To attract and bring pigeons to a dove-cot
To make potage appear full of worms
To make an ox follow you
To prevent a tree from bearing fruit
To draw fish to a net in great numbers
To remove pains in the loins and legs
To assuage the pain of children cutting their teeth
To banish fear and protect one from injury
To prevent pains in the eyes
The virtues of dog’s rib and Venus wort
To produce abundant crops
How a man may know if his wife be chaste
To make people start from their beds
How a person may render himself invisible
To excite sorrow, fear, and strife
To create joy
How the gift of prescience may be obtained
How to suffer the most excruciating pain
The property of the asbestos
To prevent inebriation
The virtues of armadus in dreams
To allay tempests
To make the sun appear of a blood colour
To cool boiling water instantaneously
The virtues of the gagates
To know a person’s secrets in their sleep
To cure melancholy and the quartan
To prevent abortion in pregnant women
To know if victuals be poisoned
To prevent danger in travelling
To know if a wife encourage a gallant
To cure the bite of any venomous creature
To render anything incombustible
How the rainbow may be imitated
To discover the secret thoughts of a person
To inherit a portion of the lion’s courage
How a person may be made very amorous
To prevent pregnancy in women
To make a beast return to his stall
To prevent an ox from feeding
To prevent a cock from crowing
To know if water is mixed with wine
An effectual remedy for the piles
The virtues of ants’ eggs
To purge a house from venomous creatures
To recover the affection of a wife
Hair prevented from growing
How any person’s secrets may be known
To facilitate the cutting of children’s teeth
How birds may easily be caught
A man may be made to appear a headless trunk
How one vessel may break all others
To convert the human face into that of a dog’s
How one may see what is invisible to others
Perpetual impotence, how it may be caused
How to go invisible
An easy method of catching moles
To untie the most intricate knot by herbs
To terrify one in his sleep
To know a woman’s secrets in her sleep
To know in one’s sleep both good and evil
To make a house appear full of serpents
To prevent the croaking of frogs
To prevent fire from burning the body
To see as well by night as by day
To extinguish and rekindle a lamp with the hand
To make the fruit of trees fall off
How to kill a serpent instantaneously
How conception is to be accelerated
To make an artificial topaz
How to cause an abhorrence to wine
To make an apartment appear full of birds
To make a candle to move of itself
To cause a person give manifest tokens of fear
To make a carbuncle to shine by night
Charms to find out a thief
Another way to find out a thief
To put out the thief’s eye
How to shew the thief’s face in a glass
Three charms against the falling sickness
A charm to drive away spirits that haunt a house
A charm to open locks
Charm against the tooth-ache
A charm to relieve a woman in travail
To heal the king’s evil
A charm for the head-ache
To know if an absent person is well
A powder for curing wounds at a distance
Virtues of mineral cinnabar
Choice secrets in astrology
A safe way to secure a house
A safeguard for all out-houses, cattle, corn, &c.
For an orchard, and how to take a thief
To drive away ghosts that haunt a house
For the prevention of witchcraft
To prevent affrightening dreams
To remove witchcraft and make the witch appear
To prevent dogs barking in the night time
To draw a number of cats together
A pledget to wear about one’s neck
To prevent being robbed on the road
To make a thief return the stolen goods
To spot a white horse with black spots
To dapple a horse
How to make a man or woman love you
To know if a female be a pure virgin
To know if a man has lost his maidenhead
To make an enchanting ring
To make a true love powder
The use of the female fern seed
To dissolve bewitched love, and to cause love
Magical cures for men that are bewitched
Ointments used for the transportation of witches
Another receipt for the same purpose
To prevent cattle from eating
Charms to procure love
What is counted lucky and what unlucky
To find out a witch, and cure witchcraft
Charms to cure a bloody flux
A charm to find her that bewitched your cattle
Another for all that have bewitched cattle
To set a horse head on a man’s shoulders
To raise spirits, bind devils, and prevent mischief
The form of adjuring spirits to arise and appear
How to go invisible by magic
Infallible signs of the weather
Curious observations on the seasons of the year
Infallible signs of rain and drizzly weather
The signs of rain by creatures
Signs of wind and storms arising
Signs of wind shifting or changing
Signs of storms ceasing
Signs of very hot weather
Signs of a cold and hard winter
Prognosticks of fair weather by the planets
Signs of hail, violent and moderate
Signs of snow and drizzly sleet
Prognosticks of frosty weather
Signs of a great thaw
A table of the weather, by Herschell
How to know when corn or meal will be cheap
For putting of devils to the flight
Concerning children born in any day of the week
Of the fate of children by the moon’s age
Names and characters of the twelve signs