Hierarchy by Omens,
Entrails, Augurs, Oracles, and such like Pageantry of Hell; and
how they went off the Stage at last by the Introduction of true
Religion_ 245

CHAP. VI.

_Of the extraordinary Appearances of the Devil, and particularly
of the Cloven-Foot_ 265

CHAP. VII.

_Whether is most hurtful to the World, the_ Devil _walking about
without his Cloven-Foot, or the Cloven-Foot walking about without
the_ Devil? 282

CHAP. VIII.

_Of the Cloven-Foot walking about the World without the_ Devil
(viz.) _of Witches making Bargains with the_ Devil, _and
particularly of selling the Soul to the_ Devil 316

CHAP. IX.

_Of the Tools the_ Devil _works with_ (viz.) _Witches, Wizards
or Warlocks, Conjurers, Magicians, Diviners, Astrologers,
Interpreters of Dreams, Tellers of Fortunes; and above all the
rest, his particular modern Privy-Counsellors call'd Wits and
Fools_ 339

CHAP. X.

_Of the various Methods the Devil takes to converse with Mankind_ 352

CHAP. XI.

_Of Divination, Sorcery, the Black-Art, Pawawing, and such like
Pretenders to Devilisms, and how far the_ Devil _is or is not
concern'd in them_ 377

The CONCLUSION.

_Of the_ Devil'_s last Scene of Liberty, and what may be supposed
to be his End; with what we are to understand of his being
tormented for ever and ever_ 404

THE
HISTORY
OF THE
DEVIL, _&c._

CHAP. I.

_Being an Introduction to the whole Work._

I doubt not but the title of this book will amuse some of my reading
friends a little at first; they will make a pause, perhaps, as they do
at a witch's prayer, and be some time resolving whether they had best
look into it or no, lest they should really raise the _Devil_ by reading
his story.

Children and old women have told themselves so many frightful things _of
the Devil_, and have form'd ideas of him in their minds, in so many
horrible and monstrous shapes, that really it were enough to fright the
_Devil_ himself, to meet himself in the dark, dress'd up in the several
figures which imagination has form'd for him in