Abstract
The witch trials were less robust in England than in contiental Europe and the efforts of England's first skeptic, Reginal Scot, may have contributed to the outcome. Scot's efforts to debunk witchraft in his book The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), were done so in a logical, methodical and theological manner. King James VI of Scotland felt the need call out the doubters of witchcraft, and named Scot specifially, in his own work Daemonologie (1597) and upon becoming King James I of England, he banned Scot's book. It is apparent, however, through the King's changing attitudes and eventual desire to reveal the hoaxes for what they were it becomes evident that the information Scot sought to reveal did in deed have an impact on the King.
Highlights
Tal Europe, which was the result of the failure to fully embrace diabolism
An air of skepticism appeared to revolve around the notion of diabolism being the root of male?icent magic and may have kept diabolism from embedding itself in the beliefs and traditions of the common English people
Reginald Scot was vehemently opposed to the idea that witchcraft resulted from the spiritual realm
Summary
An air of skepticism appeared to revolve around the notion of diabolism being the root of male?icent magic and may have kept diabolism from embedding itself in the beliefs and traditions of the common English people.
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