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− | * How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of [[Hydrostatic Glass]]) | + | *The properties of the Adamant Stone |
+ | *The secrets properties of the Egge | ||
+ | *A proper conclusion of an Hasell Sticke | ||
+ | *A proper practise to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens | ||
+ | *To make any soule of what condition the same be, to have feathers all white | ||
+ | *To make a Candle burne in the water | ||
+ | *To make a woman, thta she shall not eate of the meares set upon the Table | ||
+ | *A Proper secret of the Philosophers, to make a Stone burne without fyre | ||
+ | *To make one to see fearefull fights in his sleepe | ||
+ | *Howe to turne water into wine, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *To make a lyght or Candle, to endure bruning without going out by any winde, so long as the substance endureth | ||
+ | *How to make quarters of wood to hang so fast together, that they can not be shaken a funder without brealing | ||
+ | *How to make a colour like to gold in understanding this secrete | ||
+ | *To make silver like any mettell, which shall so continue a long tyme | ||
+ | *How to sticke an Iron or Steele Bodkin, into the head of either Cocke, Henne, or Chicken | ||
+ | *To make a Candle that will not goe oat, untyll the whole substaunce be wasted | ||
+ | *How to make Iron soft, a proper secret | ||
+ | *To make a Sword, Dagger, or Knife to cut Iron, so easilie as Leade | ||
+ | *How to keepe weapons cleane and fayre for a long tyme | ||
+ | *How to make Steele so soft as past, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to make Hennes lay Egges, all the winter through | ||
+ | *How to make the Chamber appeare full of Snakes and Adders | ||
+ | *How to make letters appeare of the colour of Gold, Copper, or Silver | ||
+ | *How to make any peece of Iron to appear lyke golde | ||
+ | *Howe to have freshe roses at all tymes of the yeere, sundrie wayes taughe | ||
+ | *How to make Beanes and other feeds growe up in foure houres | ||
+ | *To make a Candle of Ise, to burnelyke into an other Candle | ||
+ | *To make fleshe to seeme to crall full or woormes | ||
+ | *How to make a light in the night tyme, that all things round about thy hall or parlour, shall appeare both blacke and greene | ||
+ | *Howe to make Rootes to have what proper forme you will on them | ||
+ | *How to breake a stone which the fyst, of the thicknesse of ones hand | ||
+ | *To make an herbe to growe, which shal have many favours and tastes | ||
+ | *How to make sundry devises or Armes, or such lyke, in a Rose, Carnation or Flowers de luce, or Lilly | ||
+ | *To write what you lyst on a Steele dagger or Knife | ||
+ | *Howe to breake a newe and bigge Rope, wtih the handes only | ||
+ | *How to make white Flowers lyke as the Lillie, white Rose and such lyke to be redde | ||
+ | *How to make a hollow Ring to daunce by it selfe, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *To make Glew to holde together so hard as a stone, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *To make an Apple move on the Table, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *To make Roses and other flowers that be red, to become white | ||
+ | *How to write letters on the Egshel, that the same letters may appeare within on the Egge | ||
+ | *How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of [[Hydrostatic Glass]]) | ||
+ | *How to kyll Fleas divers wayes | ||
+ | *How to make a potte of glasse not to sinke in the water, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to make a thin Glew, verie profitable, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to drawe a Ring of, being very hard thrust on, and the finger swelled | ||
+ | *To make fruites, as Apples, Peares, Quinces, and such lyke, to have what porper form you will on them | ||
+ | *How to cut a Glasse, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to fosten Christall, to imprint what you lyst therein, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to walke on the water, aproper secrete | ||
+ | *To make a Candle to burne, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to drawe many Candles, the one after the other, being layd a foote distaunce or more a funder | ||
+ | *How to cutte an Apple into many peeces, without harming of the skinne or paring | ||
+ | *How to make a Cup of Glasse, being set in the fire, not to burne | ||
+ | *How to make a Candle to be mervailed at, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to make Quicksilver, in a manner so hard as Sylver | ||
+ | *How to see many and divers stranges sigtes in an Urinall | ||
+ | *How to catch Fowles without a Nette | ||
+ | *How to make a loafe of bread newe set upon the Table, to leape of | ||
+ | *How to make an Egge flie about a merrie conclusion | ||
+ | *How to make artificiall fyre divers wayes, and that mervailous | ||
+ | *How to know a naturall precious stone, from a counterfeite | ||
+ | *How to make a man to appeare on a flame burning, without any harme | ||
+ | *How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day | ||
+ | *How to make two Dogges fight together, a proper secrete | ||
+ | *How to make a Bitch, that she shall not desire to be covered with any Dog | ||
+ | *To make a blowne bladder to daunce and skip from place to place | ||
+ | *How to cast foorth any woorme or Snake entered within the body | ||
+ | *How to make a Hen to run away with great feare | ||
+ | *How to finde a person drowned, that have beene sought for | ||
+ | *How to deale with Iron many wayes right profitable | ||
+ | *To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image, painted on the wall | ||
+ | *To take Fishe by night | ||
+ | *To make that no Dog barke at you | ||
+ | *To make Birdes come to your Culverhouse | ||
+ | *To put an Apple in a Viall | ||
+ | *To put an Egge in a Viall | ||
+ | *To make folke seeme blacke | ||
+ | *To proove if a mayden be cleane | ||
+ | *To knowe if a sicke person shall die or not | ||
+ | *To make salt water freshe | ||
+ | *To kindle fyre at the Sunne | ||
+ | *To see by night as by day | ||
+ | *To make flesh cleane in the pot | ||
+ | *To take Byrdes | ||
+ | *To make Silke Woormes | ||
+ | *To eatte Hennes or Capons | ||
+ | *That one shall not be dronke | ||
+ | *To make a good baite for Fishe, at all seasons of the yeere | ||
+ | *To make an Egge goe up to the Spere ende | ||
+ | *To make fishe or flesh seeme rawe | ||
+ | *To make Potage to run out of the pot | ||
+ | *To kyll Hennes or Duckes | ||
+ | *To make Coales to burne a great whyle | ||
+ | *That a man shall not be wearie of going | ||
+ | *Ad caqiendum Pisees | ||
+ | *To make Yearne and lynnen Cloath white | ||
+ | *To make that a Horse may not goe through a streete | ||
+ | *To knowe if a Woman be with a man childe, or not | ||
+ | *To eate thy feete for going | ||
+ | *To have fayre white teeth | ||
+ | *To take Fleas | ||
== References == | == References == |
Revision as of 21:47, 18 January 2016
Entitled Natural and Artificial Conclusions, one of the first book in English to include magic tricks.
A Brief and Pleasant Treatise | |
Author | Thomas Hill |
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Publication Date | 1581 |
Language | English |
CONTENTS
- The properties of the Adamant Stone
- The secrets properties of the Egge
- A proper conclusion of an Hasell Sticke
- A proper practise to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens
- To make any soule of what condition the same be, to have feathers all white
- To make a Candle burne in the water
- To make a woman, thta she shall not eate of the meares set upon the Table
- A Proper secret of the Philosophers, to make a Stone burne without fyre
- To make one to see fearefull fights in his sleepe
- Howe to turne water into wine, a proper secrete
- To make a lyght or Candle, to endure bruning without going out by any winde, so long as the substance endureth
- How to make quarters of wood to hang so fast together, that they can not be shaken a funder without brealing
- How to make a colour like to gold in understanding this secrete
- To make silver like any mettell, which shall so continue a long tyme
- How to sticke an Iron or Steele Bodkin, into the head of either Cocke, Henne, or Chicken
- To make a Candle that will not goe oat, untyll the whole substaunce be wasted
- How to make Iron soft, a proper secret
- To make a Sword, Dagger, or Knife to cut Iron, so easilie as Leade
- How to keepe weapons cleane and fayre for a long tyme
- How to make Steele so soft as past, a proper secrete
- How to make Hennes lay Egges, all the winter through
- How to make the Chamber appeare full of Snakes and Adders
- How to make letters appeare of the colour of Gold, Copper, or Silver
- How to make any peece of Iron to appear lyke golde
- Howe to have freshe roses at all tymes of the yeere, sundrie wayes taughe
- How to make Beanes and other feeds growe up in foure houres
- To make a Candle of Ise, to burnelyke into an other Candle
- To make fleshe to seeme to crall full or woormes
- How to make a light in the night tyme, that all things round about thy hall or parlour, shall appeare both blacke and greene
- Howe to make Rootes to have what proper forme you will on them
- How to breake a stone which the fyst, of the thicknesse of ones hand
- To make an herbe to growe, which shal have many favours and tastes
- How to make sundry devises or Armes, or such lyke, in a Rose, Carnation or Flowers de luce, or Lilly
- To write what you lyst on a Steele dagger or Knife
- Howe to breake a newe and bigge Rope, wtih the handes only
- How to make white Flowers lyke as the Lillie, white Rose and such lyke to be redde
- How to make a hollow Ring to daunce by it selfe, a proper secrete
- To make Glew to holde together so hard as a stone, a proper secrete
- To make an Apple move on the Table, a proper secrete
- To make Roses and other flowers that be red, to become white
- How to write letters on the Egshel, that the same letters may appeare within on the Egge
- How to make a Bottle or a narrow mouth pot full of water or milke, not to spyll or shed foorth (ancester of Hydrostatic Glass)
- How to kyll Fleas divers wayes
- How to make a potte of glasse not to sinke in the water, a proper secrete
- How to make a thin Glew, verie profitable, a proper secrete
- How to drawe a Ring of, being very hard thrust on, and the finger swelled
- To make fruites, as Apples, Peares, Quinces, and such lyke, to have what porper form you will on them
- How to cut a Glasse, a proper secrete
- How to fosten Christall, to imprint what you lyst therein, a proper secrete
- How to walke on the water, aproper secrete
- To make a Candle to burne, a proper secrete
- How to drawe many Candles, the one after the other, being layd a foote distaunce or more a funder
- How to cutte an Apple into many peeces, without harming of the skinne or paring
- How to make a Cup of Glasse, being set in the fire, not to burne
- How to make a Candle to be mervailed at, a proper secrete
- How to make Quicksilver, in a manner so hard as Sylver
- How to see many and divers stranges sigtes in an Urinall
- How to catch Fowles without a Nette
- How to make a loafe of bread newe set upon the Table, to leape of
- How to make an Egge flie about a merrie conclusion
- How to make artificiall fyre divers wayes, and that mervailous
- How to know a naturall precious stone, from a counterfeite
- How to make a man to appeare on a flame burning, without any harme
- How to make the Chamber as light by night as by day
- How to make two Dogges fight together, a proper secrete
- How to make a Bitch, that she shall not desire to be covered with any Dog
- To make a blowne bladder to daunce and skip from place to place
- How to cast foorth any woorme or Snake entered within the body
- How to make a Hen to run away with great feare
- How to finde a person drowned, that have beene sought for
- How to deale with Iron many wayes right profitable
- To light a Candle at the mouth of an Image, painted on the wall
- To take Fishe by night
- To make that no Dog barke at you
- To make Birdes come to your Culverhouse
- To put an Apple in a Viall
- To put an Egge in a Viall
- To make folke seeme blacke
- To proove if a mayden be cleane
- To knowe if a sicke person shall die or not
- To make salt water freshe
- To kindle fyre at the Sunne
- To see by night as by day
- To make flesh cleane in the pot
- To take Byrdes
- To make Silke Woormes
- To eatte Hennes or Capons
- That one shall not be dronke
- To make a good baite for Fishe, at all seasons of the yeere
- To make an Egge goe up to the Spere ende
- To make fishe or flesh seeme rawe
- To make Potage to run out of the pot
- To kyll Hennes or Duckes
- To make Coales to burne a great whyle
- That a man shall not be wearie of going
- Ad caqiendum Pisees
- To make Yearne and lynnen Cloath white
- To make that a Horse may not goe through a streete
- To knowe if a Woman be with a man childe, or not
- To eate thy feete for going
- To have fayre white teeth
- To take Fleas
References