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==Controversy== | ==Controversy== | ||
William Perkins sought to refute Scot, and was joined by the powerful James VI of Scotland in his ''[[ | William Perkins sought to refute Scot, and was joined by the powerful James VI of Scotland in his ''[[Daemonologie]]'' (1597), referring to the opinions of Scot as "damnable". John Rainolds in ''Censura Librorum Apocryphorum'' (1611), Richard Bernard in ''Guide to Grand Jurymen'' (1627), Joseph Glanvill in ''Philosophical Considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft'' (1666), and Meric Casaubon in ''Credulity and Uncredulity'' (1668) continued the attack on Scot's position. | ||
Scot found contemporary support in the influential Samuel Harsnet, and his views continued to be defended later by Thomas Ady Candle in the ''Dark: Or, A Treatise concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft'' (1656), and by John Webster in ''The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft'' (1677) and was known to typical lay sceptics such as Henry Oxinden. | Scot found contemporary support in the influential Samuel Harsnet, and his views continued to be defended later by Thomas Ady Candle in the ''Dark: Or, A Treatise concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft'' (1656), and by John Webster in ''The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft'' (1677) and was known to typical lay sceptics such as Henry Oxinden. | ||