The man has already been chosen by the time God is asked to choose him.
What this is
The plainest statement of intent in the collection. No detection, no pretence of justice. The operator names the person he means to beat, and then beats something else.
It is also the shortest route to the idea under most of this material. It needs a stick and a covered table, and it works by assertion: the wand is cut in a man's name, so the wand is the man, so the table is his back.
What the text was understood to do
To beat or maim a thief or any other enemy at a distance.
A note before the text. What follows is a historical document and a reading of it. It is recorded, not recommended.
The text, the reading of it, and where to find it.
The passage as Reginald Scot printed it in 1584, quoted in full and unaltered; the same passage in modern English; how the working was put together and what each part of it was for; the commentary; and the book, chapter and page it stands on.
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