The deadliest working Scot recorded is also the most respectable one.
What this is
The shortest entry here and the most dangerous thing in Scot's chapter. No materials, no timing, no circle, no barbarous words. A psalm, said aloud against somebody, and a deadline.
It sits in the book almost unremarked, two lines between Saint Adelbert's curse and a new chapter. Everything Scot thought was a conjuring trick, he took apart. This one he simply reports.
What the text was understood to do
To kill, by reciting a psalm against a named person.
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 What follows is a historical document and a reading of it.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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