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and
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largefafer
TO
THE
KIND
READER.
"TTTE
place V
adumbrated,
before you
Magic
Incaniaimts
the
as
saying
with
goes,
an
untrained
pencil.
Should
they
fail
to
supply
that
agreeable
entertainment
which
you
perhaps
cipate, anti-
do
not,
I
pray you,
be
surprised,
seeing
that
they,
being
usually
recited
with
a
murmur
grating
harshly
the
on
thrill
ear,
the
hearers
with
emotions
of
dread
rather
than
of
pleasure.
Still,
however,
since
mortals
differ
amazingly
in
their
tastes
and
inclinations
"
for
one,
instance,
ing delight-
in
the
flexible
and
subtle
harmonies
of
song,
and
another
finding
soothing
influence
in
the
hoarse
clang
of
the
trumpet
and
drum
we
"
cherish
no
small
hope
that
some
portions
of
the
work
we
have
produced
will
pleasantly
entertam
You you.
will
yourself
see
that,
from
the
ness Copious-
of
the
matter
to
be
discussed,
it
were
better
by
far
for
us
to
review
in
detached
sections
the
impostures
practised
by
the
ancients
;
for
should
we
choose of
nol
to
place
berore has
you
all
that
a
Itie whole
a
supcistiIliad, sheets,
But that
the
a
inventei!, filling
but
few
be
composed
on
by plan
us.
what
this
Irealise
some
together, Magic
name,
Chapter
in
I. contains
;
statements
general
Chapter
and the salves
tl.
enquires
of of
origin, object,
III. examines
mode powers
some
Incantation words
;
Chapter
and which
Chapter
seem
IV., capable
Bnally,
of
being
advanced reader
t
my
excuse
thesis.
errors,
Farewell,
and !
courleoos
receive
with
favour
youthful
efforts
TREATYSE
OF
^^adtc
^ncantattone.
CHAPTER
I.
"
I.
"yX
J-
is
a
peculiarity
of
human
aflairs
that
they
do
not
for
long
keep
themselves
within
their
ordinary
bounds,
but
that,
impelled
by
the
doom
of
their
own
instability,
they
very
readily
rush
headlong
into
one or
other
of
opposite
extremes.
The
human
mind
itself,
forgetful
too
often
that
its
nature
is
but
finite,
wanders
beyond
its proper
sphere,
and,
obedient
only
to
its
own
impulses,
strives
either
to
gain
an
exact
knowledge
of
what
requires
boundless
research,
or
even
to
achieve
what surpasses
the
limits
of
nature.
Each
of
these
aims
tends
with
greater
certainty
to
dull
rather
than
to
brighten
the up
edge
of
the
intellect,
and
to
depress
rather
than
to
exalt
the
force
of
nature.
And
thus due
the
Intellect, while
and the
pushing
iLi
cuiiosity beyond
itching
them
cannot to
bounds,
of
Will, while
of
do
an
a.
multitude
into
abfss
of
errors,
they
holier
possibljr eraei^
before them
unless for
light shines
guidance.
8 It.
MONG many it
was
the
be^hen
great
-XA.
ambition
were
individuals,
U
greatest
dg
inaiii
much
waves,
naiek,
carried
a
away
by these
of
no
professed,
^
therefore,
which others.
to to
science
vulgar
aloof all the
stamp,
from
but all
one
appeanmce
stood above of
the
They
to
a
were,
things,
divine
was
solicitous
attain
knowledge
this
will, beii^
not
of
opinion
with
that
knowledge
of
a
science
more
solid find
out
kind. the
inasmuch
the
so
as
they
wished the of
to
Deity
many discover entrails all which
to
without
Ddty
whirlpools
that of Will
superstition
from the and
screams
they
of
tried
to
fowb,
of birds
tbe
"
brute
beasts,
the
Sight
more
indications, and
under studies there for
were
many ol
besides,
came
them vain
the did
name
divination. find
recourse
not,
some
however,
who had
favour
to
all, for
means
spreading
they
and
their
reputation
into the
among
secret
vulgar.
of
Hence nature,
pried
chambers
lealonsly
investigated
the
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
properties
substances.
of
herbs
and
metals
and
other
natural
They supplied
also
sometimes
by
of
their
art
and
ingenuity
the
the
defects
nature,
and
since
knowledge
to
of
these
matters
was
strictly
multitude
confined
the
adepts,
with
the
untutored
regarded
them
overpowering
admiration
and
awe,
accepted
oracles,
their
utterances
as
if
they
were
inspired
and
greeted Magi,
and
them
with
peculiar
name,
calling
them
their
art
Magic.
"
"
III.
T3UT -X3
most
although
authors
we
do
not
deny
the
that
under
name
of
Divination
have
included
Magic
read
also,
has
together
been
done
with
its
different
varieties,
as
we
by
Caspar
Peucer,*
distinction
yet between
still,
since
there
is
this
leading
former
the
two
"
that
the
consists
in
speculation
and
the
latter
mainly
in
practice, Magic
while,
moreover,
there
are
many
sorts
of
which
have
no
connection
with
tion Divina-
"
we
have
thereby
while
been
led
to
think
that
it
would
be
worth
to
separate
between
the
one
from
the
other,
and
to
distinguish
them
with
some
precision.
"
IV.
rpiHE
-L
over
name,
then,
from
of
has
passed
for
the
to
us
Persians
call
their
sages
Magi,
as
the
Greeks
*In
the
book of
which
he
hasVritten
Concerning
the
Principal
Sorts
Devinations.
10
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
call
9uch
men
philosophets,
bards,
the
the
Latins
wise
men,
Egyptians
end
prophets,
and which
a
Indians
gymnosophists
ChaidEcans.
Brabmans,
name
Assyrians
men
weie
The
was
by
Che
designated
one,
in
oulsel
were
highly
who
honourable
since
they
of
the
the
of
worship
the of natural the
the
gods,
and
world,
the
motions
heaven!;
of the
bodies,
nature
coming
men.
They
sometimes
medicine,
Ibe with
and
Mantuanus
Ihe
represents
"Among
is
Magiin
who of real knows the and
is
one
acquainted
of herbs
not
stars,
the
worship
call the
'on
gods."
natui:il
does
scruple
men
which
scans
these
professed
works of
optical science
in after of
to
which
the
nature
their
most
manifeslalions."t
of time their
to
But be
covetous
parade whereby
certain dead
CO
knowledge
and
the
ance performChe
rlCes, nether
Co
summon
spirits
force
from reveal
nature
"
world,
of
and
an
to
these and
them nay,
Chings
when
abstruse
secret
they osCenCaliously,
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
II
though
words and
untruthfully,
acts
boasted
that
by
impious
and could
they
then
k\iew
everything
became
do
everything
"
their
name
infamous,
and
they
had
were
commonly dealings
condemns
regarded
with the
as
impostors,
himself.*
who
secret
devil
Apuleitts,
and
therefore9
Magic f*"
"
as
an
impure
far
bastard
art,
is
a
for
he
says:
Magic,
the
laws
so
I
as
hear,
thing
consigned
beeu
to
for
punishment, by
the Twelve
having
Tables,
of
Trom
of
old
interdicted
on
"ccoun-
of
the
incredible
enticements
its
profits;
it is
wherefore,
foul
also, horrible,
it
is
not
less
secret
than
and
being
thrust
an
art
practised
into
in
the
night-watches
witnesses
sind
away
darkness,
with
no
to
see
its
abominations
or
hear
its
muttered
spells."
"
V.
UT
just
forth
as
we
often
enough
and
see
gushing spring,
by
the
J-^
from
pure
and
crystal
streams
that
are
polluted
channel
in
empoisoned they
that
foulness
of
the
which
run,
so
also
it
very
frequently
excellent
happens
attracts unto
an
ar^
in
itself
most
itself
through
is
the
fault
of
its
practitoners,
know,
has been
much
that
Vicious,
and
such,
we
the
lot
of
Magic,
view,
which*
when
considered
from
this
point
of
emerges
into
two-fold
art,
the
one
commendable
and
See
Barnab. Dtmonstrat,
Brissonius
de
Regno
fropoi,
4,
Persarum
}
also,
Huetius
Evangel.
,
c.
5.
In
Apol.^
p.
493.
natural, of which
to treat al
it
is not
large, the
to
again
other
are
so
disallowed
and of the
inbmons,
fondest
which,
ju^leiies
often and
superstition, such
dexterous Incantations
use
practised belong
to
by
also the
the
of the
hands
e;es,
commonly
of which
we
called
now
Magical,
consideration
straightway
CHAPTER
II.
S I.
TNCANTATION
which
is the
called Germans
by
the hit
-L
Greeks
or
MpSdi,
even
and
by
SNCfltaltniBf
Stn. either of
we
semetimes be
an
bai
Vnffirrc
wherein
describe
to
act
of
Magic,
the
by
words
alone,
and
or
also
by
introduction labour
thin
we
certain
some
things
they
From
to at
produce
once
marvellous that
or
learn few
in many, and
Incantation, required
in
to
words uttered
we
whether
be
[verin prophBrieii\,
discard inscribed without
on
hence notice
these
further
amulets
words other
them,
of
marks,
this kind
ceremonies
superstitious acts
as
perfonDedindlence,
is often
the
case.
gll.
rr^HAT -1-
the fraudulent
origin
art
of is
this
superstitious enough,
and
is
ancient
attested
alike
by
sacred
and
by
profane
literature.
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
God
himself
more
than
once
inculcates
on
the
Jews
that
that
they
must
hot
by
superstitious
of
rites
of
kind
expose
to
the
derision
the
Gentiles
his
most
holy
writer,
name.*
And
if
you certain
would
hear
profane
the
author
of
a
old
work
on
Etymology
is of
says
"The
:
"
worship
We do
by
not
Incanta-
tation
ancient
date."
wish
to
notice
here
the
vaunts
which
writerst
have
made
about
Zoroaster,
of
Orpheus,
whom is
the
two
men
called
Osthanes
(one
said
to
have
infected
with
this
art
Xerxes
himselO
if
and
many
others,
ascertain
being
where
content,
we
can
merely
had its
appears in
what
to
have
earliest
cradle,
from
manner
it
has
been
propagated
of
nation
to
nation.
Ham,
his
the
son
Noah,
is
said
to
have
inscribed
arts
on
metallic
plates might
be
and
the
hardest
stones,
in
so
that
they
of the
preserved being
from
injury perhaps
him
the
time
deluge,
it would
influenced
by
to
the
fear
that
not
be
allowed
take
into
the
ark
book
filled
with
these
vanities.
But
Deut.
xviii.
lo,
ii,
etc.
-f Plin.
bk.
XXX.,
H.
C.
Justin,
about
the his
hepnmng
on
of
his
Efit,
p.
Hist, ;
Nicol.
Peucerus
Perottua
in
Comment,
Martialy Polyd.
M.
647
de
in
Divinat.^
bk.
p.
22.
m.
146
Virgil.,
Hilscher adduces
Rer.
hvent.y
i,
c.
in
his
Dissert,
on
the
Study
of
and
Gentile
Phihsopky,
Cassianusy
these Deacon.
from
Peter
Comestor
John
the
ielf
iilaui
not
of
dcabc
je( tbme
to
I bait:
ff.iid ftoaad
be
id
(kabcine
Sctbs 2o03i3i. ioberited
wftccbn is sud
^diui
aeetci
sotioJ
the
amc
Joaepfe*
wko afieilack
an
Mimim,
ail
iba
Ha^
follj
wsnb
extent
bis (hk
mm
vickednm,
i?''r-(Ts
to
impoited
thai mu^
ID
an
(o
of
and
Bi
Migksini
Pcna. tbe
lull
thck
ippcmcc"
a*
Egjpt
of
Ftoa
tfaetc,
if
bf
son
oxmsioD,
tbe Pcniam
miscliirf
1"*V"
"W
woe
tu
creep
oeai
'Xissid
losairls
co
Heb(""n,
^ch]
oeigiiboais
lite inU"
ih; of
Egn'*'*'^
the
maaj
nace
""
BikaB.t
of the
Eodoc,
"
Manaoek grrat
Ki^
otbcn Haay
Je"Vt bf
their Ckcd
to
and
pcthaiH
ICM^
of tbe
esamplc. plukeopbcn
Accooitngty
nhienoo):
fceqaat
it
oae
jutunejk
poB uiot
ram
the
Je"s
letuiupl
and
and
EgjpiiuB,
borne infected tbe
to
that of
an
they
ihk amoog
nee,
Ac Ae
othei of
to
Bat.
tU,
Bwij die
tbe the of
g)o"7
Greeks
ait
u"mmg
hs abode like
an
paned
withiii
lake
Rome,
apoo
Magic ibem,
in thai ofsDoie with
iU-oaicoed loilowed
atteodaot
jogglaics,
as
siamhxaeoatdj
asBuned
tnin, and,
it
eitifheie
of
OeeoisB
pecoKaifoiai
idigMB,
"Book *Ntm.Ka.
^tKifm.
JmU.^ fFint
c.
4.
Book
of
Kinn
nriii.
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
it
was
thereby
into
the
mure
easily
where
enabled
to
win
its
way
people's
that
hearts,
it
struck
its
roots
so
deep,
even
to
this
very
day,
those
you
can,
alas
detect
various
traces
of
it
in
who
have
been
instructed
in
the
principles
of
a
better
religion.
"
III.
13
UT
the
rage
for
incantation
claimed
-"^
for
that
art
so
great
needs
superiority
wbh
rule
over
all
the
others
that
it
must
to
universal
nature,
and
to
deal
therewith
to
its
sovereign
to
pleasure, subject
whether
to
since
it
forsooth
aspired
creatures,
its
will,
not
living
but
rational
or
inanimate
objects
of
natural
also,
yea
even
very
perties pro-
objects,
Lucan
so
that
would
you
not
wonder
if,
"
**
as
says
The
world,
on
"
hearing
arrested
in
an
incantation,
its
course."
would
instantly
be
"
IV.
(^\P
V^
Jupiter
Gentiles,
and
the
other
gods
nevertheless
of
the
whom
they
arbiters
professed
destinies,
to
regard
asserts
as
the
of
human
Plato
that
they
can
be
fast
bound
in
the
fetters
of
incantations,
for
he
says
Book
vi.,
ii.
PharsaL, 0/
tie LawiJ^
463
Book
This
or
oassage the
(which Laws)
has
Transl.
occurs
in
the
xd
Dook
of
the be
Republic, unmeaning.
text
and
not
is
so
incorrectly
been
made
quoted,
from
as
to
The the
translation
therefore
the
accepted
of
Republic"
"
They
peisuade granted
and and and
can
theit
dupes
thai of
tn
(hey possess
power, sacri6c"E
by
the
gods,
eipiatii^
the midst hnve
to
by
a(
incantations,
pleasures
committed,
enemy well
as
feastings,
that
at
wrongs
one
that wishes
if any
they
the
small
injure the
blandishments
just
unjust
by
and say,
to
magic
succour
ties, persuading
them."
gods,
as
they
the
And,
according
the with
to
testimony
of Ihe
was
of
Livy,"
TuUus
Ifostilius,
been with
evoke
King
Romans, burned,
having (rather
to
struck his
lightning,
because,
horse,
when
endeavouring
to
Jupiter
in the
Elicius,
according
of ofiice
an chaste un-
the
roles he
laid had
down
not
Numa, properly.
performed
notices that
a
Pliny +
Tuccia,
Virgin, gods
in
a
by
to
invocation,
power of with
give
drawing
this when
to
are
sieve.
connection the
those
by
of
Romans,
be^eging
call forth because
enemies,
of the those
sought
cities,
could could
act
Tutelary
believed
or
gods
that
either
not
they
be
place
if
otherwise
talten,
because,
it would
they
an
capture
it, they
to
though!
the
be
of
impiety
take
gods
prisoners.
Mactobius
"B..kl,..
,1.
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
quotes these
an
invocation
of
this
nature,
conceived
in
terms:*
**0
Power
Divine,
whether
god
the
or
goddess
under
whose
guardianship
State,
the and Thou
are
Carthaginian
all,
who hast
people
received
and
before
guardianship
and beseech
of
this
city
and
people,
forsake
reverently
the
pray
of
you
that
ye
and
the
State
of
the
localities,
that
solemnities,
therefrom
the
itself,
the
and
and
ye
may
city,
and
the
people,
that
the
State,
with
dread,
Rome
being
and
surrendered,
and
ye
may
come
to
to
me
mine,
that
our
localities,
find
temples,
acceptance
solemnities,
and
and
our
city
may
more
favour
in
your under
eyes.
May
direction
ye
moreover
be
pleased
the Roman
to
take
your
myself
know and
and
people,
If ye shall
that
we
may
understand.
so
do,
then
vow
to
rear
temples
and
celebrate
games
in your
honour."
"
V.
11
UT
just
classes
as
the
Ancients
had
two
1/
of
gods,
rank,
certain
those
of
superior
followers
and
those
of
an
inferior
so
also
the
of
Magic
of
approached
their
of
their
gods
of
in
the
chants
ritual,
with
some a
show
reverence,
but
others
with
good
added
deal
of
freedom,
if forsooth
yea
they
the
even
sometimes
threats,
Book
iii.,
Saturnal,
B
c.
9.
l8
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
demons
refused
to
comply
from
with
their
requests.
enchanter
Kircher
instances
Porphyry
in
an
of
this
description,
the demons
who
an
access
of anger
against
his
behests
for
not
being
them
obsequious
from
to
scattered
against
these
the
phials
'*
of
his
wrath
blasting
desire I shall
thunderbolts
:
Unless
you
do
as
shatter
the
heavens,
or
disclose
the
mysteries
in
of
Isis,
or
divulge
the
the
secret
known
the
abyss,
boat
or
disperse
carries
on
blasts
of
the
hurricane
the
that
the
dead
(held
The
sacred
in
Egypt),
this ridiculous
or
the
limbs
of
Osiris."
reason
of
commina-
tion
we
can
learn
from
Psellus
:
**
It
is
because
many
of
the
demons
are
wonderfully
that
timid,
and
are
so
bewildered
by
it
their
terror
they
commination,
cannot
discern
who
is
that
utters
the
even
were
it
nobody
add,
but
some
sorry
old
hag."
tion incanta-
Seneca,
J
of
we
may
supplies
that
"
with
us
an
this
description
the
in
which
Medea
inveighs
against
written
infernal
gods,
and
we
may
see
one
in
our
own
tongue
"
in
the
Tragedies
of
Dan.
Casp.
Lohenstein.||
"
VI.
TT JL
is
said
in
a
well-worn
proverb,
And
"
Man
is
a
wolf
to
man."
sure
enough
is
not
experience
daily
teaches
us
that
the
remark
QSdip.
operat.
German.
/Egypt, Daemon^
vol.
ii.,
21.
pt.
ii.,
c.
5.
/h Medea
v.,
De
c.
J
the
739.
"
l| In
Tragedy^
entitled
Nero.
30
UAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
morphoui,
ihe passage the heard
we
further he of
learn
Iroin Mae""
"
Virgil *
in
represeQti realm,
lions
couling
that thence
along
were
Ciice'i of
growls
and and
in in
their the
wrath,
dead in ol
refiising theic
chains,
roatning
bears wolres
raging
their
and
shapes
which
of
huge
the
fiercely howling
Circe the had human hide." that the
was
creatures
fell
goddess
fiom
a
by
her
magic visage
drugs
and
beast's there of
beast's but is
does
remain
any
doubt it
Medea of
Colchis,
and
who,
alleged,
the lafhei
sister
Circe,
boiled the
nurses
."son,
aC
of and her
Jason,
thus skill
t"^tber
him
with
to
Bacchus,
vaunted
pristine youth,
arts.
same
See
Ovid.f by
Natalia which
Come3,t
witches into my is
lo
others.
wont lo
Of
Lycaathtopy,
change themselves,
into
cows,
not
only
wolves,
purpose
but here
also
lo
cats,
hares,
it is not of this
speak,
because
lo
we
the
origin
and
not
properly
attributed
partly
disease,
partly
that
a
imagination,
sometimes,
and tbis
although by
of kind the
deny
of has
demon of have
agency
incantations, pretended
Comto
characters,
effected
unquents
of
traoslbriDatioii.
"
JEatii,
referred
Book
to.
vii., i
Book "i
"age
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
21
pare
Vossius*
**
On
the
Idolatry
"
of
the
Gentiles,"
"
"
Remigiusjf
also B.
Frommanus
On
Fascination
and
Thomasius
inhis
*'
Dissertation
concerning
the
transformation
of
men
into
brutes."
VII.
13
UT
it
was
not
merely
to
the
whole
man
"X^
that
was
subject
essential
be
affected
by
of
incantations,
but
also
any
part
his
person
apart
by
call
itself.
For,
the
firstly,
soul
the
magicians
the
wished
to
forth
out
of
body. long
In
Virgil,"
the
for
example.
of certain
Dido
recounts
in
series
arts
Massylian
undertook
priestess, by
and her
who,
among
other
things,
souls
spells
Lucan,||
of
to
release
at
her
pleasure by
if charmed
in
the
soul,
though
uncorrupted perishes
the
taint
poisoned body by
draught, spells. by
the For
out
of
the
thus
in
hellish
rites
there
was
set
up
witches,
in
the
likeness
of
the
poor
wretch
whom
they
devoted
to
death,
fashioned
waxen
image
his
of
him,
or
even
thin
plates
into
likeness,
which
were
called
ipsullices,
(leaves
of
or
rather
ipsiplices, together
or
even
auriplices
human
gold
wreathed
in
shape),
as
Taubmann
Book
iii.,
p.
542.
f X "
II
Book
ii.,
c.
5.
also
;
Book
iii.,c.
Book
iii.,
c.
23.
JEn,
Book
iv.,
Book
v.
487.
Pharsalia,
vi.,
v.
457.
notes
in
his
annolalions remains of
a
on
Virgil.'
sort
were
Hence found
was
was
that, when
house the ol
this
in
Gecmanicus,
o[ the
suspicion
thai he
crea,[eil been
cut
minds
people
*'
had
by
discovery,"
the
was
TacilUB,+
niches in
made.
a
floor found
and ol
human
verses.
remains,
The
name
charms Germanicus
imprecatory engraved
on
plat*soflead ashes,
were
bodies,
in
a
not
quite reduced
;
to
found
putrid
condition
and
lo
other
spells, whereby,
souls of In the released her the words the the
according
are
popular
lo
living
second
devoted
the
gods."
makes been
place,
that, though
the the
have
Horace]:
have the
body,
re-enter
make I
them she
body
the
ihey
dead the
at
can,"
says,
"wake
ashes."
Lucan,
a
loo,
supplies
wiich.
Erichtho,
of had the Cneius
Thessalian
who,
to
Pompey,
recalled he of
life
soldier from
just been
issue of
slain, that
the
battle
might
learn
Phais.ilia.^
Tibullus,
"
On
JEn.,
Book
iv., joS.
Compare,
rigariBng
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
23
also,*^
of
undoubtedly
the
refers
to
this
presumptuous
folly
of
sorceress
when
he
thus
depicts
her
the
arts
certain
witch
:
"
**
She
by
entices
magic
the dead
strains
cleaves
the
ground,
and recalls
and
from
their
tombs
the
ashes
to
life
from
the
yet
warm
funeral
pile." accompanied
incantations,
Thirdly,
almost
with
great
array
of
sacrifices,
invariably
that the
with
spells
for
and
they
the
manes,
so
they
after
designated
death,
could
which
remain
alive
be
back
from
the
nether
world
"
thing
since
were
suaded perbelieved
could
easily spiirts
of
be
done,
that
the
the
dead,
continued
to
their
affection
for
their
bodies,
to
wander
for
some
time
round
about
their
tombs.
f
Homer
To
say
of
six
hundred
others,
it
X
the
hath
well,
the
and,
as
were,
to
life,
where
nature
of
these
ceremonies,
exhibits
Ulysses
from
as
summoning
nether abodes.
the
shades
of
the
dead
their
Apion
of
his love
the
grammarian, display,
avowed Tiberius
whom,
on
account
of
called
the
Cymbal
the shades
of
the
world,
that
he
had
evoked
of
the
dead
in
order
to
question
Homer
in
what
country
and
Book
i., eieg,
Book
a.
f
X
Horat.
Lactant.
ii.,
a4
c.
a.
Odyss,
Sat.y
xi.,
Book
v.
Virg.,
v.
EcL
viii.,
v.
955
i.,
8,
23.
34 of what
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
parents
affiims
he
was
bom.*
And
of
Nero,
Sueloniusf "aciifice
summon
performed
the her words
to
Magi,
of
he
sought
to
departed pajdon.
various the it. In
spirit
Agrippica
and that
supplicate
by magic
be
cot
only
be
:
"
imparted
from
mind,
Lucan's
but
again
we
eradicated
"
read
By
the the in of
spellsof
obdurate the
course
there
flowed
not
into there
entered
all, those
Pkarmalove-sick
idylls
ciulria maidens
10
Vii^
called
deserve endeavour
a
to
be
these,
and
by
for them
sre
philters
in the
incantations of
a man
excite whom
love
by
they
for her
spumed.
in herbs
to
seeks
we
arc
remedy
love
spells,
the
she,
with desired of of
love-charm
liberate
thereby Tacitus||
"
In
Numanof
tina,
Sylvanus,
husband's
is accused brain
having distempered
and
by drugs
m^ic
"
spells.
Hilt.
Plin.,
N.,
Book
m.,
c.
i.
34. 451.
g Virgil, iEn.,
Book
ir.,47.-
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
2$
"
VIII.
rrillAT
domicile
the
moreover,
body
wise
of
_L
man,
which
the
supremely skilfully
of the
Architect
of
the
Universe
has
most
framed
and
appointed
I do think
to
be
the
habitation
human
mind,
he
has
given
the
us
to
know
is
in
some
manner
exposed
But the
to
of power
tions, Incanta-
(" 6.)
affect it
in
Magicians
and ways,
did
not
hesitate
to
various
to
corrupt
restore
it
with
diseases,
and
when
corrupted
of power
to
it
again
This,
to
health
by
events,
the
their
spells.
at
all
leads
us
quite
not
freely
actuated
to
ledge acknow-
that
the
ancients
were
by
of
this
madness
to
such
an
extent
as
the
men
our
own
day,
human
since
they body
preferred
rather
than
to
take
good
work
it
care
of
the
to
harm.
In
the
intermediate
period,
however,
find
we
traces
of
this
abominable
superstition,
Poet
even
in
Propertius,*
that
where
the
conjures
the mind
the
Magi
his mistress
they
with
would
charge spells,
But
of
Cytseanf
and
make
her
countenance
become
more
wan.
in
particular
in
they
could
believed
that
the
of
organs
debilitated
generation by twining
while
be
abused
man
and
knots
on
the
fringe
of
some
kind
of
garment, words,
simultaneously
which Maro
ing mutter-
certain
rite
to
makes
reference,
'*
Twine
in
three
knots,
Amaryllis"
in
Eleg.,
Book
i.,
a
i
.
-fFrom
GtCy
Colchlan
town.
Eel.
viii.
26
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
ihree
colours,
Iwine
(hem,
Amaryllis,
sort are
Jo, and
said
to
say, be
too
Detestable^eiemonies
of this
at to
the
a
present lock
day by the
immersed in persons in
of
pressure harvest
A
sex
copious
is de
a
of
examples Joh.
supplied
by D.
Gerg.
Simon,
work,
Impotent.
many
Conjugal.,*
more.
Bodinus,-)it on the
perhaps
good
We
have
testimony
and Turks
can
of Erasmus
Persians of the
by the lay
raising
that of
are
ot
lowering
betrothed
all
are
finger
those
under
spells, in consequence
to A
are
which
assist
mote
the
common
espoused
by unclasping
for and
no
their
which
magic
diseases have
used,
is to
expel
doctors
human resist
body.
the
come
power
malady,
into
Dardanian
play, ^
to
unblushing
the what
cure
effrontery
of lelts hei
accuse
feebleness
power.
So,
according
sought
for
Pliny
to
us,|| Theophrastus
Cato for
a
his
sciatica,
cure
to his dislocaled
S34.
2$
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
nature
with the
(he
sound
of oF
magic
words, shows,*
(he
of
was
Picus,
wont
King
voice
to
Lalium,
to anest
on
by her
beasts air. and
fury of
the of
savnge
fl^htof
vagrants
of the
Schottus.t
that the
authoriCj'
ate
VillaniontiuE, alleges by
leave the
crocodiles
constrained
to
singing
Nile for of
a a
of
allow
Egyptian
themselves markets. had But been the
fi"bennen
to
the
and
be
exposed
like song story in
sale bull
Debrio bscinated
most
]: tells
with
similar in
remarkable in all
point
serpent
which is
an
brood reduced
extreme
varieties of music
no
by
to
such
stupefaction
itself of all the away
a
it has
aversion and
to to
divest
cast
the
deadly
poison.
In
can
reading fancy
certain
passage
yourself actually
which
beholding
exhibit
:"
obsequious
those
serpents
for there
towards
them,
"attracted
comes
by the
into
our
magic
midst
strains, the
from their
scaly
throng
solitary hiding
places.
The
Mil., Book riv.,v. 331. Book iv., c. 1. tP. i!., Mag. Uni-atr,., JBookii,p. 136. 684. iv,, v. ^"1 Meiia, Act Compare
"Ovid,
Eel.
Yiii.,v,71.
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
29
fierce
brute
here
in
amazement
drags
its
along
tongue,
and
its
monstrous
coils,
brandishes
three
forked
and
while
seeking
becomes
victim
to
pounce
on,
strike
death,
of
fascinated
on
hearing
the
sound
song."
who
The
Marsi,
moreover,
people
derived
of
Italy^ origin
time
according
from Circe
to
A.
Gellius*
their
herself,
are
said
to
have
at
one
excelled
in
the
art
of
taming
from the
serpents,
otherwise
so
that
they
bite
got
of
no
harm
at
all
deadly
the
vipers,
and
if
we
can
credit
Pliny,t
with
same
practice people
of
was
found
to
be
in
vogue
the
Psylli,
of
Africa.
Paracelsus,
that
notable
patron
the belief
words
and
characters
J
in Helvetia
may
keep
and
all
to
himself,
that
Snabia
serpents Osii^
could
be
so
charmed
by they
the
three
words,
Osia,
Osii
that
were
instantaneously
rendered
gentle
and
harmless.
"
X.
rjlO
JL
disturb
the
laws
of
the
elements,
form
which
are
generally
to
thought
these
to
quaternion,
confusion
to
and
reduce
laws
again
in
from
order,
is
thing
Incantation.
of
nought They
the
opinion
the realms
of
the
adepts air,
and
of
enter
of
by
their
spells"
they
scatter
Noct.
Attic^ N.y
Book
Book
xvi.^
c. 2.
c.
z.
t X
H.
vii.,
Book
Archd,
Mag.^
Met,y
Book
i. p.
69.
" Ovid,
xiv.,
344.
30
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
the
clouds,
they
If I may
gather
the
clouds,
they
of
still
the
stonn.
the
use
language
the
Seneca,*
"On
their
arrival,
nudnight nothing
adheres
sees
sun,
and
under
their
spells
to
its
laws."
They
nature,
produce, phenomena
of
contrary
to
the
very
order
of
which,
had
they
resulted
from
the
power
Incantation,
would
not
come
under
the
designation
instance,
of
an
ordinary
from
miracle.
Medea,
for
evokes
water
rainless
clouds,
and
the
witch
in
Tibullus
^.t
her
pleasure
duces pro-
in
snows
the
season
of
summer.
The
bright
the
denizens
themselves
of
the
higher
spheres,
beautiful,
stars,
I
mean,
that
are
so
wondrously
word of
were
believed
at
the
magician's
their
command
to
shoot
wildly
in
from
sphere
In
and
pursue
their
way
strange cited,
orbit.
Seneca,
whom
we
have
already rainy
but
you
may
read"
that
not
only
of
the
Hyades
that the
succumbed
to
the
spells
stood
Medea,
Sun-God
himself
still
in
the
midst
of
his
day's
next
journey
adduce
under
the
same
influence.
We
may
Ovid,
who
says:
|I** Charms
"
draw
down
the
horns
of
the
In
the
Medea,
passage Book
v.
776.
fin
t
the
quoted, {.,
I
.
"/f".,
the
"In
passage Book
II ^mor.,
18
;
Compare
ii.
orat.,
Epod.
Senec.
in
Act
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
blood-red
moon,
and
call
back
the
snow-whiie
horses
of
the
sun
while
pacing
in the
onward.
"
Here
it
is
to
be
observed
that,
opinion by
heaven,
of
simple-
minded
persons,
the
moon
could
incantations
be
actually
down
drawn
down
from
and
when
drawn
could
be
compelled
her
to
discharge by
of
upon
herbs
the
froth
of
influences,
reason
whereof
authors
allege
great
that
the
women
Thessaly
art.
acquired Aristophanes
Thessalian
proficiency
^"**
in
this
So
says:
If
should
purchase
the
"
witch
and
draw
down
moon
by spell
lunar
night;"
the
and
Claudian,f
"I
know
by
what
Thessalian
sorceress
snatches away
the
beam."
As
often,
therefore,
as
the
moon
lost
her
effulgence,
foul of
people
the
thought Magi,
with and
this
was
done
by
filled
the
arts
so
they
dissonant
the
spacious
brass
firmament
the
bray hearing
of
trumpets
to
prevent
that she
the
moon
the
incantations,
so
might J
thus
retain
the
glory
but
of
her
radiant
beams.
This
widespread
Laertes
foolish
belief
waned away
when,
as
"
tells
us,
the
real
causes
of
the
eclipse
of
the
moon
had
been
discovered
by
Anagoras.
In
the
Clouds, Book
t/"
Ruffifty
H.
i.,
Book
145.
:^Plin.,
c.
N.,
i.,
c.
2.
Livy,
Book
xxvi.
5.
Ms
Life,
::
INCANTATIONS.
rpH
by
command
at
of
the
voice, and
less the
thai is
Vulcan,
who
is
other
times
placable,
deprived of his
of
energy of
more
by words,
modem
superstition
affirms the with of
on
antiquity and
most
the
positive cerlainty.
saith
walls
houses,
Ihem
our
Pliny,'
them
have from
written And
many
lo
protect
of
a
countrymen,
or
soldiers
a
especially,either
into
same
fire which
gun
throw
pieceof
building
lime
fire is certain
destroying, and
at
words, by doing
of that the flames
cannot
they
be
so
a
affirm
checked nail's
a
they
advance
breadth
Those the
lead
vagabond
the the who habitants insun
life, like
pester
under and
country
juggling tricks,
are
commonly
art say, corn,
that this
is
to
peculiarly theirs,since
let fire loose
even
able, ihey
full of
in without
barn
stuffed
hay,
and
straw,
risk of any
set
damage
own
being
limits
done,
to
their
the
by
certain
adjurations.
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
33
"
XII.
"TTTATER, V V Magicians,
stunned
if
we
choose
to
believe
the
on
hearing
it
stands
spell
still,
nounced, proif
is
so
that
as
ice-bound,
further.
and
is
unable
to
continue
its
course
They
waters
were, in
to
wit,
in
the
habit
the
rivers
to
stand
still,*
and
they they
reversed
detained
the
long
the
laws
streams
by
of
nature
the
words
which
uttered, that,
being
from
so
far
as
you
may
learn
Tibullus,:^
This
the
waters
began
not
to
go
backwards.
same
poet
that
does
hesitate
to
affirm
of
certain
witch
by
river.
her
spells
If further
she
changed
choose
the
course
of
rapid
he
you
to
hear
Ovid,"
extend
tells
you
that
the
threats
of
Magicians
water
even
so
far
that
they
make
the
flow
ward back-
till
it
remounts
to
the
spring
of
a
from
which
it
gushed,
as
if
from
the
fear
greater
danger.
"
XIII.
lIIAT
the
earth,
which,
is
on
account
JL
of
its
weight,
otherwise
less
capable
command
of
motion,
of the
moves
spontaneously
and
at
the
Magicians,
is
cloven
into
Virgil,
CEn,,
Met.
Book
iv.,
v.
486.
"f Ovid,
$"/. "
Amor, Book
xiv.
i.,
Book
and
8. EI,
ii.,
i.
34
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
diverse
more,
as
parts,
Maro under Ibe which
appears says
:
from
Hbullus."
wiU the
see
Nay,
the earth
"
You
bellowing
down from
your
Teel, and
ashes Those
comii^
nountain-tops."
the
can
things,
mothei
nkoreover,
earth,
be
lilce
teeming
and the
prodnces yearly,
OS
draped
about
tainted, malign
theii them crops hibition pronot
the
poets
of the
everywhere
testify, by
as
"
words
Magicians, just
confesses
it he
suits
saw
pleasure.
"rith from his
one
Virgil
own
eyes
to
removing
another."
standing
also the
field in the
Twelve from
away
the
crop
"g
The of be and
wording
this law
of another
were
subject to
by
penalty
punished
him who in the lions sterile fdl. nne,
"
who
uses
removes an
grain,
evil
enchantment few
purpose."
Ovid,y
words,
notices
sively comprehenproduce
into of water of and the
a
tainting of
Com blasted
vegetable
by
magic
the the
fades
plant, blasted
The when
acorns
by magic
of the
springs
grapes
oak,
bewitched
by magic,
wither
"I1,
lit
faiage
alreadyqaeitd,
490.
99.
iSce
Amor.
Rofin. Book
vi
K^
cxtiiigauhed
admire tbe
and
extinded. whose
Foe metliod
we
do of
not
much
Turks,
is the
recoveiii^
*
Ihus slave of
described wiiHen
on
by
a
Robertus scroll is
of in hb
sns-
peoded
bead
place
sbelter,
and
then
Oiej
assail
his
with (be
dirdnl of tbe
curses
imprecations.
such be
on an
Then,
effect is
bf
agency
on
the
demons,
that him
wiooght
Umis that
or
It^live
wiU attack
thinks his
either
way,
or
dragons
sea or
or
tbe
tbe be
rivers stuonded
to
will
m
drown the
master
him,
blackest scared
I say,
that daikback
eveTTthing
Dess, and
so
will he
retnnis
his
bf
not
bog-bears. much,
minds of f"^
are
These who
Turks,
is there
we
do
not
who
knows
that densest
by
same
the
ignorance.
who
the
time,
better with
ought
be
to
imbued be of
an
prindplea
thb mark For
not
suffer is
DO
themselves
trifling proof
women
perversity.
which is
since very
by
are
women
inclined of tbe of
vcdubility of speech,
classes thdr th^ power, minds
lower
ate
quite
attribute,
incapable
in
bridling
to
preposterous
that that
eloquence
feel
moving
their
own
they
persuaded produce
they thereby
dreadfiti
Goclcn.
Hiauaa^
Sect,
.,!"'
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
37
to
be
told
and
wonderful
to
be
seen.
And
hence,
*
almost
think
Xenarchos
in
Athenaeus
was
not
so
hard
upon
the
inferior
sex,
when
he
declares
the
grasshoi^rs
their
females
to
have
blessed
lot,
if
seeing
that
are
voiceless.
But
women
should
perhaps
natural
be
in
consideration
of
their
weakness,
would
not
rashly
how
venture
to
say
should,
the
still
do
not
see
can
escape since
charge
follow
of
this
impiety
and
they by
of water, either
themselves
the
of
Paganism
the
consecration
of
oil,
salt,
of
candles,
of
roses,
"c.,
and
in
this
way
expose
their
own
supreme the of
ignorance
sensible
or
supine
negligence
to
eyes
people.
CHAPTER
III.
"
I.
Ql
k3
ENECAjt
not
without
good
and
reason,
derides
that
antiquity,
that rains
calls
it
ignorant,
attracted
which
believed
were
both
and
repelled
that
by
magic,
of the
for,
as
he
says,
it
is
so
evident
nothing
need
to
sort
can
be
done,
that
we
have
no
enter
the
school
of
any
Deipnos.
Nat
Book Book
xiii.
qiutu.
iv.,
c.
i.
Pliny himself,*
too
limes is somewhat
often in the
smoke of imposing on the selling (i.e., of bis renders) before Juno pronounces credulity this art to be the most frandulent of all arts, and how it coutd flourishall over expresses his surprise the world for so many We also ourselves, ages. that
we
of
may
not
appear
sorcerers
to
have
rashly and
malice, into the qualities of spells of this inquire ibem of the words in kind,when, after divesting which they are enveloped,we shall see the snake lurkingin the grass.
will
now
unadvisedlyaccused
of fraud and
looked
at
nor
in
power
in
them, whether
material
or
regard either
Sacred this it As all in
their
ture Scripglorious
melt
alone
Parian
can
for other
words, they
but
in air and
can
fadingaway
an
object that is frequently many miles distant from feel that any force has t by possibility been conveyed into it? And even granting that
!--
39
:i
hearing it,an
with the
ought not
air diiveQ vibrate
on
to be attributed to the
ear.
the human
will when
man
wishes
to
to comuiunicflte
man.
mind that It
so
another
a
great
not
power
was
another
for whence He
could
he
of these impostures punisher ; and not from good genii because they never either, oppose the will of the Supreme Deity. The only that the teacher supposition remainii^is, therefore, is aa imp of hell, who contrives that words shall endowed with the same not be invariably efEcacy, for if there words
mere a
the severest
in the
pronounced these in any way, place, and time whatever,would gain his object. Nay, even the parrot or the magpie, if trained to utter wards of the kind,could in a similar way perform any incantation you please, for if the cause of any natural phenomenon which is not under the control of a will be positive, the effect must be also positive.Therenecessarily
fare, wherever
heretofore the virtues inherent in
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
words you
at
boasted,
that
there, io
has
the
tio
resulll,
eHect been
was
ihere that
as
been
all,
or
events
the the
fallacy has
cause
committed
not
assigning
what
the
cause.
^UI.
DVERTING of
to
the
different
tinds
-f\.
which side
we
spells,
strove
if
we
examine
those
over
by
their
the the
Gentiles and
a
to
gain
to
gods
find
demons,
even
against
Iheii
will,
shall
display everywhere
the
we
of great
impiety
and
folly. pious
man
That
Dcily
all way
is
certainly appeased
but that is He
on
by
whom
players
know,
is in every
to
we
dependent
our
compelled give
pre-
by words
us
of
necessity
pail, and
and consequence
what
lumpCuou'.
accrue
danger
if ?
can
in
are
to
(he
our
they
And breath
unwilling
now
to
comply
should with since neither
with
although
in
but
you tbera
spend
threats,
their be and which
pelting
little that
profit
thereby, they
can
nature
seen
are
by the
exempt
the the
by the
ing suffercases,
hands,
to
every
body
liable. have
demons
pretended
force
to
that
drawn done
so
down with
by
a
the view
of mock
words,
the
have
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
credulity
of
the
impious,
their
and
to
make
them
cling
more
pertinaciously
to
superstitious
beliefs.
"
IV.
"LINY
"
already
in
in
his
own
age the
idea
had
no
-fT
hesitation
exploding
transformed
that
human
beings
We
could
be
into
beasts.
"
ought,"
it
he
"
says,
to
have
no
hesitation
in
deeming
wolves and
false
that
men
were
changed
to
into
were
again
restored
their
natural
shape,
have
in
or
disbelieving
current
all
the
fables
which
we
found
for
so
many
ages."
to
We
require
the
us
not
an
interpreter
of
the
of
oracles
explain
of
to
meaning
of
transformation
the
companions
to
Ulysses,
these
for
who
is
so
blear-eyed
in the
as
not
see
that
men^
while
sta3dng
had
delightful
licentious
of
Campania,
and
indulged
of
in
the
allurements
pleasure
unlike
that
so
very
they only
must
became
not
brute
seek
to
glut deny
the
sensual
appetite.
Devil
For
since
we
even
to
the
himself,
and
that
absolutely,
what,
the
power
of
changing
do
into
men
brutes,
pray,
To
can
his
agents also,
the
by
when
of
means
their
voices?
these
even
displaying
between
their
madness
in
bands,
connection
the
body
that
and
the
soul
remains
unshaken,
because
connection
hath
been
so
firmly
established
by
the
will
of
God
that
"
H.
N.,
Book
xxii.,
c.
42
MAGIC
[NCAM'ATIONS.
neither
of the
two
can
depart however,
once
from (he
pennissian.
them
mannec
When,
has
meua
been be
severed. It
by
even
no
of
again
combined.
recooKtitated,
hj
all the
finite powers
"
V,
"pT
J_
can
is that
not
altogether
aid of
baseleasly
asserted
by the
incantations, various
in the minds
emotioDi of
men,
be the
for of
is
so
ensnaied
by
the
haroionies
ns
mu"c, \ary
it is
agitated according
of the
no
the
notes
aucccasion
most
fervid
incantations
ure
gain
most
credit
by
this,
Ihey
you
for hear
the
put
in
so
composed
that
can
nothing
but
them
a
is either
or
pleasing,
of
merely words;
hate hearers
or
monstrously
and love therefore
jargon
emotion the this the
of
arc
of
is awakened
minds result
by
spells of this
to
unquestionably
the
lie
ascribed the
wiles the
devil,
in the
our
who brain of is
through
mediuni
air, forms
pleasing, and
of which
or
reverse
by the
perception
the
mind
violently ogilaled
gretitly soothed
repose.
^VI.
"pvISEASES
J-^
to
in the
human and
s
bodynre
not to
due any
natural words.
causes,
power
in
magic
What
ID
voura
10
fitm
to
and disturb
AD
order
ttul
aits
endeaprove
by
Sun,
from
to
attecl]'Tutile.
choir first
course
leads tiiDc
shining
was
of
heaven,
world
mo
cradled, onward
the
his
serene
Ibrougb
has the smiled
the
spacious
and
with
Uce that
contempt
and
to
the
a
threats
to
of
the
PsylU
Miursi these
were
tertot
a
serpents
and
by
attributing capacity.
people
be
natural
inborn
said, the
Agyrtx
and
aie
play with
then vomit
serpents
them of
swallow this
case
them,
we
altt^thei
achieved
an
upioion
arts
great
deal
can
fac
by
in
themselves of
innocent,
which with
a
and
by
postors imhave
extraordinary dexterity
who bedeck instances where
to
those chains
themselves
in But
frequent
in
cases
acquired
the have power been that of
a
great
ait
no
mastery.
less
we
of
of nature
no
appears in in
conceded,
the
hesitation that
thinking
agent
here
Same
the
guise
serpent
deceived
first
parents.
stated
ID
above
concerning
we now
the
various that
phenomena
no one
this God
universe,
"tf Nature
assert to
but of
the
is able all
cbar^^e
have
the
laws
rwtme,
sedi%
that
thii^
been
disposed
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
45
Magi.
The
moon
by
turns
contracts
her
ness bright-
and
soon
again
replenishes
incantations
her
horns,
and
feels
no
alarm
at
the
of
the
witches.
As
regards
storms,
the
power
of
evoking
them
has
been
left
neither
to
man
nor
the
Devil.
The
latter,
indeed,
in
virtue
of
the
experience
he
has
acquired
times
in
long
of
course
years,
is
able
at
to
accommodate
himself
to
the
conditions
which
determine
the
weather,
and
by
of
the
abuse
of
natural
causes
to
produce
the
results
which
witches
afterwards
take
all
credit
to
themselves,
if
as
they
had
wrought
of
them
by
he
their
curses.
For
if
at
change
weather
collects
the
watery
particles
then
in
the
air,
the
rains
burst
down
in
bucketfuls,
and
if
he
moves
very
rapidly
the
nitrons
and
sulphurous
particles,
then
thunder
and
ning lightand
follow,
which
too
often
ruin
the crops
fruits
of
those
whom
he
hates
for
their
love
of
piety.
The
procedure
is
the
same
in
the
repression
of
the
of
energy
fire
and
water,
which
the
Devil,
through
the
medium
of
the
air,
both
can
diminish
and
increase,
for
if
there
were
such
virtue
in
incantations
alone
they
would
certainly
deserve
to
be
taught
of
publicly
every
day,
since
incalculable
an
amount
loss
could
be
prevented
and
that
arises
from
the
mischief
done
by
floods
conflagrations.
NCANTATIONS,
Ihey
are
very
no
often
3o
fabricated
at
they
have
evidently
ate
meaning
of their
all,and
Magicians although
is the
ignorant
signification ;
that have
a
it is
acknowledged
whence mutilated if
even
foreign tongne
been
parent
ace
so
they
derived,
that
still you
they
can
and
at
corrupted
what
scarcely,
bear. of O.
cure
all, guess
import they
Abracadabra he says, is
ft
For
instance, (hat
well-lcnown
Seraoas for
Ammoniacus,'
is
which,
to
fever,
Hebrew
'
suspected
words To
have
'
been
made the
ap
of the
meaning
this must
father,'*
word.' been
also be added
advanced
merely
unwary,
as
joke
case
by
of
the
pobt
he
can
Euricius
Cordiis,t by
of fleas and and
which
alleges
be
irritatingbites
"
bugs
"hould
prevented.
you
Lest
use
Geas
bugs
plague
by
night,
When
going
to
bed
chant
these
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
47
over,
and
at
each
repetition
does
not
quaff
three
cups this is
of
good
the
wine.
"
Who
see
that
but
pleasantry
condemns
of
humorist?
Frommannus,*
and
however,
with
the
verses,
accuses
them,
what
right
know
not,
of
the
grossest
superstition.
CHAPTER
IV.
~TT
still
remains
that
should
now
briefly
might
truth of
JL
discuss
those
considerations
which
be
able
perhaps
that
to
persuade
words have
others
of
the
the
opinion
powers effects.
of
their
own
of
producing
have in view
supernatural
however
The
purpose that
we
suggests
of them
to
us
out
of
the
great
those
multitude
we
should
select
only
therefore
that
are
most
cogent.
of the
We
reject
poets,
have of
at
once
the
authority
and
Agrippa, good
and
of
Paracelsus,
for
of
others,
as
we
reason
suspecting
to
their
trustworthiness, only
and
we
the
test
those
arguments
which
adduced
from
sacred
writ,
supother
ported
by
to
probable
weaken
reasoning
contention.
from
quarters,
seem
our
II.
rpHE
JL
first
instance
to
hand
is
that
of
the
Egyptian
in the
Magicians, sight
of
Jannes
Pharaoh
and
Jamand his
bres,
who
King
In
fat
Book
de
FaMnat,^
Book
iii.,
c.
5.
48 Princei,* by it,fftresaid
We do
not to
MAUIC
INCANTATIONS,
incantations,
as
the
versions
have
changed
here
to
their rods
countenance
oioi
tnpport
those into
in
allege
serpents,
w.iy
the that
not
changed
Devil, hy
tampering
of the eyes
so
with
crystalline hnmonr
had obscured theii
of
the
speclalors, mistook
were
a
vision But
see
that
they
[he
rods
if this that
opinion
admitted,
great
follow slur that
on
it would since
not
cast
miracle of this
serpent
did
tes.1 serpents,
though
the truth
it would
appeared
methinks,
us
to
spectators
an
do.
Another,
lies open
and,
to
in
easier
we
load,
neither words.
by
nor
walking
attribute
to
wrong The
reason
Moses
to
was
Devil, according
of
in
a
view,
of
able, by
movcinents,
scene
the
extreme to
mpiditj'
withdraw
or even
moment
from
to
rods he
of could
the
Magicians,
substitute in
them real
place
of
them which
serpents,
a
these
being
animals wtlh
with
Egypt,
country
infected
superstitious
"EmJ.
viii.,11
Ih Frt
t Although
Ajp,
ytt
the
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
49
idolatry, abounded.
lated rod
were
The afterwards
serpents
swallowed
thus up
suUti-
then
by the
of Aaron.
fill.
FTER in
these
comes
Balaam,*
"ho
to
ui
adept
lo ject sub-
-^A.
the and army
magic
arts,
wished his
Israelites
to
enchantments,
of his that
by magic
the
cheat
Moses
victory.
all these ward, for-
But. in
place, it is certain
when effect. that
man.
sun
incantations,
fhiled
they
In Satan
were
brought
second
of
theii but
the
place,
had
nobody
had the
command
even
questions
with
beforehand As
dealings
statement
this the
regards, again,
moon
that of
at
the
Joshua
himself power
whale what he
day,t
took used. of his
Joshua
to
ascribe which
place
For
the
God,
so
in accordance directed
infinitude the
power, bave
everything
His
lo
Jews
;
must
clearly recognised
be have
more
presence crush
and
that
Ihey might
and be laws
was
eager
more
Iheit
enemies,
might
assured for
a
hope
short
of
victory,
the
pleased
of natare
to
suspend
he had
space
which
ordained.
S VI.
"pF,
_1among
further, the
vanced the
law
of
to
jealousy which,
of
be
ad'
according
suspected
if any
man
lews
his wife
adultery
so
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
he
brought
her
to
the
door
of
the
tabernacle,
and
thereupon adjurations,
but
the
priest
not
only
with
uttered
dreadfii
accompanied
these
certain
ceremonies,
wrote
adjurations
afterw^ds
also
in
book
and
blotted
them
out
with
bitter
water,
and
then
gave
these very
waters
to
the
woman
to
drink,
whereby according
baleful.
he
ascertained
her
innocence
or
guilt
ficial
as
the
draught
then,
proved
I,
this
to
be
bene
or
If
say
be
held
to
prove
on
behalf
of
those
who
take
words
under
their
patronage
Neither
the
efficacy
the words
of
their
words,
we
answer
of
adjuration,
recited,
and
then
"
written
by
into
the
hand,
then
orally
then
plunged
of
water,
had
in any power
themselves
doing
harm,
but
whatever
potency
the searcher
they
of
had
was
conferred
on
them
by
God,
hearts,
who
to
natural
substance
added
something manifesting
attach the
supernatural,
truth willed
and
for
the
sake
of
that
weight
should
to
the
words.
"
V.
iH
AT
souls
after
death
are
compelled
selves them-
by
JL
the power
of
words
to
present
Endor
seems
to
the
living
she,
the
Witch
of
to
avouch,
called
since
at
the
solicitation
of
King
him
Saul,
Samuel
from
the
dead
to
declare
to
the
issue
of
the
Philistine
war.*
Yet,
sooth
to
say,
* I
Sam.
xxviii.
VI,
I iHEY
may
urge, of he
perhaps, words,
says of
ihe
in the
support
expresuve
of
-X.
words Iheir of
ear
the
eflkacy
where* voice
David,
that
serpents
stop
But
Vussius+
says great
nol
explains meaning
of
mncc
these
was
when That
he
so
that
was
his
enemies IbiD
an
that asp Is
it could moved
any
be the
appeased spell
of
by
our
enchanter." that
we
If, finally,
ourselves the sacred
to
of
a
opponEDts
to
we
object words,
command
potency
when the of
in
of
baplism
off and
Devil
take
to
"
Sy the
answer
presence
in
infants,
thb We
B.
Scherj;erus nnderstand
place of me.t
Devil
nor
neither
Ihnt the
the
is he
bodily
is
present
cast
besetting
out, In and
our as
infants,
Ihat
l"odily
we
the eyes
Calvintsts the
calumniously
out
pretend
not
a
do.
casting
Che
is
symbolic, merely
as
actual,
token
of
we
retain
practice
Christian
liberty.
r
^VII.
tures
and strains
stones
were
moved
while
)i:ileningti
vpe
ihe
of
Orpheus,
Arophion,
Ariou,
wil
MA(;iC
INCANTATIONS.
53
grant
with
all
they they
show
require,
understand
provided
these
only
fables
that,
in
along
moral
us,
sense,
and
that
the
of purpose For it
Incantation
is
the
same
as
that
of
music.
is
not
music
simply
the
by path
of
itself
that
has
led
mankind
onward
in
refinement,
the
but
it
is
the
stimulus
which
it
gives
the
to
imaginative
effect. To
faculty
this
must
that
produces
be
all
wonderful
musical
added,
while
that
tone
is
sweet
and
pleasant,
part
rude
that
of
Incantations
is
for
the
most
and
barbarous
and
;
further,
the
same
music
does
not
produce
The
the
same
effects,
the
in
but
admits
of
variety
and
principle
effect varies.
is
same
Incantations,
yet
the
"
VIII.
rj^HEY
-L
ments,
soothe the
that say
oratory
is
like
enchant-
because
by
of
means
it
we
can
so
minds
of
our
hearers
that
they
and
yield again
but it
their
assent.
But
we
repeat
force of
again
themselves,
contained
that
those
words
have
no
is
the
weight
and the
of
the
arguments
of
the
in
the
words,
with
elegance
art
discourse,
with
composed
sweet
consummate
and
spoken
that with
modulations
of
the
voice,
mind of
terious mys-
power
attract
the
the
hearer,
and
take
such
hold
of
his
imagination
and
that
his
attention
is
riveted
to
the
words
his
reason
engaged
orator,
to
reflect
upon
them.
Nor
does
the
even
though,
with
the
eloquent
lips
of
a
Pericles,
he
54
should his
oi
MAGIC
INCANTATIONS.
utter
strains heater
of be
highSawn
ihetoiic, attain
of other
end be
thinking
of
things
influence
prejudices.
formula "God address bless those
SIX.
"T
ASTLY,
that with
-I -J
that Thai
are
you,"
which
we
sneezing,
was a
po^sse5.,iiQ._i)owej,
ancient Aristoile
custom
.whatever.
appears from
this
very of is
Ihe^freifer/iaia
and since there retained
we
and wrong
from in
nothing by
our
properly by
of which
countrymen,
another
And ;
our
token de^te
our
we
show well.
to
sincere
wishing
hira
to
thus and
we
bring this
Ihe
dissertation
its close
seeing
end,
give Cod
thanks."
"Reader)
who
take
an
interetC
in
the
"Bbck
Printeit
hy R.
5f
G.
Goldsmid,
Edinburgh.