images--

Lanea et effigies erat altera cerea, &c.

And it appears from Tacitus, that the death of Germanicus was supposed
to have been sought by similar practices. By such a Simulachrum, or
image, the person was supposed to be devoted to the infernal deities.
According to the Platonists, the effect produced arose from the
operation of the sympathy and synergy of the Spiritus Mundanus, (which
Plotinus calls [Greek: ton megan goeta] [Transcriber's Note: typo "t"
for "ton" in original Greek], the grand magician,) such as they resolve
the effect of the weaponsalve and other magnetic cures into. The
following is the Note in Brand on this part of witchcraft:--

King James, in his "Daemonology," book ii., chap. 5, tells
us, that "the Devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or
clay, that, by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear
the name of may be continually melted or dried away by
continual sickness."

See Servius on the 8th Eclogue of Virgil; Theocritus, Idyll,
ii., 22; Hudibras, part II., canto ii., l. 351.

Ovid says:

"Devovet absentes, simulachraque cerea figit
Et miserum tenues in jecur urget acus."
_Heroid._ Ep. vi., l. 91.

See also "Grafton's Chronicle," p. 587, where it is laid to
the charge (among others) of Roger Bolinbrook, a cunning
necromancer, and Margery Jordane, the cunning Witch of Eye,
that they, at the request of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester,
had devised an image of wax, representing the king, (Henry
the Sixth,) which by their sorcery a little and a little
consumed; intending thereby in conclusion to waste and
destroy the king's person. Shakspeare mentions this, Henry
VI., P. II., act i., sc. 4.

It appears, from Strype's "Annals of the Reformation,", vol.
i., p. 8, under anno 1558, that Bishop Jewel, preaching
before the queen, said, "It may please your grace to
understand that witches and sorcerers within these few last
years are marvellously increased within your grace's realm.
Your grace's subjects pine away, even unto the death; their
colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is
benumbed, their senses are bereft. I pray God they never
practise _further than upon the subject_." "This," Strype
adds, "I make no doubt was the occasion of bringing in a
bill, the next parliament, for making enchantments