cent, I am
satisfied that he judgeth right; for this is common amongst the
_Laplanders_, who are horribly addicted to Magical Incantations: They
bequeath their _Daemons_ to their Children as a Legacy, by whom they are
often assisted (like Bewitched Persons as they are) to see and do things
beyond the Power of Nature. An Historian who deserves Credit,
relates,[36] that a certain _Laplander_ gave him a true and particular
Account of what had happened to him in his Journey to _Lapland_; and
further complained to him with Tears, that things at great distance were
represented to him, and how much he desired to be Delivered from that
Diabolical Sight, but could not; this doubtless was caused by some
Inchantment. But to proceed to what I intend; the Eyes of Persons by
reason of Inchanting Charms, may not only see what others do not, but be
under such power of Fascination, as that things which are not, shall
appear to them as real: The Apostle speaks of _Bewitched Eyes_, _Gal.
3.1._ and we know from Scripture, that the Imaginations of men have by
Inchantments been imposed upon; and Histories abound with very strange
Instances of this Nature: The old Witch _Circe_ by an Inchanted Cup
caused _Ulysses_ his Companions to imagine themselves to be turned into
Swine; and how many Witches have been themselves so bewitched by the
Devil, as really to believe that they were transformed into Wolves, or
Dogs, or Cats. It is reported of _Simon Magus_,[37] that by his
Sorceries he would so impose on the Imaginations of People, as that they
thought he had really changed himself into another sort of Creature.
_Opollonius_ of _Tyana_ could out do _Simon_ with his Magick: The great
_Bohemian_ Conjurer _Zyto_[38] by his Inchantments, caused certain
Persons whom he had a mind to try his Art upon, to imagine that their
Hands were turned into the Feet of an Ox, or into the Hoofs of a Horse,
so that they could not reach to the Dishes before them to take any thing
thence; he sold Wisps of Straw to a Butcher who bought them for Swine;
that many such prestigious Pranks were played, by the unhappy _Faustus_,
is attested by _Camerarius_, _Wyerus_, _Voetius_, _Lavater_, and
_Lonicer_.

There is newly Published a Book (mentioned in the _Acta Eruditorum_)
wherein the Author [39](_Wiechard Valvassor_) relates, that a _Venetian_
Jew instructed him (only he would not attend his Instructions) how to
make a Magical Glass which should represent any Person or thing