ones but which were much more pleasant than the rest and had been named particularly for a long time They answer they understand not the meaning of the names but that one of them was called Amor and the other Anterotes The revenger of the Injuries of Lovers He presently touching the water with his hand for he sate perhaps upon the border of the Well where the water overflowed and ran out and mumbling over a few words raised one out of the bottome of the water very fair and of a comely stature with his hair as yellow as gold with a pure white skin upon his back who was in every thing like one that washed or had been bathed The young man being astonished at the novity of the thing he went to the other Fountain and did the like there calling out the other Amor in every thing like the former only that this had darker hair and longer hanging down along his neck Both these familiars or rather Tutelars came to Jamblicus embracing and hugging him as if he had been their own natural father whom he restored to their former stations and so having washt returned from the Bath Eunapius in his life WHen Basilius the Emperour dyed his eldest son Constantinus dyed with him he so passionately loved his father that he would not live after him but desired alwayes to see him alive There was a certain Monk called Theodorus and sirnamed Santabarinus preferred to the Government in the Metropolis of the Enchaitee who being a most just man was in great favour with the King and with whom the King conversed very familiarly which as one he observed to be very devout and a great lover of the truth He promised the King to shew him his son alive sitting upon a horse under a green leavy shade The foolish old man thought the Vision that the minister of the Devil had deceived his eys with had been his son and that he had embraced his son when he had nothing but a Phantasm and so wholly relyed on the credit of this Monk that he in the conceit that his other son was alive brought the King into suspition of his son Leo whom he had crowned and created King insomurh that he imprisoned him and there tormented the poor innocent Prince a long while Cuspinianus out of Zonara A Boy called Lotharingus come of an honest stock being corrupted by the evill example of his equals and companions began to frequent Taverns and tipling-houses all this while Gilbertus a kinsman of Nozerenus to whose care he was committed knowing nothing of it Mean while a young man which proved proved afterwards the Devil in a man he being drinking with his pot-companions drew him aside and promised him he would teach him how by saying a certain verse and some words which he could easily learn he might have money at his pleasure If in his name he would to his host reckon up a Symbol and from his heart believe those things which were in the holy book by him written nor would ever unfold the holy Bible The youth promising him all he desired he told him the sum of his art therein then taking the book in his left hand holding it down with his fore and middle finger of his right hand and muttering out the verse in the French tongue brasse and copper swims about and gold leaps and he shaked off his fingers 60 Crowns the sum he desired The Youth does the like as this his Instructor did before him and with the like successe but in great joy going home with the book and being much taken with the novelty opens it that he might make another by it In the middle there was a sphaerical circle like an Orb divided with two straight diametrical lines crossewayes upon which there was a picture drawn of a most dreadfull shape horned and every way like a Devil on his right hand were two crosses that joyned together on his left were the immodest parts both of a man and a woman most obscenely placed opposite to each other Presently as he beheld these ugly spectacles his eyes began to darken and his head to grow light and whithersoever he went he would look back ever and anon verily believing some body followed him close at the heels His Chamber-fellow a young man who had observed this Prodigy was examined about it and confest all the businesse to his Tutor at whose perswasion the papers were cast into the fire where they remained a full half hour without being toucht by the fire although the matter of them was to all appearance most combustible to the very great terrour of the young man and the amazement of all the standers by Cognatus l. 8. Narrat IN the time of Anastasius the Emperour the Bulgari a people before that time unknown inroded upon Illyrium and Thracia Against whom certain Roman Captains made a voyage with an Army whom these Bulgari using Magicall devices and straragems did bafflle and destroy wholly except a very few that escaped Cuspinianus SIgebert King of France was conquer'd his army destroyed and himself taken prisoner by a people called the Hunni by reason of their inchantments they used against him Gregor Turon lib. 4. cap. 28. HAquinus Prince of Norway being to fight against the Danes by his inchantments so vexed his enemies which were of a stupendious magnitude that their heads were so sore beaten by the storms that their eyes were even sore with wearinesse and lost their sight insomuch that they received more detriment by the Elements than the Enemy The Biarmenses a people very near the Artick Pole fighting in the North with that most powerful King Regnerus by their incantations rose a most violent storm against the Danes and suddenly afterwards a most hot gleam insomuch that between these two extreams the Enemy were both destroyed and conquered Olaus lib. 3. cap. 19. ARngrimus the Swedish Champion persecuting the wood Finni or Tories and in a conflict having put them to flight casting three stones behind their backs they made them appear to the Enemy like so many Mountains so that Arngrimus seeing he was gul'd recalled his forces from the pursuit thinking that by those great mountains their passage had been stopt The very next day combatting with these same again when they were not able to stand it out throwing Snow upon the ground they made the appearance of a River And so frighting the General of their Enemy with this vain shew of waters they again escaped But the third day when they saw their party begin to fail they yielded themselves up into the Conquerours power Olaus lib. 5. cap. 15. THe Magick vesture called Indusium Necessitatis amongst the Germans Nothemâ—t was much esteemed of old with which they used to arm themselves and then they were shot-free and weapon-free and thereby defended from all manner of bodily harms and enabled to undergo any hardship whatsoever untoucht This also was used by women in childbed to procure easie and safe
Lord 1330 invaded Italy falling sick of the Gowt underwent great perill in his affairs circumvented by the unfaithfull dealing of his couzen german General Leodrisius who leading the Rhaetian and Helvetian cohorts and with a strong hand gathering together all banished men came to Abdua Actius though troubled with the Gowt raised Souldiers in every place and left his Garrisons well fortified to the care of Governours till such time as his expected recruits should come to him And committing the Van-guard of his Army to his Lievtenant Nervianus the Leodrisianians had prevailed against them had not St. Ambrose the Mediolanensian guardian Saint been seen by many of the City in form of an Horseman succouting them apparently in their distress for there came at that time to their relief Hector Panicus with a wing of Cataphractans Albrogians sent by Ludovicus Subaudius father-in-law to Actius which overcame the Rhaetians unseasonably exulting and resting themselves disorderly putting them to the sword and took Leodrisius himself prisoner there being slain at that time above four hundred thousand men And in the field where this Victory was obtained a Temple was built to St. Ambrose in memory thereof where yearly upon the twenty fourth of February the Mediolanensian people coming together in great pomp with the Praetor and Counsellors celebrated his Feast with sacred solemnities Jovius in Actio But Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 6. writeth That the Auxiliaries which came to relieve Actius as soon as they began battel clearly saw Ambrose with a whip to fall upon the Barbarians which Martinus Scaliger led being hired thereunto by Leodrisius and in memory of this Victory Ambrose was pictured with a whip in his hand ever after this IN the battle wherein Ramirus King of Spain fought against the Saracens before Calugurium James the Apostle was seen by all who were there leading the Christian Army and putting the Saracens to flight NIcephorus lib. 8. cap. 23. reporteth That Chrysanthus and Musonius being Bishops who sate in the Nicene Council and dying before they had subscribed those Articles of Faith which were there agreed upon the Fathers of the Council therefore went to their Monuments and holding a writing in their hands which contained in it the Articles they spoke to them as if they had been living men hearing them Holy Fathers you have fought a good fight with us you have finished your course and kept the faith if therefore what we have done ought to be allowed and confirmed it is meet and needfull that you who are illustrated by the splendour of the Trinity whose beatificall Vision frees you from all obscurity and hindrance which lets us from the clear and perfect discerning of things with us subscribe this little book who when they had spoke these words laid it down before the Tomb sealed and going to their rest that night and returning in the morning they found the book sealed with the seals inviolated and their subscriptions inserted with the rest which they perceived to be newly written in these words We Chrysanthus and Musonius with all the Fathers in the first holy Oecumenical and Nicene Council do agree and although translated from our bodies yet with our own proper hands we have subscribed the Articles in this book PLergilis a Priest prayed That he might see what species laid hid under the form of bread and wine and whilest he continued his supplications for the same an Angel from Heaven appearing to him speaketh saying Arise quickly if thou desire to see Christ he is present cloathed with that body which the holy Mother of God bore he therefore casting his eyes upon the Altar seeth the child the onely begotten Son of the Father whom with trembling arms he takes and kisses and presently restores again to the top of the Altar and falling prostrate upon his knees again he implored Almighty God again that he would turn him again into his pristine species and as soon as he had finished his prayer he found the body of Christ returned to his wonted form as by prayer he had desired Rabbanus de Sacramento Eucharistiae cap. 30. Paschasius in libro de corpore et sanguine Domini cap. 41. A Certain Souldier in the City of Rome extinct by the Plague when he revived said That he saw a narrow bridge under which ran a River ugly and caliginous which sent forth an incredible stinking savour but on the other side of the bridge upon the bank-side of the River he saw pleasant places which with the variety of flowers which grew therein sent forth such fragrant odours as much delighted the smelling faculty and habitations all about which were of a certain divine form and splendour but amongst the rest one was greater and excelled in glory for that it was wholly built with golden bricks but for whom it was built he could not understand but he considered that he observed that the just most securely passed that bridge and that the unjust and reprobate fell into the River then he saw as he said a stranger a Priest who inoffensively passed through those streights having quietly and contentedly suffered the going thorow the turnings therein for that he had lived piously in this world but amongst those which he saw fall whom the whirlpool of the froathy snatching stream tossed about he saw Peter chief Bishop of the Ecclesiasticall Family who four years since coming that way infolded with Iron chains and in vain striving to swim through the horrible hollow passage he therefore had a warrant as a punishment to him to punish those that hereafter should be guilty rather severely then indulgently Marulus lib. 6. cap. 14. IN the Castle of the seven holy brethren Albericus a certain Noble child when he attained the tenth year of his age afflicted with sicknesse was brought even to deaths-door at which time he lay immoveable without sense as if he had been quite dead seven dayes and nights In which interval brought by the blessed Apostle Peter and two Angels he cometh to the infernal gulph at length he was brought to see the pleasant things of Paradise and lifted up into the aerie Heaven he was sufficiently instructed by Peter of things contained in the Old Testament of the punishments due to sinners and the glory of Saints he saw certain secret things which he was forbid to speak and so for seventy dayes he being led about the Provinces by him he was restored to life Chronicon Cassionense lib. 4. cap. 68. VIncentius hath a long Narration extant in his book 27. chap. 99. of Tundalus whose soul was led by an Angel as well to the infernal place of punishments as purgatory where he saw many whom he knew at his first entrance amongst the blessed he met with a multitude of men and women enduring the misery of rains and winds pining away with hunger and thirst but injoying light molested with no stink who as the Angel told me had not lived very honestly nor had been charitable to the poor were
Picardus and other Divines spent all their Arts to free her but nothing took effect Hollerius Medicus a Physitian laughing at them said she was troubled with the disease Melancholly but afterwards when he saw the wonder in a great multitude with his own eyes and seeing the maiden standing between two or three women to cry out and by and by to see her hands so bound as they could not be loosened and that the bands had need to be cut he acknowledged that it was the evill spirit This appeared to no man onely the Virgin beheld a white cloud when the spirit drew near to bind her Sylvula of Wonderfull Histories and of Magicall and diabolicall Witchcrafts and of divers of the Devills delusions APollonius being in India with the Brachman-Philosophers reports that he saw very strange wonders he said that these Philosophers at their pleasure could make it fair and foul weather bring tempests or make calms and could prepare feasts with all the Vessels fitting for them yea he saith that they did it in his presence when there was none to be seen who make ready the banquet or waited in setting on and taking off the dishes And moreover he said that when they pleased they could make earthquakes the same he affirms that he saw amongst the Gymnosophists in Aethiopia who made the trees bend themselves to the ground and speak Fulgosus ex Philostrato THere are divers Families in Africa which do by their voice onely bewitch those who they immoderately praise Pliny 7th Book cap. 2. ex Isigono and Nymphrodoro hence came the custome amongst us which Aristotle 20. sect Probl. 34. witnesseth that being about to praise any thing we make this Preface lest our words should be to our detriment as God shall save it Gellius 9th Book 4. chap. Isigonus adds that there are things of the same nature among the Triballians and Illyrians who by their sight bewitch and kill some upon whom they look long especially with angry eyes yea one may perceive mischief in their eyes And 't is more remarkable that they have two Apples in each eye Apollonides reported there were divers women in Scythia of this sort which were called Bythyae And there are kind of people in Pontus called Thibians and many other of the like nature whose marks he saith are these in one eye they have a double Pupilla in the other the picture of a Horse and moreover that they cannot sink nor are burthened with any garments Daemon relates a sort of people called Pharnacians in Aethiopia not much unlike to these whose sweat brings rottennesse to those bodies which they touch and there are women which every where infect with their sight having double eyes or pupilla's in them Cicero also is the Authour of it and Pliny in his 7. Book 2. chap. Neuro tells of a people of Scythia who are the greatest enchanters that they Metamorphose themselves from men into Wolves Herodotus in Book 4. RHodus being first named Ophiusa afterwards Telâ—hinis in that the Telchines inhabited the Island some call them Wizzards and say that they are Inchanters and that they sprinkle the water of Styx's lake upon living Creatures and plants on purpose to destroy them and as Diodorus saith 5th book 12. chap. they can cause clouds showers of rain hail snow and change their proper shapes when they will c. Strabo 14 book IN the Ephesian Letters there is mention made of those who with wonderful facility as by a divine inspiration attained to what they desired for they report at Ephesus there are divers Notes and magical voices by the using of which they are victorious in every businesse as Diogenianus Eustachius reports by those Letters That there were divers words like to riddles having no coherence written in the feet girdle and crown of Diana Suidas addes In the Olympian games there was one Milesius set in the Ephesian wrestling-Ring and was able to do nothing in the conflict because that Ephesius had some Ephesian characters written on his ankle Which being together was marked the letters being taken away and Ephesius that had tyred out thirty now laid down himself vide Erasmus adagies But that there were many of the Ephesians that were conjurers may be gathered out of that many of them were converted by the Apostles Sermons and burnt their magical Books being of great value for the Devils power was great in that place because the Idol of Diana was set up there Act. 19. WHen the Goths were travelled out of Scandinavia they marched to Scythia Philimer their King did retain many of their magicall Women in prison as Jordan Gothus writes in that history which sort of women the King accounted most pernitious and by his proclamation banished them into Wildernesses lest they should kill the Souldiers by poysons or weaken their strength being driven away for a long while they wandred about the Woods incestuously committing themselves unto the Embracements of their Incubus spirits from hence they report that the Unnes a cruel generation of men came which used no humane language but a certain Image of speech Bonsinius second Book Dec. 1. THe Northern Bothnici Zappi and Finnones are excellent Magitians also the Biarmi who live under the Pole they assume what shape they will also they know what is done in the other World by their friends or enemies Olaus book 1. chap. 1. and book 2. chap. 18. IT is reported that Zoroastres the King of the Bactrians found out the Art of Magick and hath written a hundred thousand of verses upon them as Pliny witnesseth Some would have this King to be Mizraim the son of Cham others say he was not so he flourished above eight hundred years before the Trojan War which was in Abraham's time But he as we read in Clements Itinerary being willing to contemplate God and much given to Astronomy and minding the Stars did strike out some sparks out of the Stars that the rude multitude might be astonished at the miracle At the last being angry at that spirit which he often did frequent amongst a great company of his disciples as though he were a friend of the gods was hurried away to Heaven in a chariot of lightning Wherefore his name after his death was Zoroastres as much as to say A living Star he lived in the time of King Ninus with whom he fought and foretold when he was dying that if they should keep his ashes their Kingdom should not be destroyed Suidas THe report went that Perses and Aeta two brethren ruled both at one time this in Pontus the other in Taurica both of them being of a truculent and savage disposition Hecate sprung from Perses nothing inferiour in cruelty and immanity to her father which while she was a Virgin used to shoot darts as the custome was then But her greater study was to make poysons some attribute the invention of Henbane to her and was accustomed to experience the nature and strength of poisons upon strangers within a
load of Hay with horses and Cart and all he cut off the head and feet of divers men did put them with their blood into a bason he flew through the Ayr hallowing like a hunter and the like pranks he played Chronicon Hirsaugiense and at last he killed Charls Calvus or the balld the King with poison IT is reported in the family of the Earls of the Andegavensium from whence Henry the second King of England sprung there was a Princess a notable Maga and a Witch who was constrained to worship and reverence the Eucharist who suddenly flew out of the windows of the Temple and was never heard of after Polydor 13. book A Certain Woman of Mediolensis near the Comiensem gate strangled a boy and devoured him and when she was wracked for her cruelty she said She was perswaded by the infernal gods that if she had sacrificed a boy three or four times she might do whatsoever she would Therefore she was bitterly tortured being laid upon the wheels crosse or latticewise and so her bones were broken and she dyed acruel and lingring death Artanus history Mediolan 1 Sect. writes that in his time this happened JOhn Fernelius relates in his first Book of Occult causes that he saw a certain man who by the strength of his words could cause divers sights to be in a glasse and those things which he commanded either in writing or in expresse Images were so lively imprinted that they might quickly and easily be discerned by those that sate by yea and there were holy words heard but filthily bespattered with obscene terms and after this sort they call upon the powers of the Elements and strange uncouth names of the Princes of the East West North and South Vierius book 2. chap. 7. of the Devils deceits FAcius Cardanus the Father of Jeremy Cardanus as he said had an aeriall devill to be his familiar for a long time who a long while used Conjuration and it gave him true answers but when he had shaken it off it returned him false answers he was eight and twenty years a Conjurer but he was freed from his familiar about five years but whilst he retained the spirit it was very profitable to him neither did it alwayes come alone although for the most part it did but sometimes it came with its companions Cardane of the variety of things 16. Book chap. 39. JAmes Jodoci de rosa Cortriensis carried a Ring about with him in which he thought the Devill was tyed by exorcisms and he did speak for five dayes together at the least and did consult with it about strange things and diseases and the manner of curing them At the last being bound and condemned to banishment first his ring in a publique place and a great company looking on was bruised and broken in pieces with the beaâ—ing of an Iron hammer by the Chancellor Done at Arnhemiae 14. July in the year 1548. Vierus Book 5. chap. 1. of the delusions of Devils IN the year of our Lord 1546. The daughter of John Vemerus a Citizen of Eslingensis whose name was Margaret was so swelled by the pains of her belly that the bignesse of her belly almost clouded her face and did seem to be ten palms in circumference she said that there were creatures of divers sorts was fed in her belly when in the mean time she feigned to be recreated and refreshed by sweet odours and delicate sauces those that stood about her Bed heard a crowing of Cocks cackling of Hens a gagling of Geese barking of Dogs bleating of Sheep grunting of Hogs lowing of Cattle and neighing of Horses There came out of her side worms and Serpents of a wonderfull bignesse about a hundred and fifty Many Physitians and Surgeons were enquired of and amongst them Leonhartus Fuchsius Tubingensis archiatrus At length came the Physitians of Charls the 5th Emperour and Ferdinand and the Hungarian King accompanied by some of the Nobles neither found they any thing false or counterfeit When the disease had almost endured for the space of four years and her pains did seem to encrease more and more the Magistrate of Eslingensis sent his Physitian together with three Surgeons and a Nurse that they might open the belly of the maid they tyed her with thongs they found her belly finely moulded up as with hands very artificially stuffed with pillows with divers arches by which the roundnesse of her belly was expressed the Virgin being uncovered had a very beautifull body her belly was brought into Court and reserved in the place of Anathematism The Mother of this daughter was a Witch and being examined upon the rack confessed that by Satans counsell and for gain she had done thus and her neck being first broken she was publickly burned and the daughter having holes boared thorow her knees with a hot Iron was condemned to perpetual imprisonment Lycosthenes in his prodigies IN Creet there was one Moses that went about almost a whole year stirring up the Jews being about to draw them through the Sea no otherwise then Moses of old performed Those Jews gathered up all that they could At the appointed day he drew forth the miserable people a great multitude of men and Women going with him the false Prophet brought them unto a steep place and there sheweth them a promontory unto the Sea and perswaded them to leap into the Ocean that they might swim to him being on the other side And afterwards he promised that they should have a safe journey Most of them leapt in being bewitched by his large promises but some were drowned and perished in the waters others were drawn out of the waves by Fishermen coming that way by chance but many of them followed him excepting those that narrowly escaped who returned to the rest of their company and did tell of the danger and destruction that others suffered In the mean while when these things were transacted the false Prophet vanished therefore they were not much out of their way who judged him to be an evill spirit who by Gods permission did delude that pittifull multitude and destroyed many Socrat. 7. Book 38. chap. ARchas the chief of the Indian Wisemen being instructed by Apollonius did tell his name Parents manners and whatsoever happened to him as if he had been present at all Philostratus WHen the Antiochians desired of Apollonius Antiocheno that he would turn away the Earthquake by which they were afflicted sighing he writ thus in his Tables Wo to thee O miserable City because thou shalt be levelled eeven with the ground by many Earthquakes and the River of Orontes shall wash thee to its banks Cedrenus JAmblicus returned from his sacrifices into City talking with his Schollers and by and by fastning his eyes a while upon the ground saith he Let us go another way because not far from hence lies a dead carcase Some of his Schollers followed him But others amongst whom Aedesius going forward in their journey they met the Cats
another Verse which was written in these words Ye Romane enemies if ye will drive away the impostume which commeth from far Nations I Judge playes are to be vowed to Apollo the which let them be faithfully done every year to Apollo when the people shall give a part in publique let private persons prepare to use them for them and theirs Over these sports the Praetor or Major shall be chief he who shall administer the greatest right to the people and the multitude And let the ten chief men or Decemviri after the custome of the Greeks perform holy things by sacrifice These things if ye shall rightly do ye shall alwayes rejoyce and your affairs shall wax better for that God shall put out the stubborn enemy which feedeth pleasantly on your fields This verse being openly interpreted sports were vowed to Apollo and solemnized in a Circle Sabellic book 4. Ennead 5. PRocopius the Tyrant being slain by Valens the Emperour the Walls of Chalcedon because the Citizens of that City had favoured Procopius his party were made equal with the ground The which while it was done they found a table of stone in their foundations on which these words were written When Nymphs shall nigh the holy City dance And wayes adorn'd with garlands and by chance After the wretched walls for placing baths Shall be converted burning in maddish wrathes A thousand shapes of men for greedy prey From divers Nations thou shalt see I say With forces strong alas to go beyond The Istrian and Cimmerian Sea-ey bond Then Scythick people then the Maesian Land Shall be destroy'd with slaughter's bitter hand When at the length unto the Men of Thrace The covetous lust of gain leading a Trace The cruel barbarism shall make a breach It shall be quenched by lot's partial reach This Prophecy was not then understood but was afterward fulfilled when Valens had built a conveyance for water and had brought abundance of waters to the City For the walls being overthrown he made use of the stones for the conveyance of the water which he called Valense by his own name that he might gratifie the Townesmen and the baths might be holpen by this bringing of water although some called them Constantius his baths At length Clearch Governour of the City in a place whose name is Taurus afterward called The street of Theodosius built Nymphaeam or a washing-place that he might shew the grace and pleasantnesse of the water brought in By these buildings the stony tablâ—s signified the coming even now of the Barbarians who in Thrace it self after destructions or robbings of the people made were all slain Cuspinian in Valens IN the sixth year of Justine the Great the City Edessa was miserably defiled with uncleannesse and of the River Scirtus and in the bank of the River a Table of stone found written on in Hieroglyphical or mystical Aegyptian letters to this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is The River Scirtus shall dance or leap for the mischief of the Citizens Cedrenus UNto Alexander the Great going out of India to Babylon Nearchus Admiral of the Navy who had returned from the Ocean being carried into Euphrates sheweth him that certain Chaldeans had gathered themselves together who warned him that he should abstain from Babylon He being nothing moved went forward notwithstanding where he perished Plutarch in Alexander WHen L. Vitellius for the favour of Herod the Tetrarch would lead an Army against the Arabians they report Aretas King of the Arabians news being received of the dispatch of Vitellius to have gathered by sooth-sayings that it was impossible for that Army to have come to the rock For one of the Captains was first to dye either he which may prepare the War or he by whose command it may be provided or him against whom it is to be moved Neither was the divination vain For when Vitellius was as yet at Jerusalem a message being brought concerning Tiberius Caesar his death he made the Expedition void Josephus book 18. chap. 7. APollonius an Aegyptian foretold the death of Caius Caligula Emperour of the Romans who for that cause being sent to Rome was brought to Cuius that day in which he was to dye the death Xiphiline the abbreviatour of Dio in Caligula APollonius the Tyanean the son of Jupiter foretold That Cilix a certain man beyond measure lascivious should be killed on the third day and that so fell out Philostratus in his life LArginus Proclus foretold openly in Germany That Domitian Emperour of the Romans was to dye the death on which day he departed out of life And when for this cause by him who was chief over the Province he was sent to Rome he then also affirmed it should be so Therefore he was condemned for a capital matter But Domitian nevertheless could not escape the danger of life because on the same day he was killed Xiphiline JUlian Emperour moving against Constance pierced Illyricum daily espying the intrails of beasts and birds that he might contemplate of the issue At which time a certain Souldier lifting up the intrails with his hand being fallen flat on the ground he cryed out many hearing him The Trojane was fallen Constance should dye with the Mopsocrenians in Cilicia The which he saith should be by and by verified from Ambassadours Cuspinian ALexander Severus Emperour when as he spake unto his Army in France desiring to begin his speech from a lucky word fortune brought a contrary one the which was received as an evil token for he began Heliogabalus the Emperour being slain begining his speech from the Emperours death But when from thence he went unto the Persian War an outragious woman spake these words in the French tongue Go thy way neither promise victory to thy self neither rely thy self on the faithfulnesse of thy Souldiers That which was rightly told the event taught he himself not long after being killed by his Souldiers Fulgosus in book 1. chap. 3. A Certain woman meeting the two Maximines in the Julian Market-place when they came against the Senate with an Army with her hair spread abroad and a black garment calling on the Maximines with a great voyce fell down dead before their feet After a few dayes the Army slew the Maxinines in the same place WHen Dioclesian as yet warring in lesser places stayed at Tungrim in France in a certain Tavern and had familiar company with Druys a certain woman and she blamed the niggardlinesse of the man he is reported to have answered in jest not in earnest Then he would be liberal when he should be Emperour To these words she saith Do not jest O Dioclesian plainly thou shalt be Emperour and also thou shalt kill a Boar. Which word indeed of the woman he taking in the room of a-fore token began diligently to follow wild Boars in hunting not understanding to wit the riddle of the Prophecies which the issue afterward declared For Numerian Emperour had been slain by the faction of Arrius Aper which
a great multitude of Carians and led them toward Memphis and pitched his Camps beside the Temple of Isis in the Pallace which was distant from the City five furlongs and a fight being begun he got the victory From these Carians a certain part of Memphis was called Caro-memphites Polynaeus book 7. Herodotus SYbill foretold That the warlike glory of the Macedonians gotten Philip the son of Amyntas reigning in the times of another Philip should go backward The glory of Macedon's people of Arcadia's Kings What Philip reigning sometimes profits sometimes losses brings For one the greater of the two his Captains shall impose On people strange and Cities but forsooth by Western foes The lesse shall tamed be in years to come and by and by Illustrious honours he shall lose by Eastern destiny For the Romans who are to the West by the ayd of Attalus and the Mysians who lye toward the rising of the Sun deprived Perseus the son of Philip both of his Kingdom and life Pausanias in Achaick affairs UNder Boleslaus the chaste Prince of the Polanders in the Territory of Cracovia a certain Man-child having teeth on the same day in which he was born spake distinctly and point by point untill being a young beginner in Christian Religion he lost both his teeth and the use of speech But another six moneths old in the City of Cracovia spake That the Tartarians should come and he foretold they should cut off the heads of the Polonians and being asked he answered he knew that thing from God and that evil hung over his own head also which after the twelfth year came to passe HAlâ— Abenragell makes mention That in the King's Pallace he saw an Infant borâ— which scarce as yet twenty four hours were finished began to speak and make signs with the hand At which thing the King being exceedingly astonished a greater miracle happened For he saith The King standing by and my self also with many others the Infant cryed out saying I am unhappily born to disclose the losse of the Kingdom and the destruction and desolation of the Nation Which words being pronounced he fell down dead Coelius book 29. chap. 14. PHerecides the son of Bades a Syrian a heater of Pittacus walking on the Samian shore when he had seen a certain Ship running with full sayls he foretold That a little after it should be sunk and it happened he beholding it Laertius and Apollonius in their History of wonderful things Also Apollonius the Tyanean having gotten a Vessel fit enough to sail in when he had reached Leucas about to go to Achaia Let us go down saith he out of this Ship But she although then quiet a little after was overwhelmed Philostratus Mithridates besieging Cyzicum Aristagoras said he had received from Minerva that he being a pleasant singer would bring the Trumpeter into the Lybick Sea therefore he bade the Citizens to be of good courage And straightway the South-wind blowing more strongly Mithridates his Navy was troubled and their warlike Engines for the most part cast asunder Coelius book 20. chap. 24. THey tell that Pherecydes sometimes thirsting in the Island Scyrus desired water from one of his Schollars the which when he had drank he pronounced That after three dayes there was to be an Earthquake in that Island which saying as the end proved it true he brought back great glory Apollonius History of Wonders GLaucus the son of Epicydides a Spartan when as he had received a great sum of money from Milesius a guest under the name of a depositum or pledge and after his death his sons had required the money Glaucus after four moneths avouched that he would give an answer In the mean time he enquired of the Oracle at Delphos Whether by denying through a suborned oath the money laid up with him he should make a gain Pythia answered It may indeed for bold-fac'd Glaucus turn to present gain Thus by an oath to conquer and by robbery to detain The moneys Afterward 't is death to swear but he the man That consciously regards an oath sustaineth with his hand But of the oath the Lad is alway mindful neither hee With hands nor feet as swift doth make approach but if of thee He taketh hold will all thy house and progeny destroy But th'after stock of swearer just shall better things enjoy Glaucus being affrighted with that answer prayed for pardon or leave But Pythia affirmed the same is to tempt God and to do it Glaucus indeed being returned home restored the money to the young men of Milesim but not long after his whole house and off-spring was wholly put out Herodotus book 6. ALphonsus King of Arragon and Sicily besieged Neapolis a certain man came to him of a reverend countenance and foretold that he should conquer the City about the Calends of June but not much after a doubtfull battle was to be in which the Captain should be taken perswading him that he would not commit himself to so great danger The former part of the Prophecie was true For on the 4th of Nones of June he reduced the City into his power A little after being about to fight in battle against Anthony at Caudola in the Campanian field his friends disswading him and objecting unto him the Prophesie he answered Death indeed will not affrighten a valiant man much lesse doubtfull Oracles A battel being made he was overcome and taken at Caudola Aen. Sylv. book 2. Com. on Panormitan's Alphonsus AGathius in his second book of the Gothish War saith that the Germanes to have used sometime women for Prophetesses likewise with a most true event Plutarch in Caesar calls them holy women and they guessed at things to come by the whirlpools and noyse of Rivers Coelius book 18. chap. 20. ABaris the son of Seuthias a divine of the Hyperboreans or those above the North-wind wrote Oracles in the Countries which he wandred thorow which are at this day extant He also foretold earth-quakes Plagues and the like and heavenly things They say when he had come to Sparta that he warned the Laconians of turning away evills by holy things which things being finished no Plague afterward was at Lacedemon Apollonius in Hist of Wonders AeDesius the son of Chrysanthius a Philosopher of Sardis had a body so nimble that it exceeded the belief of all and was plainly carried up on high There was such a nearnesse to him with a god that there was no need of a Crown of bayes to be placed on his head but true Oracles and framed to the proper likenesse of a spirit blown up by a power He onely beholding the Sun would powre forth speech although he neither knew the Law or order of Verses nor yet well knew the Rules of Grammar Eunapius THere is at Sparta before the Altar of Augustus in the Market place a brazen portrayture of Agias They say this Agias to have divined unto Lysander that he should conquer the navy of the Athenians at the
brake the courage of King Croesus first with the greatest fear and then also with grief For of his two sons he thought that Atys the more excelling both in great nimbleness and endowments of body and ordained for the succession of the Empire was taken away from him by the sword Therefore whatsoever did belong to avoid the bitternesse of a denounced slaughter the father's care in no part ceased to turn away The young man was wont to be sent to wage Wars he was kept at home He had an Armory filled with plenty of all kinds of weapons that also he commanded to be removed His Earls used to be girded with the sword they were forbidden to come near Yet necessity made way for mourning For when a wild Boar of huge bigness wasted the tilled places of the Mountain Olympus with often destruction of the Country-people and help was humbly besought of the King against the unaccustomed evill the son wrested by force from his father that he might be sent to slay him indeed so much the easier because the cruelty not of the tooth but of the sword was laid up in fear But while all were diligently bent on a sharp endeavour of killing the swine a stubborn chance of a hovering force turned the launce sent from Adrastus that he might smite the wild beast out of the right way into him and indeed would have that right-hand especially aspersed with the fault of a wicked murder unto whom the defence of the son was committed by the father Valer. Maximus book 1. chap. 7. Herodotus book 1. POlycratis daughter of a Tyrant of the Samians she seemed to see at the time of rest her father to be on high in the ayr who should indeed be washed by Jupiter but anointed by the Sun She being affrighted with this vision warned her father that he should not go to Oraetes the Governour of Cambyses at Sardis But he obeying not the saying was fastned to a crosse by Oraetes Herodotus book 1. UNto Hipparchus the son of Pisistratus was presented in his sleep the image of a tall man pronouncing these verses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bear Lyon things unsufferable suffer with bearing mind There is no wicked man to whom hee 'l not repay in kind In the morning he would refer these words to the Interpreters of dreams But straightway the Vision being despised he neglected it and went away into the solemn fight where by Aristogiton and Harmodius Gephyraeans he was killed Herodotus book 5. SImon of Athens when as he moved an expedition against the Persians his Navy being now ready he had such a dream An angry Bitch seemed to bark at him and to utter thereupon a voyce mixed of a man's voyce and a dog's barking in these words Be gone thou art to be a friend To me and to my whelpish kind Astyphilus Posidoniates therefore a divining man and familiar friend of Simon affirmed death to be foretold him using this argument The dog is an enemy to him whom he barks at but to an enemy none is dear or a friend but when he dyeth Moreover the mixed voyce sheweth the Mede an enemy whose Armies are mixt of Greeks and Barbarians The end proved the dream to have been true for not much time after Simon dyed of a disease in the siege of Citium Plutarch in his Life WHen as a certain one had seemed to repeat a verse of Homer's unto Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shalt indeed on the third day To Phthia come full fraught with clods of clay He said to Aeschines I shall dye on the third day Phthia was the Country of Achilles And his friends endeavoured to perswade Socrates that he should flee into Thessaly because there he had good friends But he drew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to kill or corrupt And the third day after Hemlock being drunk in prison he perished Laertius in his Life ATterius Ruâ—â—us a Roman Knight when a Sword-play was set forth by the Syracusans he saw himself in the time of sleep to be thrust thorow by the hand of Retiarius And the next day he told it in the place of beholding unto the sitters by Afterwards it fell out that in the next place from the Knight Retiarius was brought in by the Sword-player Whose face when he had seen the same man said he thought he should be slain by that Retiarius and forthwith he would depart thence They his fear being shaken off by their speech brought the cause of destruction to the miserable man For the Sword-player being compelled into that place and cast down while he endeavours to strike him lying along kills Atterius being thrust thorow with his Sword Valerius Maximus in the first Book chap. 7. JUlius Caesar not much before he died in his sleep sometimes he seemed to himself to fly above the Clouds sometimes to joyn his right hand to Jupiter Moreover in the same night when he lay in his bed all the dores of his Chamber and likewise the Windowes being set open he was affrighted both with a noise and light and the Moon shining bright he marketh Calphurnia being fast asleep to utter dark words and undistinct sighings She imagined that she lamented him whom she held thrust thorow in her bosome Others deny that sight to have been set before her But when as a Pinnacle had been by the decree of the Senate adjoyned unto Caesars house as Livy is Author as it were for an Ornament and enlarging it Calphurnia having imagined at the time of rest that to have slidden down she seemed to her self therefore to mourn and weep But when light had approached she asked Caesar if by any means it might be brought to passe that he might not go forth but might adjourn the Senate unto another time But if he did esteem her dreams but as a lock of Wool yet he should ask Counsell of the Soothsayers and Sacrifices concerning things hanging over his head Whence there was some suspition and fear set before him also as it seemeth For he took notice of no superstition before the woman was grieved or vexed for that thing which she then saw But assoon as the Soothsayers told him satisfaction could not be made many sacrifices being now slain he determined Anthony being sent to dismisse the Senate In the mean time Decius Brutus surnamed Albine whom Caesar for the trust which he had to him had written amongst his second heirs seeing he was a companion of the conspiracy of the other Brutus and Cassius fearing lest if Caesar should passe away that day the matter would have been told abroad he mocked the Soothsayers and reproved Caesar and being taken by the hand led him forth And so that day in the Court being thrust thorow with many wounds he was wretchedly slain Plutarch CAesar being slain the people diligently sought after the conspirators being hidden Helius Cinna the Poet one of Caesars friends had the
immortal God Changius obeyed and all his people being led out he compelled them to continue all night in prayers The morning being come he saw the Sea to have went back from the Mountain nine feet and on that side he led his whole Army on dry ground thorow the waste wildernesses into Asia Haithon the Armenian in his book of the Tartars HAnnibal Captain of the Carthaginians had decreed to carry away a golden pillar being found in the Temple of Juno Lucina But being not sure whether it was of sound gold or whether it was gilded with gold nigh the superficies by solemnizing an assembly he tryed it and being made sure that it was all of gold he was confirmed in his purpose of snatching it away unto whom the shape of Juno seemed to be present while he dreamed she admonished him that he should abstain from covetous and sacrilegious enterprizes threatening if he proceeded that she would deprive him of one eye wherewith he should see the ground or the Sun with which sleep the Captain otherwise cruell and who feared no god there was no Religion as was written of him yet it is delivered being moved he daring to move nothing out of the place of that very gold which had fallen out of a hole while he tryed it he took care to have a warlike Engine made and to be placed on the top of the pillar Petrarcha VAlens Emperour in his sleep saw a certain man saying these words unto him Be gone with haste unto great Mimas thee the grievous force Of destiny dreading thy self shall from thy life divorce He being awakened out of sleep asked the standers by What place was called Mimas And when at length a certain one of the Grammarians or Oratours who follow the Kings Court had said Mimas was a Mountain of Asia of which Homer had made mention in his Ulysses And to aiery Mimas The Emperour laughing answered What necessity enforceth me of seeing this place and seeking a lot But when fighting against the Alanians the Emperour was burnt in a little cottage about Adranopolis of Thracia the Barbarians departing from thence some Souldiers of Valens diligently searched out his dead carcass In that cottage where he perished was found an old grave of a certain ancient man with this Inscription Mimas a Governour of the Macedonians was here laid Therefore that dream of Valens was fulfilled Cuspinian THat which was once set before Julius Caesar in his sleep before that he had moved into neather France and brought offensive weapons on the City when at his rest it seemed to him he ravished his mother By which dream the expounders stirred him up unto a most large hope having interpreted That the rule of the world should be given him The same dream they mention was offered to Hippias son of Pisistratus with no unlike issue who being his succeeder in tyranny used his Countrey more cruelly For a night resemblance of his Mother with whom he seemed to copulate is said to be set before him at the time of sleep for which thing the Interpreters answered That rule was largely betokened unto him And he being put in mind by his dream and full of hope not long after he enjoyed the dominion of Athens For this is that Hippias who having attempted a tyrannical power not without cruel wickednesse was more outragious and unbridled than his father when as being a banished man he had changed his soyl he moved wicked arms against his Countrey At last conspiring with Darius being slain in the Marathonian fight he yielded punishments to his Countrey and housholdâ—gods But another son of the same Pisistratus Hipparch who exceeded the cruelty of many Tyrants when as he oppressed his Country and Citizens with a cruel Lordlinesse a conspiracy being made against the life of the Tyrant he was by Armodius and Aristogiton most valiant young men not without the safety of all slain whose names being devoted to freedom lest at any time it should be lawfull to institute servants the Athenians established with an open abhorrency Alexander book 3. chap. 26. SAbacus King of Aethiopians possessed the Kingdom of Aegypt fifty years which being finished the god which is worshipped at Thebes was seen to say unto him His reign over the Egyptians should not be happy nor of long continuance unless the Priests of Egypt being all slain he should passe thorow the midst of their dead carcasses with his This dream being often set before him he called together all the Priests on every side and what things he had received through the dream being told them He would not he saith build a remaining destruction for any one in Egypt but had rather abstain from the Kingdom of Egypt being pure and free of all wickedness Diodore the Sicilian Herodotus book 3. SEthon King of Aegypt Priest of Vulcan when as he despised the Egyptians he made use of a forreign Souldier and stripped the Egyptians of their fields For this wrong it came to pass that after Sennacherib King of Arabians and Assyrians had invaded Egypt with a great Army the Egyptians would not help him Then the chief Priest void of counsel betook himself into the Garret or Chamber of his House and there bewailed before the Image how much he was in danger Therefore while he was lamenting sleep crept on him and while he slept the god seemed to stand by exhorting him that he was to suffer no hurtfull thing if he went to meet the Army of the Arabians for he would send him helpers The Priest trusting to these dreams those that were willing of the Aegyptians being taken Merchants or Factors and handycrafts-men or labourers he pitched his Tents in Pelusium for in this is the Aegyptian invaded When he had come thither in the night a great multitude of field-Mice suddenly arising gnawed asunder both the quivers bowes and also the rains of the bucklers in the Camps of their enemies so that the next day the enemies being naked of weapons made flight many being lost And now in that Temple of Vulcan the King stands in stone holding a mouse in his hand and by letters saying these words Who so looketh on me let him be godly Herodotus book 2. Of Miracles of Devils or of divers deceits and mocks of evil Daemons to strengthen the Idolatry of the Gentiles THe power of Vesta warranted the fire being gone out a woman Schollar of the Virgin Aemilia to be safe from all blame who worshipping when she had laid a Cyprus garment the which she had a very good one on the hearth the fire suddenly shone out Valerius book 1. chap. 1. THey say Aeneas to have placed houshold-gods brought from Troy at Lavinium thence being brought over to Alba by his son Ascanius the which he had built to have returned again to the ancient Chappel and because that might be thought to be done by man's hand being brought back again to Alba to have signified his will by another passage Valer. Max. book 1.
chap. 8. NOt onely the Aegyptians but almost all the World anciently worshipped Isis for her Miracles for this goddess healed the diseases of those that were not well in health in their sleep and they who did obey her counsel were cured beyond thought Also those that were weak in their sight or in other part of the body humbly intreating the vertue of the goddess were restored unto their former health Diodore Siculus book 1. chap. 2. of Ancient Things IN the Temple of Aesculapius among the Epidaurians they who came to pray to the god they sleep and in their sleep do learn the reason of recovering health And then they put squares in the Temple containing the names of those that were cured and the manner of curing Pausanias in his Corinthian affairs There was the same custome among the Romans even to the Times of the Antonines that which we may understand from a Marble Table of Rome found in the Temple of Aesculapius in the Island Tiberia and by the Mapheans kept even to this day in which these words are read rendred out of Greek in the Latine speech as witnesseth Jer. Mercurial a most Learned Physitian in his first book of exercise In these dayes the Oracle told Caius a certain blind man that he should come to the holy Altar and should bend his knees he should come from the right part to the left and should place his five fingers upon the Altar and should lift up his hand and put it upon his own eyes and he saw well the people being present and giving thanks because great miracles were done under our Emperour Antonine The god answered by the Oracle unto Julian vomitting up bloud being despaired of by all men that he should come and should take from the Altar Pine-kernells and should eat them together with honey for three dayes and he was well and being alive openly gave thanks in the presence of the people the god gave an Oracle unto Valerius Aper a blind Souldier that he should come and take the bloud of a white Cock mingling honey with it and should make a washing water and should use it three dayes upon his eyes and he saw and came and openly gave thanks to God Lucius being troubled with a pain of the side and despaired of by all men the god gave an Oracle He should come and take ashes from the Altar and should mingle it together with a pretious Pearl and should lay it upon his side and he was in health and openly gave thanks to God and the people gave thanks together with him ARistides a Rhetorician of Smyrna when as an Earthquake was at hand was commanded by Aesculapius to go a little before unto the antient house and on the top of the little hill Atys to perform holy things and to build Altars the which when he had scarce finished the Earthquake arising so shook indeed all the Countrey lying between that it left no house to resort unto but it came not to Atys not touched any thing beyond it Stobaeus in 3. speech THe Veians being vanquished and plundered by Camillus it seemed meet to carry away the Ensign that was in Junoes Tower unto Rome as he had vowed Artificers being called together unto that thing Camillus performed holy things and having prayed the goddesse that she would embrace the endeavour of the Romans and being willing that she go with her favours unto the gods inhabiting Rome they say the Ensign spake with a low voice she was willing and to agree by nodding Livy delivereth that while he prayed Camillus to have handled the goddesse and invited her thereupon some of the standers by to have answered she was willing and to agree and follow willingly Plutarch in Camillus ALexander the Great making a Bulwark in the Sea to vanquish Tyre suddenly a Whale of incredible bignesse swam to it and one part of his body being bended on the bulwark he stood there a long time with the great affrightment of all beholders He again swam out at last into the Sea Hence a very great Religion or superstition possessed both thinking that to betoken Neptune would be a helper to the Macedonians his mind being inclined even unto that which they desired One told that such a kind of sight appeared to him in the City as though Apollo had said The City of Tyre should be forsaken by them That thing when the common people thought it was feigned by that man in favour of Alexander and now some young ones would stone him he being withdrawn by the Magistrates out of the midst of them fled into the Temple of Hercules and so by the safeguard of the god whom he had implored he was freed from punishment at hand But the Tyrians in nothing more They worshipped him with much superstition who linked Apollo's Statue and Image with golden chains and so by that means they supposed him to be so fettered that he could no more depart from their City but for all that their City was taken and Alexander took off the golden chains and fetters from Apollo with which the Tyrians had linked him and commanded that he should be called Philalexander and so he finished that magnificent sacrifice unto Hercules Diodorus lib. 17. PHillippides the Athenian being sent Embassadour and Legate to Lacedemonia about the invasion and breaking in of the Persians into Greece returning home again much reprehended the delayes and stay of the Lacedemonians who would not bring out their Army before the full Moon and meeting Pan or the god Pan in the Parthian Grove who promised that he would ayd the Athenians in the fight at Marathon which was to be a while after And so from this sprung the honours that the Athenians vouchsafed to the god or gods messenger Pausanias lib. 1. IN the Mithridatick Warr when Mithridates besieged and hovered over Cyzicum with the wings of his Army the gods seemed to favour the Cyzenians and to approve of their fortitude and to excite it by some perspicuous and transparent signs and tokens at sundry times as well as at Proserpina's feast then instant When they wanted a black Ox to sacrifice they brought one made of bread-corn artificially made in paste to the Altar but the holy or consecrated Cow which was at feeding afterwards to be sacrificed to that Goddess was at pasture over Sea with the rest of the flock of the Cyzenians in that same day leaving the rest of the flock and herd swam over alone to the Town and willingly offered it self to be sacrificed moreover their goddess appeared in a dream unto Aristagoras the publick School-master Truly saith she here I am and I drive and force the African Fidler or Musitian into the Trumpeter of Pontus do thou therefore command thy Citizens to be of good chear The Cyzenians marvelled much at this speech and as soon as it was break of day and that the bright Luciferian Star Phoebus's harbinger did periwigg the horizon with his silver'd locks the Sea
narrant That John Baptist appeared to a certain rapacious and sacrilegious fellow who came to the Monument of Rothares King of the Longobards in a Church built for the repose of his dead body and took away all the ornaments wherewith it was buried and blamed him for his presumption to dare to touch his body who although he had not walked in the strict way of truth yet he had committed himself to his patronage and protection By reason of this impiety this sacrilegious person could never after go into the Temple for as often as he assayed to enter thereinto he was driven back by a ghost which offered to cut his throat if so be he proceeded and so was forced to retreat IN that Warr that Charls the Eighth King of France waged against Anne Dutchess of Britain whom afterwards he married a certain Souldier of Britain going out of the City of Rhemes to plunder in the Temple of a certain Town whereinto the Countrey people had brought the greatest part of their goods he breaks open a Chest thinking that it belonged to some secular person and loading himself with as much as he could well carry of the goods therein returning home with them he looking amongst his plunder saw amongst the rest certain small pieces of linnen cloath like to handkerchiefs and not conceiving that they were such as Priests use for a napkin to carry the host he bestowed them on his Landlady who perceiving them bloody she first looked upon her hands which when she found hurt but could not perceive any blood issue from thence she searched her bosome and found all the skin of her breast lining of her Wastcoar and lower petticoat imbroydered with blood the woman carrying these cloaths to the River to wash could not possibly take the blood out of them though by washing thereof the water seemed bloody Which is not unlike what happened to Pope Leo who to those that sought from him holy reliques he cutting part of a napkin which is called the Corporal gave it them but when he perceived a certain man to despise it Leo in his presence pricked the corporal whereby he made it plainly appear that blood flowed from it Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 6. GRegorius Turonensis cap. 81. de gloria confessorum writes concerning Marianus the Hermite a Holy-day in remembrance of whom was wont yearly to be kept that the house of a certain man who to perform domestick business and his necessary occupations neglecting the observance thereof and being rebuked for it by a neighbour answered That it was better to perform his necessary work then shew such devotion to such a Saint whose salvation was doubted was set on fire and destroyed with revengefull flames in such manner that his neighbours houses joyning close to his received no hurt at all thereby A Certain Aurelianensian about to labour in his vineyard in the holy Feast of Avitus the Cartonensian Abbot admonished by others to forbear work as soon as he betook himself to labour his face was writhed towards his back to wit by the Devil the murtherer of mankind turned the contrary way It was a terrible sight therefore to a multitude of Spectators but the man going into the Temple of Avitus and desiring forgivenesse of his sin obtained that pardon insomuch that his face was turned to its right place Gregor Turonens lib. de gloria Confess cap. 99. A Certain Citizen of Paris having pawn'd his cloaths to a Jew being not able to redeem them promised to the Jew if he would restore his apparrell to give him for the same the host which he should receive the next Easter which the Jew consenting to he according to his promise bringing to him the Jew takes the host which he received and casts it into a vessel full of boyling oyl and water and with blasphemous words falls to scorn and reproach it whereupon as 't is reported a most beautifull young man leapt out and with wonderfull agility avoided the Jew who sought to drown him with a staff that had an Iron hook at the end thereof his sons standing by and frighted with the strangenesse of the sight run to their Mother and tell her the cruelty of their father against the young man immediately there is a great concourse of people who take the host from the Jew which the Bishop carryed to the Church of St. John in Gravia the Wife and Children of the Jew were by this miracle converted to the Christian faith and he brought to prison where with many words he bragg'd of the virtue of the Talmud and calls for it to be brought to him to deride thereby the superstition of the times which when he had received and began to hope that he was secure from suffering for his impiety he with his book were consumed by flames which issued from a pile of wood made for that purpose as violently and swiftly as an arrow out of a bowe Thomas Patriarcha Barbariensis lib. 3. Fortalicii fidei IN the Arvernensian Church a certain impious fellow swore untruly whereupon his tongue was suddenly tyed for that he could not speak but lowed like a beast And grieving heartily with sighs for the perjury he had perpetrated he humbly casts himself down at the Sepulchre of the Bishop Dretemonius imploring his help not God's as 't is commanded and finds his tongue loosed and himself able to speak as expeditely as formerly publickly confessing his sin for which wittingly and willingly committed this punishment fell upon him Gregorius Turonensis de confessoribus cap. 29. MEscho Prince of the Polonians by stratagem taking Cracovia from Boleslaus Duke of Bohemia the Princes making a Truce met together at Cracovia where Boleslaus is taken at a Feast and both his eyes put out and his Nobles cruelly slain the Prisbuicensians being privy to the treachery and partakers of the wickednesse the same also endeavour treacherously to kill the brother of Boleslaus for Cochares drawing the young man into a Wood upon pretence of hunting commanded him to be bound to the stock of a Tree and shot at with arrows It is reported that at that time St. John Baptist invocated by him received the arrows upon an hairy cover or skin and so defended him and that he warned his Wife by Vision to relieve her Husband in that great danger whereupon Overa a servant to the Prince with great haste and good speed declared the Treason to the people who speedily comming to the relief of the Duke released him and killed the Traytors In that place the Monastery of the order of Saint Benedict was built and a greater Altar placed where the Tree to which Janures was bound stood Aeneas Sylvius in histor Bohem. COmnenus the Emperour being sick and seeming ready to faint was restored by the Image of our Saviour for an holy imbroydered vail placed upon the Chalice which had the picture of our Saviour wrought upon it was spread upon the bed wherein he lay and his body wrapped in it