a sharp dart 266 Philumena the Harlot of Apelles the Heretick 267 Magitians come out of Egypt to Byzantium to shew their art 268 Wonderful tricks shewed by some of them for money by others for ostentation 269 Michael Sicidites Magnus Manuel Comnenus being Emperour would allow no such Sights 270 Gregory the seventh his Miracles 271 In the cave of an Ile belonging to the Ostrogothians strange Inchantments 272 Antonius Heliogabalus his Magicall inchantments 273 The Emperour Atrian when he understood by Magick that one whose name begun with Theta should succeed him in the Empire commanded all to be slain whose names begun with that letter 274 Andronicus Comnenus Tyrannus consulteth a Magitian 275 Euphrosina Wife of Alexius Angelus the Emperour gave up her mind to divinations 276 Theotecnus of Athens an Inchanter and cruel persecutoe of Christians 277 Jason's Enterprize with fifty four more young gallants 278 Johannes Teutonicus by Magicall art causeth Spectrum to appear 279 An Arabian after drinking Cocks-blood conjured an East wind for three dayes 280 A young gallant of the Town of Gaza consulteth Magitians for the obtaining of a Ladies love with whom he was enamoured 281 Demetrius Spartanus deludes the people of Rome by his Magick for which he is worthily punish'd 282 A Maid of sixteen years of age possessed with a Devil 283 Cardanus his Relation out of his fifteenth book of one possessed with a Devill 284 Vierus his strange relation of a Maid bewitched 285 His wonderfull relation of an Husbandman bewitched 286 Fulgosus his miraculous report of a religious man 287 Boccatius a noble Lombard 288 Johannes Baptist Port. Neapolitan his relation of a Witch 289 Jarcka his gift to Apollonius Tyaneus 290 Witches by giving men cheese turn'd them into beasts 291 Witches transforming men into beasts sell them to Merchants 292 Michael Verdunus and Peter Burgottus contract with the Devil 293 An horrible Earthquake in Norway in the year 1348. 294. A Bull charmed with Magical incantations 295 A Virgin of Bononia conversant with men two years after her death 296 A studious young man of Sfordia inamoured of a Virgin 297 Andreas an Italian a notable Satanical jugler 298 A dunghill Cock divines 299 John Faustus carried about with him an evil spirit in shape of a dog 300 The Devil comes to Frederick of Austria being prisoner in a Castle near Naburg offering to set him free but he drives the devil away by the sign of the Cross 301 John an Almain Priest at Haberstadium a Magitian 302 A Magitian who cut off his servants head uniting it to his body again 303 Enchantresses who desired and endeavoured to destroy the fruits of the earth 304 A Magitian of a Neighbour Town of Ahena 305 Martin Luther his tale of his Mothers being vexed with an Inchantress 306 Without the permission of God the Devil can hurt no man 307 Pope Alexander a Magitian 308 Of a Virgin who instead of tears wept drops of blood 309 A Magitian being hanged vanished away and a bundle of straw remained in his stead 310 How to arm our selves against the power of the devil 311 Of the commixtion and commerce of the devil with Witches 312 A Witch useth means to seduce a chaste Virgin to lie with the devil 313 A young Virgin signing her self with the sign of the Cross driveth away devils 314 A woman prostitutes her self to the devil 315 In the Brixiensian Diocess a young Wife bewitched to death 316 A young Noble-man deprived by Witchcraft of natural strength to beget children 317 Devils appear in form of young gallants 318 A Priest who formerly thought there was no Witches bewitched 319 Barrenness in a family by Witchcraft 320 A Mid-wife a Witch 321 A poor Labourer set upon by Gentlewomen Witches in the shape of Cats which he grievously hurt 322 A woman to perpetrate her malice contracteth with the Devil 323 A woman afflicted with a Leprosie by witchcraft 324 A Witch infects an hangman with Leprosie 325 Inchantments hid under the threshold of a door 326 A woman by constant and fervent prayers to Almighty God delivered from Witchcraft 327 Witches devote their Children to the Devil 328 Witches make it rain hail or cause a tempest at their pleasure by the power of the devil 329 A Witch causeth loathsome stinks to the terrour of her apprehenders 330 A Witch being to be hang'd spits upon the face of the hang-man whereupon he fell down dead 331 The History of Job evidenceth the power of the devil 332 They who get unjustly labour for the devil 333 A Witch cures a woman afflicted with sickness by praying to the devil 334 Witchcraft by Spells and using of a sieve 335 Two verses out of the Psalms being pronounced no Butter will be produced by art 336 Ring-Magick by putting a ring upon a bowl of water 337 Rod-magick 338 Amasis King of Egypt so bound by Magick that he could not perform Nuptial rights to his Wife Laodice 339 Witchcraft performed by tying of a knot many wayes 340 A woman accuseth a Witch for binding her Husband that he could not perform marriage rites 341 It passeth the power of the Devil to bind men from eating or drinking by intercepting the power of their stomach 342 Insulanus Lord of the Novallians desirous to know the number of his dayes 343 John Charterius an Historiographer and Guilhelm a Doctor of Sorbon â—emned for Sorcery 344 A â—naus Witchcraft detected by her husband 345 A great Lady of Lugdunum her Witchcraft discovered by her stallion 346 A Nobleman of Maldunum who for curiosities sake went amongst Witches 347 A woman accused of Witchcraft by her Husband 348 A great company of Witches vanished away by a young maids calling upon God who was seduced to their society 346 The devill obligeth witches by an oath to renounce God 350 The devill seated upon a Throne 351 The devill lyeth as men use to do with Women with a Witch 352 Confessions of Witches 353 Witches by their Husbands taken in the manner with the devill 354 A Noblewoman of Spain seduced by a witch had to do with the devil at eighteen years of age 355 A whole family bewitched to madnesse 356 A Woman by Magick cures Feavers 357 A Witch counterfeits holinesse 358 A Witch who had bewitched a man could not cure him again though she earnestly endeavoured it 359 A Witch cureth the Horse of a Nobleman and transfers the Horses disease to a servant 360 A Magitian promised to transfer the disease of the father to his sucking Infant 361 A witch commanded by a Judge to touch a woman whom she had bewitched falls down dead 362 A Magitian bidding a man sick of a Feaver give it his enemy he answering he had not any but transferring it to the Witch he died and the sick man recovered 363 A great number of Witches burned for Witch-craft 364 A disease which comes to a man by a naturall cause and not by witchcraft cannot be cured by Magick 365 A house troubled
he hurries them into destructions gulph sometimes a consort of musicall instruments are heard but more oftner the noise of Drums Munsters Cosmograph Book 5. THere was a certain Citizen of Erphord that for some years together kept a Crow in his house and when he saw any silent or sorrowfull he used these words after a jesting manner O my Crow what makes thee so sad what thinkest thou of To which beyond all expectation the Crow or the Devill in it clearly and with a lively voice recited a Verse out of the 77. Psalm I have thought of old and I have had eternity in my mind and thus the Devill spoke out of the Crow Caspar Goldw. in his Book of Miracles HIeronimus Cardanus told his Father that there appeared seven spirits which did dispute with him about divers wonderfull things and did enucleate and unmask hidden mysteries that were before unknown out of the Manuscript writings of Averroes of Physitians principles IN the raign of Trajan a Crow but rather the Devill out of the Crow began to speak with humane voice and cryed out of the Capitol in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnia bellè se habebunt i. e. All things shall be well from whence came that distick of an unknown Authour Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix Est bene non potuit dicere dixit Erit Englished thus A Chough did from Tarpeia's top foretell Though things now are not yet they shall be well A Most certain argument to prove that those men are possessed is they speak those tongues which they never learnt Bodin saith there was one whose name was Samuel being but twelve years of age in the Village of Wantelet ad Laod he was the Son of a Noble man Lord of the Land who was possessed of the Devill a Month after his Mothers death and grievously vexed and buffeâ—ted also the Devill had power over his body and if any one would withdraw the boâ—â— he did retract him again by violence his father would not have him exorcised for Religion's sake which he professed And whether or no he was freed from it the twelfth or thirteenth year he was past in which the woman of Vervinens was possessed by an evill spirit but she had an exorcism I know not which History I passe over because it was related in diverse books which are now printed Italy and Spain abounds with such demoniacal persons which had need be bound up in chains those can speak Greek and Latine and other tongues which they never learnt or which is more likely the Devill speaks in them for if at any time that Woman of Vervinensis had put out her tongue a great length the spirit then spoke most Eloquently Melancthon reports that he saw a woman in Saxony that was possessed who could neither read nor write yet did speak Greek and Latine and Prophesie of that cruell war in Saxony saying Great misery shall come upon this Country and Famine upon this people Fernelius in his book of the secret causes of things tells that he saw a possessed Boy speaking Greek for all that he knew no letters Hippocrates in his Book De Sacro morbo thought it to be the falling sicknesse but some afterwards in Greek did accurately note the difference For those who were possessed spoke divers languages and prophesied which could not be observed in those who had the falling sicknesse IN the reign of Argyropolis Emperour of Rome in the Thracian Province at the bottome of the Fountain of Curena there was a miserable dolefull noise heard mixed with howlings and lamentations not onely for once or twice but continually dayes and nights from March to July And when some came to see the place from whence the voice was heard there was another howling thwarted them I suppose this miracle did foretell the slaughter of the Romans in Coclosyria Cedrenus CAlligraphus a reverend man of Alexandria going out of his house in the night time at midnight he saw brazen statues speaking with a loud voice that Mauritius the Emperour of Constantinople was slain together with his children at Byzantium going forth in the morning he related it to Augustulus who warned him not to tell it to any and prescribing a day in the ninth day there came a Messenger declaring the death of Mauritius Then Augustulus did publish to the people the Devills Prophecy Paul Diacon Book 17. of Romane History and Nicephorus Book 18. Chap. 41. HIrcanus 3d Captain of the Jews and High Priest when he had deputed his two sons Aristobulus and Antigonus to the siege of Samaria and the Samaritans having implored help of Antiochus Cyzicenus it was reported that in the very same day in which his sons had entred battell with Cyzicenus the High Priest being alone in the Temple heard a voice that mentioned the new gotten victory of Antioch by his sons which he â—and by going forth published to the people and a while after his Oracle came certainly to passe Josephus Book 13. chap. 18. WHen the Romans in a great battell with the Tarquinians sent away L. Junius Brutus Consull but in the following night such an affrightment seized upon the Enemies The Tarquinians and the Vejentes in silent troops returned home as conquer'd men The report is that in the next night after the battell out of the next wood which Livy calls Arsâ—a and Dyonisius said it was a Holy wood a loud voice was heard whether it was the voice of a Faune or Silvaine it could not be resolved which happened more then once in the Hetrusian war which prodigy did so affright the enemies that they yielded themselves as conquer'd Sabellicus Book 7. Ennead 2. Valerius Book 1. chap. 8. IN that day which Caesar fought with Pompey at Pharsalia C. Cornelius of Patavia being Augur when he had taken augury at the first sight suddenly turning to those that were by him said now the businesse is done now the men begin their work and trying his augury the second time he with a loud voice cryed out O Caesar Thou overcomest they that stood about him admiring at the thing he took the Crown from off his head and swore he would not put it on again untill the businesse made his art believed or credited Livius and Plutarch in Caesar and Pliny saith there such a noise came when two armies were fighting one against the other to the augurs sitting on the Patavian Mountains being bold to affirm by that either the world would be dissolved quickly or Caesar was fighting with Pompey Sabellicus Book 7. Ennead 6. out of the 15th Book of Gellius chap. 18. WHen Antonius fell from Domitius and a great war was expected in Germany the City being affrighted and the people of themselves without any other author dispersed the same of the victory and a report going throughout Rome that Antonius was killed and that no part of his army was left alive it was so really believed that a great part of the Magistrates sacrificed But when the Authour
of the rumour was sought out but none appeared but the news was put off from one to another every one clearing themselves of it and being as it were labrynthed and plunged in a vast Ocean they could not make it appear from what original or Fountain it proceeded the fame of which quickly overspread the City But a Messenger and letters meeting Domitian in his journey leading out the Legions to war intimating victory so that one day was the day of Trophyes and of Fame too in places distant more then two thousand five hundred Miles Plutarchus in Aemilio SOsipatra a woman of Alexandrina at a certain time being amongst her acquaintance and a disputation arising about the Soul she was wrapt by a certain fury suddenly she seemed as though her voice was taken away and was for a while dumb by and by she began to cry out My Cozen Philometor being transported in a Charriot is now ore-turn'd in a thorny place and hath hurt his ellow and his hands are wounded and a certain man complaining the thing was a while after known which confirmed the truth Eunapius in Aedesio THamus an Egyptian Pilot sayling to Rome late at night near the Echinad Islands night being far spent heard the voice of an unknown Author which cal'd him by his own name they that were in the ship were all amazed and when it called the third time he answered then saith the voice When thou comest into the next Island the voice being heard as if it were on the foredeck Thamus being astonished and religiously given obeyed its commands and immediately after it had given its precepts such howling mourning and lamentations was heard in the Ayre that all thereabouts was almost dead with fear The news quickly arrived at Rome and Tiberius Caesar commanded Thamus to be brought before him and examined that he might know the truth of it the Augures and High Priests consulting about it they answered Pana perhaps was born of Mercury and Penelope Plutarch relates this in his book of Oracles which Oracles then were made dumb in which place although we may acknowledge the subtily of Satan and the Devill being busied about bringing the death of Christ into question and to mock it by such a fiction except he would by Pans death infer that mens Souls after death should be destroyed or annihilated MOnobazus the King of the Adiabenians his sirname was Barles being in love with Helens sister married her and of her had Monobazus and other children of other wives At the last lying with his wife big with child and laying his hand upon his wives belly he thought he heard a certain voice bidding him to take off his hand from her belly lest he should oppresse her young which as it was begun with divine providence so it was likely to have a prosperous end He was affrighted with this voice and shewed the thing instantly to his wife and he called the Son Izatch that was born at that birth And by reason of this prediction he made him Heyre to the Kingdome But he together with his mother embracing the Jewish Religion restored Artabanus the King again to the Parthian Kingdome and fortunately fought against the Arabians and Parthians in the 55. year of his age and 24. of his reign he died and left the Kingdome to his Brother Monobazus Ex Joseph Book 20. chap. 2. NIcephorus Phaeus the Emperour did fortify the Palace of the Constantinopolitan Tower in which it was foretold him that he should dye At what time the walls of the Palace was builded in the night season a certain man sailing on the Sea cryed out after this manner O Emperour thou makest up thy walls and although thou raisest them up to Heaven whilst that which is within is evill the City may be easily taken He that spoke those things was a long time and very much sought after but never could be found out the wall was finished he perished that same day that he had the keyes delivered by him that had the businesse committed to him Cedrenus WHen Opicinus Cacia Novaria being very thoughtfull or Melancholly walked alone in his house at noon-tide he heard something call him by his name but saw no Man and afterwards said Wouldst thou be willing that thy Son should dye To whom he answered having no time to consider of it he would but afterwards coming to himself quickly denyed that which he had assented to and was very sorry for the cruelty of the prodigy therefore within three dayes his son John Baptist having no more fell sick and two dayes after dyed Fulgosus Book 1. chap. 4. BEfore Neroes death there was a confused murmure mixed with laughter and a tumult in the Theater with great mourning was heard when no man was there In Albania it rained bloud and both the dores of Mauseolus in which were the Tombs of the Caesars he being the last of that stock and the dores of his bed of their own accord flew open out of which there was heard a voice calling Nero to him Xiphilinus ex Dione M. Antonius Majoragius reported that in the Moneth of Aprill there was heard in Eupilus Lake a sound or voice crying after this sort Oh oh oh oh oh The first part of which had a Musicians song the latter part of the voice had their brief and in those years nor in any other were there ever a more plentifull encrease of Wine Wheat and other things Cardane Book 15. chap. 85. de rerum Varietate THere appeared to Hircanus the Captain of the Jews and being also High Priest a certain sight which enquired about his successour being carefull of Aristobulus and Antigonus his eldest which he loved above all their other brethren But when God had shewed the picture of Alexander the youngest sorrowfull that he should be successefull and prosperous in all his proceedings commanded that he should be brought out of Galilee lest he should be in any capacity of having the Kingdome after him but the event made the Oracle be believed for he was possessed of the Kingdome after Aristobulus who before had slain Antigonus and killed the other brother that withstood him but the other that was contented with a private life he honoured Josephus Book 13. chap. 20. BEfore Camillus's banishment M. Cedicitius a vulgar person declared or gave it out that in the night before he was called out of his way which they call the new way by a loud voice and looking back and seeing no man he heard a voice greater then a mans which spoke thus to him Go to M. Cedicitius and tell the Tribunitian Souldiers betimes in the morning they may expect the French within a few dayes The Tribunes despised and laughed at those relations A little after this came Camillus's distresse and the Invasion of the French Plutarch in Camillo et Sabellicus book 9. Ennead 3. LYcurgus hapned to come to Olympia and was a spectator of the games there it is reported that this befell him viz.
part of Suevia a Country-man walking over his ground to see his Corn in a dry season with a little girle a daughter of his with him wished that it would rain a good shower The Maid hearing her father say so out of her childish simplicity told him She could easily procure that for him The Father wondring at the childs words askt her how could she do such a feat O sayes she I learnt that of my Mother and added That she could easily cause it not onely to rain but hail and raise a great tempest and that her mother learnt it of a Master she converst with and that whensoever and whatsoever she required of him was presently perform'd but that her Mother had strictly charged her to tell no body The father being terrified at these things askt her if she had ever seen this Master The girle answered again that she had seen many come in and go out who her Mother told her were their Masters and Loving Lords Her father again demanded if she could just then raise a shower or storm She reply'd I if she had but a little water He therefore brought her to the River where calling upon this Master she presently caused it to rain in her father's fields alone and not in his neighbours as he had commanded her The man seeing that bid her also make it hail but so as but in one field which he shew'd her this she presently effected And then being fully resolved his wife was a Wiâ—ch he brought her before a Magistrate there convicted her of the crime and burnt her his daughter being put to holy exercises and by sacred means was delivered from the power and wiles of the devil Ibid. IN the Town Fach a Judge commanded his Serjeants to apprehend a Witch and bring him to execution but they were so annoyed with loathsome stincks and struck with such a terrour in the businesse that they utterly despaired of effecting it The Judge his name was Peter insisting more earnestly upon the performance of his command again exhorts them that they would take courage and lay violent hands upon the Witch for now the appointed time was come wherein the detected crimes of this impious person must be punished by which encouragements being animated to repel the fascinations of the devil the VVitch was taken and brought to execution AT another place when a Witch was bound and brought to the Gallows top she spet in the face of the Hangman and he presently fell down dead in like manner she did by a second But the third going about a little more warily was yet so invenom'd by her breath that all his face swelled till he was stark blind with it and a little after he died of it WHat power the Devils have to afflict Brutes Cattle and all other creatures and how they can raise storms and tempests you may find sufficiently laid open in the 14. 15. chapters of the forecited Author the examples are very horrible nor do I think it necessary to commemorate any more of them The History of Job will evidence the same thing what is not onely the power but how extream the malice of that evill Spirit THere were two brothers to whom their Father left a competent estate when he died the one of them took upon him a Monastick life the other married and set up a common Inne and most earnestly gaping after Riches used all means possible to defraud not onely his guests but their beasts by false weights and Measures and conveighing their provender from before them Whilst he thus strove to be rich his estate went to wrack on every side and the more he took care to heap up the more and greater losses he sustained When his brother the Monk came to him to part the estate with him according to his Fathers Will he desired his brother that he would forbear prosecuting him for the division of the goods at present for he was poor and in a very low condition and notwithstanding that he used all means possible for the gaining of an estate yet all the fraud he could use profited him nothing when the Monk heard this he said O my Brother if you order your Family so unjustly 't is no wonder that things go so ill with you For you keep such a guest that consumes all and more than you can possibly gather and if thou wilt see him follow me into the bottom of the Cellar and I will shew thee who consumes thy estate Whither when they were both come the Monk by his adjurations made the Devill that lay hid there shew himself to his brother And presently a beast of an immense bignesse and so fat that without much ado he could not move himself appeard which when the Monk saw he said O what a gainfull Inne dost thou keep and turning to his brother said Behold that beast thou hast pampered by thy fraud for whatsoever thou fraudulently gottest from any man this ugly beast devoured Therefore hearken to me Be faithfull and upright in thy dealing towards all men use an equall measure and defraud no body and after four years I will come again and then divide my Fathers estate with you His Brother follows the Monks counsell and as much as he went backwards in the world before he now came on and in a short time had such experience of divine goodnesse that he was Master of a great estate At four years end came his brother the Monk to see what condition his brother was yet in who received him with great alacrity and told him he had followed his advice desiring to see the beast now again in which the Monk gratified his brother and commanded the beast that lay hid in the Cellar to appear which when he came was so lean his bones would scarce hang together Then sayes the Monk to his brother now it 's time for this guest to get hence and seek another Host But if thou shalt hereafter order thy affairs with the like Justice thou shalt alwayes learn experience of the great blessing of our great and good God NOt long since sayes Bodinus in Vallis which is a name of the Suburbs of Laodunum a certain Witch by her inchantments freed a woman from her disease who was most grievously afflicted and thus she effected it Falling down upon her knees and looking towards the ground she called upon the Devill very often and with a loud voice that he would cure the Woman and pronouncing certain strange words gave her a morsell of bread to eat and by this means the woman recovered Which kind of cure is plainly such as if the sick woman had prayed to the Devill for health than which it were better to indure the most painful death Daemonomaniae lib. 1. cap. 6. I Remember about 20. years ago at Lutetia in a Noblemans house there I saw a young man by often reciting certain French words in the presence of many honest people which I think not good to mention at
Lucans and Brutians and did grievously oppresse the Countrey thereabouts But continuall showers did so deluge and overflow the fields that lay between and so the army being parted into three could not get help from any other Alexander not being able to get supplies made two Bulworks or Castles of defence therefore they environed with their siege the Captain parting with and losing a great part of his riches and provision There were of the Lucans exuls and banished men about Alexander 200 by this means they with their party promised that they would bring the King into their power either alive or dead Therefore the King daring to adventure broke through the midst of his enemies with his out-spread waving hands and arms and killed the Captain of the Lucans fighting with him hand to hand and gathering together his army into one he with a full body came to the River the strength of whose Tide a little before had broke down the bridge and when he consulted of an escape over it being not fathomed by him and his Army being tyred out and by chance one blab'd forth the name of the River which was much hated by the King and so exclaimed and cryed out Art thou called Acheron which being known he made a great haesitation whether or no he should passe over the River and when he so delayed one Sotinus a servant gave warning that the Lucans did seek places to lye in wait for them and when the King thought that they were ready to rush upon him with his naked Sword he leapt into the River A Horse on the overthwart bank stood to receive him which when one of the Lucans had wounded him with casting a Dart and the streaming Tides carryed him down his Spear sticking fast towards the enemies Camp dead and they tearing it to pieces and cutting it in the midst one part they sent away the oâ—her was kept for to be mocked which they a long while battered with stones and darts and at the last they delivered it to a Woman that she might keep it to be a ransome to redeem her Husband and children which were captives on the adverse party and they sent away the bones of the burned body to their enemies at Metapontus from whence they were further sent to Cleopaetra and to her sister Olympias the Mother of Great Alexander Strabo lib. 6. Valerius Maximus lib. 1. THere was an old Oracle came from the Altar of Jupiter Ammon concerning the death of Annibal the famous Carthagenian Captain Lybyssa corpus teget tuum Lybyssa shall be thy grave Anniball did suspect Africa and that his buriall should be in Carthage and thought he should end his life there for there is a fabulous place of Bythinia beside the Sea not far off there is a little Village called Lybyssa and by chance Annibal was banished there and because he alwayes suspected the mollities and tendernesse of the King of Prussia and abhorred the Romans therefore he opened seaven subterraneal holes or passages before his house or out of his Tent and divers foramina or oilet holes made in which there was many secret conspirators privately combineing together And when he received that commandement of T. Quintius Flaminius the Roman Ambassadour which he had desired and obtained of the King he attempted a flight through the private holes but when he fell into the Kingdomes snares he determined to kill himself Some report him to wrap his neck in his Cloak and commanded his servant that he should infix his knee in his posteriours and twine and twist him hard untill he should dye Livius lib. 8. Decad. 4. and had poison given him which he had power to mix and mingle himself and taking the cup himself said We free at last the Roman people by this dayes work when he believed that it was expected there should be a long and a tedious death of that hated old man and by this means they say Anniball perished Plutarchus in Flaminio Pausaunias vero in Arcadicis that when he got upon a horse he of his own accord wounded his hand and had not rid far when a Feaver got hold of him by reason of the inflammation of his wound and that he dyed within three dayes And so the fatall name of the man whom the Nicomedienses called Lybyssam fulfilled the Oracle APpius Claudius in a Civil war in which Cn. Pompeius falling out with Caesar breaking the league bringing both detriment to himself and to the Common-wealth desirous to find out the spring and root of that great sedition for he excelled in strength the Achaian Empire he compelled the chief Governour of the Delphick Tripos to descend into the inmost concave that they might know certain things consulting with the Oracles they were almost choaked such a damp and stinking vapour of that divine or rather diabolical spirit was drawn in by them Therefore an inspired Virgin by the instinct of the Deity and with a horrid voice sung with such quavering sounds of words uttered the destiny or Oracle For it is nothing saith she to thee in this Romane war thou shalt get the Valley of Euboea but he thinking to be admonished by Apollo's Oracles lest there should arise any contention or difference about it departed into that Region and Countrey which is between Rhamminta that noble and renouned part of Micka and Caristum bordering upon the Chalcidick Sea lying between got the name of Euboea where he was spent and consumed of a disease before the Pharsalian combat and fight and he possessed that burying place which was foretold him by the Devill Valerius Max. lib. 1. cap. 8. THe Antianaean Oracles gave an Item unto C. Caligula that he should have a care of Cassius therefore he gave order that Cassius Longinus the Pro-consull of Asia being a Lawyer to be put to death but before he had satisfied his tyrannicall desires he was slain by Cassius Chaerea not being able to eschew his fate Rutilius in vita Cassii MIchael Comnenus Palaeologus Emperour grieved with a pain at his heart and being much troubled and perplexed with the fear of death he asked those that stood about him what was the name of that place When he had heard the name of Pachonii and Allages with a great sigh he said that there was he to finish his life and that his death was decreed by the fates and therefore bitterly accused himself that before that time he had not blinded and pluck't out the eyes of that honest man Pachonius for that an Oracle was publickly reported to be given out concerning the Emperour that being deceased Pachonius should succeed him in the Kingdome and being deceived and blinded with the love of ruling he had not hastned to make Pachonius unserviceable for the Empire Gregoras lib. 5. THere was a famous City in Olympos whose name was Libethra which Mountain stretched it self forth into Macedonia not far from which City there is Orpheus's Tomb and Monument and there was formerly an Oracle had from
powred into it with which it was not full he therefore commands again more Oyl to be bestowed upon it and found that the Urne was nothing fuller than before yet he continues seeking to fill it till he found that all his labour was in vain and then the Monument being shut he departs in great grief and sorrow he had fifty myriads of men in an army designed against the Greeks but returning he miserably ended his life being kill'd by night in the streets by the hands of his own son Aelianus ex Herodoti lib. 3. SYlvester the second formerly called Gilbertus a French-man as â—hey say by evill arts obtained the Popedome When he was a young man he was a Monk in a Monastery of Florence scituated in the Aurelian Diocesse but leaving the Monastery the Devill followed him to whom he wholly surrendred himself he came to Hispalis a City of Spain to study being very desirous of learning in which he was so great a proficient that in a short time of a Scholler he became chief Master Martinius testifies that Robert King of France and Lotharius a man famous by Nobility and learning who was afterwards created Arch-Bishop of Senosenses were his Schollers Gilbertus therefore provoked by ambition and diabolicall desire of governing first by largenesse and gifts he obtained the Arch-Bishoprick of Rhemes then of Ravenna and lastly the Popedome it self the Devill helping his endeavours herein but upon this condition That after his death he should be wholly his by whose assistance he had got so great dignity he moved the Devill to tell him how long he should continue Pope the Enemy of mankind answering as he is wont ambiguously If thou shalt not come near Jerusalem thou shalt live long When therefore in the fourth year and first Moneth of his Popedome the tenth day he had sacrificed in the great Church of the Holy Crosse at Rome he knew that by his fate he was to dye forthwith he therefore repented and acknowledged his wickednesse before the people and renouncing all ambition and diabolicall fraud he exhorted all to a good and pious life WHen the Boetians wasted the Sea-coasts of Attica and the Athenians were about their expedition against Aegrina there comes an Oracle from Delphos that the Aeginetians could not be hurt for thirty years in the thirtieth year when the Aeginetians had dedicated a Temple to Aeacus that things might succeed with them they began their war with them but as they made violent war against them so they received many losses and brought great detriment to themselves and at the last were in great extremity when the Athenians heard of this Oracle they likewise dedicated a Temple to Aeacus which is now to be seen in their Market-place but they thought they were not to forbear war for thirty years which time they heard to be fatall but that if they forbore war they should receive many wrongs from the Aeginetians Herodotus lib. 5. THe Wisedome of the Persian Magies and their skill in divination is kept in memory by many Monuments who as they fore old many things so they predicted by many secret signes the cruelty that Artâ—xerxes Ochus afterwards exercised against those he subâ—ued and the miserable slaughter that ensued for when Ochus subdued the Government of the Persians one of them advised a certain Magitian one of the Eunuchs to observe the Table being covered uâ—on what meaâ— amongst all that the Table was furnished with the King should first lay his hands who intentively marking Ochus with both his hands stretched out with his right hand he hastily took to him a knife and with the other the biggest loaf upon the Table which with flesh upon the board he carved and ate heartily and chearfully these two Prophets hereupon concluded that there would ensue during his reign fruits of the Earth in great plenty and a seasonable time to gather them but frequent slaughters Elianus lib. 2. et Diodor. lib. 17. Bibliothecae AMongst the Pedasensians which live above Halicarnassus it is reported that as often as any adverse fortune is ready to seize upon the Amphiensians who live near that City a huge beard suddenly groweth upon the chin of their chief Priest of Minerva the Goddesse which happened twice amongst them Herodotus lib. 8. BEleses a Chaldean exhorted Arbares General of the Medes to invade the Kingdome of the Babilonians promising to him certain victory which after two years and much losse by slaughter given and received on both sides undermining the City of Ninus King of Sardinapalus he desperately burned the Kings Pallace and obtained it Diodorus lib. 2. cap. 7. THales the Milesian perceiving that the next year would be a very plentiful season for oyl by the rising of the seven Stars bargained afore-hand with his customers for all that years oyls at a greater rate than otherwise by reason of the great plenty he could have sold them for And likewise foreseeing the next year there would be a great scarcity he aforehand bought up many mens oyls at a cheap rate and the year following sold them very dear and thereby became rich Fulgos lib. 8. cap. 11. and others Pliny ascribes this piece of Policy to Democritus and sayes That Sextius a Roman used the very same cunning at Athens This man commanded his body when he was dead should be buried in a very obscure place of the Milesian fields foreseeing that there should be a forum or common Mart erected there by the Romans Plutarchus in Solone AT Mnesarchis the common Cryer Boetus was told by the Chaldaeans that his son should be victor in Contentions Wherefore he would have had his son become a Fencer But afterwards he set to write Tragedies and therein was indeed the victor of all others Gellius lib. 15. cap. 20. who relates it out of Theopompus THe Birth-day of the Emperour Augustus fortuned to fall on that very time that Cataline's Cause of his Conjuration was a pleading in Court And his Father Octavius staying a little longer than ordinary excused himself for that his Wife was newly brought to bed P. Nigidius then present looking his birth-hour is said to affirm That then was born the Lord of the whole World He being at Apollonia went with Agrippa to Theogenes his Chamber But when Theogenes had predicted most high things as he thought of Agrippa's birth-day betwixt fear and shame lest his destiny should prove inferiour could hardly be perswaded to tell his Nativity And when he declared it Theogenes is said to have danced about with joy and to have worshipped him which somewhat animated Augustus so that he afterwards published his destiny and stamped a Coyn with the sign of Capricorn in which he was born Sabellicus lib. 8. Ennead 6. ex Suetonio WHen Livia bore Tiberius Scribonius the Mathematitian promised great matters yea and that he should reign one time or other but without a regal diadem For then you must understand the power of Caesars was altogether unknown and unheard of amongst
their fighting Ut Zonoras Tomo 3. indicat ARiulphus Duke of Spoleto fighting against the Romans at Camertes and obtaining Victory inquires of his Souldiers who it was that behaved himself so stoutly and gallantly in the battle they answered 't was a Prince Whereupon he replies he was more powerfull then any mortall man for when ever I was assaulted fiercely by the enemy he with a Buckler defended me from their fury then going with all possible speed to Spoleto seeing the Temple wherein the body of Saint Sabinus is intombed he asked what Church it was when they answered It was the Temple of Sabinus he hastily leaps from his horse calling his Souldiers who as they say alwayes waited diligently upon him walks into the Church and seeing his Image he presently with an Oath affirmed 't was he that protected him from the violent assaults of his numerous enemies whereupon 't was presently believed that Sabinus was the most pious Patron of Souldiers Ariulphus would not for any thing have wanted the experience of this Protection of Saints which is so frequent amongst Christians Bonfinius lib. 8. Decad. 1. THe great Sfortia for the honour he bore St. Leonard Christned his Son which he had by Catella Alopa sister to Pandulphus Alopus after his name for that he dreamed he saw Leonard in the same shape he is usually pictur'd in Churches coming to him being a Prisoner with relief breaking the Iron bars of the window of the Prison and with his power loosing his shackles The event proved this Vision to be very true for the day following this blessed dream Jacobus Gallus King by sedition was driven out of the Neopolitan Kingdome and lost both Rule and Liberty and Sfortia was delivered out of Prison and to the great content of all was restored to be Master of the Horse Jovius in vita ejus IN the time of Ferdinand first King of Aragon the City Neopolitane in a most flourishing condition and the Kingdome free from all calamity it is manifest that Cataldus about a thousand years before that time an holy man had been Bishop at Tarentinum and that the Citizens thereof did worship him as their Patron in the middest of the night he again and again appeared to a Minister of holy things who had lately taken the order of Priest-hood having been educated amongst those who vow chastity that he should without delay take out of the ground a little book which he in his life time had writ and hid in a private place wherein some divine writings were and bring it to the King giving little credit to this dream although he saw him in his sleep very oft and alwayes of the same shape and fashion being all alone early in the morning in the Temple he plainly appeared to the Priest with a Mitre in such Bishops weeds as he used in his life time to be aparrelled in advised him as he desired to avoid great punishment that the next day without further delay he should dig for the Book which he had written and which was hidden as he had formerly shewed him by Visions and bring it to the King the Priest and people went the next day to the place wherein for many ages this little book had been hid and found it bound with a leaden cover and locked wherein it appeared that the destruction of the Kingdome miserable calamities and sad times were at hand whereof the King was warned we have learned by experience that this Prophecy was fully executed and shewed it self to be so divine that not long after Ferdinand himself either by the justly incensed wrath of Almighty God or other inscrutable causes of his divine will could avoid what he was so fully admonished of but in the very first appearance of War departed this life and Charls the eight King of France with a strong hand having an huge Army of Neopolitans invaded the Kingdom and Alfonsus the eldest son of Ferdinand after his fathers death having but newly undertaken the government of the Kingdome was thereof deprived basely running away and dying in flight as a banished man shortly the second son of Ferdinand the hopefullnesse of whose youth had endeared him to all men to whom upon the death of his brother the Kingdome fell was intangled with a miserable and fatall War died of an immature death in the very flower of his age afterwards the French and Spaniards obtaining the Kingdome divided it chasing away Frederick another Son of Ferdinand the elder with a larger Army wherewith they invaded the Kingdome took to themselves all whether holy or prophane plundered Towns and Cities laying all waste committing most vile and filthy immanities Alexander ab Alexand. cap. 15. JAmes the son of Zebedee appeared to Charls the Great three seveâ—all nights and did exhort him to drive out of the Countrey of Spain in which his body rested the Saracens and assured him for his labour and travail therein he should obtain an everlasting crown Henricus Erphordiensis ex Turpino Romensi Episcopo refert cap. 68. THe Monks of the Abbey of Florence assured of the expedition of the Normans into France carry the body of Saint Benedict to Aurelia conceiving it a more safe receptacle from the Enemy at the comming of the Normans they burnt the Abbey of Florence and laid it wast the night following Saint Benedict appeared to Count Sigillosus to whom the care and defence of that Monastery was cammitted and in a Vision heavily chideth him because he had not resisted the Normans when they fell upon the Monastery The Earl awakening presently fell to his arms and with a handfull of men pursues the enemies loaden with plunder following them with a swift course fiercely falls upon them and by the help of Saint Benedict kills them every man and redeems all the Prisoners and booty Robertus Ganquinus lib. 5. CHildebert being King of France the Arch-Angell Michael again and again admonished Anbertus the Abrencatensian Bishop that wholly in the Sea which by reason of his eminency is called his Tomb he should build a Church in memory of him requiring such veneration to be given him in the Sea as was exhibited to him in Gorganum in the mean time a Bull which was taken by a Lyon was found bound in that place Whereupon the Bishop was commanded the third time that he should lay the foundation of the Temple where he should find the Bull and as he should observe the ground beaten with the feet of the Bull he should draw the compasse of the Temple which he built in honour of Saint Michael and from that time as in the Mountain Gorganum formerly in that place also now in danger of the Sea the worship of the Angell was begun Sigebert Anno Dom. 799. AGnes Wife to Leopold Marquesse of Austria desired her Husband to design some place wherein to build a Monastery that the prayses of Christ and his Mother might therein be said From a Castle seated in the Mountain Cecium
Aeacides assists the Greeks fighting against Xerxes at Salamin 54 A naked child placed before an army in battle aray 55 Two unknown young men assisted the Locrensians against the people of Sibaris leading their army upon milk-white Horses and subduing their Enemies 56 Mercury when a youth leading some striplings chased the Eubaeans 57 Castor and Pollux appeared champions for the Roman party 58 Mars was propitious to the Romans 59 Bacchus's feasts solemnized at Empusa or Oâ—acle an evill Ghost sent by Hecate to them that are in distresse 60 In Lybia shapes of several living creatures 61 The Orthomei their report of a Goblin 62 Parnassus a Hill in Boeotia 63 Gellus his maid who dying young her Ghost walks at Lesbos 64 Temissaeus his Ghost 65 The Isle of Aega troubled with Phantasms 66 Spirits appeared at the death of Caligula 67 Nero after murthering his Mother troubled with her Ghost 68 Otho the Emperour troubled with Galba his Ghost 69 A Diabolicall spirit appearing in the likenesse of a wild Boar. 70 Hobgoblins driven away from haunting of a place by the Sacrament and prayers 71 The Devill appearing in the shape of an Angell to a Monk 72 A demoniall spirit driven away by devout Prayers and holy-water 73 Prodigious and wonderfull sights of divers kinds 74 At New-Castle in the coasts of Finlandia one in the night appears playing upon an Harp before the death of any Souldier 75 In Ilandia an Island under the Artick Pole a promontory like the Hill Aetna 76 Night-Ghosts representing an Army in a hostile manner 77 In Cracoviensis a spatious lake disturbed by Evill spirits 78 A Priest troubled with the Incubus or Mare 79 Alexander his dead friend came to bed to him 80 Gordian and his comrades saw fearfull sights as they went to the City Arezzo 81 A Devill seized upon one who had been a despiser of God and disobedient to his Parents but was driven from him by calling upon God 82 The Devils appearing to Thomas Monachus in the shape of a Man 83 The Devill appeared to a wicked young fellow who upbraided defamed and taunted his father 84 A spectrall in the form of a beautiful Woman 85 The harmlesse spirits called Lares the cruel Larvae 86 Mettal-mines frequented with both kinds of spirits 87 A tall Woman of a most dreadfull countenance seen in the Ayre before a Massacre at Antioch 88 A Prisoner agreed with the Devill to be delivered out of Prison and view Hell 89 One in form of a child breaking out of the ground spoke as wisely as a Senatour to a Ploughman 90 The Devill in the shape of a tall Woman appeared to Drusus made Consull and warring by the name of Augustus Caesar 91 An Hobgoblin leaping and skipping before Dunstan an English Abbot 92 The overthrow of the Sicilians made known to shepheards by the speaking of Spirits to one another in the night 93 An Hermophrodite born at Aetolia 94 Pompeius Galienus the stoutest man of Caesars army 95 Castor and Pollux appear in the shape of two young gallants 96 The Devill transformed into an Angel of light appeared to Rathbodus commander of Frisia 97 Valentinius the Arrian Bishop his dead Corps dragged out of the Temple by evill spirits 98 A Monk adjures by vertue of the holy and undivided Trinity spirits appearing like troops of armed men to tell what they were 99 A Ghost appeared to Cicero his Nurse 100 The Prognosticks of the death of the Emperour Annius Tacitus 101 Constantius the Emperour his strange visions 102 Marcellus the Bishop by earnest prayer repelled the Magick of the Devill 103 An innumerable company of spectralls amongst the Pilappii 104 A noble Gentleman of Bavaria grieved for the death of his Wife she appeared to him 105 Bruno Bishop of Herbipolis his Vision before his sudden death 106 The Devill in shape of a Monk walks in the Mountains of Bohemia 107 A Fisherman taking a Sea-Monster of the shape of a beautifull woman married her and had a child by her 108 A Satanical phantasm by the Devil in form of an Hare in the sight of Luther 109 Martin Luther his tale at a Supper 110 The bodies of dead men entred by Devils 111 An innocent Fool brought an Infant safe out of the company of a multitude of Devils 112 A Bird melodiously singing adjured in the name of Christ confesseth herself a spirit 113 Two noble men long before dead appeared to Nicolaus Amsdorffius Bishop of Ciz when he was a Priest at Maidenburg 114 In the year 1545. an evill spirit stragled about the City Rotwill 115 The Devill comes in shape of a man desiring a Priest to take his confession 116 The Devill appearing to a good old man upon his death-bed was driven away by a Text of Scripture 117 A Doctour of Divinity of Lower-Germany caught up by the Devill on horsback then into the Ayre whence he was cast down 118 In the lower Germany a Monster of the bignesse of a man formed like a Dog 119 The Devill in form of a servant waits upon a nobleman who lived by plundering 120 Luther's relation of certain Monks their imploying the Devill in the Kitchin of their Monastery 121 Crescentius the Popes Nuncio in the Councill of Trent his Vision 122 Spectralls after the death of a rich Epicure at Haberstade 123 In the year 1559. in Marhia appeared spirits in form of men without heads reaping corn 124 A notable Vision near Spira in the year 1530 on the 18th 19th and 20th of July 125 Magdalena Crucia Hispania of the chief City of all Corduba Boetica married her self to the Devill whereby she performed wonders 127 The Devill appeared to a Clown to help him perform his Lords unreasonable command 128 The dead Husband of a Kins-woman to Phillip Melancthon appeared to her 129 In the year 1555. a Spectrum appeared at Brunsviga in the Village of Gehern 130 Stephen Hubener a rich Citizen of Trawtenaw in Bohemia his body after death entred into by the Devill 131 The Devill in likenesse of a man enticing many children stole them away from Hammel 132 The Devill appearing pretending himself the spirit of a deceased man 133 The Devill appearing in form of a dead man and his appearing to a maid seeking commerce with her 134 A maid possessed by the devill Prophesyeth 135 A man troubled with the Worms spoke Dutch a language utterly unknown to him whereof being cured by a Physitian he was not able to speak a word of that language 136 Exorcisms for the dispossessing of the devill 137 The devill speaks in a Maid possest 138 In the Wildernesse of Tingut the voyces of devils are heard 139 The devill speaks out of a Crow 140 The devil disputed with Hieronymus Cardanus 141 The devill out of a Crow predicted things to come 142 A most certain argument to detect one possessed 143 In the time of Agyropolis Emperour of Rome a miserable dolefull noise was heard at the bottome of the Fountain Curena 144 Calligraphus
of Alexandria his Vision 145 Hircanus Captain of the Jews had news by Oracle from the high Priest of his Sons victory 146 A strange prodigy 147 Cornelius of Patavia an Augur 148 One and the self-same day a day of Trophies and fame too in places distant 2500. miles 149 Sosipatra of Alexandria wrapt suddenly by a fury 150 An Aegyptian Pilot as he was sailing to Rome heard an unknown voice which called him by his name 151 Monabazus King of the Adiabenians heard a voice as he lay in his Bed 152 A prediction to Nicephorus Phaeus the Emperour 153 A Prodigious voice called aloud to Opicinius Cacia Novaria 154 A confused murmure mixed with laughing heard in the Theatre before Neroes death 155 A voice crying Oh oh oh oh oh in Eupilus Lake 156 Hircanus Captain of the Jews his vision 157 A voice to a vulgar man foretelling the approach of the French against the Tribunitian souldiers 158 A voice rebuking Lycurgus 159 A voice calling to Cassius and others conspiring against Caligula 160 Pertharis King Arithpertus his Son warned by an unknown voice 161 Chostilius Maucius Consull going into Spain heard a voice sounding in his ear stay Maucius 162 The Devil was heard to cry aloud through the Temple I have made this day quarrelsome 163 Constans the Emperour his death divulged by a voice in the Ayre far from the place where he died 164 Alchymists mocked by the Devil 165 The Devil seizeth upon a souldier who defrauded the poor 166 A young man delivered from the Devill who haunted him in form of a Woman by fasting and prayer 167 A melancholly maid fancying her self haunted with a Ghost cured by Physick 168 A Monk of the Abbey Kâ—etchtenstine an upright person tortured with a Ghost 169 One Brugus a woman troubled with an evill Genius 170 Judith driven to Convulsion fits by the Devill 171 Helena in a village called Loes near Audenâ—ovia haunted with a Devill 172 The Nuns of Ventetus in the County of Horn cruelly handled by an evil spirit 173 The Virgins of the Monastery of Nazareth haunted with Devills 174 A virgin of the Nunnery of Saint Bridget being mad was mounted up into the Ayre by the Devill and strangled 175 The Devill playing melodiously upon an Harp at the Nunnery of Neognagus 176 The Devill in shape of a Dog at a Colledge in the Coloniensian Province 177 The Nuns of the Kentorpian Monastery infested by the Devill 178 John Fernelius his relation in his second book of Occult causes 179 The Town of Schiltach in Germany set on fire by a Witch 180 A maid dispossest of the Devill by the prayers of the Church 181 A Fishermans daughter at Urcad in Franckford possest with the Devill 182 A Smiths daughter near Joakims valley possest with the Devill 183 The dead corps of a rich man entred into by the Devill at Trawtenaw in Bohemia 184 A Priests daughter tormented by the Devil 185 Bodinus his relation of Boyes and Girls possessed 186 John Vierus his relation in his fifth Book of a maid possessed with the Devill 187 The Lady Rosse from the eighth year of her age bound with an Evill spirit 188 The Brachman Philosopher of India 189 Families in Africa who bewitch by immoderate praise 190 Wizards at Rhodus 191 Ephesian characters 192 Magicall Women banished to Wildernesses 193 The Northern Botnici Zappi and Finnones Magitians 194 Zoroastes King of the Bactrians thought to have found out the Art of Magick 195 Hecate sprung from Perses her cruelty and immanity 196 Pasetis Farthing a Proverb 197 Pythagoras his magicall whispering 198 Simon Samaritanus his wonderfull arts 199 In Galeotide a man who did wonders 200 Apollonius Tyanaeus the Philosopher 201 Sedetins a Jewish Physitian 202 A Princesse a notable Witch 203 A woman strangled and devoured a boy 204 Iohn Fernelius his strange relation 205 Facius Cardanus had an aeriall devill to his familiar 206 James Jodoci had a ring wherein he thought the devil was tyed by exorcisms 207 Margaret the daughter of Iohn Vemerus of Eslingensis had her belly swelled to an immense greatnesse by her Mothers means being a Witch 208 The devill appearing in the shape of a man calling himself Moses deluded many Iews 209 Archus an Indian Wiseman 210 Apollonius his prediction 211 Iamblicus returning from sacrifices 212 Govarus King of Norvegia skillfull in the Art of divination 213 A relation how Magicians teach Husbands to make their wives hate Adultery 214 Philometor his using Magicall verses 215 Crata Regneri the wife of a Danish Champion a Witch 216 Clerus Sethus enticed a virgin by a Persian Apple 217 Cajanus by Magick could transform himself into the shape of any beast 218 Italian Women lethargized mens minds by some kinds of meat 219 In Prussia Livonia and Lituania a great number of Witches 220 A Witch foretold the issue of the battle 'twixt Uratislaus Prince of Luca and Grecomislaus Prince of Bohemia 221 Apollonius Thioneus his strange cures 222 Magicall Inchantments 223 Witches by the black art afflicted Duffus King of the Scots 224 Utolfus chief Ruler of the Helsingians 225 The Lappones and Finni their manner of revenge 226 Johannes Galleacius by Magick disabled to perform conjugal rights 227 Pythagoras seen at Criton and Metapontus the same hour 228 Apollonius vanished out of the custody he was under 229 Jamblicus praying lift up from the ground 230 Oddo Danicus a Pyrat roved up and down the Sea without a Ship 231 Othnius by Magick brought Hadingus King of Denmark through a great part of the Sea on horseback 232 Thespetion his incantations 233 The Image of Jupiter made by Magick to utter Oracles 234 Appion with the hearb Cynocephalea prevails against all manner of Witchcrafts 236 The ghost of Achilles presents it self to Apolonius Tyanaeus 237 Jamblicus raiseth out of Bathes two in the form of beautifull young men 238 A phantasm wrought by the Devil 239 A notable Prodigie 240 The Bulgari use Magical devices 241 The Hunni use inchantments 242 Aquinus Prince of Norway useth inchantments 243 The Wood Finni or Tores 244 The Magick-Vesture called Indusium 245 An inchanted Ensign 246 Inchanted verses 247 Empedocles the Magitian his verses concerning himself 248 The Magick Idolatry of the Persici 249 Theti Magitians allay tempest by sacrifices 250 Inspired Persians walk upon burning coals 251 A Virgin at Rome accused of incest clears her innocence by prayers 252 Armiplus an Aegyptian Magitian 253 A Northern people called Finni sell winds to Merchants 254 Wicked blasphemous Priests 255 Near Elton Pagum a spirit that vexed travellers 256 Pelopsin an Olympick Charrioter his inchantment 257 Pythagoras made tame a savage Bear 258 Apollonius Tyancus his expelling of Serpents 259 The Abrathimins their Magitians called Brachmans 260 Fishers of Rotterdam deluded by Witchcraft 261 Pasetus by famous for his skill in Magick 262 Numa the Roman King 263 William Earl of Holland made King 264 The Pythagorian sport by a Looking-glasse 265 A Chevalier swallowes
with an evill spirit 366 A spirit in shape of a horse kills twelve men 367 The treasure Arcolius near Lutetia discovered by Magick 368 A Lawyer and his companions seeking by Conjurations for treasure are affrighted by spirits from their enterprise 369 Satan deludes many by binding fast their eyes 370 A Witch who enfeebled an Horse by witchcraft 371 A way to free Cattle from sorcery by using a sieve 372 Witchcraft 373 A Mason tormented by Witchcraft 374 White witches or those who cure and deliver from harm 375 A Witch cures a sick woman whom she had bewitched 376 A Sorcerer of Flanders 377 A Bishop bewitched 378 Triscalanus a witch whom the King of France pardoneth confesseth the way by which sorceries are conveyed 379 Satan enters a man mortally wounded 380 A Butcher discovers many witches in a Wood in the night 381 The confession of three witches who were condemned to dye for witchcrafts which they had committed 382 The Sorcerers of Potezana their confession 383 The confession of a Witch at Biturgum 384 The confession of a Witch who could not rest unlesse she did some evil every day 385 The Devills declare what is done in divers Nations at a convention 386 There is no meeting of Witches and Devills without dancing 387 A witch anointing her self lyes void of sense for three hours after which returning to her body relates things from divers Countreys 388 A witch departs from her body for a whole night to the convention of Devills and witches and her spirit returns to her body in the morning 389 The Devill in form of a great Hee-goat adored by Witches 390 The admirable judgment of seven Magitians 391 Baro of Razii who was condemned for using Magick his confession 392 A most diabolicall bloudy Mid-wife 393 Cazereis a cursed Witch of Tholossa 394 A Magician who upon a sudden oftentimes flew 395 Articles against Aegidius Garnerius whereof he was accused and Convicted 396 Peter Burgottus and Michael Verdunus their confessing their sacrificing to the Devill 397 A Witch taking the form of a Wolf wounded with an arrow 398 Witches in the forms of Wolves and Cats 399 The Lappi sell calms and storms 400 A Jew who at any time when he pleased could transform himself 401 Nothing more clear by History then that many have been transformed into beasts 402 An English Souldier at Cyprus turned into an Asse by a Witch 403 A dialogue betwixt a stage-player and an Asse in Aegypt 404 Two witches turn men into beasts transform a Player into an Asse 405 Atheisticall men turned into Asses 406 Witches raise lightnings storms and tempests 407 How a witch caused a storm 408 How some wicked Priests caused showers 409 How witches kill Cattle 410 Children killed in the wombs of their Mothers by witches 411 A cursed witch Christneth two Toads 412 Witches with a powder kill Hearbs 413 A witch who by his voice could kill men 414 The Devil teacheth a Conjurer to shoot darts at a crucifix 415 An Hermophrodite a Witch attached discovers the conjuration conventicles and diabolical acts of Witches 416 A Witch at Laodunum who debilitated and screwed men awry and destroyed beasts and fruit 417 A Conjurer in the sight of the people flying up towards Heaven snatch'd his Wife with him laying hold on him and a Maid also who stood by them to the great wonder of the amazed people who beheld them wavering in the Ayr 418 The Table to the Second Book being of Oracles Prophecies c. The severall heads are to be found by the figures in the Margin THe counsel which Telephus receives from the Oracle at Delphos for cure of his wound 1 Croesus King of the Lydians consults the Oracle at Delphos for the cure of his son being dumb 2 The Minyae the Plague raging upon man and beast consult the Oracle 3 Atheniensis son of Craterus King of the Persians consulting the Oracle was told That he should kill his own father 4 Oedipus kills his father according to the prediction of the Oracle 5 The strange death of Eumelus King of the Bosphorean Cymerians 6 Cyrus King of the Persians consults Orpheus his head at Lesbos 7 Polycrates the Samian Tyrant consults the Oracle at Delphos 8 Great slaugter to happen revealed to Julius Caesar by evident and wonderful Prodigies 9 Titus the Emperour his death foretold by the Oracle 10 Mauritianus the son of Justinianus the Emperour being slain by the Goths the Oracle was fulfilled 11 Manuel Comnenus after he had reigned 38 years excepting 3 moneths hoping to prolong his life put himself into Monastical habit 12 Polycrates the Theban consults the Oracle at Delphos for the finding of treasure 13 Psameticus encouraged by the Oracle gains the King of Egypt 14 Manuel Comnenus Emperour nameth his son Alexius in observance of the Oracles doubtful speech 15 Boetia being spoyled those of that Countrey who escaped run to the Oracle 16 The Teucri Cretensians seek themselves new habitations by the advice of the Oracle 17 The Phrygians carried by Aeneas their Captain into the Lawrel field were not willing to go any further but hearkned to the Oracle 18 The prediction of the Oracle at Delphos to the Lacedemonians 19 Codrus King of the Athenians in observance of the Oracle voluntarily sacrificed himself for the safety of his people 20 The Oracle predicteth the overthrow of the Athenians by the Persians 21 Valerius Torquatus swallowed up by the ground in which place an Altar is built according to the advice of the Oracle 22 In the Cimbrick Warr the goddess mother of great Idaea declared victory to the Romans 23 The Oracle at Delphos declares victory to the Romans against the Vientians 24 The Dorienses obeying the command of the Oracle got Elea 25 The Oracle's advice to the Lacedemonians how to overcome the Tegeans 26 An Oracle given out in the time of Tiberius Emperour of Rome 27 The Devil speaketh in the Idol of Zemus 28 An Oracle given to the Ancestors of Sardanapalus 29 An Oracle given to the Poet Hesiod 30 Epaminondas his charge from the Oracle at Delphos 31 The Oracle given to Cambyses the Persian King 32 Pythia predicteth the death of Philip King of Macedon 33 The doubtful Oracle given him at Delphos 34 Aescylus the Athenian tragick Poet his death foretold by the Oracle 35 Daphidas the Sophister Ironically consults the Oracle at Delphos 36 Dionysius senior Tyrant of Syracusa acted a Tragedy to the Athenians in their Bachanalian feasts 37 Fatal necessity unavoidable 38 Hannibal the famous Carthaginian Captain his death predicted by the Oracle 39 Appius Claudius consults the Oracle 40 The Antianaean Oracles their advice to C. Caligula 41 Parhonius foretold by the Oracle to succeed in the Empire 42 A Shepherd laid down by Orpheus his Tomb falling asleep chants forth Orpheus his verses in a sweet tone 43 The Scythian Islanders send the tenth of their treasures they get out of the silver and gold Mines yearly to Apollo at Delphos 44
Sponges to Eudon Duke of Aquitane 90 A Monk leaving his Religion marrieth a Wife 91 One carrieth the Body of our Lord at a Paschal Feast whole with him in his mouth 92 The Sacrament put into a chest by a woman turns into the shape of flesh and blood 93 The reason of the building the Temple entituled The Body of Christ 94 Abundance of blood flowes from the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist being torn in pieces by Jews 95 Pope Vigilius institutes That Mass for the dead should be performed in an holy place with holy garments and a low voyce 96 An head cast forth of the grave bleedeth 97 Clodoveus King of France falls mad for his irreligious handling the body of St. Dionysius 98 A woman loseth her sight for carrying away the shoes of holy Genovepha 99 A woman struck barren for kicking the Tomb of a Saint 100 A â—oâ—â—er comes to the Tomb of Wenceslaus the fourth Honourable King of Bohemia 101 The Judgment of God upon one for throwing a stone at the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary 102 The Judgment of God upon one who pulled out the eye of an Image 103 A Jew smites the Image of the blessed Virgin with a punniard out of which blood flowes 104 Blood flowing from the Image of the blessed Virgin proves a remedy to many sick people 105 A Souldier seeking to lay hold on an Image it turns towards him and he falls mad 106 Two gamesters one whereof plaid in the Name of God the other in the name of the Devil 107 Divine vengeance seizeth on Schelkrop for slashing and thrusting through the Image of Christ and his Saints 108 The Miracles acknowledged but thought by some to be done by the power of the devill 109 The Image of Christ abused by the Jews bleedeth 110 The Judgment of God upon a Jew for abusing the Image of Christ 111 The Image of Christ shot with an Arrow bleedeth 112 A golden key of St. Peters 113 A sacrilegious person struck with a Palsie in the acting of his sacriledg 114 An Hermite his vision at the death of Pandulph Prince of Capua 115 The Judgment of God upon a sacrilegious person 116 Church-cloathes plundered when they came to be used by prophane hands appear bloody 117 A man's house by divine vengeance set on fire for profaning an holy-day 118 A man's head turned backwards in a fearful manner for working upon an holy-day 119 A Jew's cruelty to the Host and the miraculous issue thereof 120 The tongue of a prejudiced man â—yed 121 St. John Baptist relieves the brother of Boleslaus invoking him 122 Comnenus the Emperour being sick is restored by the Image of our Saviour 123 Ptolemey seeks for the Cross 124 St. Bernard cures a man mortally wounded by giving him consecrated bread 125 Miracles wrought by the bones of Saint Remachus 126 One dispossessed of a devil by part of the straw whereon St. Martin lay 127 A Noble-woman ignorantly translates the bones of St. Stephen from Jerusalem to Constantinople 128 A Noble-man belonging to Otho the Emperour dispossest of a devil by a chain which had bound St. Peter 129 Several cured of Feavers by the herbs strewed about the Tomb of Nicetius 130 The Pestilence at Rome ceaseth upon the building up of the Altar of St. Sebastian in the Church of St. Peter 131 Constantine the Great his vision after his refusing to be cured by the blood of Children 132 St. Nicolas delivers Lotharingus at Constantinople invocating him 133 Bituricus Arch-deacon of Leons recocovers his sight by fasting and prayers at the Church of Martin upon his Feast-day 134 Pambulis a Priest restored to sight at the Image of Albinus in the Church of St. Peter 135 One sick of the Palsie restored to health by St. Martin and St. Alban 136 One sick of the Palsie restored to health at the Tomb of St. Dunstan 137 Cosroe's invocating Sergius obtains the defence of his Countrey and foecundity of his barren Wife 138 A man falleth sick of the head-ach by driving a nail into St. Peter's picture 139 Frenchmen about to translate the body of S. Benedict are struck blind 140 St. Michael the Arch-Angel appears to St. Lawrence 141 Three Saints appear to a Fisherman 142 Stephen King of Hungary Canonized 143 Udislaus King of Hungary Canonized 144 Cosroes seeking to take the silver Urn wherein Sergius the Martyr was laid was driven away by an heavenly Host 145 Saints defend the Isaurians from the Sarazens 146 A Martyr leadeth the Roman Army 147 The Cratonensians use a linnen garment of the Virgin Mary for a flag 148 Amiarus a Saint assists Godfrey of Bolleign in the Syriac Expedition 149 St. George S. Lawrence and S. Adrian assist Henry the second Emperor 150 The Romans carrying before them the Holy Lance instead of an Ensign obtain a great victory 151 S. Ambrose the Mediolanensian Guardian Saint 152 James the Apostle assists the Christian Army 153 The Fathers of the Nicene Council consult Musonius and Crisanthus 154 Christ appeared in the Sacrament to Plergilis a Priest in that body which the Virgin Mary bore 155 The vision which a Souldier of Rome who extinct by the Plague reviving at large he declareth 156 A noble child dead for seven dayes reviveth 157 Vincentius his relation of Tundalus 158 Vincentius his relation of one who being led by the Angel Gabriel after death was restored to life 159 Genovepha a virgin of Paris in an extasie 160 Erasmus Bishop and Martyr 161 Ursinus sees S. Peter and S. Paul at his death 162 Ezekiel and Daniel appâ—â—â— to a Religious man 163 The vision of Merulus a religious Monk at Rome 164 St. Peter the Apostle appears to a Virgin of Christ called Galla at Rome 165 The Mother of God with a company of Virgins appears to a Maid 166 Juvenal and Eleutherius the Martyrs appear to Probus Reatinus the Bishop 167 The body of St. Jerome when he had given up his soul was surrounded with a suddain glorious light 168 A Monk wrapt in spirit sees St. Augustine 169 St. Francis Assiatus his soul departs in form of a Star out of his body 170 Devils contend with an Angel for the soul of a Monk 171 Mass celebrated before a dead Monk 172 A soul dragged towards Hell by the devil is freed by S. Benedict 173 Saints speak out of their Tombs 174 Paschasius a Deacon of the Apostolical Seat 175 The spirit of a dead man waits at the bathes 176 Benedict the tenth chief Bishop appearing after his death to John the Portuensian Bishop confesseth That he was kept from eternal death by Odilones his prayer 177 John the Anchorite his vision 178 Maurice the Rothamagensian Bishop brought into the Temple after his death having received his soul speaks to them about him 179 Marcius of Alexandria obtesting the skull of a dead man in the name of Jesus causeth it to speak 180 Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus his vision as he was praying 181 A young man restored to life by the prayers and tears of Severus 182 A man dead revives relates his vision and 〈◊〉 183 Stephen a Roman going to Rome falls sick and dyes and revives again and relateth his vision during the time his soul was separated from his body 184 William a boy of fifteen years of age his vision 185 In the Sabine Province a Nun strictly observed chastity but by procacity defiles her tongue as appears by a vision after her death is condignly punished 186 The Sadduces and Epicures confuted from page 343 to page 358. The Arguments of those who deny that Angels and Devils can take to them a body confuted from page 359 to the end FINIS 4