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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51194	A Magical vision, or, A perfect discovery of the fallacies of witchcraft as it was lately represented in a pleasant sweet dream / to a holy sweet sister ... for preservation of the saints from being tainted with the heresies of the congregations of the Doe-Littles.		1673 (1673)	Wing M250; ESTC R16939	7,964	33

it over his left Shoulder and grumbling brought out certain words from the bottom of his Stomack he went backwards Nine paces till he came under the Boughs of an old Oak over-run with Misseltoe Four foot from which he drew three Circles one within the other and the Earth obedient to his Necromantick charms which ready trembling put her self into those figures which he designed to have made in her In these Circles he wrote with his Middle finger the names of the intelligences as well of the age and Country as of the Year Season Moneth Weak Day Hour and Minute each in its different Character and proper place every one under its constellation and with their respective due Ceremonies This tedious operation being dispacht he put his Glass in the midst of the Circles and opening it made a report louder than that of Cannon or Thunder the small sharp end of his Rod he plac'd between his fore-teeth lay down with his face towards the East and betook himself to his Repose I who you may think at that time had little mind to sleep watch't him very narrowly admiring what might be the upshot of so many strange formalities about the midst of his Nap which exceeded not half an hour I saw Seven Fearn-seeds drop into the Vial which when he waked he took out and put two in each Ear another into his Mouth the Sixth again into the Glass and the last he threw out of the Circles but no sooner was it out of his Hand but I saw it incompassed by more than a Million if my Arithmetick fail me not of Mal-ominous Creatures as well insects as others He touch'd with his inchanting Caduceus an Owl a Fox and a Mole which making a frightful Noise instantly flung themselves into the Innermost Circle And he with no less speed began to rip open their bodies with a brass Knife and taking out their Hearts he wrapt them up in three Bayleaves and a litte Moss swallowed them he took away their livers which he squeezd over an Hexagonal Vessel and then reiterating the suffumigations mixt the Dew and the Blood together in a Bason dipt in it a Glove of Virgin Parchment which he put on his right Hand and after Four or Five horrible howlings closed his Eyes and thus began his invocations Conjuro confirmo vos Schamaim Athaliel Chiliarchus raquiem Alchocodonean Tapthathara Tossoffacan Hamaguliel Zonthonphanchia Heydonia with a many more cracking thumping blustring Termes which had not my fears frighted the Art of memory out of my Head and the place been inconvenient for Writing Short-hand I would have registred for supplying the courteous Reader with terrible words to still his bawling Children with During all this Divelish Prayer he was raised from the Ground above a hands breadth and ever now and then would fix his Eye on the Nail of his left forefinger his Face was inflamed and he foamed at Mouth like an over-ridden Hackney But after this exercise concluded and many groanings and gastly contortions he fell prostrate on his face and I heard in his Throat a humming as of many Voices together from whence arising he became more strong than man insomuch that without stirring he stood the monstrous shock of a horrible wind able to blow a Mountain up by the Roots he caught a falling Thunder-bolt in his Hand and puft out a Cloud full of Lightning all which dreadful Artillery I percieve was discharged to force the old Gentleman to abandon his Circle but he with an undaunted resolution maintaining his ground the Circles themselves began with an incredible swiftness to whisk about under him this was followed by a storm of Hail redder than Blood which gave place to a much more terrible torrent of Bituminous Fire that roar'd like Mount Gibello when it burst and seem'd to rend the Air with dreadful claps of Thunder This served as an Epilogue to all this Tragedy of Horror for immediately a fair Light dissipated these sad meteors and a brisk young man in a Flame colourd Mantle appear'd he came riding post through the Air mounted with his right Leg on an Eagle and the other on a Lynx and in as Gentile and respective a manner as if he had been one of Belzebubs Pages of honour presented the Magus with three small Vials full of No-body knows what Liquor The cunning man in requital made him a present of three Hairs one pluck'd off from his Fore-head the other two from his Temples whereupon he was gently struck over the Shoulders and between the Eyes with a small wand that his Spirit held and then every thing vanisht and methoughts it appeard about that time when Stars grown pale at the arrival of their illustrious Monarch the Sun joyned colour with the Heavens I emboldned by this approach of day was just going to seek my way home But the old Magitian it seems was unwilling we should part so and therefore once more presented himself he did not walk but glide along and got home before I saw him stir his Hand was so cold that mine whereon he laid it was benumb'd for a fortnight after he neither opened his Eyes nor his Mouth but in deep silence conducted me out of the wood and over some Fields to the dreadful ruines of a long since dismantled Castle where the ages for this 100 years have been labouring to carry the Chambers into the Cellars under which in a deep Vault was his constant Residence As soon as we entred this Inchanted Mansion boast thy self young man said he turning towards me to have seen face to face the famous Agrippa whose Soul by Metempsichosis heretofore was incorporated in the renowned Doctor Faustus and long since inspired the Learned Zoroastes King of the Bactrians Since almost two ages that I have disappeared to men I have preserved my self with aurum potabile in such a vigorous state of health that no disease durst ever invade me every twenty years I swallow a quantity of the Universal Medicine which renews my youth and restores to my Body its decayed forces didst thou continued he consider the three Vials presented to me by the Prince of the Fiery Doemons The first of them was full of this Elixar the second of powder of projection and the third of Oyl of Bones Nor art thou a little obliged to me since I have made choice of thee amongst all mortal Race to be present at these mysteries which I celebrate but once in four Lustres and that thou mayst not be ignorant who it is has done thee this honour let me tell thee 't is by my charms in my power at my pleasure to render a Country fruitful or barren I stirr up Warrs by breeding dissention amongst those Genii that govern Kings I teach the Wolfs Pater Noster and the cunning man how to manage the Sheers and turn the Seive I send Iacks with Lanthorns and Will with Wisps to Marshes and Fens to allure benighted Travellers out ōf their way over Hedges and drown them