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[written in margin: 25 (s) ubi supra p.113]

[Camerarius, Wierus, Voehuis Lavalor & Lonius [underlined]]. There is newly published a book (mentioned in the (s) Acta Eruditoruum) wherein the author ([Neihard Valvafor?]) Relates that a [illegible] Jew instructed him (only he would not attend his instruc-tions) how to make a Magicall glass which should Represent any person or thing according as he should desire. If a Ma-gician by an inchanted glass can do this, they may as well by the help of a Demon cause false Ideas of persons & things to be impressed on the Imaginations of bewitched persons. The blood & Spirits of a man that is bitten with a mad dog, are so invenomed as that strange Impressions are thereby made on his Imagination. Let him be brought into a Room where there is a looking glass, & he will (if put upon it) not only say but swears that he sees a dog, tho^ in truth there is no dogg it may be within 20 miles of him. And is it not then possible for the doggs of Hell so to [press] [on?] the Imagina-tions of miserable creatures, as that they shall believe & Sweare that such persons hurt them as never did So. I have heard of an inchanted pin that hath caused the con-demnation & death of many Scores of Innocent persons. There was a notorious pretended witch finder in Scotland [underlined] that undertook by a pin to make an infallible discovery of suspec-ted persons, whither they were witches or not. If when the pin was Run an inch or two into the body of the accused party no blood appeared nor any sense of pain, then he declared them to be witches. by means hereof my Author tells me no less than 300 persons were condemned for witches in that Kingdom. This bloody [jugler?] after he had done enough in Scotland [underlined], came to the towne of Berwick [underlined] upon Tweed [underlined]. An honest man now living in N.E assureth me that he Saw ^him thrust a great ^grass pin two inches into the body of one, that Some would in that way [try?] whither there was witchcraft in the case or no. The accu-sed party was not in the least Sensible of w^t[what] was done & therefore in danger of the punishment justly [illegible] for witchcraft.