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268. "Their witches and conjurers are supposed to receive their faculties from evil spirits and are punished to this day with death." ___ Ex: ch: XXII.ch18. Then shalt not suffer a witch to live. ___ Deut XVIII. 10, 11, 12 -- There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch or a charmer, or a consulter with strike out: evil familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: & because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. ____

   Suspicion affixes to them the imputation of this crime. A person dying by disease, & charging his Death to have been procured by means of witchcraft, or spirits, or by any other person, consigns that person to inevitable death. They profess to believe that their conjurations have no strike out effect upon white men. 
   "In ancient times they had a town they called Toquo, which was a place of refuge for those who had committed capital offences, in which, if they took shelter, they could not be molested. ___ Numbers Ch: XXXV. 6. And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities for refuges which ye shall appoint