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what credit is to be given to those that Say they can turn man into horses? If so, they can as wel turne Horses into Men. But all the Witches on Earth in Conjunction with all the Devilles in Hel can never make or unmake a Rational Soul, And then they can not transform a bruit into a man, nor a man into a Bruit, So that this Transmutation is Phantasticall. The Devill may & often does impose on the Imaginations of his witches & Vassals yet they [illegible] them [illegible] to be converted into Boasts & reverted into men again As Nebuchadnezzar whilst under the Power of a Daemon really Imagined himself to be an Ox, & would Ly out of doors & Eat grasses. The Devill hath inflicted on many a man the Disease called Lycanthropia [underlined], from wence they have made Lamentable Complaints of their Being Wolves. In a [crossed out] word, there is no more reallity in [which?] many witches Confesses of Strange things Soon & {illegible] by them, whilst Satan had them in his full power; then there is in Lucians [underlined] ridiculous Fables of his being bewitched into an Ass, & with strange foals he then played. So [that what] such persons relate concerning persons & things at Witch-meetings ought not to be received with too much Credulitie. I could mention dismal Instances of Innocent Blood which hath bin shed by meanes of the Lyes of some Confessing Witches. I shall only take notice of an awfull Example mentioned by H.B Spotswood [underlined] in his History of Scotland p. 449. His words are these. "This Summer ([vizt?] Anno 1597) [There] was a great buissness for the Tryall of Witches; amongst others on Margaret Atkin [underlined] being apprehended on suspicion, & thretned with torture did confesse herselfe guilty. Being Examind touching her Assosciate in that Trade, she named a sow, & perceiving her