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spirit, . . . thou bestial and foolish drunkard, . . . most greedy 

 wolf, . . . most abominable whisperer, . . . thou sooty spirit from 

 Tartarus ! . . . I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the in- 

 fernal kitchen! . . . Loathsome cobbler, . . . dingy collier, . . . 

 filthy sow {scrofa stercorata), . . . perfidious boar, . . . envious 

 crocodile, . . . malodorous drudge, . . . wounded basilisk, . . . 

 rust-colored asp, . . . swollen toad, . . . entangled spider, . . . 

 lousy swineherd {porcarie pedicose), . . . lowest of the low, . . . 

 cudgeled ass," etc. 



But, in addition to this attempt to disgust Satan's pride with 

 blackguardism, there was another to scare him with tremendous 

 words. For this purpose, great, sounding names, from Hebrew 

 and Greek, of the Deity were imported, such as Acharon, Eheye, 

 Schemhamphora, Tetragrammaton, Homousion, Ho Theos, Atha- 

 natos, Ischiros, .^codes, and the like.* 



Efforts were also made to drive him out with filthy and rank- 

 smelling drugs ; and, among those which can be mentioned in a 

 printed article, we may name asafoetida, sulphur, squills, etc., 

 which were to be burned under his nose. 



Still further to plague him, pictures of the devil were to be 

 spat upon, trampled under foot by people of low condition, and 

 sprinkled with foul compounds. 



But these were merely preliminaries to the exorcism proper. 

 In this the most profound theological thought and sacred science 

 of the period culminated. 



Most of its forms were childish, but some rise to almost Mil- 

 tonic grandeur. As an example of the latter, we may take the 

 following : 



" By the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, which God hath given to 

 make known unto his servants those things which are shortly to 

 take place ; and hath signified, sending by his angel, ... I exor- 

 cise you, ye angels of untold perversity ! 



" By Him that is the faithful witness, the first-born among the 

 dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth, ... I exorcise you, 

 ye dwellers in the regions of hell ! 



" And by Him that loved us, and washed us of our sins in his 

 blood, . . . and behold, he cometh in clouds, and every eye shall 

 see him, and they also who pierced him ; and all the tribes of the 

 earth shall weep before him ; . . . and by all the wondrous signs, 

 terrible voices, mighty thunders, and mystic visions which St. 

 John beheld, I exorcise you, O angels who entice unto evil deeds, 

 that ye do go far away from this creature ! 



" By the seven golden candlesticks, . . . and by one like unto 

 the Son of man, standing in the midst of the candlesticks ; by 



* See the Conjuratio on p. 300 of the " Thesaurus," and the general directions given on 

 pp. 251, 252. 



