b) Odfervations on Animal Ele&ricity. 
If. We are informed by Dionyfius and other writers, that 
fire ftreamed forth from the hair of Servius Tullius, the 
Roman king, during fleep, when he was about feven years 
of age *, 
. IIL. Pliny alfo fpeaks of light often fhining around the 
heads of men:—Hominum guoque capita vefpertinis boris 
flella magno prefagio circumfulgent t. 
IV. We are told of a Carmelite monk, who was always 
attended with this phenomenon, that, as oft as he ftroked 
his hair backwards, it emitted {parks {. 
V. A woman at Caumont exhibited a phenomenon of the 
like kind, as her hair, when combed in the dark, always 
emitted fire §. 
VI. Father J. Faber fpeaks of a young woman from whofe 
head {parks of fire always fell when fhe combed her hair |]. 
VII. Francifeus Guidus produced bright flames from his 
body when he rubbed his arm with his hand as he lay in 
bed 4. 
VIII. Ezekiel de Caftro **, a phyfician of Verona, relates 
the following circumf{tance refpecting Caffandra Buri, a lady 
of the fame place :—As often as fhe touched her body, even 
“ina flight manner, with a linen cloth, it emitted fparks in 
great abundance, which could be perceived by every perfon 
ftanding near her, and which were attended with a confider- 
able noife. Her maids were often deceived by this pheno- 
menon, and believed that they had, through carecleffnefs, 
dropped fome coals between the fheets, as fhe always caufed 
her bed to be warmed in winter, at which time the {parks 
were moft abundant and ftrongeft. 
IX. Anthony Cianfi, a bookfeller at Pifa, when he pulled 
off a narrow fhirt, and a piece of cloth which he wore on his 
breaft, emitted {parks from his back and arms, with a crack- 
* Antig. Rom. Lib, IV, 
+ Hift. Nat, Lib. IL. cap. xxxvii. 
+ Cardaous, Lib. VILI. de rerum variet. cap. xliii. 
§ Scaliger. Exer. 374. 
}j In his Palladium Chymicum, 
q Bartholinus de luce animalium, Lugd. Bat. 1647, p. 12% 
** In his book De iene lambentes 
