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practices, and especially, " quod diobolo homagium 

 fecerat et eum fuerit osculatus in tergo." The same 

 accusation was also often made against witches. 



Zimmerman tells us that there were in his day 

 devout persons who by earnestly transposing- their 

 self-consciousness to the pits of their stomachs, had 

 the power of merging 1 themselves into the abso- 

 lute divinity, which appeared to them as a pure white 

 light. For some days, they lived upon nothing- but 

 bread and water ; sunk into deep silence, turned their 

 eyes in deep concentration of soul to the point of the 

 nose and then the white lig-ht appeared. 



Khan Helmont tells us that some men have the 

 power of killing- animals by merely looking- at them. 

 Rousseau says of himself that he had often killed 

 toads in this way. But that one day when he was 

 trying- it, the toad, finding- he could not escape from 

 his eye, turned round, blew himself up and stared 

 at him so fiercely that he fainted, and was thought 

 for some time to be dead; but at last he was 

 broug-ht round by treacle and the powder of vipers. 



In Sprengel's " History of Medicine," we read 

 as follows : " Out of every body proceed indivisible 

 a substances and emanations, which diffuse them- 

 " selves through infinite space. Therefore, bodies 

 " can operate on others at any distance, and a man 

 " can impart .his thoughts to another who is hun- 

 " dreds of miles off. Also between all bodies there 

 " is either positive or negative magnetism. In the 

 " one case the emanations from each one pass 



