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the mids of their forehead.'' The Anthropophagi, 

 " sauage and wild men, liuing and conuersing vsually 

 with the bruit beastes, who have their feet growing 

 backward, and turned behind the calues of their legs ; 

 howbeit they run most swiftly ; they are vsed to 

 drinke out of the skuls of men's heads, and to weare 

 the scalpes, hair and all, instead of mandellions or 

 stomachers before their hearts. In Albanie, there 

 be a sort of people borne with eies like owles, where- 

 of the sight is fire red, who, from their childhood, 

 are grey-headed, and can see better by night than 

 day. In Africke, as some doe auouch, there be cer- 

 taine houses and families of scorcerers, who, if they 

 chance to blesse, praise, and speak good words, be- 

 witch presently withal, insamuch as sheep therewith 

 die, trees wither, and infants pine and winder away. 

 Such like there be also among the Triballians, Illyrians, 

 Thibians, and many others besides, who have the same 

 quality, and doe the like ; and known they are by 

 these markes, in one of their eies they have two 

 sights, in the other the print or resemblance of an 

 horse. Not far from Rome city there be some few 

 houses and families called Hirpise, which, at their 

 solemne yearly sacrifice, in honour of Apollo, vpon 

 the mount Soracte, walke upon the pile of wood as 

 it is On fire, in great iollity, and neuer a whit are 

 burnt withall. Some men there be, that haue cer- 

 taine members and parts of their bodies naturally 

 working strange and miraculous effects, and in some 

 cases medicinable ; as, for example, king Pyrhus P 



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