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when that attraction is the strongest — grow worse, and 

 begin to rave ; and likewise the sensitive spirit (aura) 

 of a man who is weak and offers no resistance will be 

 attracted towards the moon and be poisoned by its evil 

 influence." 



" The witches and evil spirits, moreover, use certain 

 invisible and poisonous elements, taken from spiders, 

 toads, and other villainous creatures, and use them in 

 combination with the menstrual blood for evil purposes ; 

 but it is not advisable to publish the secret how this is 

 done. We will, however, say that sometimes they make 

 an image of a person in wax, and tie a rag, soiled with 

 the menstrual blood, around it, and add the Mumia of 

 the carcass of some animal — preferring one of an animal 

 that has died of an ulcer — and by using their evil 

 imagination they throw the evil spell upon the person 

 whom the image represents, and in this manner they 

 poison his blood and cause him to die." ^ 



" They sometimes take a mirror set in a wooden 

 frame, and put it into a tub of water, so that it will 

 swim on the top with its face directed towards the sky. 

 On the top of the mirror, and encircling the glass, they 

 lay a wreath of Sinechrusmontes Behdem, and thus they 

 expose it to the influence of the new moon; and this 

 evil influence is thrown towards the moon, and, radiating 

 again from the moon, it will bring evil to those who love 

 to look at the moon. The rays of the moon, passing 

 through that ring upon the mirror, become poisoned, 

 and poison the mirror ; and the mirror throws back the 

 poisoned ether into the atmosphere, and the moon and 

 the mirror poison each other in the same manner as two 

 malicious persons, by looking at each other, poison each 

 other's souls with their eyes. If a mirror is strongly 

 poisoned in this manner, the witch takes good care of 

 it ; and if she desires to injure some one, she takes 



^ Poisonous and malicious animals are forms of life in which an evil 

 quality of th« poisoned will in Nature has becouie manifest. 



