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upon him, and resume the form he had before at his 

 pleasure. . . . 



" But for to come to examples ; When a certain Noble- 

 man took a long journey through the Woods, and had 

 many servile Country-fellows in his Company, that were 

 acquainted with this witchcraft, (as there are many such 

 found in those parts) the day was almost spent; where- 

 fore he must lie in the Woods, for there was no Inne 

 neare that place ; and withall they were sore pinched 

 with hunger and want. Last of all, one of the Company 

 propounded a seasonable proposall, that the rest must 

 be quiet, and if they saw any thing they must make no 

 tumulte ; that he saw afar off a flock of sheep feeding ; 

 he would take care that, without much labor, they should 

 have one of them to rost for Supper. Presently he goes 

 into a thick Wood that no man might see him, and there 

 he changed his humane shape like to that of a Wolf. 

 After this he fell upon the flock of sheep with all his 

 might, and he took one of them that was running back 

 to the Wood, and then he came to the Chariot in the 

 form of a Wolf, and brought the sheep to them. His 

 companions being conscious how he stole it, receive it 

 with grateful mind, and hide it close in the Chariot ; but 

 he that had changed himself into a Wolf, went into the 

 Wood again, and became a Man. 



" Also in Livonia not many years since, it fell out that 

 there was a dispute between a Nobleman's wife and his 

 servant, (of which they have plenty more in that Country, 

 than in any Christian Land) that men could not be 

 turned into Wolves ; whereupon he brake forth into this 

 speech, that he would presently shew her an example of 

 that businesse, so he might do it with her permission : 

 he goes alone into the cellar, and, presently after, he 



