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| believe the Conteffion of Witcnes, nor-yetthe evidence againft them: For 
| the Witches. themfelves are Imaginative, and believe oft-times they do that 
lwhich they do hot ; and people are credulous in'that:point, and teady ro 
| impute Accidents and Natural opcrationsto Witchcraft. It is worthy the 
obferving, that'both inancient andlate times, (asinthe 7 heffalian W itches, 
} and thé mectings of Witches! that have been recorded by fo many'lare Con- 
‘| feffions) the’ great wonders which they: tell of carrying in the Air, trans- 
| forming themfelves into other Bodies, &c. are ftill reported to be wrought, 
! not by ihesutaeion or Ceremonies, bar by Ointments and Anointing them- | 
felyes all’ovet. This may jattly move a Man to think, ‘that thefe Fables are | 
‘| che effects of Imagination ; for it is certain, that Ointments do all (if they be | 
‘| laid on any thing thick) by ftopping of the Pores, fhut in the Vapors, and 
| fend them ‘to the head extrcamly. And for the particular Ingredients of 
thofe Magical Ointments, itis like they are opiate and foporiferous. For | 
| Anointing of the Forehead, Neck, Feet, Back-bone, we know is ufed for 
| procuring dead fleeps. And if any Mamfay, thatthiseffee& would be bet: 
| ter done by inward potions 5. anfwer may be made,that the Medicines which 
go tothe Ointments are fo ftrong, thatif they were uled inwards, they would 
kill thofe that ufe them 5 and therefore they work porently, though out 
wards, - 14 . | : 
We will divide the feveral kindes of the operations by tran{miffion of 
| Spirits and Imagination, which will give no fimall light to the Experiments | 
| that follow. © A'l operations by tranfmiflion of Spirits and Imagination have | 
this, thatthey work at diftance, and notattouch ; and they aré thefe being | 
| dittinguifhed. Ps Ran DOB: | 
"o’ Toe firltis, The Tranfmiffion or Emiffion of the thianer and more 
| airy parts Of Bodies, as in Odors and Infections; and this is, of all the 
}reft, the moft’ corporeal. But you mult remember withal, that there 
‘be a number of thofe Emiffions, both unwholefome and wholefome, that 
give no fmell at all : Forthe Plague many times when it is taken giveth 
| no fent at all, and there be many good ard healchful Airs, as they appear 
by Habitation, and other proofs, that differ not in Smell from other Airs. 
And under this head you may place all Imbibitions of Air; where thefub- 
| tance is material, odor-like, whereof fome neverthelefs are ftrange, and | 
very fuddenly diffufed ;_ asthe aleeration which the Air receiveth in Egype al- 
leer immediately upon the rifing of the River of Niu, whereof we have 
{poken. — | . : 
by ts The fecondis, the Tran{miffion or Emiffion of thofe things that wecall 
Spiritual Species, as Vifibies and Sounds; the one whereof we have hand- | 
Jed, andthe other we fhall handlein dueplace. Thefe move (wiftly and at 
great diftance, but thenthey require a Medinm well difpofed,and their Tran{- 
miffion is eafily topped. | Minae 
| The thirdis, the Emiffions which canfe Attraction of certain Bodies at 
diftances wherein though the Loadftone be commonly placed in the firft 
= yet We think good to except it, “and refer it to another Head: But 
|the drawing of eAmber, and Fer, and other Eletrick, Bodies, and the At- 
{traction in Gold of the Spirit of Quick-filver at diftance, and the Attraétion 
| of Heat at-diftance , and chat of fire to Nephi, and that of fome Herbs 
jto Water, though at diftance, and divers others, we fhall handle; but 
yet not under this prefenc title, but under the title of Atcraétion in- 
general. 
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