more firmly believe, their old Legendary ftories of 
Favries and Witches, then the Articles of their Creed. 
And to convince me yet lurcher that they are not utter 
ftrangers to the Black^Arts of their forefathers, I acci- 
dentally met with a Gentleman in the neighbourhood, 
who Giewed me a Book of Spells and Magical Receipts, 
taken ftwo or three days before) in the pocket of one 
oi omMofs'Troopers : wherein, among many other con- 
juring Feats, was prefcribed a certain Remedy for an 
Ague, by applying a few barbarous Charaders to the 
Body of the party diftempered. Thefe, methought,were 
very near akin to Wormzms RAMRUNER; which , 
he lays, differed wholly in figure and ihape from the 
commonT^m^. For, though he tells us, that thefe l^m-^ 
tuner were fo called, Eo quodMoleJtias, dolor es, morbof 
fue hifce mfligere tmmicis foliti fmt Magi his great 
friend Jmg: Jonas, more to our purpofe, fays that" His 
etiamufifunt ad benefaciendum, juvandum, Medtcandum 
tarn animi quam Corporis morbu atque adipfos Cacodee^ 
mones peUendos ^ fugandos. I (hall not trouble you with 
a draught of this Spell; becaufelhave not yet had an 
opportunity of learning, whether it may not be an ordi- 
nary one, and to be met with (among others of the 
fame nature) in Paraceljus or Cornelius Jgrippa. 
It this conjedure be not allowable; I have, S% one 
more which (it may be) you will think more plaufible 
then the former. For if, inflead of making the third 
and fourth Letters to be two K L. H we fliould fuppofe 
them to be B. E. the word will then be J^eeb^ru-^ 
which I take to fignify, in the old Danijh Language, Ca?- 
miterium or Cadaverum Sepulchrum, For, tho the true 
o\dil{unic word for Cadaver be ufually written ^lkAJ^ Hrae\ 
yet the //may, without any violence to the Orthogra- 
phy of that tongue, be omitted at pleafure and then 
the difference of fpelling the word, here at Beaucajile.^ndi 
on fome of the ragged Monuments in Denmar]^, will not 
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