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miscellaneous wondees or natceE- 
side towards the person, and his head averted, t* 
his distance, he turns round, springs upon him, au 
the part next to him.” , . . if 
On the subject of the incantation of serpents, Ui » ,( 
traveller remarks as follows; “There is 
iravcillti. iciiimiva ua ^ ^ 
its reality : the scriptures are full of it j amt |<)' 
been in Tgypt have seen as many dhTerent 
chose. 
Ligypt nave seen as ^ 
chose. Some have suspected that it wp a tri 
the animals so handled had been first trained, a 
trie animais so iiiiiiuieu u-m - up-, li? 
armed of the power of hurting ; and, jinei-'- V' 
:per 
have rested tliemselves upon it, without expei'‘‘^ 
face of all antiquity. But I will not hesitate ^,iU 
.1 have seen at Cairo (and this may be seen < ^ ^ j[)S « 
trouble or expense) a man who came from ];rp'’ ,('* 
combs, where the pits of die mummy bucs a> 
has taken a Cerastes with his naked hand, ^;i i' ’ ,|i<J 
others lying at the bottom of a tub, has put ' , / 
head, covered it with the common red ca]) ' 
taken it out, put -it on his breast, and lied it *' . .n • 
like a necklace ; after which it ^luis been^ai>P*‘^il^ to 
and bit it, which has died in a few utiiiutes pfcti> 
plete the experiment, the man has taken it b} 3 - 
beginning at the tail, has eaten it, as one "''’" ,113110*-; ;/ 
Degimiuig at ui'j vtui, i»ac .V, v.^ . ^ 
or atetock of celery, without any seeming lef 'J,£.fii " ' 
“However lively the -snake may “ijo 
when he is seized by any of tbcAse biubarian > 
if taken with sickness and leebleness, i> i 5,3111^^, liiB 
his eyes, and never turns his mouth towai jj- 
^ who holds him. Oil dieir being quested 
person 
are 
on who holds him. Ua Uieir being a* n 
exempted from its attack, {jicf 
u laiKUl ciiciirtiiiA- ^ u- j 
^ pretend to S 
Temedies,'’that is, by decoctions of herbs an "'TctQ 
as It may, the records 01 nisioiy 
countiy has been remarkably infested by s i j^jiio- 
people have been screened by a secret ot so __ 
it was with the Psylli and Maronides of ol 
“Tame at whose spell the charm’d 
Cerasl^’ 
1»J- 
spectable among the Egypti^ms reply th j 
so; while the lower sort talkof enchaiitnien 
by writing. They all 
,at is, by decoctions ot neros ,;y 
it may, the records of history' attest, pts, 1 
