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the m’lds of their forehead." The Anthropophagi, 
“ sauage and wild men, lining and conueraing vsually 
with the bruit beastes, who liave their feet growing 
backward, and turned behind the calues of their legs ; 
howbeit they run most swiftly ; tliey are vsed to 
drinke out of the skuls of men’s heads, and to weare 
the scalpes, hair and all, instead of mandellions or 
stomachers before their hearts. In Albanie, there 
be a sort of people borne with eies like owles, where- 
of the sight is fire red, who, from their childhood, 
are grey-headed, and can see better by night than 
day. In Africke, as some doe auouch, there be cer- 
taine houses and families of scorcerers, who, if they 
chance to blesse, praise, and speak good words, be- 
witch presently withal, insamuch as sheep therewith 
die, trees wither, and infants pine and winder away. 
Such like therebealsoamongthe Triballians, Illyrians, 
Thibians, and many others besides, who have the same 
quality, and doe the like ; and known they are by 
these markes, in one of their eies they have two 
sights, in the other the print or resemblance of an 
horse. Not far from Rome city there be some few 
houses and families called Hirpiw, which, at their 
solemne yearly sacrifice, in honour of Apollo, vpon 
the mount Soracte, walke upon the pile of wood as 
it is on fire, in great iollity, and neuer a whit are 
burnt withall. Some men there be,' that haue cer- 
taine members and parts of their bodies naturally 
working strange and miraculous effects, and in some 
cases medicinable ; as, for example, king Pyrhusp 
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