A Second CURIOSITY.A Second CURIOSITIE.

A Second CURIOSITY.

A Second CURIOSITIE.

II. In all the Witchcraft which now Grievous••• Vexes us, I know not whether any thing be more Unaccountable, than the Trick which the Witches have to render themselves, and their Tools Invisible. Witchcraft seems to be the Skill of Applying the Plastic Spirit of the World, unto some unlawful purposes, by means of a Confederacy with Evil Spirits. Yet one would wonder how the Evil Spirits themselves can do some things; especially at Invisibilizing of the Grossest Bodies. I can tell the Name of an Ancient Author, who pretends to show the way, how a man may come to walk about Invisible, and I can tell the Name of another Ancient Author, who pretends to Explode that way. But I will not speak too plainly, Lest I should unawares Poison some of my Readers, as the Pious Hemingius did one of his •••pils, when he only by way of Diversion recited •••pell, which, they had said, would cure Agues. Thus much I will say; The notion of procuring Invisibility, by any Natural Expedient, yet known, is▪ I Believe, ⟨p. 142⟩a mere PLINYISM; How far it may be obtained by a Magical Sacrament, is best known to the Dangerous Knaves that have Tried it. But our Witches do seem to have got the Knack: and this is one of the Things, mat make me think, Witchcraft will not be fully understood, until the Day when there shall not be one Witch in the World.

II. In all the Witchcraft which now Grievous••• Vexes us, I know not whether any thing be more Unaccountable, than the Trick which the Witches have to render themselves, and their Tools Invisible. Witchcraft seems to be the Skill of Applying the Plastic Spirit of the World, unto some unlawful purposes, by means of a Confederacy with Evil Spirits. Yet one would wonder how the Evil Spirits themselves can do some things; especially at Invisibilizing of the Grossest Bodies. I can tell the Name of an Ancient Author, who pretends to show the way, how a man may come to walk about Invisible, and I can tell the Name of another Ancient Author, who pretends to Explode that way. But I will not speak too plainly, Lest I should unawares Poison some of my Readers, as the Pious Hemingius did one of his pils, when he only by way of Diversion recited pell, which, they had said, would cure Agues. Thus much I will say; The notion of procuring Invisibility, by any Natural Expedient, yet known, is I Believe,