s them,) there is not any particular
rite belonging to that art more fully attested by histories
of all ages than this is. Besides, who doth not know that
it is the devil's fashion (we shall meet with it afterwards
again) to amuse his servants and vassals with many rites and
ceremonies, which have certainly no ground in nature, no
relation or sympathy to the thing, as for other reasons, so
to make them believe, they have a great hand in the
production of such and such effects; when, God knows, many
times all that they do, though taught and instructed by him,
is nothing at all to the purpose, and he, in very deed, is
the only agent, by means which he doth give them no account
of. Bodinus, in his preface to his "Daemonology," relateth,
that three waxen images, whereof one of Queen Elizabeth's,
of glorious memory, and two other, _Reginae proximorum_, of
two courtiers, of greatest authority under the queen, were
found in the house of a priest at Islington, a magician, or
so reputed, to take away their lives. This he doth repeat
again in his second book, chap. 8, but more particularly
that it was in the year of the Lord 1578, and that Legatus
Angliae and many Frenchmen did divulge it so; but withal, in
both places he doth add, that the business was then under
trial, and not yet perfectly known. I do not trust my
memory: I know my age and my infirmities. Cambden, I am
sure, I have read; and read again; but neither in him, nor
in Bishop Carleton's "Thankful Remembrancer," do I remember
any such thing. Others may, perchance. Yet, in the year
1576, I read in both of some pictures, representing some
that would have kill'd that glorious queen with a motto,
_Quorsum haec, alio properantibus!_ which pictures were made
by some of the conspiracy for their incouragement; but
intercepted, and showed, they say, to the queen. Did the
time agree, it is possible these pictures might be the
ground of those mistaken, if mistaken, waxen images, which I
desire to be taught by others who can give a better
account.--_Casaubon's (M.) Treatise, proving Spirits,
Witches, and Supernatural Operations_, 1672. 12mo., p. 92.

In Scotland this practice was in high favour with witches, both in
ancient and modern times. The lamentable story of poor King Duff, as
related by Hect