worn upon the person and are also placed
upon horses or camels, by Arabs, Turks, Grecians, and Italians, with the
avowed purpose of averting malignant glances.[29:2]

FOOTNOTES:

[25:1] _Encyclopaedia Britannica._

[25:2] Samuel Burder, _Oriental Customs_, vol. ii, p. 226.

[25:3] Smith and Cheetham, _A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_.

[26:1] William George Black, _Folk-Medicine_, p. 165.

[27:1] Joseph Barclay, _The Talmud_.

[27:2] Scroll of parchment, inscribed with passages of Scripture.

[27:3] Psalm xxxiv, 7.

[27:4] James Hastings, D.D., _A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels_,
1908, p. 360. Matthew, xxiii, 5.

[28:1] Philip Schaff, D.D., _A Religious Encyclopaedia_.

[28:2] _Biblical Things not generally known_, 1879, pp. 177-8. _Marduk,
the Chaldean Hercules._

[29:1] James Hastings, _A Dictionary of the Bible_.

[29:2] Frederick Thomas Elworthy, _The Evil Eye_.

CHAPTER IV

THE POWER OF WORDS

In every word there is a magic influence, and each word is in
itself the breath of the internal and moving spirit.
JOSEPH ENNEMOSER: _The History of Magic_.

There is magic in words, surely, and many a treasure besides
Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE: _Little Rivers_.

For it was neither herbs, nor mollifying plaster that restored
them to health, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all
things. WISDOM OF SOLOMON, XVI, 12.

The power of words in stimulating the imagination is well expressed in
the following sentences:--

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a
description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of
the things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in
stronger colors, and painted more to the life in his
imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of
the scene which they describe. In this case the poet seems to
get the better of nature. He takes indeed the landscape after
her, but gives it more vigorous touches, heightens its beauty,
and so enlivens the whole piece, that the images which flow
from the objects themselves, appear weak or faint in
comparison with those that come from the expressions.[30:1]

The medical science of the ancient Romans was largely
theurgical, and was founded on a pretended influe