and fright at all that comes
thence relating to so abhorred a place, whence their torment is either
begun, or feared to come hereafter.

Their apparel and speech is like that of the people and country under
which they live; so are they seen to wear plaids and variegated garments
in the Highlands of Scotland, and suanachs [plaids] therefore in Ireland.
They speak but little, and that by way of whistling, clear, not rough.
The very devils conjured in any country do answer in the language of the
place; yet sometimes the subterraneans speak more distinctly than at
other times. Their women are said to spin very fine, to dye, to tossue,
and embroider; but whether it be as manual operation of substantial
refined stuffs, with apt and solid instruments, or only curious cobwebs,
unpalpable rainbows, and a phantastic imitation of the actions of more
terrestrial mortals, since it transcended all the senses of the seer to
discern whether, I leave to conjecture as I found it.

Their men travel much abroad, either presaging or aping the dismal and
tragical actions of some amongst us; and have also many disastrous doings
of their own, as convocations, fighting, gashes, wounds, and burials,
both in the earth and air. They live much longer than we; yet die at
last, or [at] least vanish from that state. 'Tis one of their tenets
that nothing perisheth, but (as the sun and year) everything goes in a
circle, lesser or greater, and is renewed and refreshed in its
revolutions; as 'tis another, that every body in the creation moves
(which is a sort of life); and that nothing moves but has another animal
moving on it; and so on, to the utmost minutest corpuscle that's capable
of being a receptacle of life.

They are said to have aristocratical rulers and laws, but no discernible
religion, love, or devotion towards God, the blessed Maker of all: they
disappear whenever they hear His name invoked, or the name of Jesus (at
which all do bow willingly, or by constraint, that dwell above or
beneath, within the earth), (Philip, ii. 10); nor can they act ought at
that time after hearing of that sacred name. The Taiblsdear or seer,
that corresponds with this kind of familiars, can bring them with a spell
to appear to himself or others when he pleases, as readily as Endor Witch
did those of her own kind. He tells they are ever readiest to go on
hurtful errands, but seldom will be the messengers of great good to men.
He is not terrified with their