le him to prophesy.

Democritus says that if one cut the tongue out of a live frog, and lay
it on a woman's breast opposite her heart, she will be compelled to
answer every question put to her. Dogs will never attack a person that
has a weasel's tail in his pocket or breast, provided the appendage
has been severed from the little animal when it was alive. If one has
a chameleon's tongue, cut out before the creature's death, he may defy
all the sharpers in the world. If the blood of a civet-cat be
sprinkled on the doors and windows of a house, witches and sorcerers
will be prevented from entering it or molesting the inmates thereof.
If an enemy desire to render any one hateful to friends and
neighbours, it may be done by the touch of an ointment composed of the
ashes of a calcined ankle-bone of a man, oil extracted from the left
foot of the same body, and the blood of a weasel. Civet-cat gut tied
round a man's left arm, makes all the ladies look on him with favour;
and civet-cat skin worn as a cap, protects the wearer against the art
of witches. If a stone that has been in a mad dog's mouth be put into
ale handed round at a feast, discord will take place. If a bone taken
from a toad's left side be secretly put into any part of a woman's
dress, it will kindle her love into a burning flame; but if the
corresponding bone of the toad's right side be used, the most ardent
love of the woman will be cooled. If the snaffle of a bridle be made
of a sword that has killed a man, the rider may with ease control a
horse, however wild the animal may be; and if a sword that has been
used in beheading a person be dipped in wine, it will impart a
medicinal virtue to the liquor.

Pliny is accountable for a few of the foregoing and many other similar
stories, all of which were believed at one time.

Fires kindled with human fat or oil frightens away evil spirits. On
the other hand, vapours exhaled from certain suffumigations induce
spirits to appear. The lungs of an ass, when burned, drive evil
spirits away. Magicians say that if gold or silver be hid when the
moon is in conjunction with the sun, and the place be perfumed with
saffron, henbane, and black poppy, the treasure will never be
feloniously carried away, for spirits will constantly watch over it.
The blood of doves, lapwings, and bats possesses peculiar
virtues--attracting spirits to places where they may be required to
appear, and exciting love passions.

Magicians, when sac