MAI# _Agitor_: They whose Bodies are preternaturally
agitated, so as to be in danger of being thrown into the Fire, or into
the Water, though they may be bewitched, are undoubtedly possessed with
_Daemons_, _Mark 9.22, 25._ Learned Men[58] give it as a most certain
sign of Possession, when the afflicted Party can see and hear that which
no one else can discern any thing of, and when they can discover
[59]secret things, _Acts 6.16._ past, or future, [60]as a possessed
Person in _Germany_ foretold the War which broke out in the Year, 1546.
And when the Limbs of miserable Creatures, are bent and disjointed so as
could not possible be without a Luxation of Joints, were it not done by
a preternatural Hand, and yet no hurt raised thereby that argueth
Possession. Also, when Persons are by the Devil cast into Fits, in the
which they speak of things, that afterwards they have no remembrance
of,[61] or, if they are by cruel Devils tortured, so as to cause
horrendous Clamours in the distressed Sufferers, that's another sign of
Obsession by evil Spirits: If all these things concur in the Persons
concerning where the Question is, we may conclude them to be
_Daemoniacks_: And if so, no _Juror_ can with a safe Conscience look on
the Testimony of such, as sufficient to take away the Life of any Man.

2. _Falling down by the cast of an Eye proceeds not from a natural, but
an arbitrary Cause;_[62] not from any Poyson in the Eye of the Witch,
but from the Agency of some _Daemon_: The opinion of Fascination by the
Eye is an old Fable, and (saith Mr. _Perkins_) as fond as old.
_Pliny_[63] speaks of a People that killed folks by looking on them; and
he adds, that they had two Apples in each Eye: and _Tully_ writes of
women who had two Apples in one Eye that always did mischief with their
meer looks; so _Ovid_, _Pupula duplex fulminat._ And _Plutarch_[64]
writes that some persons have such a Poyson in their Eyes, as that their
Friends and Familiars are Fascinated thereby; nay he speaks of one that
Bewitched himself sick by looking on his own Face in a Glass: Others
write of Fascination by a meer Prolation of Words; and for ought I know,
there may be as much Witchery in the Tongue as there is in the Eye.
_Sennertus_[65] has discovered the Superstition of these Fancies; Sight
does not proceed from an Emission of Rays from the Eye, but by a
reception of the visible Species; and if it be (as Philosophers
conclude) an innocent Action and not an Emi