An Examen of Witches/Chapter 29
Chapter XXIX.
How Witches Afflict with a Wand.
Seventhly, witches cause injury by striking with a wand. Françoise Secretain and Thievenne Paget confessed that they had killed several animals, both cows and horses, by striking them with a wand and uttering certain words. Cardan also tells that he saw at Pavia a witch who caused a child to die by gently touching its back with a rod. But it seems to me that there is no difference between this touching with a wand and the touch with the hand of which we have just spoken.