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put to death; neither shall it be lawful for a man to transfer the corn from one field to another. It is my opinion that this is done, not by Satan transporting the corn from one field to another, but by his changing the fields themselves. Vair, de Incant. III. 1.For it is the opinion of the Theologians that the devils are able to move all inferior bodies; and therefore it cannot be any more difficult for Satan to transport a field from one place to another than it is for him to remove a mountain or a rock. For we read that there are whole lands and countries which have been transported from their place by the agency of the Devil and his magic, so that rocks which were facing to the north have in an instant been turned towards the south. Antichrist, c. 26, n. 2.This I take from Florimond de Raemond.

Chapter XXXV.

Whether Witches are Able to Heal.

We have treated of the hurts which witches do to man and beast. Let us now consider whether they are able also to heal. It appears they are able, since we have many examples to prove it. The Emperor Hadrian was by witchcraft cured of a dropsy into which he had fallen, as Dion relates in his Life. We read that Apollonius of Tyana gave sight to the blind and made the lame to walk, and that he delivered the town of Ephesus from a great pestilence which was afflicting it. Marie Perrier was restored to