purely by means of illusion, by troubling and confusing man’s eyes or fantasy. This is so in the case of Lycanthropes, and of those who believe that they see such creatures. Yet even this he contrives by natural means. So much for Satan in particular.
As for witches, although they cannot do such marvels as Satan, yet with his help they do terrible and shocking things. For they learn from him to compound a poison which they secretly pour into the broth of their enemy, who after tasting this poison sickens and languishes or suddenly dies, according to the might and virtue of the poison he has received: they strike people with headaches, pains in the feet and belly, with leprosy, epilepsy, swelling, and other such ills: guided by Satan they enter a man’s house by night and cut his throat in his bed: they run about the fields and rocks in the form of wolves and so kill now a beast and now a child: in short they have ten thousand
