witch who has cast the spell on him; and if he agrees to her harming the witch, she takes a knife and strikes the image with it; and at the same instant the witch receives as many blows as were given to the image. I remember also that, when Antoine Tornier was confronted with Jaquema Paget, Jaquema accused her of having threatened her several times, and even of having often said that she would prevent her cows from yielding milk, although her own cows should yield abundantly. In this manner, therefore, it appears that one witch can harm another.
Chapter VII.
Of the Bodies of Spirits and Devils.
Françoise Secretain confessed in the second place that she had formerly given herself to the Devil, and that the Devil at that time had the appearance of a big black man. It is very certain that both good and bad spirits can make themselves a body from the elements; and this should not seem strange, if it is considered that the vapours which rise from the earth very often seem to us to take the form of men or animals. But these spirits, after the manner of a skilled painter, give whatever colour or form they please to the bodies which they make themselves.
I Sam. 28.The spirit which foretold his defeat and death to Saul had the exact likeness of Samuel, who had been dead for some years. Ezekiel was transported to
