and the ox which said to him who goaded it in ploughing that mankind would fail sooner than the crops; neither shall I pause over the dog and the serpent which spoke when Tarquinius Superbus was driven from Rome; and the rook which, some time before the death of the Emperor Domitian, prophesied in Greek great good to the Roman Republic; and the two oxen and the cock who spoke in the consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus and Marcus Lepidus. Fulgos. lib. 1. c. 4.All of these are mentioned by Fulgosus.
But it is far more difficult to believe that Satan can speak through the shameful parts of a woman, or when the person’s mouth is shut, or when the tongue is thrust six inches out of the mouth; or that he can speak when he has no body at all, or one formed only of air. Yet this is known to happen; for we read that she who gave answer in the Delphic Oracle spoke through the lower and shameful parts, as did also a woman in Rhodige, an Italian town mentioned by Cœlius Rhodiginus in his disquisitions.
However, this thing is caused in a natural manner, just as if the voice were formed by an agitation and vibration of air; and it follows that Satan can in this way create a voice, seeing that he is well able to form a body out of air. The echo gives us an example of this, when we see valleys and hollow places reply articulately to the human voice so exactly that it seems as if those places were imitating our speech; and from this it is easy to understand that the human voice may be quite well counterfeited without the use of lungs, tongue or teeth.
Lib. 2. de Incant. c. 12.Therefore Vair is right when he says that demons can counterfeit sounds like the human