“Whoso wanteth _Cucuji_, goeth out of the house in the first twilight of the night, carrying a burning fier-brande in his hande, and ascendeth the next hillocke, that the _Cucuji_ may see it, and swingeth the fier-brande about calling _Cucuji_ aloud, and beating the ayre with often calling and crying out _Cucuji, Cucuji_.... Beholde the desired number of _Cucuji_, at what time, the hunter casteth the fier-brande out of his hande. Some _Cucuji_ sometimes followeth the fier-brande, and lighteth on the grounde, then is he easily taken.... The hunter havinge the hunting _Cucuius_, returneth home, and shutting the doore of the house, letteth the praye goe. The _Cucuius_ loosed, swiftly flyeth about the whole house seeking gnatts, under their hanging bedds, and about the faces of them that sleepe, whiche the gnattes used to assayle, they seem to execute the office of watchmen, that such as are shut in, may quietly rest. Another pleasant and profitable commodity proceedeth from the _Cucuji_. As many eyes as every _Cucuius_ openeth, the host enjoyeth the light of so many candles: so that the Inhabitants spinne, sewe, weave, and daunce by the light of the flying _Cucuji_. The Inhabitants think that the _Cucuius_ is delighted with the harmony and melodie of their singing, and that he also exerciseth his motion in the ayre according to the action of their dancing.... Our men also read and write by that light, which always continueth untill hee have gotten enough gnatts whereby he may be well fedd.... There is also another wonderfull commodity proceeding from the _Cucuius_: the Islanders, appoynted by our menn, goe with their good will by night with 2 _Cucuji_ tyed to the great tooes of their feete: (for the travailer[160] goeth better by direction of the lights of the _Cucuji_, then if hee brought so many candels with him, as the _Cucuji_ open eyes) he also carryeth another _Cucuius_ in his hande to seeke the Utiae by night (Utiae are a certayne kind of Cony, a little exceeding a mouse in bignesse.)... They also go a fishing by the lights of the _Cucuji_.... In sport, and merriment, or to the intent to terrifie such as are affrayed of every shaddow, they say that many wanton wild fellowes sometimes rubbed their faces by night with the fleshe of a _Cucuius_ being killed, with purpose to meete their neighbors with a flaming countenance ... for the face being annointed with the lumpe or fleshy parte of the _Cucuius_, shineth like a flame of fire.”[161] At Cumana, the use of the Cucujus is forbidden, as the young Spanish ladies used to carry on a correspondence at night with their lovers by means of the light derived from them.[162]