“But to proceed, that ‏אוב‎, _obh_, signifies the spirit itself that divines, not only he that has it, is manifest from Levit. xx. 27, _Vir autem sive mulier cùm fuerit_ [‏בהם אוב‎] _in eis pytho_. And 1 Sam. xxviii. 8, _Divina quæso mihi_ [‏באוב‎] _per pythonem_. In the Septuagint it is ἐν τῶν Ἐγγαστρίμυθῳ, that is, by that spirit that sometimes goes into the body of the party, and thence gives answers; but here it only signifies a familiar spirit. And lastly, ‏בעלת אוב‎, _bagnalath obh_, 1 Sam. xxviii. 7, _Quæ habit pythonem_; there _OBH_ must needs signify the spirit itself, of which she of Endor was the owner or possessor; that is to say, it was her familiar spirit. But see what brazen and stupid impudence will do here, ‏בעלת אוב‎, _bagnalath obh_, with Webster must not signify one that has a familiar spirit, but the mistress of the bottle. Who but the master of the bottle, or rather of whom the bottle had become master, and by guzzling had made his wits excessively muddy and frothy, could ever stumble upon such a foolish interpretation? But because ‏אוב‎ _obh_, in one place of the Scripture signifies a bottle, it must signify so here, and it must be the instrument forsooth, out of which this cheating quean of Endor does ‘whisper, peep, or chirp like a chicken coming out of the shell,’ p. 129, 165. And does she not, I beseech you, put her nib also into it sometimes, as into a reed, as it is said of that bird, and cries like a butter-bump? certainly he might as well have interpreted ‏בעלת אוב‎ _bagnalath obh_, of the great tun of Heidelberg, that Tom. Coriat takes such special notice of, as of the bottle.