“But for some of these particularities also they may seem to be in some manner hinted at in some of the words, especially as they are rendered sometimes by skilful interpreters: for ‏מכשף‎ (_Mecasseph_,) is translated by _Vatablus_, and the vulgar Latin _Maleficus_, by the _Septuagint_ φαρμακός, that is _Veneficus_: which word signifies mischievously enough both to man and beast. Besides that _Mecasseph_ carries along with it the signification of transformation also; and haply this may be the difference betwixt ‏מכשף‎ _Mecasseph_, and ‏מעונן‎ _Megnonen_, that the former uses prestigious transformations to some great mischief, as where Olaus Magnus tells of those that have transformed themselves into wolves, to men’s thinking, and have presently fallen upon worrying of sheep. Others transformed in their astral spirit, into various shapes, get into houses and do mischief to men and children, as I remember Remegius reports. And therefore it is less wonder that that sharp law of Moses is against the ‏מכשפה‎ _Mecassephah_; such a witch as this is, ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live;’ this may be a more peculiar signification of that word. And now for making a compact with the devil, how naturally does that name ‏חובר חבר‎ _Chobber Chebber_, signifie that feat also? But for sucking and copulation, though rightly stated it may be true, yet I confess there is nothing hinted towards that so far as I see, as indeed it was neither necessary that the other should be. But these are the very dregs, the _fex magorum et sagarum_, that sink in those abominations, against which a sufficient bar is put already by this prohibition in general by so many names. And the other is filthy, base, and nasty, that the mention thereof was neither fit for the sacred style of Moses’s law, nor for the years of the people.