_Dicelon_, is so called because it is sent to make men afraid: those kinds of terrors the Grecians call _Hecatæa_, as =Apollonius= writeth, because =Hecate= or =Proserpina= is the cause of them, who therefore is called βριμώ άπὸ τοῦ βριμᾷν, that is of terrifying, and that by reason that terrours by night were thought to be stirred vp by her. [Sidenote: Acco.] [Sidenote: Alphito.] =Plutarchus= writeth, that _Acco_ and _Alphito_, were monstrous women, by naming of whome, mothers kept their children in awe, and made them feare to do euil. [Sidenote: Telchinnes.] =Cardanus= calleth these Diuels which kéepe vnder the earth, and many times kill men as they are vndermining, by the name of _Tilchinnes_. Men vsing witchcraft, and such as are possessed with a Spirit, and out of their wits, are called amongst the Grecians, τελχῖνες. [Sidenote: Pan.] [Sidenote: Faunus.] Of these sort are those monsters, halfe like men, and halfe like beastes, whiche men say are founde in woods, and oftentimes haue appeared vnto men. It is saide, that _Panes_ and _Fauni_, are all one, hauing their nether parts like vnto Goates féete. [Sidenote: Satyri.] [Sidenote: Sileni.] And menne saye, that _Satyri_, are almost lyke vnto men: And those whiche are of full age are called _Sileni_. [Sidenote: Onocentaurus.] _Onocentaurus_, is a beast of a straunge fashion, which is reported to be like a man in the vpper part, and downward like an asse. [Sidenote: Onosceli.] _Onosceli_, as it is written in =Plutarche=, are Diuels, hauing legges like vnto asses. [Sidenote: Hyppocentaurus.] The olde people imagined, that _Hippocentauri_, were creatures, who before were like to men, but the hinder parts had the similitude of horses. [Sidenote: Sphinx.] And they do faine, that _Sphinx_ is _Animal_ ανθροπομορφον, a beast of the similitude of a man. [Sidenote: Scilla.] [Sidenote: Harpyæ.] _Scilla_, and _Harpyæ_, are rauening Diuels, with faces like vnto maydens. [Sidenote: Triton.] [Sidenote: Nereides.] [Sidenote: Syrenes.] As touching men liuing in the Sea, as _Tritones_, _Nereides_ and _Syrenes_, who as the auncient people affirmed, had faces like vnto men. Reade =Gesnerus= in _Historia Aquatilium_, where he intreateth of them. For he prooueth out of many Authors, that there are founde Monsters in the Sea, hauing shapes and countenaunces somewhat like vnto men. Some of these Monsters which are indéede, bee of the kinde of Apes, and some are onely fabulous, or false: yet notwithstanding, it may be, that the Diuell doth deceiue men vnder the formes of them. Thus much concerning tearmes, which we must vse in this our Treatise of Spirits or Visions. Hereunto haue I adioyned straunge happes, and foretokens, which for the most part chaunce before great matters. And therefore I knit them vnto these, because they haue great resemblance vnto them. [Sidenote: Portentum.]