And againe he saith, there be some very milde and gentle, whom some of the =Germanes= call =Cobali=, as the =Grecians= do, because they be as it were apes and counterfeiters of men: for they leaping and skipping for ioy do laugh, and séeme as though they did many things, when in very déed they do nothing. And som other call them elues, or dwarfes of the Mountaines, thereby noting their small stature, wherein they commonly appeare. They séeme to be hoare, wearing apparell like the mettall Finers, that is, in a peticoate laced, and an aperne of leather about their loynes. These hurt not the labourers, except they misuse them, but do imitate them in all their doings. And he saith, they are not much vnlike vnto those whom the =Germanes= call =Guteli=, because they séeme to beare good affection towards men, for they kéep horses, and do other necessary businesse. They are also like vnto them whom they call =Trulli=, who taking on them the feined shapes of men and women, do serue as it is sayd, like seruants, both amongst other nations, and specially amongst the =Suetians=. Touching these spirits haunting Mines of mettal, there is somewhat to be read in =Olaus Magnus de Gentibus Septentrionalibus=, the sixt booke and tenth Chapter. [Sidenote: VVhich are people that eate and deuoure men.] They which saile on the great Ocean sea, make report, that in certaine places, where the =Anthropophagi= do inhabit, are many spirits, which doo the people there very much harme. Here many straunge things might be brought concerning visions appearing vnto men in their sléepe: and also of them, which being in a traunce, haue lyen a whole day and more without mouing, lyke vnto dead men: and after being restored to themselues againe, haue told many miraculous things which they haue séene. [Sidenote: Cicero.] [Sidenote: Augustine.] =Cicero= writeth of maruellous things in his booke of diuination, or soothsaying. And so do many other men also. Augustine himselfe reciteth in many places of his bookes, that some after they were dead, haue warned many their friends of diuers matters, and haue disclosed vnto them secrete things, which were to come, and haue shewed sicke folkes good remedies for their diseases, and haue done many such like things. [Sidenote: Marsilius.] =Auenzoar Albumato=, a Phisitian of _Arabia_, writeth, that he receiued an excellent medicine for his sore eyes, of a Phisitian lately deceased, appearing vnto him in his sléep: as =Marcilius Ficinus= doth testifie, writing of the immortalitie of the soule. =Lib. 16. cap. 5.= [Sidenote: _Mat.1.& 2._] The holy Scriptures also teach vs, that God hath reuealed many things vnto men by dreames. =S. Mathew= in his first and second chapter writeth, that the Angell of God appeared many times vnto =Ioseph=, our Sauiour Christes foster father in a dreame, and commaunded him to beware of those which laie in wayt to destroy Christ Iesus. [Sidenote: _Acts._]