But as we insinuated before, This Root of _Superstition_ diversely branched forth it self, sometimes into _Magick_ and _Exorcismes_, other times into Pædanticall Rites and idle observations of _Things_ and _Times_, as _Theophrastus_ hath largely set them forth in his Tract περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας: in others it displayed itself in inventing as many _new Deities_ as there were severall Causes from whence their affrights proceeded, and finding out many φρικτὰ μυστήρια appropriate to them, as supposing they ought to be worshipt _cum sacro horrore_. And hence it is that we hear of those inhumane and Diabolicall sacrifices called ἀνθρωποθυσίαι, frequent among the old Heathens (as among many others _Porphyry_ in his _De abstinentia_ hath abundantly related) and of those dead mens bones which our Ecclesiastick writers tell us were found in their Temples at the demolishing of them. Sometimes it would express itself in a prodigall way of sacrificing, for which _Ammianus Marcellinus_ (an heathen Writer, but yet one who seems to have been well pleased with the simplicity and integrity of Christian Religion) taxeth _Julian_ the Emperor for Superstition. _Iulianus, Superstitiosus magis quam legitimus sacrorum observator, innumeras sine parsimonia pecudes mactans, ut æstimaretur, si revertisset de Parthis, boves iam defuturos_: like that Marcus Caesar, of whom he relates this common proverb, οἱ λευκοὶ βέες Μάρκῳω τῷ Καίσαρι, ἄν συ νικήσῃς, ἡμεῖς ἀπωλόμεθα. Besides many other ways might be named wherein _Superstition_ might occasionally shew it self.