returned to his minions, who pitiouslie moorned for him all this while, and joyfullie embraced his sweete companie at his returne. The like storie dooth _Nider_ write of _Thomas_, whome two angels cured of that lecherous disease; by putting about him a girdle, which they brought downe with them from heaven. ♦_In coll. patrum._♦ ♦_Gregor. lib. 1. dial. 2._♦ ♦_In vitis patrum. Heraclides in paradiso._♦ ♦_Nider in fornicario._♦ The eight Chapter. _Certeine popish and magicall cures, for them that are bewitched in their privities._ For direct cure to such as are bewitched in the privie members, the first and speciall is confession: then follow in a row, holie water, and those ceremoniall trumperies, _Ave Maries_, and all maner of crossings; which are all said to be wholesome, except the witchcraft be perpetuall, and in that case the wife maie have a divorse of course. Item, the eating of a haggister or pie helpeth one bewitched in that member. ♦_Aliter._♦ Item, the smoke of the tooth of a dead man. ♦_Aliter._♦ Item, to annoint a mans bodie over with the gall of a crow. ♦_Aliter._♦ Item, to fill a quill with quicke silver, and laie the same under the cushine, where such a one sitteth, or else to put it under the threshold of the doore of the house or chamber where he dwelleth. Item, to spet into your owne bosome, if you be so bewitched, is verie good. ♦_Aliter._♦ Item, to pisse through a wedding ring. If you would know who is hurt in his privities by witchcraft; and who otherwise is therein diseased, _Hostiensis_ answereth: but so, as I am ashamed to english it: and therefore have here set downe his experiment in Latine; _Quando virga nullatenùs movetur, & nunquam potuit cognoscere; hoc est signum frigiditatis: sed quando movetur & erigitur, perficere autem non potest, est signum maleficii._ ♦_Aliter._♦ But Sir _Th. Moore_ hath such a cure in this matter, as I am ashamed to write, either in Latine or English: for in filthie bawderie it passeth all the tales that ever I heard. But that is rather a medicine to procure generation, than the cure of witchcraft, though it serve both turnes. ♦S. Thomas Moores, medicinable receipt, &c.♦ Item, when ones instrument of venerie is bewitched, certeine characters must be written in virgine parchment, celebrated and holied by a popish priest; and thereon also must the 141. Psalme be written, and bound _Ad viri fascinati coxam_. ♦_Aliter._♦ Item, one _Katharine Loe_ (having a husband not so readilie disposed that waie as she wished him to be) made a waxen image to the likenes of hir husbands bewitched member, and offered it up at S. _Anthonies_ altar; so as, through the holinesse of the masse it might be sanctified, to be more couragious, and of better disposition and abilitie, &c. ♦_Aliter._♦ The ninth Chapter. _A strange cure doone to one that was molested with Incubus._