♦_Hieronym. in Ruff._ _Plin. lib. 25. cap. 3._ _Joseph lib. 11. de Judæorum antiquit._ _Aristot. lib. 8. de natura animal. cap. 24._ _Jo. Wier. de venef. cap. 40._♦ The toies, which are said to procure love, and are exhibited in their poison looving cups, are these: the haire growing in the nethermost part of a woolves taile, a woolves yard, a little fish called _Remora_, the braine of a cat, of a newt, or of a lizzard: the bone of a greene frog, the flesh thereof being consumed with pismers or ants; the left bone whereof ingendereth (as they saie) love; the bone on the right side, hate. Also it is said, that a frogs bones, the flesh being eaten off round about with ants, whereof some will swim, and some will sinke: those that sinke, being hanged up in a white linnen cloth, ingender love, but if a man be touched therewith, hate is bred thereby. Another experiment is thereof, with yoong swalowes, whereof one brood or nest being taken and buried in a crocke under the ground, till they be starved up; they that be found open mouthed, serve to engender love; they whose mouthes are shut, serve to procure hate. Besides these, manie other follies there be to this purpose proposed to the simple; as namelie, the garments of the dead, candels that burne before a dead corps, and needels wherwith dead bodies are sowne or sockt into their sheetes: and diverse other things, which for the reverence of the reader, and in respect of the uncleane speach to be used in the description thereof, I omit; which (if you read _Dioscorides_, or diverse other learned physicians) you maie see at large. In the meane while, he that desireth to see more experiments concerning this matter, let him read _Leonardus Vairus de fascino_, now this present yeare 1583. newlie published; wherein (with an incestuous mouth) he affirmeth directlie, that Christ and his apostles were _Venefici_; verie fondlie prosecuting that argument, and with as much popish follie as may be; labouring to proove it lawfull to charme and inchant vermine, &c. ♦Toies to mocke apes.♦ ♦_Dioscorid. de materia medicin._♦ ♦_L. Vairus de fascin. lib. 2. cap. 11. prope finem._♦ The eight Chapter. _John Bodin triumphing against John Wier is overtaken with false Greeke & false interpretation thereof._