These can make a woman miscarrie in childbirth, and destroie the child in the mothers wombe, without any sensible meanes either inwardlie or outwardlie applied. These can with their looks kill either man or beast. ♦_Mal. Malef. par. 2. quæst. 1. cap, 2._♦ All these things are avowed by _James Sprenger_ and _Henrie Institor_ _In malleo maleficarum_, to be true, & confirmed by _Nider_, and the inquisitor _Cumanus_; and also by _Danæus_, _Hyperius_, _Hemingius_, and multiplied by _Bodinus_, and frier _Bartholomæus Spineus_. But bicause I will in no wise abridge the authoritie of their power, you shall have also the testimonies of manie other grave authors in this behalfe; as followeth. [*]And first _Ovid_ affirmeth, that they can raise and suppresse lightening and thunder, raine and haile, clouds and winds, tempests and earthquakes. Others doo write, that they can pull downe the moone and the starres. Some write that with wishing they can send needles into the livers of their enimies. Some that they can transferre corne in the blade from one place to another. Some, that they can cure diseases supernaturallie, flie in the aire, and danse with divels. Some write, that they can plaie the part of _Succubus_, and contract themselves to _Incubus_; and so yoong prophets are upon them begotten, &c. Som saie they can transubstantiate themselves and others, and take the forms and shapes of asses, woolves, ferrets, cowes, apes, horsses, dogs, &c. Some say they can keepe divels and spirits in the likenesse of todes and cats. ♦[*] _Ovid. lib. metamorphoseôn 7._ _Danæus in dialog._ _Psellus in operatione dæm._ _Virg. in Damo_ _Hora. epod. 5._ _Tibul. de fascinat. lib. 1. eleg. 2._ _Ovid epist 4._ _Lex. 12. Tabularum._ _Mal. Malef._ _Lucā. de bello civili. lib. 6._ _Virg. eclog. 8._ _Ovid. de remedio amoris. lib. 1._ _Hyperius._ _Erastus._ _Rich. Gal. in his horrible treatise._ _Hemingius._ _Bar. Spineus._ _Bryan Darcy Confessio Windesor._ _Virgil. Aeneid. 4._ _C. Manlius astrol. lib. 1._♦