4. Sometimes they call them by the name _Saga_, which signifieth no more than a Wife and subtil Woman, being derived _à sagiendo_ to perceive quickly, or to smell a thing quickly forth, which the Germans call =Vnhold=, which is no more than _malevolus_, or evil-willed. 5. They use the word _Veneficus_, _venefica_, and _veneficium_, and this in its proper signification and derivation from the Latine, doth import no more than a Poysoner, or to make poyson, _venenum facere_, and so might perhaps be given unto them, because by Tradition they had learned several ways to poyson secretly and strangely, as doubtless there may be divers hidden and not ordinarily known ways (as we shall shew hereafter) by which either by smelling, tasting, touching (and it may be by sight) they could kill and destroy, though the means they used, and the effects produced, were meerly natural; yet because the manner was very occult and unperceivable, it was through ignorance and want of due inspection into the matters accounted Diabolical; when there was no more of a Devil in the business, than is in a Thief or Murtherer, but only in the Use and Application, which is to steal, kill, or destroy. And this, though now improperly and abusively called Witchcraft, doth but signifie poysoning, and so the French call it _Empoisonnement_, and the Italians _Veneficio_ or _Avenenatione_, and the Germans =Vergifftung=, which all amount to one purpose. And this _Veneficium_ or poysoning the Greeks call Φαρμάκευσις and Φαρμακία from Φάρμακον _Medicamentum v.l. Venenum_; for sometimes it was taken in the better sense for a curing and healing Medicine; and sometimes in the worse for poyson that did kill or destroy. Neither can it be found in any Greek Author to signifie any more, than such men or women that used Charms and Incantations, and were believed by the Vulgar to effect strange things by them, when in truth and indeed they effected nothing at all but by natural means and secret poysons, and from thence had these names. And the Poets spoke of them to adorn and imbellish their Poems withal, according to common opinion; not that either they themselves believed the things to be so done, as the Vulgar believed, nor to give credit to such false Fables and impossibilities; but to make their Poems more delectable and welcome to the common people, who are usually taken with such fond Romantick stories and lyes. But after the year 1300. when the Spanish Inquisitors, the Popish Doctors and Writers had found the sweetness and benefit of the confiscated Goods of those that they had caused to be accused and condemned for Witches, in their sense then these words either in the Greek or Latine were wrested to signifie a Witch that made a visible and corporeal League with the Devil, when in the true sense of them they did but signifie a secret Poysoner. So that all things were hurried, though never so improper and dissonant, to be made serviceable to their filthy