lucre and avaritious self-endedness. _Templum venale Deúsq;_. 6. Lastly, For Witchcraft they used the Latine _Fascinum_ and _Fascinatio_, and so they called a Witch _Fascinator_ and _Fascinatrix_, and this the Greeks called Βασκανίον, Βασκανία, _Fascinum_, _Fascinatio_, also _invidia, odium, seu invidentia_, ἀπὸ τοῦ Βασκανεῖν, _à fascinando, seu oculis occidendo_: the Germans call it =Zaubery=, and =Verzauberung=, and sometimes =Hexenwerk=; the French _Ensorcellement_ and _Sorcelerie_; the Italians _Lestrigare & amaliare_, _amaliamento_; the Belgicks =Betoovenge=: the Saxons called them and it Ƿɩcce and Ƿɩcce-cꞃeeꝼꞇ, from whence we have the name Witch and Witchcraft, that signified _Saga_, _Venefica_, _Lamia_, and _Fascinum_, _Magia_, _Incantatio_, _Fascinatio_, _Præstigium_: of which (because we shall have occasion to speak more of it hereafter) we shall here only note these few things. [Sidenote: _Vid. Alexand. Aphrod. lib. 2. Probl. 53._] 1. It is taken sometimes for Envy and Malice, because those that were supposed to use Fascination, did direct it to one Creature more than another through their envious minds, as may be perceived by some few Authors: And so was accounted a kind of eye-biting whereby (as the Vulgar believed) children did wax lean, and pined away, the original whereof they referred to the crooked and wry looks of malicious persons, never examining the truth of the matter of fact, whether those children that pined away, had any natural disease or not, that caused that macilency or pining away; nor considered, whether or no there was any efficiency in the envy or wry looks of those malicious persons, but vainly ascribed effects to those things that had in them no causality at all to produce such effects. [Sidenote: _Eclog. 3._] 2. Sometimes this kind of Fascination was ascribed to the sore or infected eyes of those that were accounted causers of hurt thereby in others, and in this sense _Virgil_ saith: _Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos_. And by this no more could be understood, but that those that had infected and sore eyes might infect others, and this was nothing but contagion, or corrupt steams issuing from one body to another, which may happen in many diseases, as is manifest by the Writings of divers learned Physicians, as in bodies infected with the Plague, French Pox, Leprosie, Ophthalmies, and such like. [Sidenote: _Sup. Epist. D. Paul. ad Galat._ _c._ 3.]