FOR the _Longing_ of a _Woman_ that has conceiv’d, acts apparently upon _Another’s Body_, when it _marks_ the _Infant_ in her WOMB with the _Figure_ or MARK of the _Thing long’d for_: Besides, who knows not that _one Body_ may be easily affected with the _Vapours_ of _another_ diseased Body? As is plain in Cases of _Plague_, _Leprosy_, and several other _Distempers_. Thus also in the _Effluvia’s_ or _Vapours_ of the EYES, there is so great a _Power_, that they can bewitch and infect the _Beholders_ about them; as the monstrous _Catoblepas_, and _Cockatrice_ or _Basilisk_, kill People with their very _Looks_[45]. So in like manner _Witches_ by their intent Desire to _hurt_, have been thought to bewitch Persons most perniciously by their steady malicious _Looks_ only, directed and inforc’d by _IMAGINATION_. NOW this Force of _IMAGINATION_ affecting other _Bodies_, holds good even among _Brute-Creatures_; as One bit by a _Mad Dog_, presently falls a-raging, and the LIKENESS of _Dogs_ is clearly impressed upon his _Urine_. Moreover, by _IMAGINATION_ in time of _copulating_, PEACOCKS and other _Birds_, impress a particular _Colour_ upon the _Wings_, &c. of their Brood; and from hence it is, that the Curious may have store of _white young-ones_, by hanging the _Places_ where they _couple_ with white _Linnen-Cloths_, _Papers_, &c: As in _Snowy_ Mountainous Countries we find always _white Peacocks_, _Quails_, _Wolves_, _Hares_, and other _Creatures_. AND _This_ holy JACOB[46] was not ignorant of, when he used that ingenious subtile _Stratagem_ of placing _white-streaked Rods_ before LABAN’S _Flocks_; which also answer’d effectually, in the _Cattle_’s producing their _speckled and white spotted Young_. In like manner by the same _Experiment_, the curious Admirers may be supply’d with Variety of _spotted Birds_, _speckled Horses_, _Dogs_, &c. THE _Mind_ also being inflam’d with a vehement _IMAGINATION_, may affect both the _Soul_ and _Body_ of ANOTHER: Which we need not wonder at, considering how much more powerful, fervent, and prevalent the MIND is in its _Motion_, than any exhaling VAPOURS; and that it does not want its proper and peculiar _Mediums_ by which it may operate. THIS (I think) is also evidently shewn from the many MIRACLES, which we find have been done by _Prophets_, _Apostles_, and other _Holy Men_; (not to mention those _Wonders_ of _Pythagoras_, _Apollonius_, _Empedocles_, &c. which cannot come in Competition with the _Others_, being ascrib’d to _Natural Causes_): Whose _Minds_ being firmly fix’d upon GOD, with full Intent for _Good_, affected both the SOULS and BODIES of _others_, as well as _Themselves_, with what _Divine Gifts_, or other _Blessings_, they wanted.