And yet I must enter a Caveat here too, against being misunderstood in my saying the Devil stands in no need of Agents; for when I speak so, I am to be taken in a limited Sense; I don't say he needs them no where, but only that he does not need them in those polite Parts of the World which I have been speaking of, and perhaps not much here; but in many remote Countries 'tis otherwise still; the _Indians_ of _America_ are particularly said to have Witches among them, as well in those Countries where the _Spaniards_ and the _English_ and other Nations have planted themselves, as amongst those where the _European_ Nations seldom come: _for Example_, the People of _Canada_, that is, of the Countries under the _French_ Government of _Quebeck_, the Equimeaux, and other Northern Climates, have Magicians, Wizards and Witches, who they call _Pilloatas_ or _Pillotoas_; these pretend they speak intimately and familiarly with the Devil, and receive from him the Knowledge of Things to come; all which, by the Way, I take to be little more than this; that these Fellows being a little more cunning than the rest, think, that by pretending to something more than human, they shall make the stronger Impressions on the ignorant People; as _Mahomet_ amus'd the World with his Pigeon, using it to pick Peas out of his Ear, and persuaded the People it brought him superior Revelations and Inspirations from Paradise. Thus these _Pillotoas_ gaining an Opinion among the People, behave like so many Mountebanks of Hell, pretending to understand dark Things, cure Diseases, practise Surgery, Physick and Necromancy altogether; I will not say, but _Satan_ may pick out such Tools to work with, and I believe does in those Parts, but I think he has found a nearer Way to the Wood with us, and that is sufficient to my present Purpose. Some would persuade me the _Devil_ had a great Hand in the late religious Breaches in _France_, among the Clergy, (_viz._) about the Pope's Constitution _Unigenitus_, and that he made a fair Attempt to set the Pope and the _Gallican_ Church together by the Ears, for they were all just upon the Point or breaking out into a Church War, that for ought we knew might have gone farther than the _Devil_ himself car'd it should; now I am of the quite contrary Opinion, I believe the _Devil_ really did not make the Breach, but rather heal'd it, for fear it should have gone so far among them as to have set them all in a Flame, and have open'd the Door to the Return of the _Hugonots_ again, which it was in a fair Way to have done. But be it one Way or t'other, the historical Part seems to be a little against me; for 'tis certain, the _Devil_ both wanted and made Use of Legions of Agents, as well human as infernal, visible and invisible in that great and important Affair, and we cannot doubt but he has innumerable Instruments still at work about it.