CHAPTER LIV. The Gift or Art of interpreting Dreams--Official Interpreters of Dreams--Sleep, how portrayed--Goddess of Dreams--Greeks soliciting the Inspiration of Dreams--Xenophon on Sleep--Prophetic Power of the Dying--Æsculapius's Discoveries in Dreams--Code of Menu--The Soma-drink--Josephus as a Seer--Dreadful Proposal by Josephus--His Fortunate Escape--An Eastern Conjuror--Reading a Sealed Letter--A Sultan warned of his Death in a Dream--Alexander's Death foretold in a Dream--Records of Dreams in Westminster Abbey--Lord Falkland's Dream--Rev. John Brown's Opinions--Early Christian Faith in Visions and Dreams--Death of a Friend foretold--The Devil's Sonata--Marriage of Queen Mary--Fatality of the Stuart Family--Death of Henry IV. of France 469 CHAPTER LV. Dreaming Dictionaries--Dreaming of an Anchor--Sick Persons--Raiment--Fruit--Funerals--Dreams sometimes to be read contrariwise--Dreaming of Darkness--Jewellery--Losing and finding Property--Fowls and Eggs--Flying--Bagpipes, Dancing, and Banquets--Dreaming of Animals, Cakes, Corn, and Milk--Dreaming of Carrying and of being Carried--Angels, Spirits, and Children--Clergymen and Churches--A Broken Watch or Clock--Clouds--Falling--Flowers and Fruit--Sailors' Dreams--Running Streams and Still Water--Ploughed Ground and Green Fields--Presents--Glass, Hair, Fire, Cold, Tooth, Kisses, and Knives--Leaping, Climbing, and Writing--Linen--The Sun, Moon, and Stars, Rainbow, Snow, Thunder, and Lightning 475 * * * * * LAWS AGAINST AND TRIALS OF WITCHES. CHAPTER LVI. Witchcraft treated with Severity--Cutting out the Tongue--Laws of Æthelstane--Witchcraft in England--Royal Writers--Sir Edward Cole's Opinion--Statute of Elizabeth against Sorcerers--Law of Mary Queen of Scotland against Witches--Law against Witches abolished--Sir George Mackenzie on Witchcraft--Extracts from Forbes's _Institute of the Law of Scotland_--Sir Matthew Hale a Believer in Witchcraft--Trial of Rose Cullender and Ann Duny--Punishment of Witches, by whom first countenanced--Pope John's Bull--Bishop Jewell--Lord Bacon and the Law against Witches--Fearful Slaughter of supposed Witches--_Malleus Maleficarum_, or Hammer for Witches--The last Persons executed in Scotland and England for Witchcraft--First German Printers condemned to be burned as Sorcerers--Reginald Scot on the Fables of Witchcraft--Mr. E. Chambers's Views of Witchcraft 482 CHAPTER LVII.