and the dead, and the World by fire. Amen. _All the aforesaid things being said and done, so far as there shall be need, they shall be repeated, until the possessed person be entirely set free._ _The following which are noted down will be of great assistance, said devoutly over the possessed, and also frequently to repeat the_ Our Father, Hail Mary, _and_ Creed. _The Canticle._ Magnificat. _The Canticle._ Benedictus. _The Creed of S. Athanasius._ _Quicunque vult._ Psalm xci. _Qui habitat._ Psalm lxviii. _Exurgat Deus._ Psalm lxx. _Deus in adjutorium._ Psalm liv. _In Nomine Tuo._ Psalm cxviii. _Confitemini Domino._ Psalm xxxv. _Judica, Domine._ Psalm xxxi. _In Te, Domine, speravi._ Psalm xxii. _Deus, Deus meus._ Psalm iii. _Domini, quid multiplicati?_ Psalm xi. _In Domino confido._ Psalm xiii. _Usque quo, Domine?_ _Each Psalm shall be said with_ Glory be to the Father, &c. _Prayer after being set free._ We pray Thee, O Almighty God, that the spirit of wickedness may have no more power over this Thy servant N. (_or_ Thy handmaid N.), but that he may flee away, and never come back again: at Thy bidding, O Lord, let there come into him (_or_ her) the goodness and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have been redeemed, and let us fear no evil, for the Lord is with us, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. ℟ Amen. WITCHCRAFT AND NECROMANCY. “To deny the possibility, nay actual existence of Witchcraft and Sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament; and the thing itself is a truth to which every Nation in the World hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.”--Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” book iv. chap. iv. p. 61. CHAPTER IV. WITCHCRAFT AND NECROMANCY. Witchcraft is the system of those persons who, through the direct agency of wicked spirits, perform certain acts and deeds beyond the natural and ordinary powers of mankind.[70] On the other hand, Necromancy, according to the definition of Cotgrave, is “divination by conference with dead bodies raised.” In its modern and wider acceptation, the latter is a formal summoning of the spirits of the dead out of the hidden place of their abode--“the desert where they glide,”--in order to consult with them as to the present or future by unlawful means, and to secure their active assistance in supernatural things and practices which are forbidden. The invocation and consultation of evil spirits specially summoned to earth by certain recognized incantations, would be acts of Witchcraft and Necromancy. Of these cases, abundant examples occur both in sacred[71] and profane history.[72]