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Rh way with, without Mercy, as a Plague to Mankind, and not deemed worthy to live.

Moreover the Angekkuts abue the People's Credulity, making them believe, that they can cure all orts of Dieaes; though they apply uch Remedies, as have no vertue in them to cure, uch as muttering of Spells, and blowing upon the ick Bodies; wherein they reemble, to a Hair, thoe Conjurers, of which the Prophet Iaiah peaks, in the 8th Chapter, Vere 19.

And if by Chance any one, who has been under thee Jugglers Hands, recovers, they do not fail to acribe it to the vertue of their juggling Tricks. At Times they ue this Way of curing the Sick; they lay him upon his Back, and tie a Ribbon, or a String, round his Head, having a Stick fatened to the other End of the String, with which they lift up the ick Body's Head from the Ground, and let it down again; and at every Lift he communes with his Torgak, or familiar Spirit, about the State of the Pa- 2