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410 of the Latin, or artificium; in French maistrise, mestier, mestrie, and in Italian, magisterio, with the same sense ."—.

"Niderus," says Heywood, (Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, p. 475), "speaketh of one Œniponte, a most notorius witch, who, by making a picture of wax, and pricking it with needles in divers parts, and then burying it under the threshold of her neighbour's house, whom she much hated, she was tormented by such grievous and insufferable prickings in her flesh, as if so many needles had been then sticking at once in her body. But the image being found and burned, she was instantly restored to her former health and strength."

These kind of tales are innumerable, and appear to have been most implicitly believed.

This an Eastern fiction, and is thus told in the "Turkish Tales."