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10 To this agreeth that of St. Paul — Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth, but a new creature. [Galatians, vi. 15.]

There is a custome enjoynd by some Witches and Wizards for nocents to leap three times over a rivulet.

And one of mine Acquaintance B. G. Cramer says that he once saw in Germany, in Anhalt, the Boys throwing before an old woman suspected to be a witch, an old used broom in her way, to see whether she would pass over it or no, which if she dos not, take it for a proof to be a witch. — [See p. 25.]

Meibomius hath writt a little Treatise de Usu Plagrorum in revenered. The phantome of Romulus that appeared to Julius Proculus as he walked by a Hedge by moonlight. A single testimony.

We observe it on first of April.

And so it is kept in Germany everywhere.