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170 the mallet fly hould be drawn in by their breath. They are o exccedingly crupulous in this repect, that they will not burn wood, through an apprehenion of detroying any infect by, it; and they always carry a bruh in their hands to weep the place they deign to it on, let they hould dilodge the oul of ome animal, Their crupuloity aries from a belief in the tranmigration of fouls, and their followers are o firmly peruaded that departed ouls enter the bodies of animals, that they no ooner oberve any of them frequent their houes, than they immediately conclude, their deceaed friends, under this new diguie, come to viit them. They cannot without, ror,