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54 XVII. Bladud, the ſon of Lud, king of Britain, (now called England,) who, as our late hiſtories report, built the city of Bath, and likewiſe made the baths therein; this king addicted himſelf ſo much to the deviliſh art of necromancy, that he wrought wonders thereby, inſomuch, that he made himſelf wings, attempted to fly (as is related of Dedalus) but the devil, who was always a deceiver, forſook him in his flight, ſo that he fell down and broke his neck.—Beard's Theatre.

XVIII Philip Melancthon reporteth, that he had an account from two men of good credit and repute, that a certain young woman of Botonia, two years after her death, returned again in human ſhape, and went up and down the houſe, and ſat at meat with them, but eat little; this young woman being one time in company among other virgins, a magician came into the place, who being ſkilful in diabolical arts, he told the people about her, That that woman was but a dead carcaſe, carried about by the devil; and preſently he took from under her right arm-pit the charm; which he had no ſooner done, but ſhe fell down a dead carcaſe.—''Phil. Melanct.''

XIX. Not long ſince at Stetin, an univerſity of Pomerania, there was a young ſtudent, who, upon ſome diſcontent, gave himſelf to the devil, and made a bond upon the contract; which, that it might not come to the knowledge of any, he laid up in one of his books; but it pleaſed God ſome time after that another ſtudent wanting that book upon ſome occaſion, knew not where to get it, at laſt he remembered that ſuch an one had it, and thereupon went to him, and borrowed it of him; the young man having forgotten that he had put his bond into it: the other, when he came home, began to turn over