ABSTRACT
The Discoverie of Witchcraft vender and haie among other horsses, being himselfe turned into an horssc. Yea he verificth the starkest lie that ever was invented, of the two alewives that used to transforme all their ghcsts into horsses, and to sell them awaie at markets and faires. And therefore I saie with Cardanus, that how much Augustin saith he hath seen with his eies, so much I am content to beleeve. Howbeit S. Augustin concludeth against Bodin. For he afli.rmeth these transubstantiations to be but fantasticall, and that they are not according to the veritie, but according to the appearance. And yet I cannot allow of such appearances made by witches, or yet by divels: for I find no such power given by God to any creature. And I would wit ofS. Augustine, where they became, whom Bodins transformed woolves devoured. But
o quam Credula mens lwminis, & erutac fabu/is aures!
