ABSTRACT
THE picture above displays succinctly the power that wizards and sorcerers have to influence the elements, when they have put spells on them either by their own hand or by another’s in order to regulate the natural order and make it milder or harsher. I would first like to say this: that Finland, the northernmost land, together with Lappland, was once during pagan times as learned in witchcraft as if it had had Zoroaster the Persian for its instructor in this damnable science; yet the other peoples by the Ocean, too, such as the Britons (as Pliny certifies in 173Bk XXX, Ch. I), 1 were said to be bewitched by this madness, so franticall does the whole world, having much the same attitude to this and similar evil practices, indulge in the art of sorcery.
Britain
Whole world of one mind
