Book IT.

any thing elfe j then the name of the fpirit is to be written therein with his character, according to the exigency of the experiment, either by writing it with blood, or otherwife uSing a perfume agreeable to the fpirit. Like- wife we are often to make orations and prayers to God and the good angels before we invocate any evil fpirit, conjuring him by divine power.
In fome former parts of our work we have taught how and by what means the foul is joined to the body.
We will in this place inform thee farther, that thofe fouls do ftill love their relinquished bodies after death, a certain affinity alluring them as it were. Such are the fouls of noxious men who have violently relinquished their bodies, and fouls wanting a due burial, which Still wander in a liquid and turbulent fpirit about their dead carcafles ; for thefe fouls, by the known means by which they were joined to their bodies, by the like vapours, li- quors, and favours, are eaffiy drawn into them.
Hence it is that the fouls of the dead are not to be called up without blood or by the application of fome part of their relid: body.
In the rai/ing therefore of thefe Shadows, we are to perfume with new blood the bones of the dead, and with fleffi, eggs, milk, honey, and oil, which furniSh the foul with a medium apt to receive its body.
It is likewife to be underftood, thofe who are deSirous to raife any fouls of the dead, ought to feled thofe places wherein thefe kind of fouls are mod: known to be converfant ; or by fome alliance alluring the fouls into their forfaken bodies, or by fome kind of affedion in times paft impreffied in them in their life, drawing the fouls to certain places, things, or perfons ; or by the forcible nature of fome place fitted and prepared to purge or punifh thefe fouls : which places, for the moft part, are to be known by the appearance of vi- sions, nightly incurfions, and apparitions.
Therefore the places moft fitting for thefe things are church-yards. And better than them are thofe places devoted to the executions of criminal judg- ments ; and better than thefe are thofe places where, of late years, there have been fo great and fo many public Slaughters of men j and that place is ftill better than thofe where fome dead carcafs that came by violent death is
not