Chapter 16
M. B. I am glad we agree on that point; I hope we shall in
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the rest. What say you to this? That the witches have their
spirits. Some hath one; some hath more, as two, three, four,
or five. Some in one likeness and some in another, as like
cats, weasels, toads, or mice, whom they nourish with milk or
with a chicken, or by letting them suck now and then a drop
of blood, whom they call if they be offended with any, and
send them to hurt them in their bodies, yea, to kill them,
and to kill their cattle.
DANIEL. Here is great deceit, and great illusion; here the
Devil leadeth the ignorant people into foul errors, by which
he draweth them headlong into many grievous sins.
