CHAP. XVII.
Witch-mongers reasons, to prove that witches can worke wonders, Bodins tale of a Friseland priest transported, that imaginations pro∣ceeding of melancholy do cause illusions.* 1.1
OLd M. Malificarum also saith, that the counsels and doctors were all deceived herein, and alledging authority therefore, confuteth that opinion by a notable reason, called Petitio principii, or rather, Ignotum per ignotius, in this manner: They can put changelings in the place of other children; Ergo they can tranferre and tran••forme▪ them∣selves and others, &c. according ••o their confession in that behalfe. Item he saith, and Bodin justifieth it, that a priest in Friseland was corporally transferred into a fa••re country, as witnessed a••o••her priest of Oberdorf his companion, who saw him aloft in the air: Ergo saith M. ••al. they have all been deceived hitherto; to the great impunity of horrible witches. Wherein he opposeth his folly against God and his church, against the truth, and against all possibility. But surely •• is almost incredible, how imagination shall abuse such as a•••• subject unto melancholy; so as they shall beleeve they see, hear, and do that, which never was nor shall be; as is partly declared, if you read Galen de locis affectis, and may more