The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand.

Balthasar Bekker

Date:: 1695

Credit: The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$64 The World Bewitch'd. the Feaft and Working days, and that they rule the whole conduct of their Lives, upon the difpofition of Time. To that end there are Printed every year two forts of Almanacks made in the Emperor’s name by his own Aftrologers, which contributes +0 fer off this de- lufion for a Truth: there 5 marked every day what % good to be done, or not to be done, and to what hour muft be deferr d, what offers it felf in the intervals of the fortunate, or unlucky moments. Sel. 2. Carolinus has, methinks, made a good Abridgment of what follows in Trigaltius, which other Books, {ays he, befides thofe that more particularly _ treat of this matter, and even, there's a fort of Teachers, which only fubfift from what they get in preforibing hap- py Days and Hours to the Querifis, thé theyhave but a {mall reward for it. They are Jo much bewitcht with thofe predi&tions, that they often deferr an importunate Affair, or along and dangerous Fourney, #1]! they bave found out a Day or Hour of good Omen. And thé it sometimes happens, that at that Day or Hour, there falls a great Rain, or a contrary Wind blows, yet for all that, they begin the undertaking or journey im their perfixed time, flould they only proceed 4 fteps, or dig out byta Basket full of Earth from the place where they intend to lay she Foundation of a Houfe. That wasallo the em- ployment of thofe that were Anciently called Aftro- logers and Mathematicians, of whom we have {po- ken before. Se&. A. They are no lefs fuperftetioufly curtons, in obferving the time of the Birth, to foretel the condstion of the whole courfe of ones Life. Thofe calculators of . ones Nativity, are the fame with the Ancient Geneth- Haci before mentioned, Chap. 3. Sett.4. There are many other Diviners, who boaft of foreteling future things by the Obfervation of the Stars, by the infpettion of the Face, by the Dreams, by the pofture of the enquirer, D is bys 11 wenn Sel been 1, | | |$

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