Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions ... / [John White].

  • John White
Date:
1716?]
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Credit: Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions ... / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vite into a Pafte, and divide them into fmal} pieces bigger than grains of Wheat, and then caft handfuls in: at once into the Water where is ftore of Fifh, and you: fhall prefently fee them drunk. 2 To make one watching Candle outlaft three. : Take a Pail or Bucket, and fill it full of Water, andi fet it inthe place where you intend that your Light fhall ftands then take your Candle and warm it at thee lower end, and there ftick a brafs Farthing Token, ort fuchlike ; and when you will light your Candle, putt it gently down into the middle of the Water, (but be: fure that the bottom of the Candle do not touch thee bottom ofthe Pail) andthen it will fwim upright tcc the very edge near the light: The reafon that thee Candle will laft fo long, is caufed by the coldnefs 0» - the Water; and thisisa fafe way that no Rat can rurs - away with the Candle lighted, asi have heard thai - they have done, and endanger’d the Houle with Fires To write any Name upon a Paper, and then‘burn it -to ; Ajhes, yet afterward it may be read plainly. -. Take a new.clean Pen that was never writ with, ancd gipin your own Water as you do in Ink, then ftripuyy ~ your Shirt-fleeve above your Wrift, and upon yous Arm write your Name, or any Name, or any Markk, ahd then let i¢ dry on your Skin, and nothing will bx feen, then put down your Sleeve and: button you - Wrift; do this privately, and it will caufe fome wor ~ der then take a piece of white Paper and write you Name, or the Mark thereon with another Pen of blacc ~ Tok, (but let it be written as like the other as you cate then take the Paper and burn it, and lay the Afhee ona Table, and ftriping upyour Sleeve, rub the A thee hard with your Finger, where you had_written witt _. your.Water, then blow off the Athes, and the Natth or Mark will plainly be read on your Arm in blae Letters. / | Sa To vier the back-part of your Head by Glaffes. If you would behold the back-part, or fhadow - yolir Head for a Wound, or the like, take a ee | gles we <p?
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