“And when Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man; and when this was done, the skill and wisdom of Solomon was shown very manifestly.”
In the popular old ballad of Lambert Linkin,[201] rings give proof of a terrible coming event by bursting upon the fingers:
“The Lord sat in England
A drinking the wine.
“I wish a’ may be weel
Wi’ my lady at hame;
For the rings o’ my fingers
They’re now burst in twain.