[64] Buffoons, clowns.
[65] About 62½ cents.
[66] About twenty-five dollars; but the purchasing power of money was then seven or eight times what it is now.
[67] Strictly speaking, this word means "love potions."
[68] Exorcism is the act of expelling evil spirits, or the formula used in the act. Defoe's use of the word here is careless and inaccurate.
[69] Bits of metal, parchment, etc., worn as charms.
[70] Making the sign of the cross.
[71] Paper on which were marked the signs of the zodiac,—a superstition from astrology.
[72] A meaningless word used in incantations. Originally the name of a Syrian deity.
[73] Iesus Hominum Salvator ("Jesus, Savior of Men"). The order of the Jesuits was founded by Ignatius de Loyola in 1534.