[570] Nightmare was considered to be the work of an evil spirit.
[571] Plin., xxx. 30.
[572] See the twenty-second and twenty-fourth books of Pliny’s Natural History.
[573] Lib. ix. cap. 4, p. 538, Ed. 1556.
[574] Galen de Facult. Simpl., lib. vi. p. 792, Ed. Kühn.
[575] “A Gnostic device. See Montfauçon, plates 159, 161, 163.”
[576] This also is Gnostic.
[577] Mr. Cockayne considers this to be probably Gnostic; some of the words are pure nonsense.
[578] Quoted by Mr. Cockayne in his Saxon Leechdoms, vol. i., Preface, pp. xviii., xix., xx.
[579] Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 2, sec. 5.