[663]. The same idea is found among many savages. In a certain tribe referred to by Dr. Tylor, “The dancing of women by demoniacal possession is treated ... by the doctor thrashing them soundly with a stick, the demon, and not the patient, being considered to feel the blows.”—Primitive Culture, ii. p. 124.
[664]. See, for instance. Abbot Richalmus, capud xxvi. De efficacia salis et aquae.
[665]. D. H. Tuke, History of the Insane, p. 21.
[666]. In many ancient drawings they are depicted blown from the mouth, little black monsters mingled in a cloud; there were other manners of egress.
[667]. The Scarlet Letter, chap. iv.
[668]. The people even of those early days, say Maury, “bien qu’attribuant la folie à une cause imaginaire n’en avaient pas moins connu que c’était une véritable maladie.”—La Magie, p. 309.
[669]. Chap. xxxvii. London, 1542.
[670]. Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
[671]. W. Besant, London in the Eighteenth Century, p. 536.
[672]. W. E. H. Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, vi. p. 257. London, 1887.