The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

There saw I Coll Tregetour,

Upon a table of sycamour,

Play an uncouthe thynge to tell;

I sawe hym cary a wynde-mell

Under a walnote shale. [658]

III.—THE JOCULATORS' PERFORMANCES ASCRIBED TO MAGIC.

Chaucer attributes these illusions to the practice of natural magic. Thus the Squire, in his Tale, says,

An appearance made by some magyke,

As jogglours playen at their festes grete.