Agrippa lib. 1. cap. 48. occult. philos. attributes much in this kind to Philters, Amulets, Images: and Salmutz com. in Pancirol. Tit. 10. de Horol. Leo Afer lib. 3. saith, ’tis an ordinary practice at Fez in Africk, Præstigiatores ibi plures, qui cogunt amores & concubitus: as skilful all out as that Hyperborean Magitian, of whom Cleodemus in Lucian, tells so many fine feats, perform’d in this kind.

But Erastus, Wierus, and others are against it; they grant indeed such things may be done, but (as Wierus discourseth, lib. 3. de Lamiis cap. 37.) not by Charms, Incantations, Philters, but the Divel himself; lib. 5. cap. 2. he contends as much; So doth Freitagius noc. med. cap. 74. Andreas Cisalpinus cap. 5. and so much Sigismundus Schereczius cap. 9. de hirco nocturno, proves at large.

Unchast women by the help of these witches, the Divels kitchin maids, have their loves brought to them in the night, and carried back again by a phantasm flying in the air in the likeness of a Goat. I have heard (saith he) dyvers confess, that they have been so carried on a Goats back to their sweet hearts, many miles in a night.

Others are of opinion that these feats, which most suppose to be done by Charms and Philters, are meerly effected by natural causes, as by mans blood Chimically prepared, which much avails saith Ernestus Burgravius, in Lucernâ vitæ & mortis indice, ad amorem conciliandum & odium, (so huntsmen make their dogs love them, and farmers their pullen) ’tis an excellent Philter as he holds, sed vulgo prodere grande nefas, but not fit to be made common:

and so be Mala insana, Mandrake roots, Mandrake apples, pretious stones, dead mens cloaths, candles, mala Bacchica, panis porcinus, Hippomanes, a certain hair in a Wolfs tail, &c. of which Rhasis, Dioscorides, Porta, Wecker, Rubeus, Mizaldus, Albertus treate: a swallows heart, dust of a Doves heart, multum valent linguæ viperarum, cerebella asinorum, tela equina, palliola quibus infantes obvoluti nascuntur, funis strangulati hominis, lapis de nido Aquilæ, &c.

See more in Skenkius observat. medicinal. lib. 4. &c. which are as forcible and of as much vertue, as that fountain Salmacis in Vitruvius, Ovid, Strabo, that made all such mad for love that drank of it, or that hot Bath at Aix in Germany, wherein Cupid once dipt his arrows, which ever since hath a peculiar vertue to make them lovers all that wash in it. But hear the Poets own description of it,

Unde hic fervor aquis terrâ erumpentibus udâ? Tela olim hic ludens ignea tinxit Amor; Et gaudens stridore novo, Fervete perennes Inquit, & hæc pharetræ sint monumenta meæ. Ex illo fervet, rarusque hic mergitur hospes, Cui non titillet pectora blandus amor.

These above-named remedies have happily as much power as that bath of Aix, or Venus inchanted girdle, in which saith Natalis Comes, Love toies and dalliance, pleasantness, sweetness, perswasions, subtilties, gentle speeches and all witchcraft to enforce love, was contained. Read more of these in Agrippa de occult. Philos. lib. 1. cap. 50. & 45. Malleus malefic. part. 1. quæst. 7. Delrio tom. 2. quest. 3. lib. 3. Wierus, Pomponatius cap. 8. de incantat. Ficinus lib. 13. Theol. Plat. Calcagninus, &c.