Compendium of Witches (Compendium Maleficarum)

[the magician] devoured the rods. They, too, turned water into blood, but once changed, they could not restore it to its original nature. They also produced frogs, but they could not remove them from the houses of the Egyptians. They had the power to harass the Egyptians, but they had no power to heal the affliction; indeed, God afflicted their own bodies with sores more than those of the rest, so that it might become manifest from this: not only were they unable to inhibit the punishments divinely inflicted, but they also suffered the same punishments as the others.

Examples.

a Suidas, from Appion, under the word "peace." It is read that Paseres the Magician used certain incantations to make a sumptuous banquet appear suddenly; conversely, when it pleased him, everything would vanish. He was also accustomed to buying things and counting out the price, but soon the coins were seen to have returned secretly from the seller to the buyer.

a Book 2 of the Recognitions, and Book 6 of the Apostolic Constitutions. We read many other things about Simon Magus the sorcerer mentioned in the New Testament in the works of Saint Clement of Rome. He is said to have created a new man out of air, whom he made invisible to whomever he wished; he passed through rocks as if they were mud; he animated statues; when placed in fire, he did not burn; he showed himself having two faces, like another Janus; he transformed himself into a sheep or a goat; he was lifted into the air and flew; he suddenly produced much gold; he could make kings and cast them down; he ordered a scythe to go and reap, and it obeyed him and reaped tenfold more than the others. The same man, when the harlot Selene was once in a certain tower and a huge multitude had run to see her, and that multitude and a circle of bystanders had surrounded the tower, he caused her to be seen by all the people simultaneously through every window of that tower, and she appeared to be bowing down.

b q. 23, in Holy Scripture. Anastasius of Nicaea says: b Simon Magus made statues walk, and when he rolled in fire, he was not burned; he flew in the air, and he made bread out of stones; he became a serpent and was transformed into various other beasts; he had two faces; he changed himself into gold; at banquets, he displayed specters of every kind; he caused many shadows to follow him, which he said were the souls of the dead; he made vessels in houses appear as if they were moving of their own accord to serve those who were not even seen carrying them.

Book 23. Dubravius narrates that Ziton the Bohemian Magician, showing his art, presented himself to the King now with his own face and stature, now with another's; he also appeared in purple and silk, and immediately after in wool and filthy rags. While walking on the ground, he himself moved as if sailing on water. Sometimes he followed carriages drawn by horses while tied to his carriage by domestic roosters. Moreover, he mocked the King's guests in various ways: sometimes he transformed their hands into the feet of oxen so they could not reach for their plates, and sometimes into the hooves