human, who are not worthy to be called a human, who give belief to such hideous lies, and yet daily see before your eyes so many examples of how so very often and many a time the hail strikes into the churches, sometimes even destroys an altar, which often happens in magical thunderstorms. And the devil and all evil spirits often let themselves be seen and heard in these places, more than can be said. Thus, Nigromancia necromancy with its ceremonies is a bag of jugglery and a Tiriakus medicine/thériac stall, with which one opens the mouth of the onlookers and the ignorant, blinds the eyes, and lures the money out of the purse, and yet everything is not worth a penny. Therefore, the ceremonies are dragged in and used, as the Jew Salomonis Solomon wrote in his book, which the Nigromantici necromancers call clanculum Salomonis secret of Solomon. For God does not want it; He has given us another in its place, that is the faith that perfectly sanctifies all things. Although I do not want to reject all sanctification here, but only those which the ceremonial spirits use. But in the magical medicaments, it is not gainsaid, and primarily the consecration of the sacraments, of marriage, of baptism, of the body and blood of Christ on the altar, shall be held high and firm until the coming of the last day, when we shall all first be perfectly sanctified and clarified with the heavenly body.

On Conjurations.

But to speak of conjurations, it is first necessary to set forth whence they come, and who first found and used them, and what their foundation is, and what has been accomplished through them, and how they have come into such great and unspeakable abuse more and more. You should hear from these that conjurations first arose and took their origin in Babilonia Babylon and in that same kingdom, spread further and further, then also came into Egipten Egypt, then upon the Israeliter Israelites, and finally upon us Christians. And among the Nigromanticis necromancers, they are so common and