Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ^9 ) O T CONCERNING GENII O R Familiar Spirits. AVING fome Years fince published a Book of Genii, or Familiar Spirits, I fhall here give you a few fhort Notes relating to them. Lomeierus, in his Book, De Veterum Gen- tilum Luflrationibus, c. u. where he writes of vifible Appearances of the Gods of the Gentiles, fets down a Paffage we have in Heliodorus, JEth. 1. 3. where Cala-» jhis tells Cnemon, that he had feen Apollo and Diana, not in a Dream, but really ; and adds. The Gods and Deities, Cnemon, as they come to us, and go from us* transform themfelves, for the moft part, into a human Shape ; but very rarely into that of other Animals. And tho> they are not feen by the Prophane, they can** not efcape being known by the Wife : for they may be difcerned by their Eyes, they having always a fted« fall Look, and never doling their Eye-lids. And they ’ are