Among the multitude of texts, those most relied upon were Matthew viii, 28, and Luke x, 17; and for the use of fetiches in driving out evil spirits, the account of the cures wrought by touching the garments of St.Paul in Acts xix, 12.

On the general subject, see authorities already given, and as a typical passage, Tertullian, Ad.Scap., ii.
For the very gross view taken by St.Basil, see Cudworth, Intellectual System, vol.ii, p.

648; also Archdeacon Farrar's Life of Christ.

For the case related by St.Gregory the Great with comical details, see the Exempla of Archbishop Jacques de Vitrie, edited by Prof.T.F.Crane, of Cornell University, p.

59, art.cxxx.For a curious presentation of Greek views, see Lelut, Le demon Socrate, Paris, 1856; and for the transmission of these to Christianity, see the same, p.