Here are some for energumens, for the bewitched; here are some against love-philtres and against the plague; against spells cast on comestibles; some, even, to keep butter and milk sweet.

That isn't odd.

The Devil entered into everything in the good old days.

And what can this be ?" In his hand he held two little volumes with crimson edges, bound in fawn-coloured calf.
He opened them and looked at the title, _The anatomy of the mass_, by Pierre du Moulin, dated, Geneva, 1624.

"Might prove interesting." He went to warm his feet, and hastily skimmed through one of the volumes.
"Why!" he said, "it's mighty good." On the page which he was reading was a discussion of the priesthood.