being just of the materials out of which saints are manufactered

Peter Loyola Loyeoro, another Romanist authority, in his work on spectres, mentions, from Elian Phegontes, a freed man of the Emperor Adrian, that, in the time of the latter, a certain person, by name Demonstrates, had, by his wife Charity, a beautiful daughter, called Philinion. The damsel sickened and died, and her parents, with great sorrow, embalmed her and buried her. About this time, a young man, named Machates, came to the house of the bereaved parents, and, after supper, retired to rest. In the middle of the night the deceased Philinion entered his room, conversed with him, and remained with him till cockcrow, the ligitimate period for spirits to betake themselves off. However, before she left him she gave him, as a token of her affection, a costly ring off her finger, and the rich stomacher in which she had been buried. He, not to be behind-hand with her, gave her in exchange an iron ring and a richly chased silver and gilt cup, the lady promising, 'ere she departed, to visit him again the next night.

Now it so happened that a maid servant, with the inherent curiosity of her sex, having heard voices in Machates' chamber, had peeped through a chink of the door, and had seen the

pair seated most lovingly at supper, and had further heard Philinion's promise to return the next night. She incontinently told the mother that her daughter had come to life again, and that she would see her the next night in Machates' chamber. The good lady therefore watched her opportunity and, rushing into the room next night, embraced her resuscitated daughter amidst a shower of tears. Ghosts, however, never stand the presence of a third party, and the dutiful Philinion, after a volley of abuse against her mother for the unseasonable interruption, fell a stark and stiff corpse upon the floor.

This wonderful occurrence was soon noised abroad, and came to the ears of the Stadtholder and the Council, who forthwith proceeded to the grave of the deceased Philinion, which they had opened in her presence, and, behold, it was found untenanted, and nothing therein but the iron ring and the goblet, thereby affording a convincing proof of the wicked machinations of the Devil.

Our author here cautions people against entertaining a belief that deceased persons can really again appear, stating that, whenever such apparitions occur, the Devil has animated the corpse and taken possession of it for his own. purposes, which are to induce the living to sin,

and then gives us another anecdote as follows:"Ganfredins Antiscodus, in the twenty-sixth chapter of his third book, and Ulric Molitor, in his pamphlet upon Witches and Sorcerers, Dialogue the Seventh, relates a wonderful story which they both affirm to be true, and mentioned to them by a young man of very noble birth and an excellent swimmer, as having occurred to himself. It It appears that he was bathing in the sea by moonlight, and seized a woman that swam after him, by the hair of the head, supposing that it was one of his companions, who intended to duck him. He addressed her, but could not obtain a syllable in reply, and swam to shore with her; gallantly lending her his cloak as a covering, the lady being destitute of a wardrobe, took her home with him, and, finally, openly and honorably married her.

"Now this young man might have led an exceedingly quiet life with his new wife, seeing that she continued as dumb as she was the first day of their acquaintance, (although it is not explained how she managed to get through the responses of the marriage service without speaking,) had not one of his companions, probably excited to jealousy by his peaceable life, taunted him with having married a spirit. Being exceedingly enraged at the taunt, he drew his

sword and threatened to the slay the son he had by her outright, unless she spoke, and declared her origin. 6 Hereon she exclaimed, Alas! wretched man that thou art, for compelling me to speak, for thereby thou hast destroyed thy wife. I would have remained with thee and done thee much good, hadst thou allowed me to maintain the silence enjoined upon me; but now thou shalt see me no more.' Whereon she vanished. The lad, however, grew apace, and began to bathe in the sea, until one day, whilst so amusing himself, he was suddenly carried away by his mother, in the sight of several people."-Ganfred. Antiscod. p. 1161.

One more anecdote will conclude this Chapter. Not far from R- -, on the Tauber, there came into a married man's house one in appearance like a nobleman, with two servants, one of whom could play on the violin and the other on the fife. This individual gave out that he was come to demand the hand of his host's beautiful daughter in marriage. A banquet was prepared, and they feasted right merrily, the bridegroom elect comporting himself most loverlike. Something, however, aroused the good man's suspicions that all was not right, and he told his guest that it was unseemly that a man of his rank should wed so

much beneath him, and that he had better seek a bride elsewhere. As, however, the guest would by no means consent to forego his intention, his host sent for a priest to ply him with the Holy Scriptures, which angered the other exceedingly, who said that other topics than these should be introduced on such a festive occasion.

Up then stood the host and said, "Ye are villains, and our enemies: ye are come to injure me and mine; but, by God's blessing, ye shall not succeed: we are baptized and believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is able to protect us against all your power and cunning." Immediately, the three wretches vanished, leaving a marvellously foul smell behind them, and on the floor remained three bodies which had been stolen from the neighbouring gallows.