Kyranides

On the Occult Virtues of

Plants, Animals & Stones
Hermetic & Talismanic Magic

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T H fe

MAG I C K *

K I R° A N I
King of P E R S I A ,

AND OF

H A R P O C l R . A T l b N ;

CONT A INING THE

Magical Mid Medicinal Vertuesof Stones,
Herbs , Fijbes, Beajls and Birds.
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T H fe

MAG ICK »

K I R° A N I
King of P E R S I A ,

AND OF

H A R P O ' C R A T I O N ;

CONTAINING THE

Magical and Medicinal Vermes of Stotiet,

Herbs , Fijhes ± Beajls and Birds.
A
Work much fought for by the Learned,
but feen by few ; (aid to have been
in the Vatie.in-I ibrary in Rome; but not
to be found there, nor in all the Famous <
Libraries of the Empire.

Now Publilhed and Tranllated into Englipn

from a Copy found in a private 1 land.

Printed in the Year M D C L X X X V .

 T O T H E

R E A D E R.
Fter diligent Searth for t;His M ,
having by happy s*cfcWtnt'tfttt'^i!i
it , and procured it forttiuft:;
finite I am minded tt> Cqttimnicltt
it t o thc"Ctutious and W o r t h y , 1 (Ml give
you fortie account o f the Authors, anfltneirl
Work, t h e Authors are Riranvt'AiffBfr. |
pocratiffft. lKiranut was Ring of Pa^.'lc
which Crotvn none but Magicians c^ta-bt
admitted, and*of whidh Kingdom tht fefeoui
Zvroaflrcj'the firft Magitiaii, was. This wotk
of his htfd ^jet^n for many Ages turnedout of1
the P t r f a h \ nto the S j r i a c ^ Arabic^ and
moft E i f t e r n Tongues. H,ir.pocratit»\ as the
Learned arc of opinion, was a Grkm,
There Were ftvcral o f this Name. One of
them wrote a L i x i c o n upon the Ten Gretk
Orators. jfacob/ts Mattjjatus publiftcd hm i
. with Notts and a critical Difcourfe upon
A a him)
 To the Reader.
To the Reader.
l>im j where he mentions feveral Harpocrati-
ons, and among the reft ours, as the Sequel " flic red to Bacchus,, becaufe it defends the
will prove. He is at a mighty lofi about one Har- " Brain from Drunkennefs. But I am afraid
focration-y whom Tertnllian mentions in his;"<; frnall heed is to be given to thefe things,
Book De Corona M/htif. Tertullian's Words! and that Pamelius (peaks as an Ear rather
are thefe } Liberum , e/mdem apud TEgyptiusi " than as an Eyc-witne(s. For I remember I
Oftrin, Harpocration indiiflriH hederatum argit-1 «tcv e r y carefully perufed at Aujpurg a Cata-
mntatur , quod hcder<c natura Jit cerebrum ub' logue of all the Books in the Vatican-Li-
IXIHCO defenfarc. In Englilh thus } Harpocru- " brary, lent me by David Hefchecl/us, with
tion docs argue , that Bacchus , the fame irith " o t h e r Catalogues of Libraries at Aujpurg,
Oliris among the /Egyptians, is pictured with "Bavaria, Vienna, the Emperor's, St. Ma^at
Ivy on purpofe, becaufe it is the nature of Ivy " Venice , and St. Laurence at Florence, and
to defend the Brain from Drunkennefs. Now " I met not with any thing of Harpocration's
Maujj'acus, after he had confuted the Miftakes j " but the Lexicon, neither when I was in the
of feveral Commentators upon thefe words j " Vatican at Rome, to compare the Printed
of Tcrtulliany who would make him to mean " Harpocations with a Manufcript that was
Harpocration that wrote the Lexicon, comes " there , could I meet with any thing be-
to one Commentator, whom he thinks in the " fides concerning him , nor could I learn
right. Thefe arc the Words of Maujj'acus. " any thing from two Grecians, the Father
" jacobus Pamelius, the lalt Commentator up- " and the Son, who had the care of writing
" on Tertullian, has taken another, and a quite " out the Manufcript Books, and who have
" new courfe : For he thinks that Harpocra- " the Catalogue of that Library by heart.
" lion, whom Tertullian mentions, is the fame " B u t I would not have Pamelius therefore
" w i t h him, whole Manufcript Book ifet <pu- | <c rafhly cenfured, nor his Opinion receded
"<mw fwuaLixjtw is kept in the Vatican. And I " f r o m , becaufe perhaps, he did not, as from
" i f we relie on his Credit, Tertullian % words " h i m l e l f , affirm, that Harpocration's Manu-
" may not unfitly be accommodated to that ; " fcript iri£/. fuffinuv tTaoa'juwcov, was in the Va-
" Author, who wrote about the Natural j " titan , but he has been told fo by fome,
"Virtues of things, Gnce it belongs to Na- " either whofe Memory or Honefty failed
t u r a l Philofophy to teach , that th" Ivy is | " them, as by Simlerus, who firft told him in
" facred " h i s Epitome Bibliothec.it Qefneriana ,ct that a
A * Book

±
 To the Reaihr. To the Reader.
«< " it perfwades me, that that Author docs not
B o o l t o f Kiwtil and Harpocration wpi <pv <c
cc differ much from ours, I need not declare:
oinZiy JW/xewi' Wds in the Vatican at Rome. ,c
u for the Alphabetical order, which wc find
But, till all know more certainly and firm-
«( " he obferved, what does it argue, but that
ly , that Harpocration'Boole irpi (pvcmwv
CC " he was a Lexicographer, not much unlike
bwifbhUiuv is fomewheic extant, and till it i
tc " o u r s in his way o f writing, though he dif-
is i)iitd, whether that Paflage be in him, |
(I " fer in the Subjett ? I with I could obtain
Mfhjchi is cited by Tcrtullian, it is my judg- ;
tc " that Treafure, that I might publifh it with
mcnt th^c the bufinefs muft hang in f u f - j cc
(( this o f ours, we (hould not be fo much in
pence, and the Trial ("as Lawyers t a l k ) ' !
(t " the D a r k about this controverted place in
muft be put ofF, till another day. For, to i
tc " Tertullian , and it would prefently appear
fay any thing pofmvely about the Inter-
CI " whether the Author o f thefe two Books
pretation of this placc, and immediately to
It " were the fame, after which we are fo folli-
vouch it for Truth, would be no man's aft
(( " citoufly inquifitive. N o w that Treafure
who remembers he is a Man : It was wit-
<c which Mauffacus fo much wifht for, I here
tily faid by a wife man of old anuria, to
<( offer to you : for it is the Book of Kimi
vfrjov impose* (Z&tHgiv.Ignorance is in the great-
C( and Harpocration, as Gefner's Bibliotheca cites
cfl jbark of Mortals, which though we find'
tc it} and it goes Alphabetically as Putean hys
confentaneous to Truth in other Cafes, yet
his Harpocration did in the Cardinal's Libra-
« then moft, when we take upon us to open
«t
ry. And as for the controverted Place in
and interpret fome Places in the Writings
tc Tertullian, confult but the Letter ©, pag. 16.
of the Ancients, that are controverted,and
tc of the fit ft B o o k , and you may be fatisficd,
not well undcrftood. But the Learned
that Tertullian quoted no other Harpocration
((
Puteawj, while this was in the Prefs, told'
but ours. Read on to pag. 18. and you have
K
me, they read in a Catalogue, which their
this Pallage. " That yon may be without Dm-
(C
Father had a moft. com pleat one of all the
tc " kennefs , and for all favour and health III
Libraries in Italy, that Harpocrution's Book
cc " the Stone Thyrfites engrave the Bird T/.>jr,
irff>i (puviHon'S'twdfMttovy written Alphabetical-
" and Bacchus holding the Bird, and u n d e r
(C
ly, was in the Library of Cardinal St. An-
<Cgflo, which is now fallen to his Brother " t h e ftone enclofe the R o o t of the H e r b ,
" ("meaning I v y ) and wear i t , and you will
Cardinal Favnefius. Which thing, how f i r
" Jt A 4 "be
 To the Reader. To the Reader.
"be without Drunkennefc, and will have
of his Age. Barthius would by all means have-
f a v o u r with all men* and moreover you
had it publiftied, being a Book of fuch infinite
w.ll be without danger in the Palacc For
value : And the rather becaufe it has fbme-
this is a divine Dionyfuck ,and weakens the
thing of Harpocration in it, who is fo highly
fhength of Bacchus. "For ) o fhyes Harpocra-
and defervedly valued by Learned Men. And
_, A " d that learned Father Tertullian
he reckons it to be Tertullian's Harpocration,
layes, narprrratioH argues , that Bacchus , the
as Pa melius before him imagined, and as by
ftnie rr/Z/i Ofiiis among the ^Egyptians, it pi.
comparing the Paflages in thefe two Authors
Unreel Kith Ivy on purpofe, becaufe it is the Na-
frc nfIvy to defend the Brain from Drunken- we have already proved. So that it is not
>>cjs. So that Harpocration's and Tertullian'sonly my Opinion, but it is the Conjefture (?f
, c a 'ogcthtr the /nine. And this muft Pamelius, who could not after his nioft in-
bejhc hook which no Jcfs a Man than Tcr- quifitive Search and Refearch, meet with
mliau quoted as an Author, and which ma- Harpocration and it is the clear Judgment of
ny Learned Men fince him have lonced to that vaftly Learned Man Barthius, who faw
but could not. And Bart h, us, another Harpocration. And I the rather mention Bar-
Learned Cr»t,ck of his time, giving an ac- thius* becaufe this Tranflation is from a C o -
count of fon,e Greek Phyficiam, who Were py of that very Manufcript which he faw in
never yet publillu-d, ftran R cly cxtolls Kirani. Dr. Ellenberger s hand. Being thus far fatis-
Jor whereas others only tranferihed one1 fied of the Original Authors, our next buli-
from another, and little is to be hadfrom any nefs will be to enquire concerning the Tran-
on. of «hcm that mav not be f.nmd in Hip. flators of them. Barthius conjcfturcs that the
?ocra,csw\ Galen, Kira.i has many prodi-! Tranllation out of the Agarene, or Arabick
jjious Virtues of things both in Medicine,and Language into the Greek* was the Work of
wher Affairs, contained in rhc Subjtfts which' a Monk of Confiantinople, in the time of Ma-
he mentions. Earth,,,, moreover fives he nuel or Emanuel Cowienus, the Son of Calojo-
annes $ the Conclufion of whofe Life and
faw^thaci«rio„s Manufcript in the pofleffioJ Errpire was foretold them both in two Greek
i t Henry Ef/euberger , pnmary Phyfician J Oracles. The Father's in this * \ f i 7Tu>* yivrvain
the Court at Magdeburg, who may'verv well JWwi' nczjlxu v ! i. e. Oh, how fhalt than
U rcckoncd amoi1
g the greatelt Phviiciam become the Food of unlucky Crorei! And
of this
 To the Reader. To tfie Reader.
this Calojoatwc, died fomewhere in a place
ia d about an hundred Years before that, been
•called in Greek Crom-Neji. And theSon's
n the podt flion of oneWaltherw dc VIELBF.L,
in this , AM vrdn Mpthva Aoyv, i. e. Cer-
Prapofitus S. L . by whofe Donation it belong-
tawly the la ft Syllable of a Word f/jall gain thee
cd to David V M , Anno M . D . X X X . At-
N o w ( w A j the laft Syllable f a n d the t w o l a f t
ter D r . Ellenbcrgcr's Death, this T r e a f u r e (ell
Letters) o f M a ^ A , that Emperor's Name
to hit Son Chrifiian William &le»berprt viho
figmfies Eight and T h i r t y : And he reigned fo
being a Soldier, beftowed it upon a Phyfician,
many years. Befides, Hiftorians write, how
his Acquaintance and Friend. This Phylio
V ,me
» the G r e e k Nation was
mightily an printed it privately 5 for neither his own,
additted to Magick. And fo, i n ,11 fikeJi- nor the Printer's, nor the place's Name is
hood , this Greek Interpreter muft be well printed. But h e fays, he was forced to leave
skilled therein. T h e next Tranflation out o f the Univerfity, and to retire into the Conn-
Ureet[into Latiney was made about three or trey by reafon of the Plague, of which the
four hundred years fince, by one G e r a r d , a Famous Sennertus died, and he only took this
moft excellent Phyfuian o f that time. Tri- curious Manufcript with him, and m his Re-
themiiu firnames him Fulginas j Raphael Tola- tirement fitted it for the Prefs. It bears
c7\wZyr
Ch
°™> b u t G e f " e r a n d t h e nioft Date M . D C . X X X V I I L SO that it feems,but
tan nim Lremonenfis. a few Copies were printed, and thole private-
This Latin Transition has been quoted bv ly diftributcd} one o f which with forne diffi-
many at ,he fecond hand. But I never me^ culty I procured.
with|any thnt faw fo much as a ManufcripTo As for the B o o k , it feems to be one ot that
Cns w e
told
X w t 1 1 V ™ ) Taw it , „ fort o f Books which Men in the Atls, who
Dr. E//enbergers Hand, w h o kept it as a pre"
ufed curious Arts, brought together, and
m the Book with his own Hand, That he re burnt, the Price w h e r e o f being counted, was
caved this Bool^ »> Manufcnpt as a L « L found' to be fifty thoufand pieces of Silver.
But fince fuch miraculous Zeal is ceaftd, with
j the reft of Miracles, this piece of Curiofity
f r L t? # ? ^ L a n d g r a v e j s of H e t f M e n d e d needs no more undergo Martyrdom, than
f
at n , it 7'1? ° j the »f W
i timber/ Chriftians now need fell all, and live upon a
at Darmftad, Anno M D C . J X . This Book
common Stock, as they did in the Fourth of
had the
 To the Reader. To the Reader.
th(> Mis, efpecially fince Tertullian, one of the ONIS, and by miftake fo miferably depraved.
1 iiliers, quoted it. It contains, I confeft But fincc Alberts, many learned Men of the
much Curiofity in it ; but nothing to endam.' Moderns have made life of Kirani, as Gefnery
mageCluiQianiry, where it is fo'firmly fetJ Aldrovandus, Balduinus Ronfieus, and others.
tied : And if there be fomething th;it defervci' As for Medicines, I know no Specifick men-
the S r onge, yet all ought not therefore to be! tioned by the Ancients, and very few by the
obliterated^ nor muft the Child be thrown! Moderns, which he has not, belides many,
away with the Bathe. But the time the Au- that are to be met with no where elfe. But
thors lived m, requires fome Grains of Allow- becaufe for fome Aj»es paft, to have been a
ance. And thofe hidden fpecifick Vertues of Magician, or a Wife Man, was Capital, it will
things, and llrange Methods in cuiinc Difea- be necellaiy to remove fome Prejudices re-
f«, may atone for the Scraps o f Vanity and ceived againft Magick or Wifdom, which I
Supermtion that are in the Book. 1 find that think cannot better be done, than by (hewing
former impolite Ages, were ncverthelefs very what true Magick or Wifdom is, and how far
curious , n Affairs of Philofophy, and in that is is confident with theHoly Sciipiures, which
regard furpafled our better cultivated, and feem molt to condemn it. N o w , Magick I
mote literate Age. I find a j f 0 ) t h a t „ r c a t D e . take to be a skill whi(h by a certain Power, yet
fcrence was given to our Authors : Infbmuch not fupcrnatural, but created, is able to do unu-
that Alberts Magvm ( w h o is quite fpoiled fual things, whoft- Caufes are beyond the common
by iirukilful 1 ranleriben,) quotes this very CoMprehenjion of Mvn. In this Definition w e
Book, or m Tnmun Mag,cum, p. , 6 8 . there exclude Miracles, as fiipernaturally wrought
is this f afluge, Magicalis cognit.o exiflit ,» by the Finger of G O D . A id by excluding;
ficciilatiorrc rationum, & ,„ fpcadatume Ltura- from it all Diabolical Co'ntraft, we mult in-
I'm, Jccundum quod antiquis Autionbu, exam- tend no other than M.igick purely natural, or
nm&percepi, imo & ego„,et Albert us, „t in the Skill of managing Nature by Art, to as
flurilm hentatem invent, & veritatem fuppono to accomplish llrange things. We know it
\ e o m 0
f ) q«oab aliquo ex C H Y R A N D I S /,', was the Ambition of Knowledge that ruined
ourf'irrt Parents :, but they had to do in that
K &ljbro ALCHORrtT (Jr. erucre hcui)
Where ir , s p| ; i m enough, that it was fid Affair with the Devil. And 1 make no doubt,
written CVIIANID1S hbro& A l U ' O C R A H - bur tiny had the Knowledge of Good,before
thev
ONIS,
 To the Reader. To the Reader.

they talted o f the Tree o f Knowledge < as of Godlinefs, the former whereof, was, and
Good and E v i l , the latter part whereof has a is called Magick. N a y , the Magi of the Eaft,
molt obliterated the former in their poftcritj were more devout in following their Star, to
though the former is that which wc aim ai worfhip our Saviour, than all the Nation of
and which Adam undoubtedly had in his In the Jews. So that Magick (unlefs with fo-
nocency. For all the Learned hold him ti rtes and Jambrajve ufe it in oppofition againd
have had an exaft Knowledge of the Vertut G O D ) is not only lawful, but commendable.
o f things before the Fall. And this Know But whereas Kirani undertakes to cad out,
ledge was delivered from Father to Son befbr and drive away evil Spirits by natural Means,
the Flood , till Seth engraved it on Pi this is but what Tobias in the Apocrypha did by
lars, and fo by thofe Monuments, as well the perfualion of the Angel: For he remmbrtd
•by Noah's oral Tradition, the Poft«DiJuvi the words of Raphael, and took, coalt for ftr-
ans were inltrufted in the fame. Abrahat fumes, and put the Heart and Liver of the Fiji)
is (aid to have had skill in Aftrology. An, thereupony and made a perfume. The which fmtli
the Scriptures teftifie,what skill in the Magic when the evil Spirit had fmelled, he fed into tie
o f Imagination his Grand-fon Jacob had,fron utmoft parts of ./Egypt, whom the Angel bowl
his pilled Rods, that he fet before the Flock* The Angel likewife told Tobias, that as for
when they conceived. Mofcs is not only ac, the Gaily anoynt a Man that has Whitenefi in his
counted a Magician by Heathen Writers, bui Eyes, and he Jfjall be healed. And he took, bold
the Scriptures tcftific, how he was learned it of his Father, and fprinkfed of the Gall in k«
all the Wildom of the JKgyptians, wherco Fathers Eyes, faying, be of good hope mj Fttktr.
Magick was no fmall Share," as their Magici And when his Eyes began to pricks he rubbed tf.w]
ans working Wonder for Wonder with Mo] And the Whitenefj piUed away from the cornrs of
f a , a little while, prove. j bis Eyesy and then he faw his Son. Now Ki-
We read alfo of wife Charming in the Pfalms,! rani fo far explains the Apocrypha, as to tell us
of which fort of Charming we have a Form in the Heart, the Liver and the Gall of what
this Book, pug. 1 5 7. And if we fliould narrow- Fifh it is, that does thefe things.
ly enquire into nil the Books of Scripture wel, I remember, I have heard of a Phyfician,
1I eminent for the cure of Lunaticks, who isfaiil
might perceive, that the Authors of them
were skilled in the power of Nature, as well to have ufed fuffumjgations or peifumes of
as fomc-
 To the Reader.
fomething in his Cures. And fuch you ma
meet with here.
You muft take notice, that in the firft Booli
in the concatenation o f the Vertues c
things according to the four Element s^ th T H E
Plants are analogous to Earth, Fillies to Wa
ter, Birds to Air, and Stones to Fire. Fo EPISTLE D E D I C A T O R Y
Nature's Interpreters do afcribe miraculou
Virtues to Gemmus} and without doubt tho(i
or THE
efficacious and abftrufe properties defcend fron
n peculiar influence of the Stars, and a bettei OLD INTERPRETER,
temperament of the Elements. And is it i
T O TH E
great Argument i t i s f o , becaufe in theEaften
Countries, where the Sun is hotteft, the bed
Stones are found. And therefore Kirani a Moft Prudent Mr. &c. Ra. Pa.
fcribes fiery Virtues to Stones, and makes ont one of themeaneft of the Clergy,
to be under one Planet, and another undei
another. But it were endleft to give an ao Health.
count of all the Rarities herein contained

I
Therefore with Piety and Wifdom peruft Admire and commend the Sagacity df
thtfc four Books thenifelves. T h e Worth and Y o u r Prudence, who, tho" Y o u be ex-
Rarity whereof, I am afraid, has tempted fome perienced in fuch things as are above
dilhoneft perfbn to rob the Vatican, and o- the Nature o f our Sphere, and have-
ther Libraries of them. But are now at length by Contemplation penetrated to things be-
( maugre Envy and ill W i l l , ) communicated to yond the Seventh Heaven 5 yet you difdain
you, for your Benefit, Farewell. not to look down upon the molt inferiour
terrene Experiments: For Y o u lequefted me
to tranflate this Phyfick Book out of the
1 Greek into the Latine T o n g u e : a thing much
THE more eafily faid than done. However, being
B obliged
 The Epifile Dedicatory of the Old Interpreter.
obliged by your Charity and Bounty to tnc, Chrifli 1 1 6 8 . Indt&ione fecundk. The Boo{of
I could not difbbey your Commands. And Phyfical Virtues, Sympathies, and Curts, ga-
bccaufe there are,as you know,divers Tranjla'thered out of two Books, V\7.. The Experience of
Kiranides Kirani, King of the Perfians, MI!
tions out of the Agarene Tongue into the Greek,
I have induftrioufly and faithfully followed out of the Bool^ of Harpocrat ion the Alexandri-
the Greek Bdok that y o u gave m e , in all an to his own Daughter. And the firfi Book
things. Neither was i willing to pafs by the of Kirani was thus, and fo we will fiippofe
it was the great Gift of the Agarencs to him.
very t w o Prologues, t h o ' r u g g e d , and ab-
ftrafted, as it were , from the mod ancient He that received this Book from G 0 D, was
Titles: not fo much minding the Words, Hermes Trifmcgifhts, well known to all men.
which arc of a Barbarian Sterility , as the Do not therefore deliver j t to the Ignorant,
Senfe of Utility. If therefore you find any but keep it to thy felf as a great Polltflion:
thing altered, let it not be imputed to my and let the Father, if it may fo be, deliver
Unfaithfulnefi or Ill-will, but to common it only to his Children inltead of Gold for
Mi (lake: For there is no man fo wife, but hasthe efficacy of its Adtion, adjuring them, as
fome Marl^ of Foil) in bint. Y e t I would facred Children, only to keep it fecret,
have you know, that there is among the This Book was engraven in Syriack Letters
Grecians a certain Booi{ of Alexander the upon an Iron Pillar, in a Book indeed inter-
Great about the feven Herbs of the (even Pla- preted by me formerly. But in this Book
netst <apd another that is called Theffalus his j
which is called Kiranides, twenty four Stows,
My fiery to Hermes (that is, Mercury ) of the twenty four Fifhes , twenty four Herbs, and
twelve Herbs attributed to the twelve Signs, and
twenty four Birds are written of The Vir-
of feven other Herbs by feven other Stars. tues of every one of thefe are complex and
Which, if they fhould happen to come to my intermixt with the reft, fot the Cure, andal-
hands or to yours, becaufe they imitate a fo the Delight of mortal Bodies: And truly
Celeftial Dignity, may very well be prefixt the invention or beginning is from Almighty
to this Work. G O D 5 for by his WifHom we obtain the Afti-
on of Herbs, Fifhes and Birds, and the Vir-
This Book therefore is tranflated at Con- tue of Stones, and the Nature of Animals and
fiantinople, Manuel being Emperor, Anno wild Beafts, and moreover, the mutual per-
Chr/Jii B 3 mixtions
 The Epiflle Dedicatory
of tie Old Interpreter.
mixtions of them, and their Communities and
Proprieties, (ince the knowledge & skill of ma- little Alexandria, which is near Babylon. And
ny things comes from G O D into men/There- this is the Hiftory of Syria.
fore dividing into three Kiramdcs $ I have The thiid Year it happened, that I found
dedared the whole Compofure in order of the an old man skill'd in Foreign Learning, and
Alphabet, according as any thing worthy in the Greek T o n g u e : But he faid, he was a
Remarque occurred. And they are called Syrian by N a t i o n , was taken captive, and
Koi^nik, ( Koiranides or Queens ) becaufe lived there: and he went round the
thefe are the Queens of all the reft of my City with me, and (hewed me every thing.
Books. And we found Kirani of the King And when we came to a certain place about
of the Perjians, which is the firft of thefe four Miles diftance from the C i t y , we faw a
Books. Pillar, with a great ToWer, which the Inha-
This indeed is the Prologue of Harpocra- bitants of Syria faid they brought from the
tion, and it is thus * E d i f i c e of Solomon, and placed it there for
The Therapeutic^ ("that is, the Curatory ) the Health and Cure of the Men of that City.
Book, of Syria, Harpocration wrote it to his j Looking therefore well upon it, I found it
oven Daughter. I was written in ftrange Letters. T h e old
When formerly I travelled through the j Man therefore , alloon as he was asked by
Country of Babylon, I found a City, Scion- ' me, agreed to (hew me, and I willingly lent
tua by Name, the Hiftory whereof I have an ear to him, while he difcourfed, and ex-
written i but we have no occafion to make ' pounded the Barbarous Letters that were up-
any long Difeourfe upon that City, becaufe on the Pillar iri the S o l i c i t Tongue. My
we would not alwayes be upon Preambles. I ?on, faith he , You fee three Towers Hand-
Now theiefore let us return to our nropofed i ing here, one of which is five Miles diftant,
Intention. Then, fays he, I faw another City another two and a half, and another four.
yet, feventeen Perftan Miles diftance from Thefe were built by the Giants, who had a
rn ullich
Alexander of Mace don de.no- mind to climb into Heaven ^ for this their im-
liflicdi afterwards Seleutica was built, under i pious Midnefs fome of them were ft ruck with
the Dommion of the Perfians, and inhabited ' Thunder, others through the juft Judgment
by the Nation of the Perfians. This is called of G O D , knew not themfelves, and the reft
were caft into the Ille of Crete, into which,
little
B 3 Cod,
 The Epijile Dedicatory of the Old Interpreter.
clear Flood o f Euphrates runs fwiftly. Theft
£ l n 8 a n S r y w i t h t h e m * h u r l e ^ them,
Things were engraven on Iron Pillars. " Both
I lie old Man therefore, w h o (hewed methtfe! " w h a t e v e r t h i n g ® were formerly, or (hallbe
things, bade me meafure the greatnefs o f the! " hereafter, equal Coniun&ions of them iri
Stone with a C o r d : Therefore meafunW
" Virtues of Stones, and with them alfo both
that which was nigh, I found it t w o andj
" the Plant6 of the Earth, and the Fifhes of
thirty Cubits high, and feventy nine broad j
" the Deep, and the Fowls o f the Air, tern-
and there were two hundred and eight fteps ,c
pering Virtue with Virtue in the greater
to it. We alio faw a Sacred Cloyfter, and inl
" Quaternary : For thefe things are good for
the middle o f the Cloyfter there was a Tem-j
" Men that were formerly, and (ball be here-
gle, having three hundred fixty five Silver!
" a f t e r ; becaufe being immortal bearing a
Steps, and fixty more o f Gold, by which wc!
mortal B o d y , carried through the Air,
went up 10 pray to G O D . And he told me!
** bound with the evil Bonds g f Neceflity 5 as
the Myfteries o f the Living G O D , which I
" G O D himfelf f a i d , governing mortal Bo-
will not tell to all. "1 was indeed willing to
be informed o f other things, and propounded " dies, thou art made in Sin, and encompaf-
leveral other things 5 but my main defigni " led with the fordidnefs of Neccflity, as any
7 A < o b e »n^rmed of the Pillar : And the " one in Fetters, unlets he get out, and in
old Man drawing afide a Silken Veil, (hewed " Bonds and Chains} fo Necefiity ftraitens
ftrange and foreign Letters engraven upon it . " thee in hard B o n d s : But when thou artgot
And becaufe he was skilled in my T o n g u e I " out o f the dull Body, thou (halt truly lee
entreated and begged o f him, that he would " G O D , that rules in the Air and in the Cloud,
candidly and without E n v y make plain all " w h o caufes Thunder and Earthquake,
things to me. Now. the Things that were " Lightning and Thunder-bolts, .and who
read upon the Pillar, were thefe j " (hakes the Foundations of the Earth, and
This is a manifold Table of the true Example " the Waters of the Sea. Thefe are the Works
a rrayes having, and kpomng, and " o f G O D the Father Eternal. O Soul!
fore-hlv-
ngthe Imntyom of the Divinity " G O D fliews thefe things, and all Contra-
" ries.
c o m SecSn!? ma
y i n t h e N a m c of! But this Book was buried in the Fens of
G O D be called Kirani. The Second Bool, ro- Syria, engraven upon an Iron Pillar all over
out of de Utile Archaicus Syriacus, as the ft 4 Seal
clcar
 The Epijilc Dedicatory, tkc.
CO
Steel or Endanick, as we fa id before in the
former Book, which is called Archaic us : But
in this, that is called Kirtnides, , four and
twenty Stones, four and twenty Fifties of the
Sea, four and twenty Herbs, and four and K I R A N I D E S
twenty Birds are written of, T h e Virtue of
every one of thefe fball be complicate and A N D
mixt with the other Virtues, that aflwaging
and lengthening this mortal Body, we may HARPOCRATION.
enjoy Health Eternal: For none gives Spirit to
Man but GOD $ for all things are written
according to the Conftruftion o f G O D :
BOOK J.
And this is the Beginning. For tho' the Be-
ginnings or Prologues of each have a Diffo-
nance$ yet henceforth they begin as it were , Letter I. A.
in Confonance. And Harpocration fayes thus.
" A M?n-Ao? Agnail the white Vine. 'Aeiw, the
f \ Eagle, a Bird. ' A e r / W , the Eagle-ftone.
' A e n i s , the Eagle, a. Fijh without Scales.
"Aju.TOAoj Mux* is a molt holy and admirable
Herb 5 it is alfo divine, and is called fyvwv/a,
Bryony. The Male-Eagle is King of all Birds.
The Eagle-ftone is with Child and Rattles. The
Eagle, a Filh without Scales,is like the Hawk-
fifti, only fomewhat blacker, and like a little
Thorn-back. For Convulfions and Epiltpftes5
KIRANIDES Now the R o o t of the Herb worn about the
Neck, cures People ofConvulfionsand the fal-
ling Sicknefs. For the bloody Flux, and /pit-
ting of Blood5 And four Spoonfulls of the
Juice
a K I R A N I D E S and Book I. Book I. HARPOC RATIO N. 3
Juice given to any in a bloody Flux cure him, feen feveral, who have had their Bones crufh-
Againjt Drunkenness} And if a man, other- cd, and I admired how they were cured.
wife well, have a mind t o drink much Drink, One can teftific this, w h o was twenty five
let him drink of the Juice of the Leaves f), years old, and is now reftored without pain
and as much Vinegar fafting. That one be by this Divine Medicine and Nature : Nor
not made drunk? And if one drink the Stone indeed were there a n y Hands before; all the
that is in the Head o f the F i f t , with Wine, Flefh was withered upon one, nor had ita-
he (ball not perceive at all what he drinks. n y S e n f e ; bur all the Members befides had
And if he carry the Stone about his Neck, their feeling. Alfo to make broken Bones niol^
without the Herb, if he drink a Gallon of ] found in this Sacred Book thus : Give the
ftrong Wine, he (hall not perceive it. To J u i c e o f the Leaves o f the Herb, and as much
tnake Excretion. T h e S t o n e s , when the white Wine mixt with it, to drink for feven
Grapes are preft out, bruifed with a little of days. And the Fagle-Stone worn about one,
the faid Stone, and given in Drink to fuch as and the Fifh eaten, do the fame thing. Keep
have paralytick Genitals,will make them ftand. this Gift of GOD, and give it not to thineom
And it is good for them that cannot perform Son! For the Thumbs and incurable N/iih:
the A f t of Generation. For broken Bones oj
When the Nail o f the Thumb falls, and isin-
the Hands, and bloody Fluxes, and any Difeafe
curable, and is alwayes running, infufe Datts
of the Arfe. And GOD htmfilf gave this, that
bruifed in white Wine, and lay them foirn-
mortal Body might not fail. T a k e of White
timcs on alone, chewcd, and fbmetimes with
Wine a Pint and an half, with the tender
O y l of Roles. For Warts: And for Wart?,
Buds of the Herb X L , and Coriars Galls §iij.
which come either all over the Body, or in
Boy I two thirds a w a y ; this cures Dyfenteries
;.ny Part , burn the Branches or Wood of
and Lienterics,and broken Bonesof the hands,
1 Vine, and apply the Water that comes out
and every Difeafe of the Arfe, and every fiich
with the Smoak of the Vine-Leaf, or give it
thing, if it be drunk. A Decoftion o f the|
to drink, and they will all fall off: 7cacbm
Leaves alfo,drunk with a little Honey, aflwa-
ges every Difeafe of the N e c k : And if you man this ! So the D u n g of an Eagle applied,
add a little of the Stone, that Difeafe will will cure : T h e Stone applied, and the Fat
neither encrcafe, nor return agaip. J have of the Fifh anointed, does alio curt. For
Putrt•
feen
 Book I. H ARPOC RAJ ION. 5
4 KIRANIDES and Book I
§vj. Boyl it to half, a r d give it to w a f l i the
Putrcfatfion of the Gums, and the Jaws, and for
Mouth for three or five or fevin days, and
cancerous and eating Ulcers in the whole Body.
your Teeth will never ake. If one will dili-
Of the Juice of the Leaves^ii). Alum^iv.
gently confider, the Vine will cure all Dif-
crude Mify yv. Manna "^iv. Illy rick Irh 5},
eafes from the He-ad to the Feet. This Herb
Vitriol ";iv. diflolved till they be d r y } for
is called THEOdorica, i. e. Given of GOD.
this purges and (ills ulcerous and eating Sores,
Kiranw and Harpocration do thus far a-
and it (lops a fupet veiling Inflammation. And
gree.
this is far greater. For Put refaction of tht
Then Kiranus brings fomething new, and
Tongue, and Mortification of the GUMS. But
fiys, For Urine and Stool} The Sprouts, I
now we tell you fbmething that is great. Wc
fay, of the firft Budding of this Herb, boyl-
faw fomething marcid and cancerous in the
cd and eaten, provoke Urine and Stool. But
Tongue, which was like alfo to mortifie the
both the Leaves, and the Root, and the Fruit
Gums $ therefore by applying the Juice of
•have a very hot and flurp Virtue. For tie
the Leaves mixt with Honey, it was cured 5
King's Evil, and eating Flefh, and putrid Ul-
then (hewing 011 dry Iris, the Ulcer filled
cers and Gangrenes. And it has alio another
up. For all Breaches, and a Polypus, and
very famous Virtue and Divine Efficacy j for
Frettings, and Eatings , and Humors , and
it cures the King's Evil,and putrid Ulcers and
whatever happens abont the Afofe. a Divine Me' ~ 5- 0 , .
Gan ren cs a n d cnt,n
dicine,. Of the Tuice of the Leaves 3=iv. Man-I
. J _ _ . . '
K , > ,INFN I PLIFTIT
? I
K Sores,
A f i t i n t / i r l ' . i . i
made up with
A N/-L ITT R RMT I
na Vitriol, Frankincenfe, M.fy, Ariftolochia , into a P after. And its R o o t rol
each three ounces: R u b them till all is ^ y ' ^ n g s a good Colour into the Face, and a
and ufe .Kp
anA nfi. the nDivine Virtue.
;«in, V irmn fi,1a
For Baldnefi and WnderSkin. And it takes ' g ' out
mi
Moles, Corns and an(
*
Shedding of the Hair, Sorc,9 Scurf and any * "Fre 1
* Mtxt wull lower of b.tter Vetch
Difiafes about the Head: Apply the Juice of [ f A* M ' , ? " ' ,
the Herb and the Juice of PotamogeiL, and k " a n d b l a c , k M o , c s - A , , u ' h o , ! t d r w , t h ° >
0 r r i,;if 11 ' r ; till it congeals, it is good for the lame. And
the J nice oi be dt sktlfully mtxt, anoynt for 1 J „ V 1 • \*V I . • J
rhrpp dnv, A MtLi™ L„t, //, T,,</, R o o t broken in Wine, takes away L m d -
and Whitlows. For a Swel-
y Ulcer of the Genitals,and
dilperfes Swellings. For the
I'pihffie.
6 KIR ANIDES and Bookl. B o o k ! . HARPOCRATION. 7
Epilepjie. An ounce of it given every day for Vine, but they are thicker, and implicated
a Year with Oxymel, cures it. For the Apo- With the adjacent Fruits, catching with their
plexy and Swimming in the Head, and Biting of Ciafpers5 and it has a red Grape-like Fruit,
Serpents, and Mifcarriage. It is alfo good for wherewith Hides have their Hair fetcht ofi,
Apopledttck and Vertiginous Perfbns: G i v e or arc prepared. And the fecond fort of it
i;ij, and it quickly cures fuch as are bitten by is called the blacky Vine, which they alfo call
Serpents^ It corrupts the Birth alfo, and di- B r y o n y ; and fome X«p«woK, having Leaves
fturbs the Belly and the Senfe 5 and applied, like I v y , but the great ones like Bind-weed,
it brings away the Secundine, and drunk, it but greater} this alfo applies itfelfto, and
moves Urine. Eighteen grains o f it drunk takes hold o f Trees with its Ciafpers. And its
for thirty days, waftea the Spleen. Made in- Fruit is like G r a p e s ; they are green in the
to a Plalter with F i g s , it is good for the beginning, and when they are ripe, they are
lame. It is boyled for hot Infeflions for pur- black without, but like Box within. And its
ging of the Matrix. It alfo moderately pur- Sprouts alfo at the firft budding may be boyl-
geth the Belly. And its Fruit in an Oyntment ed like Pot-herbs; and they are diuretick,
and Plafter, is good for the Scurf and Le- and force the Mcnfirua; they cure the Spleen.
profie. T h e Juice of the Herb drunk in Broth, The Roots are very good for Splenctick Per-
caufes Milk. Drunk and anointed wirlv O y l , fons, and the whole Herb is proper for fuch
it is good for Epaticks. Its Leaves alfo in a as are Epileptick and Vertiginous. And its
Cataplafm with Wine, arc good for all Ul- Leaf in a Cataplafm with Wine, is good to
cers. And applied, they are good for R h c u - eat a w a y proud Flefh, and for wrelted and
rnatick Swellings. And w e may fay further, diflocated Limbs, and for Relaxations; and
It is good for all things to him that nfeth it with further, it has a Virttie like to the former.
Caution. A n d the white Vine has other Efficacies
And there are two forts of it. T h e firfl is fecular .and delightful, fo that being applied,
called the white Vine, which fome call Bryony, it does not only give any man Sobriety, but
others Snake-Grape ; others Celidonia, others caufes Delight. So fays K.iranus/'» this place,
fjiihtilovj others others ctp^otyij-otw , After the DifTonanCe of them both, there be-
others Kethedron. T h e Buds, and Leaves, gan Harpocration his Speech: 0 bkjjed Herb!
and Ciafpers of this are like the Domeftick Conduitvr of the Gods, and a Royal ConcluBcr,
Vine, mm

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IF 8 K I R A N I D E S and BookIlBookIi HARPOCRATION. 9

more powerful than all Herbs, having the Prin. ( | l a t a r c a ft C c ( i n f i f e , c.in lie done without
cipdity of Earth, and Heaven, «»</ yf/r, andthis Plant. Alf> occult things require the
diffulving all Power ! 0 Grape bearing Drink] planting of it. For People troubled with <£uar-
m.iijl thou loofen the Limbs, caufe Sleep ! Nota„c Agues j It yet remains for me to fpeak
i'fetch nor Body Jha/l expel thee 5 but thou 0 f a C L T t ; l j n Cacodaimon f o r evil Spirit ) which
findejl out whatever things arc in the Minds oj j SC; ,H' ( i a Quartanary, who is not eafily con-
Mortals, and what My fi erics they have hid (pered l, y five Foititudes o f the fii It Dccan
den w thar Mind. The Fine nukes wawfejlirf Capricorn, becaufe he lees not, nor hears}
all Secrets, and all thing, that fhall be concealed fov |IL. u without a Head. Therefore take the
by Writing, or by Medicine, or by fiWw/i^Grape having four Seeds, take out the Ker-
inciit, or by the Sword , or by Science: i^i| n c | s w ^ y o u r N a i l s , and not with y o u r
thefe way be faid to be the Myjlcnes of tUyMouth, and put them in a courfe Cloth, and
Vme. And it has other mundane things aIfoJ|, anR them about your Neck, and it will
which are not unprofitable to Mortals, y e a l c a u f c Health. And the Stone that is in the
they bring Delight and J o y . Therefore thu Head of the Fifh,hung about the Neck, takes
I read on : The holy Speech, as ICirani ha< away a Quartane. Therefore take the Eagle-
it. For "joy and Exultation. O Blefled Queen Stone, and engrave alio an Eagle upon it,
he-flowed of G O D , mod holy Mother, am and under the Stone put the Kernels of the
more Divine than all Plants! firft Nature af G r a p e , and the top of the Feathers of an
fcfts the Grape, the Grape makes heaven 1 Eagles wing , and if you have not an Eagle,
Wine! Before you have faid this, fend ih of an Hawks, and enclofing it, wear it. F o r
Cup, Bowl orPlagon about, o f which all d<lit w i n p r e f L . r V e y o u from all the forefaid Oc
drink, and they breakout into J o y , no mat! c a r l o n s Q f Evil : Moreover it will give y o u
com plaining or asking, bor c ' ^ / a , i.e. E * ! p o v v e r t o f p c a k > a n j t o have friendly confe-
>jon. The Juice o f the Grape drunk| r e n c e w l L h Great M e n s and it is good lot
ullation.
caufes great J o y . Plant it in every p l a c e m a n y o t h c r t h i n . ;lll w h l c h , w i U n()t ( l c
For neither the Solemnities ot the Gods, no'cij,^
of Mortals, who have a term in their Lifej
nor what things in Life do come, nor whal
things now go out, nor f o m e o f t h o f e thing! C I F. T-
tha1
lo IC IRAN IDES and Book I ook I. HARPOC RATION. n
(or D y p f h o i c k , Epilcptick and Ncphritick
LETTE R II.. T. >erfbns. For Joy and Exultation, and Ac-
Boeprr'sm ii a Bird which is callcd Kop^wpion and Union, and Conjugal Uve: And
i.e. a Crow, a common Animal, and knowi twill make the Bearer chcarful and rich:
to all People, living to five hundred yean tad " «s as excellent as any thing for lafct-
of age. is a prccious Stone, a flcn/juous and conjugal Love,
which is callcd <mi/£a>ov, i. c. All Life. B
is a Sea-Lobjlcr, fo callcd from its likenefs to; 1 , r, L k K III. 1 .
Bncro Act, i.e. red Tiles. Bint hi, i.e. T h e Herb! TAu-wtnh, the Herb P<co»y. I AMa fort
Savine, known to all People. tf Owl. rrzrSioi, a Stone. FAXJ^*, a Scu-fijb,
biown to all men.
For Dtfpno'ick, Orthopno'icl^and Afthn/aticji
Perfons ; Make this Elcftuary* O f Savine Gljkjftde is the Herb P<eony, and it is called
Butter ^iv. Honey $iij. Mix, and give it fa ftn^ony, from its Inventer Pa'on••>and it has
ing. For any Infirmity of the Eye ; Crab [ Fruit like the G u m of an Almond Tree,
hung about the N e c k , cure all Infirmitie;ome of its Seeds are open, and othersclofe.
of the E y e . And the Bird hath the fame Na1lanx is a Bird which is aicribed to Pdllm ;
t u r e ; for if the Female dies, the Male wil t has a Crown o f Feathers upon its Head,
not pair with another; and the Female doeimd great Eyes like a Night-Raven, living in
the fame- For Love between a Man and /•>« he Fields. Gnanthins is a Stone as hard as a
Wife. If a Man carry the Heart o f a MaUtfilftonc, like a Granate. GlatKu-s is a Sea-
C r o w , and a Woman the Heart of the Fe-fifh, known to all men. Now there are
male, they will agree between themfelve{ W o forts of the H e r b , Female and Mile,
all their Life time ; and this Miracle is cer-jrfa* a Woman may conceive: If therefore a
tain. For Dyfpnoick,, Epilepticand M/^ri-fcVoman d o not retain the Man's Seed, and
tick People. T a k e , I fay , one Bcril Stone^ould conceive , let her be girt with the
engrave a C r o w upon it, and under itsjplofe Seeds of the Divine Herb, tying it in
feet a C r a b ; enclofe alfo a little Savine, a n d j Linnen Cloth died of feven Colours; let
a little of the Heart o f the Bird under then be put about her T w i f t . That fl>e mpot
S t o n e , wear it as y o u w i l l : for it is good\onceive 3 But if fhe have no mind to con-
for C 3 reive,
 n K I R AN J D ES and Book j o o k l . HARPOCRATION. 13

cdvc, let her gild her fclf with the ope rota all uncleannefs, when it is dark he-
Seeds, and the Wax of a Mules Ear^ as Ion hall appear an elegant Man 5 therefore thole
as (lie pleafes. For cafic Travail: But ifthei hat tfeeime
him, ftiall think him D i v i n e . In the
be danger in t h e Pains"of Birth, bruifeVi lay alfo whaifoevcr he f.yes, he flial!
open Seed, and make it up with O y l , a n * believed in i t . And had in bed it will
and anoint t h e Loyns and T w i f t , and ft hew true Villous,
will bear w i t h o u t pain. To chafe array D „ .
L h 1 1 K , V > A
;,Uaml nil Phantafms : And its R o o t i '
f u m e or in D r i n k , expels Devils and a Draconihca , the Herb Dragons. Aivf^,,^-
Phantafms, a n d b e i n g worn, it does the (am WTTTMS, the Bird Woodpecker. Draco, a Fijh.
For 1 Miracle. T h e Eyes of the Bird Glan: \ndritk, a Tree flone.
and o f the F i f h Glaucus, bruifc them with
little S e a - w a t e r , and put them in a Glal Draconthea is an Herb, having S e e d like
buttle. B u t it is better to dillolve the Gahe eyes of a Dragon , broad l e a v e s , is bad
ofthem b o t h , and to keep it in a Glafs-bo (together. T h e Woodpecker is a Bird known
tie. And wlu n you would have the Virtto all, as big as a Quail, it perfoiates Oaks,
of N a t u r e t o be admired, Parchments muft Dlive trees and Nut trees, that i t may make
written with t h e forefaid foft Collyrintn, an* Neft in the middle of the Wood. The
in the day indeed i t will not appear 5 bOragon is a Sea lifti without fcales: A f t e r
when it is dark, that which is written mi herefore that it h >s voided much, and would
be read. A n d , if you pi cafe, draw any At\o over great violence, the Clouds of Hea-
mal upon the wall, and when Night com<fen (hatch it into the A i r , and dafti it a-
they that are in thedark fhall think what thi;ainft the Mountains, tearing it Limb from
lee is either Devils or Gods. That one »;-imb, (o that it is no more. That one be not
ftem firoHg, and glorious, and faithful to ,'nrt 5 It is t w o forked , like a Horfes Tail ,
mn, and that he may fee true Dreams. At wo fingers in length. Putting it in O y l ,
if any one will engrave upon the Stone G»^ eep it. Putting it in Oyl indeed, it pre-
thins the Bird Glaux, and under its Feet tlpves all People from fafcination and inlir-
Fifli, and under thefe enclofe the Eyes, atnity« For I f i w this upon the Sea coafts of
wear it, ahftaining from Swines Flefh a ihe Affyrian Countrey. Dendrites is a Stone,
fro! C 3 which

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14 K I RANI DES and Bookl Bookl. HARPOCRATION.. i5
which is known by many 5 This grows in made o f Clay or Chalk, the dirt will fall:
India in R o c k y maritime places about fii If of Stone it burfts: If a wooden Board or
fingers high. For Hearing ; The.Seed of th< iron Plate be f o f a f t n e d with Nails, all things
Herb Draconihca worn ftmpens the Sight cleave and break in pieces upon the touch
and removes a little pain in the Head. Thi of the Herb, and the Woodpecker opens and
Feather alfo of the Bird, with a little of thi takes out her young ones. If any one there-
Svonc Dendrites , cures the Hemicra fore have got this Herb , he will do many
nia or half Head-ach. In like manner tin things, which are not now lawful to mention,
Feather o f the Bird, and a little of the Fill as o f the mod Divine Nature, which Man
bruifed and applied, fuddenly cures ever; cannot perform. If therefore any tnan en-
Head-ach. Let us not therefore miftake fo grave a Woodpecker in the Stone Dendrite/,
the difliculc finding o f the great Dracdnthes and a Sea-Dragon under its feet, and enclofe
but thofe things which are done, are froi ihe H u b underneath it, which the Wood-
the little Draconthea , which is t w o hand pecker found and carried, every Gate will
breadths h i g h , and it is as the Fi(h or th open to him, and Bolts and Locks. Salvage
Serpent, and we put this for the other. Fi Beafts will alfo obey him, and come to tame-
a xAj-.^Xiyt^lict, or a Flejl) Dropfie, and a nefs} he fhall alfo be beloved and ob-
eAHpailicc •> or Lcprojie of the Arabians, an ferved o f a l l , and whatfoever he hath a
any Lcprojie. For a pain in the Head, an mind to, he fhall acquire and perform. Mrr-
the beginning o f an Elephantia and Leprofti cury was a mod accurfed Pagan , and was
and a Ay breaking out of the S k i n , the Fa worfhipped as a G o d : but I woiftiip Chrijl,
o f the Dragon-Fifli with the Juice of tli and do unwillingly write of Mercury. 0 the
Herb, anoynt morning and evening. To opt Bleffednefs of the Gods! Mercury is an Ani-
Doors, Locks, Dolts, and to tame wild Reafl mal unknown to G O D , and alfo his Nature.
and to be beloved of alt, and to acquire A For who can find out the generation of Men?
thingj , that whatever you pleafe may be dot He is not, yea, a deceiver, Thou a i t wife,
for you. And if one obtain the hole o f and i n t r u d i n g haft given undeiftanding in
Tree, in which the young ones of the W001 the' Pillar, Thus far Nature. B u t he that
pccker are, he fhall carry the Herb which carries it, fhall learn thofe things that ar: in
knows, and touching ii opens ; For if it the Gods, fhall open Locks, and loolc Chains,
mad C 4 flu!!
16 KIRANIDES and Book T.' Book I. HARPOCRATION. i7
(lull pacific all wild Beads by the will which know not the nature o f every Herb. Again ft
is in Heaven, (hall allwage the waves of the Luft and Eretfion. Therefore Priefts eat R u e ,
terrible Sea , lliall chafe away all D e v i l s , and the herb Agnus taftus, for Chaftity'sfake,
and dial I appear good to all men. But we For green Rocket quenches Luft much, and
will alter for the purpofe. If perchance you frequent Ereftion, and Dreams. Wherefore
ftiould not find the Herb, which opens the Pricfts, wfren by their turns they ferve in the
fliut Neft of the Woodpecker, enclofc under Temples, d o often eat this, and they fall not
the engraven Stone the top of a Feather of into pollution For EreQion, o f the Seed of
the Birds wings and the Heart, and one feed this ^iv. Pepper with Honey morning
ol the Heib Draconthea, and the Stone or and night take as much as you can take up
the Brain of the Fifh. For being fo carried, with t w o fingers. But if a man be grown old,
they give fiiarp-fightednefs to the E y e s , and have a loofe and hanging Member, he
cure the Head'ach, ami expel all Difeafes of fhall do this. O f Seed of Rocket ^xvj. C u -
the Eyes and Head IVom the Bearer. More- min ^viij, Pepper ^iv. o f Seed o f Purflain gij.
over they reprefent him rich and potent to! Being bruiled and made up with Honey, let
all Men. I him take it morning and evening. It is incom-
parable. And the eyes and the heart o f a
LETTERV. E. Nightingale laid about men in Bed,keep them
I'-f^w/^r, tic hhrb Rockft. Enlui, ai':don,< awake. To make one die for fleep. F o r if any
a Nivhtm^alc. 'E^'ros, a Sea-Urchin. Enan-\ one difTolve them, and give them fetretly to
thus, A Stone. any in drink, he will never fleep, but will fo
i die, and it admits not o f Cure. For Epilep-
!
F.HZ0WPH is the herb Rocket, which is eat-j thk Perjons. If you give half the Navil o f
rn among pot-herbs, and known to all men.) a Sea-Urchin diflolved, to fuch as are held
Echmus, the Sea-Urchin is alfo known to all J of an Epilepfic , they will prefently be re-
Enhii is a Nightingale, known well enough; lieved 5 but give it only with Honey fre-
hnantkus is a Stone of every colour, and it1 quently. That you may be amiable to men,ancl
is dedicated to Venus, becaufe it is o f many known for eloquence, and acceptable, and that
colours. Rocket therefore heats, becaufe you may be feared of Men and wild Deafis.
i .ire h an Error among many , and they, It) the Srone Enanthus with G o l d engrave
know Venus,
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•

Venus, and let her Locks and the Hair of her infatiable. And if yon give the great Cut |
Head be tied to h f r Head, and put the root of it, which iscalled ^Atvlepov or Colon, pow- !
o f the Herb, antt the Nightingale's Tongue dcred in drink to any or roafted to cat,
under her, enclofe it and wear ir, and you it will perfettly cure the Colick. For People j
will be amiable to all men, and k n o w n , and troubled with the ghtartane Ague and the Lepro• |
eloquent; and not only to Men, but Devils fie: And its Fat applied with an Oyntmentol
and wild Beafts will fly from you. Oyl expel* a Quartane. T h e Dung alfoappli- j
cd with Vinegar ftopsa Leprofie. And what-
L E T T E R VI. I ever you will of the Liver given inwardly,
Zf*/Aa|, the Herb Bindweed. Zaukps, a Bird. corrupts all things that are within. For jll
Zmirena, a Sea-fifl). Smaragdus, an Emeraitld. diflnrbance of Dreams, and Lunaticbj, and li t
I that are troubled with the Colick- The Erne-
Smilax is a very ftrong Herb, like the Plant • rauld is a green precious Stone. Engrave ,
I v y . For Women's Travail. If you C r o w n a therefore upon it the Bird Harpe, and under
Woman with it, that has hard Travail, (he its feet a Sea-Lamprey , and under the Stone
will prcfently bring forth without pain. For ' enclole the R o o t of the Herb, and wear it,
Pronation. I f any Woman fuffer-difficulty ! againft Dilhubancc, and Dreams, and Stu-
with pain in p r o n a t i o n , gird her with i t , pidity. It caufcs Reft to Lunaticks, and in
and (he will breed without pain. A n d if them that are troubled with the Colick. And
you mix of the J u y c e of the. Leaves j j . and it is better , if the Fat of the Sea-Lamprey bt
o f Honey another and give it an Hy- put underneath : For this is Divine.
dropick perfon, the party will purge with-
LETTE R V I I . H.
out d a n g e r : But a W o m a n , if (lie drinks it,
will fuffer a Flux of Blood. Zaucos or Ze«- 'Hpuyyiov, the Herb we call Fryngo. HAMB,
cos, a fort o f Bird, fome call it a Harpe. F o r the Sun-Bird,or fton'iKO'sntp©*, i. e havingJut-
it is a Vnltur devouring white Carkafes. let Wings. 'Hq>auQo<;, j. emagwes, Vulcant\Stm.
Zmirana, a Sea-Lamprey, is known to all. I ' HJbiTi, the Fijh Delight, jome cull it Ajjidwn, i
An Emcrauld is a known Stone. Therefore kind of Anchovy.
if you give the G u t o f an Harpe to any one
to eat, the Eater will be torn ; for he will be Eryngo is an Herb like Calamus; it grows
infatiable. thumv
20 KIRANIDES and Book I. Book I. HARPOC RATIO N.; 21
thorny^ its Vert tics are fuch as thefe: F o r ,
Being worn, it confers the Grace and Vertue
if any carry its Hoot, he (hall not ct any
of Prudence. Saturnius himfelf wore it, and
time fnftcr the Treachery o f Devils. That
Phaos in H e a v e n ; and in Earth it pofleffes
the Devil may confcfs who he island from whence .<?
I Gold and S i l v e r ; it deftroys Infirmity, and
And to cafl him out: And if any one have
j cruel Poverty, and the evil Bonds of Neceffi-
an aercal Spirit, put one of thefe Roots un-
I ty , that which gives T r o u b l e is not g o o d )
der his Cloaths, and he will confcfs to y o u
but forces every Earth, beating Men with
who he is,and will fly from the Man, aftran-
the Degree o f Fortune, binding them in Nc-
gcr to him. And the whole Herb drunk
| cefliries. A certain Saturnine King Kiranis
with its Root in Water and Honey aflwages
I KuAir^e^Tns, turning and rolling circular up-
the Colick. For the StoneColfcl^and the Stone,
| on the Centre, with uncorrupt, and never-
and the Strangury : And if it be made hot,
failing Changes, whirling all things from the
and drunk with Water and Honey, it cures
Eaft to the Weft, in the feven Arttick, i. e.
thofe thofe that are troubled with theStone,
North, Stars, holding and moving all ftrange
and the Stone-colick , and the Strangury.
things. Soul, be thou content and fufficient
And let them drink it for fixteen days,every
in thofe things which thou aftelt in failing
Morning, in Bed: But if you heat p0-
T i m e ! and tho* thou be after Praegnation,
«s (which is Pomgranate-Rind) with it, it will yet prefently thou knoweft G O D in the
do more good. Hedonc is a Sea-filh, which Air, and in the Clouds 5 thou fuffereft Infir-
is called Aphyclion, being often eaten,it cures mity upon the Earth, in which being an
the bloody Flux, and Pains in the Kidneys. Inhabitant, thou art tormented. O blefled
And in Hephajiion'sj. c. Weave's Stone, which S o u l ! being thenceforth immortal,ccafe from
is called Pyrites, or the Firc-ftone, if any one corporeal Labours; tho' in thefe thou be fixt
engrave a Phwnicopterus, and at its Feet a to the Body, yet feek Heavenly things, or
Scorpion, and put under the Stone the R o o t from whence Water is? If thou wilt learn, I will
of the Herb, he will have a Phyla&ery, and declare to thee all things which thou bidft
a Guard, or a Treacle againft poyfonous me. Heaven is Water and Fire, the Stars
Stings j it alfo drives away nofturnal Phan- are vifible, and unfpeakable Darknefs is a-
taltns, and nil Witchcraft, and is good alio b o v e the Gods. And a Sphere rolling from
for thofe that arc troubled with the Stone. Eaft to Weft. And that which moves all things
Being in
22 K I R A N I D E S and Bookl. Bookl. H AR POC RAT ION. a
3
in the Sphaere with wakeful Winds, lets in the a former Book, that i6 called Archaicm. And
Sea. It brings Lightning, and diflblves the this Animal is facred. Take therefore this
Air, it drikes with Thunder, and da flies out Bird, and tear it in pieces, and while it ii
darning F i r e ; it gives fweet Rain, and gives panting, fwallow its Heart, turning to the
all Meat good for the Belly. And the Divine Sun, in the beginning of the firft, or eighth
Virtue,which docs this, it (elf hides all things Hour, on Saturday, the Moon being Orien-
that are Earth-born, Roots of Herbs, which tal, and drink upon it Milk of a Black Cow,
are abroad among divers Generations of Vlen ; with a little Honey in the Drink. See that
and they arc given for all four-footed Beads, you fwallow the Heart found and entire,
creeping things, and Fowls of the Air,which and you will foreknow what things will be
fpontaneoufly do all things in their Neds in Heaven, and what on Earth, and what-
and Dens for M a n , all well coloured and ever any one has in his Soul, or whatever
green. Let what I (aid before fuftice thee; j is done in Climates, and in Cities, and what
I tell thee in Profe, and fhow unto thee all will come to all Men. And this will be the
the Divinations of the Soul concerning all Compolition of the Honey; Of Honey ftj,
Virtues; I will tell thee more, when they are living Magnet powdered ^ i j . and tender
revealed. For I have told future things in Stalks of the Herb Eryngo ^vij. When thefe
Metre, or Verfe, concerning the fore-know- are bruifed, make them up with the Honey,
Jcdgc of other Animals. For the pr<efciencc of j And you may have another Magnet, wherein
thofe things that are in Heaven and in Earth, I a Cucubas, i. e. an Houp is engraven,all which
and what any one has in his Soul; and what- you muft dip in the Compofition of the Ho-
ever things are done in Climates and Cities, and ney. And when you would foreknow any
all future things to Men. There is an Animal ! thing, fird tade it with the Finger, and put
flying in the Air, which is called e^o^, upupa, • the engraven Load-done about your Neck,
or Houp, of feven Colours, having a C r e d o n and you fhall foreknow whatever you plcafe,
his Head, the height of t w o Fingers, which And if you put another Liver and Heart of
1
extends and contracts. And it is of four Co- a Cucnfa into the Confedtion, it will be bet-
lours, that it may be diretted to the four ter, becaufe it will make you of a ftronger
1
Seafons of the Year. This Bird is called C«- Memorv. And that the Heart may not be
:
tubas, as it is written concerning the fame, in c o r r u p t e d in him that cats it, by fix-foot-
ed
54 KIRANIDES and Book I. Book I. HARPOCRATION. 25
ed Creatures, becaufe he that cats this Ho- this; Becaufe the Head and Heart and the ut-
ney, and fwaUows this Heart, ufes to breed m o f l R o o t of E r y n g o is hard to be f o u n d ;
many Lice; it is necefltary, that he be anoin- if you will lind it" without difficulty, y o u
tedfirftwith this Oyl. Take of Oyl ^vijp. muft d o thus: T a k e the Seed o f E r y n g o and
of Staves-acre bruifed ^ij. beat them well up the Earth on which it g r o w * , and put the
intoone, put it up, and keep it in readinefs. Earth and Seed into a Potter's or w o o d e n
And when there is occafion for it,then anoint Veflel, and fprinklc it fomeiimes with w.itcr
your fell in Bed. If therefore thou forekjiow- and when the Herb is f p r u r g tip, and is come
tjl, forelel to me, whether the Sonl be mortal, fir to maturity, like other Ervngoes, then feck,
immortal} Heanfwering, fiiith, Hear,my Son! it, as it bccomes you, faffing and eh.dl, and
Very many falfe Sophiflers are mifiaken in the you will find the Gorgon's head. Keep this,
Vnderjlanding of the immortal Send, but it dsf- and have it in readinels. T a k e theiviore
certn it felf Why is it, that the Body is at rejl the Hairs of a Phoca, the Seal, which ate be-
in Bed, and the Sotd is converfant in its pro- tween his N o f e and his 'Vlou.h , and the
per place, i. c. in the Air, whence alfo we too^green Jafper Stone, and the I k.itt ai d Li-
this Soul, and fees what things are done in other ver of the Houp, and the Roots of the Gor-
Climates ? Many times alfo there is a fympa*gon o f E r y n g o , and the feed of
thy, as between the Mother and the Child, and i. e. upright Vervein, and the clean Blood of
it if folicitous for the Body in which it inhabits, Chryfanthemum, i.e. the Juice o f the Heib Plu-
and before the time forefees and divines futuretnaria or Stcechas , and the extremity o f the
things, whether they be good or evil, which is heart of the Seal, and moreover l l u / C r d l o f
calleda Dream. Then it returns to the Body,and its a Houp's head a l f o ; it were better if y o u
proper Habitation, and rifing it fear ches out. Hencehad o f all the f b r t f i i d forts. Which y o u
it may appear to thee, that the Soul is immortalmufl wrap up with a little Mols witli Thy mi-
and incorporeal. Thus (ays Harpocration, finifll-ana o f four forts, and put ir in the <kin o f
ing this Letter in this place. But Kiranis in an Ichneumon, or Seal, or St ig, or C r o w , or
(ome things fa yes other wife ; and in other Vultur,and wear it chaftly. And if YOU guild
things agreeing, he (ayes concerning the eat- theoutfide, it will be better, for you will ac-
ing of the Houp, that from it there is Pra?fci- quire whatever yem have a mind to, you will
ence of all worldly things. Then he f i i d oe beloved of Men and Women, and you
this; J> y/i!J
a6 K 1 RAN ID ES and
r
Book I. Bookl. H AR POC RATION.
will appear reverend, and peaceful, and qui- is eaten , like to a W h i t i n g , which being
et : you will tame wild Bcafts, and conquer great is known indeed. Balkera is lUccbu
your Enemies. And if you put the right his Plant. In the F e a f t s of Bacchus they put
eye of a Wolf into the forcfaid things, you theThyrfns upon the Wine-prcflcylu: plant of
will overcome all wild Beafts, and you will the earth is given to Men for chcarfulnefs,the
acquire by all things. Devils and wild Beafts Virtues whereof I now will tell. It is good
will fly y o n , .ind you will be molt happy, in Wine to pour out in the P r e I k s , wlwt
and healthful, and altogether unhurt. For I Mortals focver have it given them : I willa!(o
niixt alfo the Rennet of a Sea-Calf, I over- fay this in Verfe, T o fee or kno.v is of the
came all my Enemies, and I was invincible. Earth. For Joy and Mirth in Drwl{. [[
For he that carries this P h y l a f t e r y , fhall have
you bruife ^ij o f this Plant, and of the
Gifts from G O D , which he hoped not for, Stone, and (hall fay over it the Name of
•and he (hallbe honoured on every hand, con- Bacchus , fhall put it into a Flagon of Wine,
quering all men in Word and W o r k , delive- out o f which they all drink W i n e , having
ing from all danger, and from the D e v i l , and drunk but one Glafs they will all be mellow,
from Witchcraft, and from all Evil. I will as if they were d r u n k , and returning thanks
fay further : It averts all evil, and confers all they will fay ; T h o u haft m a d e us merry, 0
good. This alfo is a Prognoftick, which on- Lord ! Here Friends may drink , anil go it-
"iy G O D and you muft know. This /.ettcr of way merry and rejoycing ; If you put the right
Kirani is perfetl. eye of a Thynnus ( or T u n y ) or of an A-
thynnus in Wine, the Friends that are (ate
L b. i T h R VIII. ©. down will break into J o y without drirkiip,
Gilpar,:, Hcrba Dionyfi, Ivy. Thyr, a Bird, and they will thank y o u , as if they were
Thpjitcs a Stone. GJnos, a Fip. ' merry. For Difcord at a Feafi; A n d if you
cut the W i n g or the top of a Feather of the
"Ihyrjites or Thyrfus the Hetb o f BacchusBird Thyr with a Sword that is all Iron,ar.d
fruitful, and profitable for all things. Thyr put it into a Veflel of Wine, layin;;orai:
r a B':rd like the Hawk cf »he Sea, having a. the Name of Bacchus, and when you have;
div:i.f_ E3i<\icy. Thyrfm. is a Sio.ie i'tke to mind, make them that are (ate clown fnill it,
Coral. Tf.ynnus, a ^ .nv, h a Sv'a HUi, and that they may (lied blood and b u t eve am-
is D 1 th'i
j8 KIR AN I D ES and Book I. Book I. HARPOCRATION. i9

ther, and it will be fo. That you may he out of the head o f a Kite, and enclofe it, give
without Drutikennefs , and for all favour andit to wear in the Breaft, for it will drive a-
healthi In the Stone Thyrfites engrave the way all pain of the Stomach, and will create
Bird 7lyr and Bacchus holding the Bird, and an Appetite to eat, and good Digcftion. F o r
under the Stone enclofe the R o o t of the Herb, it has alfo other Virtues, let it be worn only
and wear it, and you will be without Drun- in the Breaft.
kennefs, and will have Favour with all men,
aid moreover you will be without danger LETTER X. K .
and invincible in the Palace. For this is a KuKai<^o5, Kyn^dius, an Herb, a Stone, a
divine Dionyfiack, and weakens the ftrength Bird^and a Fiji) fo called.
of Bacchus. For fo fayes Harpocration. \
ICynxdius is an Herb, which is alfo i
LETTER I X . I. w Meretrick, Whores Vervein; centum capita
'AcpofiiiTM, the hundred heads of Venus. Ky-
W, i.e.a Willow, a fruitlefs Tree, j]afpis,
n<edtus is a Bird , which is called lynx, as
A Jafper Stone, green. 'IxfiV, a Kite, a Bird.
Kiranus fays in the Verfe of Theocritus ; for
Wis, a Fiji).
Example's f a k e :
The Willow is a barren Tree. T h e Jafper
is a known Stone. T h e Kite is a Bird known invov e/jyy TJJ-O/JFI&ftcf.T cLyS'^FC.
"LIIV£; *AK« Tv
to all men. The lulir is a party-coloured Per te, lynx, meus ille domum vir q u x f o
Sea-fifh, which is eafily found. Bruife, I fay, trahaturl
ihe green Leaves o f Willow with a little Salt, Pray lynx / fetch my Husband home again!
and apply it to the aking Spleen , and the
pain will prefently ceafe. And if you would Some call it jfugius Ales. Kynadius is a F o w l ,
have the Spleen diflolved, boyl the Bark with and feeds like a Quail turning back its neck,
Oxymd, and give two fpoonfuls fafting, or as Harpocration (ayes. This has three Stones
thus: Make it to boyl to a third, and give about its neck, it has a long tongue, and is
to every one according to his own ftrength. often dedicated to Venus. Kynadius a Sea-filh,
And in a Jafper engrave a Kite tearing a Ser- is about fix fingers in greatnefs, it has a
pent, and under the Stone pur a Stone taken broad head like an Uletinus. It is a round
out D 5 Fifo f
3° KJRANIDES and Bookl. Bookl. HARPOCRATION. 31
Fifh, of a tranilucid Body, fo that its Back- day may be Kut-a/cT©*, i. e. a Fornicator; That
bone appears through its Body, as through which is in the Fifh Kyn<edius, in the third
a G l a f s ; and it abounds in the Sea of Syria Joynt of the b a c k b o n e , if you give it in
and Pakfline, and of Syria of Lybia. This meat or drink, a man will be a manifcil For-
therefore has two Stones, which alfo have nicator for one day. To make a Cock trail
their proper aftions, as we fhall mention Cock'•> If you give it to a Cock with I'afte,
hereafter. And they are in the head. And it he will get upon other Cocks, and upon any
has alio another Stone in the third Joynt of Male Animal. If therefore any thing take
the back towards the T a i l , which is mod this Stone, it will get upon the like animal,
powerful, and is rcquifite in the Spell or Li- as upon a Female. And the aforefaid done
gature of 'Atp&Mjv, i. e. Venus. The Stone docs all thefe things. T o obtain favour and
Kyntfdius was unknown, becaufe it is ex- friend (hi p ^ If a n y o n e carry theTongueof
ceeding fcarce,and is called Opifianus (ty^©.) the Bird in a Plate of Gold, hefliallhave
i. e. late or llow. For it is Saturnine. This Favour , and be beloved of all. To mk
Stone is double or twofold: One is obfeure Men foft 5 if the ends of the wings, of the
and black j the other is black indeed, but Flefh ( 1 mean ) not of the Feathers, be
bright and Alining like Glafs. This is that fecretlv given to a Man, or to any Male Ani-
which many feck, and do not know i t : for mal, he will become f o f t , and do female
it is the Dragons done. If therefore with a works. For Favour } And if any one car-
little of the Herb and Vulture's dung you ry the right eye under an immaculate Sa-
make a Fume under a Peach-Tree, the Leaves phire done, whereon Venus is engraven, he
will fall. That a wans Member cannot he will be gracious and acceptable to all, and
ereCt, till what is laid be removed. And if one will overcome in every Confidcry. And the
lay the Herb under the Pillow, he that lies left eye carried by a Woman, will do the
upon it fliall not ereft, acd if you give a lit- fame. To make the Eyes bloodfljot(Thc Blood put
tle of the Herb powdered in drink tq a in a plate for a Collyriumtand found,makes the
Man, he will not ereft to coition for feven eyes blooddiot. For a Tertian and a <2>Hitrtir,
dayes. That a Coc^ way not tread an Hen 5 Ague $ And the Heart tied about one, when
p i v e ,t to a Cock in Bran or Padc, and he the Moon is in the Wane, cures People cl
>vill not tread a Hen. That a man for ore Tertian and Quartan Agues. For an inm-
D 4 kit
\

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53 KIR AN ID E S and Book M look I. HARPOCRATION. 53
bit Head-ach ; And the Brain of the Bird giv.not ereft, and if he carries it unknowingly,
en fecretly in Drink or Meat, 'eafes an incq- he grows efFeminate. And if he carry any of
rable Head-ach. For Hepatic^ Per Jons \ And the Stone of the Fifh, he will be altogether
its Liver b o y l e d with Salt and Water cures luxurious, not returning to his Nature. A n d
Hepatick Perfons. Of Goddefs Venus her Gir- if a Woman carry this ligature,none will car-
dle 5 The kind o f Venus. T h e firft and ftrong nally lie with her. For the Man cannot eredh
Ccjhis, i. e. Girdle, mollifies the hearts And the meafure of the ligature in refpeft o f
of Men, and o f all Animals, and the Natures breadth,muft be two fingers; of length, five
of the Males efpecially, fo that the touchiog palms. Another Preparation of V e n u s ; There
nr carrying o f this makes them foft and ef- is alfo another Veflel or Preparation o f Ve-
feminate. F u t t h e r a l f o 5 Upon the Stone Op- nus, which the Queens of Venus carry in pure
firm engrave a M a n having his Privities cut Gold, and whoever elfe are able. Thefe al-
oft, placed o r lying at his Feet, and his hands fo muft be in a ligature, which is made of a
contrafted u n d e r n e a t h ; a n d himfelf reaching nerve in fuch a manner, as that the (tones
down to hie Privities, and behind his back appear not, having a Sculpture, as ia fubjoyn-
let there be Venus, having back to back, fhe ed. And the firft muft be (Lapir Sulphureus)
turning her f e l f , a n d feeing him. Enclofe Lechnitn or Kerannitk in the middle o f the
therefore the S t o n e o f the F i f h Cynadius. But thong or ligature, having Mars armed en-
if you have n o t one o f them which arc un- graven. In this let there be Diamond (tones
der the head, y o u muft put underneath the fewed, "having Venus with a thorn about het
Root of the Herb, and the end of the Bird's feet. And again on the other fide t w o im-
left wing. E n c l o f e it in a large Gold Box, maculate wirged Creatures, having Venttt ti-
and you muft put it into a thong o f the nerve ed by her hair to L o v e ftanding by. Again al-
of a Hawk's S t o m a c h , let it be thin, fewing fo other two (tones on each fide, and in like
it in the middle of the thong or nerve, that manner a Sardinian engraven, having on. each
it do not appear. This is that which is paint- fide a Sun drawn with four Colts, that is, a
ed in the head of Venus , comprehended in Coach,and a Moon with two Bulls,eachftone
a thong or l i g a t u r e , which is called Cefius. having each : And other two (tones on each
ThutiMJe may not eretf ; If any one touch fide, having Mercury engraven, with the rod
a Male with the thong o r ligature, he will of a Scepter in his right hand : And other
nor two
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t w o Auankita-i i.e.true Unions or white Pearl,
having on each fide Erachmites, i. e. reins, the LETTER X I . A.
Goddefs Nemcfis having her foot upon a the Frankincenfe tree. L)Mum,
wheel, and holding a R o d . And other two a Stone. Lynx, a Vulture.' AdGes^i t tijh ti-
immaculate Pearls, being on each fide not en« led a Bafs.
graven, and put in the Cejius f o that in all
there are thirteen Stones nxt in Golden Cafes, Lihanus is a fhrubby tree, whole Gum la
and fo fewed in a ligature, that they may migated raifes divine Spirits. Lingurm is a
not be feen by the Crowd. And there is a (tone about the Hills Lingui, thence f o d
twofold holy ligature, and it f o l l o w s : An- led. But fomc fay it is the Gum of tk
v
other Stone may be carried, hung about the Poplar tree ^ however it is good. Lynx isi
neck, which is callcd i. e. Lunar Bird, which is called Gyps or a Vulture, i
Stone, in which the Encrcafe o f the Moon very ftrong Creature. Labrax is a Sca-i
and its Divinity appears. A n d let it have a called a Bafs, known to all. Of thefi t J:
Moon engraven, and underneath the Stone Eye-Salve is made for all dimnefs of tlx En;
the R o o t o f barren Selinum, that is , fo that in three days it makes the Sight ftarf. I
ParHy, in a Gold Cafe. And this is worn is good for the beginning of a Suffufion, a Ct\i-
about the neck. For wonderful and magnifi- rati, turning hjtcl^ of the Eye hd, Rougl.m
cent Atfs This Myftcry worn makes the wear- dilatation of the Pupil/a, Owl-fightedncfs, If,
er divine, and he is in veneration and adored trinejs , ltchng , Drinefs , falling away of l1
by all. For many Kings carry it under-hand, hairs of the Eye-lids,eating away of the Cormnj
or within their C r o w n , as a Ceflu.f, fo that the Eyes, and for many other Difeajes. Anoink
it may be feen of none. And they f a y , that with it is excellent good for all thefe things. Ai a
a Scleniics worn in a Ring does the fame. But this is the Confe&ion of i t : Of Ohbamimjiv
that w e may not deftroy our B o o k , let this Lapis Lyngurius Vultures Gall liver
Difcourfe fuffice, for it has great Virtues. of a Bafs ^iij. the beft Honey ^ vj W h e n
Wherefore, my Son! I have expounded apd this is old , it is better. But Kiram\ Eve-
written thefe things with great lludy and la- Salve was thus 5 O f Olibanum ;vj. G a l l ofi
bour. And know this, that no one elfe has Bafs, Gall o f a Vultur', each 7 ;vj. 1'tpKi
it. Wherefore give this Divine Myftery to no jjiij. Honey without drofs 5iij. in tV Sn 1
man. LETTER
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Lpigurius engrave a Vulture, and put under-
therefore of the boughs of the Mulberry tree
neath a little Frankincenfe, and the top of
are upright, others look down to the ground,
the Bird's Wings, and carry i t : for it will be
and they have large Buds like an Egg. If a-
good for the Pin and Web in the Eyes.
ny man then (hall (land upright on his feet,
and (hall look towards the South-weft wind,
LETTER XII. M.
and with two fingers of his left hand fhall
M<ya., a Mulberry tree. Migriot, a Bird, raife the bud of the twig of a Branch that
Mjdiau, a Stone. Mormyros, a Fijb known looks upward, extending and pulling it to-
to til, wards the Eaft. and fhall wrap it up in true
Purplfe or R e d , and tie it about, and fhall
The Mulberry-tree is known to all. Migriot touch a Woman that is troubled with a flux
the B i r d , is a Night-Raven, known to all. of Blood from the Matrix or Arfe, the Flux
M;</;w,theStone,is dedicated to Vems.Mor- will ftop in three days. For fuch of fpit
»'jros is a little edible Sea-fifh, like a Bafi.Blood ; But if a man pluck a Bud that looks
To make a Diarrhea and Evacuation 5 T h edownward, as before was faid, i. e. ftanding,
Juice of the Root of the Mulberry-tree giv- and fhall tie it up , he will ftop fpitting of
en fccretly in meat or drink, purges, and Blood in three dayes. Thefe are the things
caufes a Diarrhea. And if-any one chew they call Anacardia ; thofe indeed that look
the inner Rind of the Root, and fwallow his upwards cure inferior Fluxes in fo many
Spittle, and fpit out the Subftance, that man dayes, and thofe that look downward, cure
will die of a Diarrhea. It is good for great the fuperior. And this is that for the Flux
ftin in the Teeth called Grinders, and in the of Blood, which they call dva.ng.fMa, or xecno-
Gums, and does not fuffer them to corrode, yea,UPpSia. For the EntericU, which are called
it makes them that are corroded, fill without Exophan<e, or t^o^dLhs, i. e. the Haemorrhoids.
pm. Of the inner Rind \ij. of fharp Vine- Indeed many falfe Sophifters arc miftaken.
gar =xix. Bruife or fhred the R i n d , boyl it But for the Enterida, which are called H<e-
half a w a y ; wafh the Mouth with it morhing morrhoides and Exochades,a Medicine is made.
and evening. For Womens Flux of Blood from It is o f the unripe Juice of the Mulberry 51'j.
the Matrix or from the Arfe5 And we have Chalcith ^ xij. Lapis Inclicus ^iv. The ends of
difcourfed this by the divine power. Some feven Crows wings with a little Wine, mix it
therefore with
 ?8 K IRANI DBS and Bookl Bookl. HARPOCRATION. 39
with a Feather of the fame wings, till it h
foft and tough like Glew. For the innei LETTER XIII. N .
Hemorrhoids make Suppofitories or Clydcrs, N e x u ' / a , an Herb. Naucrates, a Fiji). N^a,
and for the Exochades or outer , make inun- Bird. Nemejiter, a Stone.
ctions. And in the Name of G O D ufe this
Ligature. In a little Stone engrave the Fifh N m / i a , is the herb Florinus, i. e. Taj/fii
Mormjrits, and enclofe it in an Iron Box, and Barbatus or Mullein: There are feven forts of
put under it a Bud of Mulberry-tree look this Herb. It differs therefore as much as the
ing upward, and carry it. It will be good for Leaves,which alcend a cubit above the Earth,
Hemorrhoids and the Arfe. For fpitting oj They burn the Leaves of this in Lamps for
""1
Blood, and Bleeding at the Nofe, and any D i f Wieks. Tr>
For ~~ they 1have them
eafes above } A Purge alfo is prepared of the HavJiiati ( u e. in Necromancy J w h i c h is per-
Root of the Mulberry-tree. O Mulberry-tree formed in a Shell, which they do to this
a potent Plant, not created for a few things day. Wherefore they call this herb Ntlyt,
For thy Juice mixt equally wifh the Juice For vtxvi fignifies dead. N?lwa,i. e. a Duck,is
of the R o o t of the Herb Stratiotes of Perjia, aBirdfwimming in Rivers, about the bignefs
i. e. Savory, and in like manner the Juice olof a Hen. Nauxe^-ms is the Sea-filh e^w,
Tithyraal and Scammony equally, mix them Or Remora, i. e. Stop-drip; if this flick to a
all equally, and boyl thrice as much Honey Ship under Sail, it will r.ot fuffer the Ship to
to the thicknefs of an Oyntment, and wher ftir , it would b'reak f i r d , or a Tree might
you have taken it off", put it up in a GlafSfooner be pluckt up by the roots. Forth
Bottle, and give of it to one fading and that Gout 5 This whole Fifli boyled in O y l , to
keeps an exatt Diet. But if you give above the thicknefs of Wax, thtn the O y l drained
the bignefs o f a Bean, he that takes it wil out, and boiled vo the thicknefs of a Plafter,
be ftized with a Vomiting and Loofnefs, am this applied Plaftei wife curcs the Gout. Ne-
will not live a day. Give nothiug fuperfluou! mefttes is a Stone from the Altar of Nemcjh,
in Meat or D r i n k , but give to every on< a Goddefs of the Athenians, It is an excel-
according to the ftrcngth of the Taker. lent ftone. Let Nemejis therefore b e en-
graven on that d o n e , having one of her
LET\ Feet upon a Wheel. Her Favour is like a
Viijnns,

1
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41 1KIRANIDES
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I, I, floOk L HARPOCRATION. 57
Virgin's, holding in her left hand a Pirrhit, Corn, but longer. It grows in plowed
i.e. an Glne or Meafure, and in her right hand grounds with Corn , fome call it Machsra9
a Rod, and with one foot treading upon an i.e. a Knife Or S k i e n , others (pdayavov, a
Oxc. And enclofe under it the ftone Acronius, Sword. It attends upright from the ground
and a little of the Mulberry- tree. If there• 06 one Arm j and it is but of one Branch. It
fore you Jbew that Finger to one poffeffed , thtHas a Gold coloured, purplifli, fweet-fented
Devil will immediately confcfs himfelf and ht Flower. Shepherds make Garlands of it in
gone. It is good alfofor Phantafms,and Dreamt the Spring time. Xiphias a kind of Sapphire,
of Devib, and for Childrens Frights, and 3 ftone known to all, this is as plentiful as
Nightly Fears. But the Wearer muft abftainPebbles in every Land, it is of colour like
from all polluted and unclean things. For this to Calenos. in theRegion of Syria they ufe this
Ring king worn,fhews the quantity of the years of at the burnt Sacrifice of four-footed Beafts.
lift,and the quality of death,and the place. If youXiphius, the Bird* is a kind of Hawk, which
few a little of the bones of the fhort Fifh js called Kydos. Xiphias the Fifh is party-ca-
Rfmora in a Horfes Hide, and have it with loured, little and fmall like the liilis. The
you when you take fhipping, the Ship will Flower therefore and R o o t of the Herb if a
not budge in the water at hoijiing Sail, unlefs quantity be kept in a Jar or Hogfhead of O yl,
what is put there be taken away, or you go and continue there for fome time, when y o u
out of the Ship. For the, fore-knowledge of take it out and put it up again, it •will be
Life and Death ; as I faid before, you muft the Unguent, that is required in the Sacred
ufe the prsguftation, or pixcognition of the Books, which in the Country o f Melanitif is
Hawk. called Suftnum. About which the old Pro-
phets are' miftaken. But in the Country o f
Syria the Plant is called Sufannum, and in
LETTER XIV. »
Melanitis Sujinups. This Herb has two roots,
3«pioy, an Herb. Xiphius, a Stone. Xiphiut,one above and another below. If therefore
third. Siip/cw, a Fifh known to allt calledyou give the upper Root to any one niixt in lViney
Spatha or Gladius. to drink, he will ereft: But ef any one drink.the
tower, it will do the contrary , and he will be
Xiphion, i.e. Gladiole, is an herb, which a
without feed. In the Stone therefore engrave
bounds in all L a n d s ; it has Leaves like
Corn E a Hawk,
43 IK1RANIDES and Book f, Book I. HARPOCRATION. 43

a H a w k , and under its feet a F i f h , and en- teen dayes, and grow to be as big as Flits, iki
clofe the Hoot of the Herb under the Stone, at Locufis , which being. augmented in lignt-.
and keep it. This Ring is cBaft, and fo it become Birds, called Quails. After ihh lit
he that wears it. If therefore you have it South or South'wefi Wind blowing jlrong, fhtj
about you, in the Oracle you will lie, what pafs the Seas into Pamphylia or CiliciawJIre-
you have a mind to. And if you put it up land, and confidently, the North-wind blm%
on any Animal, or upon any framed Idol, it they go to the Sea-coaflsof tlx Country of Syria
will give you an Oracle concerning all that, and the other parts of the Land of Melanitis,
which you have a mind to know. And the But abominable falfe Sophijlers fay, ikj m
Head of the Fifli put into a fuffumigation chaji, whereas they know not the Njlm
with Myrrh, makes them that fmell it feem of them. Orphos is an edible Sea-fifh, much
as if they were poflefled with the Devil. But like a Tench. Onychites is a Sardonjx. ftone
do you anoynt your Nofe with ftrong Oynt known to all. The Root therefore of the
ment, and you will no way be enraged or Herb boyled with Oyl and the Fat of a Quail,
mad. and then a little Wax added, is goodforhm-
nefs of the Matrix, and Swellings, and Vlctn,
LETTER X V . O. and Itchings, and all other Womens Diftujei ii
'Oeoflopjis, an Herb. "Opn/£, a Bird. Orphos the Matrix. And it is put into Medicines fo
a Fiji). " 'Oiv^jnis, a Stone known to all. the Kidneys. And it i9.good for Glmnu,
Onotbyrk or Onothyrfts is an Herb, fome i. e. the Kings Evil. The Eyes ofQuail,
call it 'Ovoj{g.hcL'^i% i. e. Afles Mallow, this is a with the Root of the Herb hung about on
Role, of which they make Garlands 5 It has diminilh a Quotidian and Quartan cold Fii
Leaves like domeftick Mallow. This by the in the wain of the Moon. For lliufm} Dif-
Greeks is called « * 9 i . e. MafoavjfcvsMaifa folve the Eyes of the Quail or of the Se?
MaI|ow.Or/yx,a Quail,is a Bird known to all, ; Tench wUh a little, water in a Glafs-Velit
yet its Nature is not ealily known 5 for there for feven dayes, (hen add a little O y l : Put
is one thing concerning this, unknown. For a little of this in the Candle, or only anoint;
when there are great Storms upon the Coafts oj Rag, and light it among the Comftony, anil
Lybia deferta, the Sea cafis up great Tunnies they will look upon themfclves like Devils or,
upon the fl)ore, and thefe breed Worms for four fire, fo that every one will run his way,
teen E 3 tfct
44 KIR A N.I'D BS and Bookl Book!. HARPOCtLATION. 4$
the Sardonyx Stone engrave a Quail, and un-
the &haw)viov, or skiti of the Eye-lids, Rough- *
der its Feet a Sea-Tenon,and put a little of the
ttefs, Watrinefr>, Ulcers, Hairinefs, here* are four.
forefaid Confeftion under the Stone in the
About the Corners, fcabbinefs, dryntfi, Agethi-
hollow of the King. And when you are wil-
nos, Aduflion, cvyAwTiia, cu^Aa)-^, ferix, fret-
ling not to be feen, anoint your Face all over
ting, eating away, here are nine. About the Ball
with the forefaid Confe&ion, and wear the
of the Eye, Pterygium, Albula, p>j£it, /uu>ox.i<pa.-
Ring, and no Man (hall fee you, if you d o
ftzauAufia,; aJuaAw^, srpetyyos,
any thing in the Houfe; no, not if you(hould
take any thing away that is in the Houfe. uva visits, here are nine. About the Pu-
pil, or Sights there are nebula or nubes, hebeta-
tio, latitudo pupillt, effufio, effeftio, defeffio,
LETTER XVI. n .
atrophia, or <pdi<ns, glaucedo, (JJU^Q^OLOK, g^ins
notoJjpw?, fome call it ^etpcti^Aor, Knot-grafs. pupill<e, oimmov, metalopa,myops, obfeuratio,here
Porphyrin, a pluvial Bird, or Plover, which a- are twelve. In the whole fubflance of the Ere,
Umt in Rivers. Poapvpa, a fea Jhell-fifl), the there are (pAe^ffc, (plfw™* WW™"* COff*buJtio,
Purple:femecall it Scolecium, like to a Wilk. fuffufio, apoflema, comeftio, ulcus, circumdolor,
Porphjrivt, the Porphyry-ftone, weUkjtown in the pjydrakium, here are ten. And there are feve-
Country of Melanitis. ral forts of Rheums,lene, Adfyov, fubitum, cali-
duns, dulce, frigidum, tepidum, tenue, acre, anti-
This Root therefore taken up in the Wane quum & arenofum., ,aluminofum, here are ele-
of the Moon, and carried about one, differs ven R h e u m s , and in all fifty five Difeafes.
rot the Eyes fo be weak. And its Juice pre- And this is the Preparation of the Confe&ion
pared, as we fhall fet down hereafter, is good for all the forefaid Difeafes: Juice of the Herb
tor many Difeafes in the Eyes. For the Eyes of f v j . Licium Indicum^vy Myrrh, Saffron, Fran-
MM are fnbjeS to\ and tormented with many kincenfe, Opium, each j v i j . black Acacia f x i j .
Difeafes. And that I may not depart from Rain-water f v . Beat them up together, and
what I fay, but make good my w o r d : In the keep it in a Glafs Veflel. But it is better to
Ejt-lids there happen Itching,Nits, Lice, falling put in Wine for Water. This is a moft preci-
of the Hair, entangling of the Hair, Baldnefs, ous thing for the Rheum, and for all Difeafes of
Gniido, Hordeolum, Warts, Purblindnefs, thick- the Eyes, and Dimnefs $ for it flops every Rheum.
*tft of the Eye-lids, here are eleven. About Moreover anointing with it in the Bathe, and
the E 3 • wafting
 46 KIRANIDES <and Bookl.. Bookl. HARPOCRATION. 47
a
' " off* » great help for all paint. For its Feet the Needle-fifh, and under the Stone
the Memitrania. And the raw Flcfli of the put the R o o t of the Herb. He that carriii
PurpJe-fifh, applied Plaftcr-wifc to the Fore- this (hall put Devils to flight. And if you lay
h w d affwages the Hemicrania. And in the it under the Head o f any one that knows it
Forphyrv-ftone engrave the Bird, and under pot, he will netJleep. In like wanner alfo, If
Its tcet Kmfyum, or the Purp/c-fift, and put you cut o f f the Head o f a living Owl, and tie
under the Stone the end of the Birds Wine* it in a black Skin, and apply it to any ones
and enclofe it, and wear it againfi every Head- left Arm, he will not fleep, till it be taken
ach, and every Hemicrania. And it is alfo good from him.
for Rheumarick Eyes. In the Wain of the
Moon make the Ring, And the Eye-falve. * LETTER XVIII. 2.

LETTER XVIf. P .
Strnthiogambarnm, an Eflrich. XdAmi, a Fijh,
'Pa^©., a PJant. Romphea, the Bird VUK-
a Sea-Cow. Saphtrus? a Saphire-fione.
Tte«, an Owl with long Ears well ktiown to all •
'Pa<pk, a Sea fifi, having as it were a Needle in Satyrion is an Herb like Spinofa, and it Harts
its Mouth. a parti coloured (lone, a up with its whole Stalk from the G r o u n d ; it
tor»cdfojK,ff&ee*daftle Riwoccros Nofe. is two Palms in heighth, full of Seed.' It and
For it is hie a Horn. the Seed have a watrifh pale Colour. The
Eflrich is a known Bird. T h e Sea-Cow is an
If therefore you put a Branch of the Plant edible Fifh, well coloured and known. The
in the Houle, all Devils will fly away. And immaculate Sa phi re is dedicated to Ftm,
the Juice of the Plant, and the Fruit with Therefore the Preparation of the Herb is in
Honey, applied to the Eye, fharpens ike fight. this manner j For fpent and barren Women, ami
And if it be applied alone, it tafa out white for Coition,and for fuch as have a watry and thin
Specks in the Eye. But boyl it to a. Thicknefs. feed, and which cannot conceive, and Juch ai
And the Blood of the O w l , if you anoint with are withered and dry : For this is arid and de-
it, and the Juice of ihe Herb, and Honey, will legable, and gives Conception. If before Coiti-
Jharpen the fight, and take away a fuffufion. And on, y o u ftrew it on the virile Member,anoint-
let an Owl be engraven in the Stone, and at ed with Honey, the Woman will be debilita-
i ts E 4 ted
43 KIRANIDES and BookI,f loOkLHARPOCRATION. 57
fed beyond meafurc. And i f the Woman bo i.e.of the Gizzard of an E f t rich,with one C> rain
fo anointed, the Intenfenefs of the Adk will be of Satyrion, powdered and given in Meat o r
great: For it dries up Nafute, and caufes Drink fecretly,/>»wwtt great Intenfenefs to them
Conception, and makes barren Women con- tfpeciaUy, who are impotent in Coition. And the
ceive. And it is prepared thus: OfSatyrion f t o n e i t felf, only hung about the Neck t caufes
Seed §ij. and Seed of Pepper I). Alumenfdf good Digefiion, and Intenfenefs in Coition. And
fit I j. (l>ut according to another B o o k ) f i j . Sty the Stone of the right Temple of the Sea-
ptrti rotunda, i. c. common Allum Aroma Cow, carried about one, caufes Intenfenefs,
te mdk j. Lay it up in a Vtflel, and com- or Eretiion. And the left Stone does the con-
municate it to no man. T h e Preparation, or trary. And the Fat o f the Fifh caufes great
Cortfeftionof Aromate aridis is thus, Cofius fiij. Delights, beaten up, or difiolved with Ho-
Spikenard (in another Boolfltij.) Carpobalfa- ney, and anointed on both Genitals. Engrave
mm fiij, Ammum ( in another place f v.) therefore upon a Saphire-ftone an Eftrich
Cloves $ij. Cnjfia fij. Storax ^ v . Opobalfamum*).holding a Sea-Cow in its M o u t h , and put
Mcs exungulated -iiij. Musk Powder underneath a grain, of Satyrium and a little
the dry things very 'finely, and fift them well. of the Stone, which is in the Echinm or Giz-
Then rub the Storax a long time apart, and zard of the fame Bird, and encloGng it, wear
then with the beaten Rofes and Balfam, and it, againfi all indigefiion and for Tenjion- and
all niuct together, make Trochifcs t After- Love. For it is very good for thofe thatdefire
wards Id/iimigate them, and dry them in a to ufe much Coition, and for old Men. Ana it
: : i, //7'wi/w of Tree-Mofs and Storax, and wakes him that mart it, gracious.
M.ifich, Qui i Is Claws, and Cofius, which
lew? Med, put them up in a Glafs Veflel, LETTER X I X . T.
mn when y o u have occafion for Conception' Trifolium, Trefoil, a known Herb. Tec at,
powder t w o Tiochifcs. And this is ConMil the Peacoc4, a delegable and acceptable Bird,
tttmVr fic.'ii. And the Bird Eftrich has an which all do know. Tpuyuv, a. Turtle, a Sea-fifh
Etbidirm, which is called fuffmium aridum, known to all, whofe good and bad is kpown.
the inner Skin of the Gizzard: This powder- Ta'itis, a Stone as beautiful as a Peacock.-, And
ed, and given in D: ink li e r e t l y p r o c u r e s Love hk§ one.
' 1 wiry. Ami the Stone of the Echinus,
Engrave therefore in the Stone a Peacock,
3. c. holding
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holding a Sea-Turtle, and under the Stone jn4 enclofing it , y o u will have a great
the Peacock's Voycq ajo, and put the Rooti hylattery for all Fits of the Mother tnd
underneath. For this carried about one is Stpjmmings in the Head^ and Flux of Blood,
great Miracle for Vi&ory and Peace, and Sta* tnd furtherfor all Difeafis of the Mother, «
bility, and all Gain 5 fo that the very Divinity cfpt the falling 'down of thi Womb. Give it
rejoyces in i f . And it fiews in Sleep whatever therefore to Women Patients as a great My-
you would. For if you place-it under yout fery.
Head, in great red, you. (hall fee in a Dream
what you have a mind to. And give this L E TTE R XXI.
R i n g to no other Body. For fuch another fyuwv is an Herb, which is called fictlylyn,
is not found. And by the Stone that is in i. e. Rana, an evil Plant. The form of it is a
the Head of a Peacock, given in Drink with ipium raninum : And.it grows in Waters, htiti$
your own Sweat, you may obtain any V i r if a burning quality. <J>fuV» is a Bird, aid
gin which you have a mind to. fome call it Itfaeris, others a green Bird } it it
of the bignefs of a Sparrow. 1, a Seal or Sen-
L E T T E R X X . Y.
Calf, viz. an excellent Sea-Animal having
'Tinpiw, is an Herb ftupendoufly good'-, fbmt bands like a Man, a Face like a Calf or a Cow.
a
call it Dionyfiaca , i. e. Bacchus and Jovi tpdvos, fome call it /3xtest-^h Toad-jlone.
their Herb, <urpo£anJTvA©-, it is a Summer
Plant. Yperionis avis is the Female Eagle, T h e Virtue of the Herb therefore is ftrong
like to the Male Eagle. " T K R © . , a Sea-fifb not as Iron, viz,, it breaks Apoflemes, Kernels,
edible. Tenos, a Stone which is found in Ri- Glands, and all things that are purulent. And
vers, it is a Stone having a very bloody . Co- you fliall caufe a Plafteror Oyntment to be
lour. laid on b u t for three hours, then take ita-
way, and you will find the Body marked
Engrave therefore in the Stone an Eagle and h u r t : But in hard Bodies you may let
tearing the Fifh, and under the Stone put a it lie on longer. And after incifion ufe thofe
R o o t of the H e r b , and the end ot a Fea things, which cleanfe and d r a w , and then
ther of the Eagle's W i n g , and if you Healers. And this is the Rofary. Of the
have it n o t , put in a Hawk's Feather Herb Batrachia f i v . Arfenick §iv. Chalcitn
and
5> KIRANIDES and Boot** »• HARPOCRATION. 5*
=iv. Lathyridon 5iv. the Breafts o f CantbarB®?> c j e c i a l l j r i f it have the R o o t or
dcs, throwing away the wings and legs 5 v f r U " L o f f * o n y " A d thC
" 8

quick Lime ( i n another place f v i i ; 5 O y P a l s h , a , n d s ' T * d a b ° u ' °. r w o r i » f m '

atc 3,1 eache e
of Cedar, .or k o f c , or Cofius what is f u f f i c W . T ' " ? and Fafcinatiom. T h e r e ,
cnti French Soap §iv. Beat them t o g e t h e f r e tt will not be inconvenient neithfer, t o
carefully, and make a Plafter, and lay it u £ u t a Nail o f the right hand into this Phyla-
in a Glafs Veflel. U f e it, and take care y o i f " ? - A n d * * . H « » o f a Seal put into an
lay it not upon a Nerve or Mufcle, and make and tied about ofie in a Girdle,
r e s al1
a Convullion. And it is good alfo for at F° °f lh<Loy*" *nd Kidneys. Be-
Mgilop, and Trichiafu, applied after they.ap "8 P u t a l £ " J Shooes they cure the
pear to be rifen. The hairs alfo o f a Seal B
Flux And likewife the
which are found between its Nofe and iti ' a t o f • m , x t with Oyntment of Rofes,
Mouth, the greater and harfher o f then ^ood for Goutyperfons And if one tte the
pluckt, with the middle o f a Seal's Heart H«»rt o f it to the Maft o f a Ship, the Ship will
and the Heart o f a Houp, and a little o f th( Shiptorack, A n d if youJiang its
n at th
Liver o f a Seal, and fome Chryfanthemum oi f ! « Say 1-yard or at the Maft o f a
Sittcbas or herb Plumaria, o f Ants herb, anc » ! P " " " mt be P™* ? Thunder. And
c , r d c t e n CU rCS , a e n c k P e r o n s A d
lynx, of the Tongue o f an Eftrich,and a lit ® ® f . f ', , "
tie Musk in Deer's Skin, and tie up the right ll ? G l a w s a b o U t o n e c re t h e c o l d
!< f *
Eye ofa Wolf; and keep it for a great P h y - f ' Tertian and Quartan Ague.
laftery for all Friendjhip., a9d obtaining of And its Heart tied in a Cloth, and worn up-
ttory. For it diffolves all Enmity, and confert on,the Arms
» PHts ° f f a Tertian, and Quartan,
Friendjhip, it aifo delivers from all necejfity and™ In a Toadftone there-
ilijjiculty of Times, and from danger, and front™ engrave a H a w k « and at its feet tlie

JJ 'XIMJWJ tlr/Ll f^UUC* Ur/IA g l / V L . J • J

~»rly> opportunity, and abundance of all gooc P.°PS all Fluxes of Blood, and cures the faun-
and truly it if the great Protection oj*'C€- h
* good alfo for fuch as fpit blood, and
GOD, for
 54 KIRANIDES and Book, iotiki. HAkPtjC RATION, k
for the Flux of Women, and if good for the 4 Water Where the Bird whs killed is, and take
:
of Fury above the Auger of ones Enemies, e Of thar Water §ij; ahd of Honey §j. and of
pecially if the hairs of a Seal be enclofcd Rofemary root 5'tV. and of Barley htft info-
it. It preferves alfo from venomous Stings, Ali fcd in Rain-water till it fprout, fo that in-
it hastother Adto alfo, which I- fhall relate deed the Grain does juft appear, xxviij
Take the Stone,, which is called Hieraciti Corns, and of the Herb Batrachia §iv. Frank-
and engrave in. it a Hawk, and at his feet ilicenfe $iv. of the Herb Chamaleon iij Seeds,
Frog, and under foot engrave this M l It a i which are called Ctoidius Coccus. Bruife them,
which is Malaa. In another Book it is foua tnd boyl them with Hydromel, till it grow as
thus ; MerGyf Rai man ovaa. And in a lii .thick as an Eleftuary, and put it up in a
ing Loadftone make this Sculpture, A a M d a f t Vefifel, and keep it covered. But when
a aGy na: But others have it thus ^ a a a a you put this u p , put into it the heart of a
And take a common H a w k , which we a Houp, and its B l o o d ; and again upon this,
Circus, or a Falcon, kill, it in Spring* wat4 fwallow another heart of a Houp, and Hydro-
by dipping it under wator fo often till i*di< >mel after it, and a little of the Compofition,
T a k e it therefore, and preferve it in Myn and you• will be ptrfett alt the time of your Lift.
f o r (even days* as in Salt. And after fevi And it is good, if you dip theforefaid ftones
d a y e s , tie the Tortguci and the Heaii in the fame Compofition, and fo you will pro-
with the Tongue of a living Frog, anldtn vide for your felf When you want any thine,
ftones,Jcil. a Hieracites and Q Magnet; .and1 or you (hall keep a Ring fo, and you willoe
little filings of Steel, thalt the Magnet! m perfeft. When therefore you wouldforeknow,or
live, tie them in a Hawks Skin r And'ma know, whatever is done in the World, or in tkj
the Ligature of the Phylaftery of the. nen ownHoufh^or in another Houfe, concerning \
of the Hawk, as a round (or twitted) Co Man dr a Woman, or a Thief; taftefirftwith
fraall and long, that being worn about One finger of the Compofition, and drink de-
Neck, it may reach to the Stomach and Hiea voutly, and afterwards Hydromel, and carry
and you will foreknow all things. But neit the aforefaid Phylaftery about your neck, To
tell, nor teach this to thy own Son. Thi that it may reach your Heart and Stomach,
the Apozeme or Cup of thi P by lattery. A Taki and you will be a Fore-knowfcr of all things.
new Flagon or D i f n , in which the fore Whatever you have a mind to know Concern-
Wa ing
56 KIRANIDES and Book I, floOk L HARPOCRATION. 57
ing the life of a Man or Woman, tbeir Ani- The R o o t therefore o f the Herb with the
ons a n d Generations, and Lots or Fortunes, Stone out o f the Fifties Head, tied in a Cloth,
and concerning Thieves and Fugitives, wijere if good for pain of Childrens Teeth in breeding
and how they are 5 as a wife Man y o u fhall them. T h e E y e s o f the Bird Chvyfepteris, hung
have Science of, and k n o w , and difcern eyeyyabout one, cure Tertian Agues. Its Hea t alfo
thing- hung about the Neck cures Fevers. The
Stone alfo of the Head o f it, hung about the
LkTTER XXII. X. neck, cures Confumptions. In the Stone Chry-
Xpumi'^i', i. e. Golden-Flour^ is an Herb Ites engrave a Bird having a round C r o w n ,
to all. X f v M f i s , Golden-wing, is 4and at its feet the Filh , and underneath en-
Bird of the bignefs of a guaiil. Xpvm<f><& ( otclofe the R o o t of the Herb : Give it to wear
rstkerXpumfpvi') an edible Sea-fib known to alit againfi Pains of the Stomach, and Fits of the
t Quilt-head. XfuoinIJ, a ffected Stone, and atMother, and the Stone in the Kidneys. And it
makes the wearer acceptable mnd amiable'in all
itmre Golden.
all things. And it is good for Fevers, if it be
The Flower therefore o f Chry fanthemum it put in O y l , and unftion be made with that
of a Gold colour, and there are Chives in th? Oyl, at Sun-fetting. And it has other Effica-
middle of the Flower, like Ants, little am cies. A Drink for Love, if you infufe it in
black, having little wings. This is called Wine and drink it. And if any one have the
Man's Blood. This therefore is gathered be flone o f the iFifties Head with the forefaid
fore the rifiog of the Sun, the Sun being in things,it will be very good good for Phthifical
Aries, and is put in a Glafs Veflel with OylPeople.
cf Rofes and the Flower o f the Herb : Then
coming in the Moroing, take chsjftly a, Ijtt LETTE R XXIII. *
of it, and anoint your Face, a n d g o p w a y •^Jttiop, is an Herb known to all, Flea-
confidently, for- it will makg yon amiable, am toort. ^uAA©. marinus, a very little Animal
uctptable, and efficacious with all Men, and fitwhich Fifhers ufe. It fings by the Jhore.
" " f. And-if-you d o this at the Sun-rifing, f well known Bird, a Starling. Pjorites, a Stone
itwilfbethe more effe&ual. And it hgqod tailed mipos, i. e. fadum.
for infortHnate degrees, inefficacy and fuchjksp.
F Enyl
58 K I R ANID E S and Book b P o o k l . HARPOCRATION. V:

Boyl therefore of the Seed o f the Herb

~iij. in ^xviij. of Water to vifcofity, drain it L E T T E R XXIV. a
through a Cloth, and throw away the dregs,
' Chwij&v, an edible Plant, kpuwn to all, Ed-
and in the Water which you drained out, put
fil. 'Chujidepos, a Bird, Swift-wing, a vernal>h
o f W a x ^iij. of O y l §vj. Then bpyl them,
Animal, common to all, , a Swallow,
till the Wax is melted, and rub it a long time
*fl/juc a Sea fifl), Ibcmbras, another calls it Kpi-
in a Mortar. For this is a divine Plafler for
bros, a fmall edible Animal, which is edd
the Gout and Stone, and injenfible Flefi. And
jxaycij, a Pilchard or Herring. 'ilwnium, e.
if you put the Stone into the Blood of the
velocitcr parkns, quickly bearing, is a Stem left
Bird, and anoynt the Face, yon will cure Ter
than the Eagle-ft one and ratling. And it is
tian and Quartan Agues. And if in the fore-
fnsooth to tie Touch.
laid Juice o f the Herb you dip the Stone
t h r i c e , and anoynt thole , that have the W e k n o w o f the Plant Bafil, that it has
Head-ach, in the Face, you will keep them with* great E l F e & s . If any one chtw this Herb fa-
out pain. And Pfyllus marinus, tied up with ding, and before he have wafhed, and (hall
viij Seeds o C P j y l l i u w in a Cloth, and hung fet it in the open Air for feven nights,in which
about the neck, drives away a Fit of a Tertian time the Sun may not fee it, taking it away
Ague. A n d boyl a great many PJylli marini indeed by day, and by night expoling it to
in Sea-water, andfprinkle it where there are nsa• the open Air, he will find a Scorpion of fe-
ny Fleas, and there fhall he no more. In the ven knots and green. If this fling any on,
Stone Pforicus engrave three Pfylli marini he will fwell and die in three dayes. And it
abiding under the green R e e d , anc you put it into water or wine, and g i v e it any
cnclofe the R o o t s of the Herb , ant one todrirjk, all his Bocjy will grow dry and
give it to a little one to wear, that falls ant leprous. For of this comc incurable Ulcers,
heats out his Teeth. And if a Fifher carry it a And if y o u bruife the f a m e S c o r p i o n with the
bout him, watching all day by a R i v e r oj jeed o f the herb Scorpioma, a n d m a k e Pills,
Pond, he will make a great catching of Fiji). afterwaids dry them and put tlicm u p in a
Glaft, and give them any one t h a t is fcpilep.
tick, he will no longer be I n u t . A n d you
LET mud g i v e it for f e v e n d a y e s a l i k e , three Pills
F a falling
60 K I R AN I D E S and Book I. flookl. HARPOCRATION. 6t
fafting, in temperate wine. But if y o u give fil, in which the Seed is,and a Swallow's heart
it to a healthy M a n , he will g r o w Lunatick, in a Deer's skin, and you will cure Lunaticks5
and he will be incurable. And if you anoint and this PhylaBery both cajis out difobedient
Ptople in Tertian Agues with the Juice o f theDevils, and compels them to go away. And
herb Bafiland Swallow's Dung, you will cure diflolve the forefaid Stone with the J u i c eof
them. And if you give a Swallow's Feather, the Herb, and the blood o f the Bird, and
and Bafil root, to a Woman in travail to hold, the head o f a Herring , and a little water ,
fh( will presently bring forth without any harm.and put it up in a Glafs Veflel, and when you
If you put a Feather of the Bird in any Un- have a mind to make fhew of your power, dip
guent, you will have love and peace with all the fingers of your h a n d , either right
men. And concerning the common Scorpion or left, and touch the flrongefi flone that you
I will hide nothing, becaufe of the Error of
WINNING -- flea/e,
JHTUYC, or I'1 bone,
L/VFFL-, or
I" wood,
LL'I'I/WJ it
'* will prefently
Y, break
FITU^ ,,
the Foolilh. For there is an Error implanted f0 that you fhall Jeem great. A n d if one put
in the Air. If therefore you put a common the head o f a Irefti Herring upon the Coals
Scorpion into ^vijji. ot O y l in the wain of to fumigate, and he get upon the houfe in
the Moon, and keep it by y o u , and anoint rhe night, he will think that all the Stars run
any ones back, and the palms of his hand* into one. And if any one at the full Moon
and the foles of his f e e t ; but you muft a- (hall put the head o f the Animal into a d r y
noint the back from the top to the bottom, Fig, and fhall lay it on the Fire, when the
and the forehead, and the head before the Air is ftill, he will fee the O r b of the Moon
hour of the Fit, it will cure a Tertian, and a as big as half of Heaven. Another Sight 5
Quartan, and a Quotidian Ague. It alfo helpsAnd if y o u mix a little o f the Sea-ftar w i t h
buiaticks, and thofe that are poffeffed with tht it, you will fee great Sticbius , lie is the -D<*>
Devil. But if you put a Feather o f the Bird mon 1'ortun.e, made, and Handing at your
into
LIMJ other V JyIl), and anoint him that is cured feet.
UNIVI O IVLU And
NNU if 11 you
YUU powder
^UVVULI the
WJV. Stone
U^UUL I Pyrites,
JIIIIJ,
his Difeafe will return, and he will die. And a n d in like manner lay it on, thlre will be
a common C m r n i n n rroafted
Scorpion n a f t e d aand
nd p a t e n •bjVI Thunder
eaten IFLUM/F/LAFL and
.4 11 LI ightning.
J/LFL^MTMI A,,.! if you alfo
And OIR. lay 1 it * R
thofe that have the Stone, makgs them pifs th on Earth, which fell from an houfe upon a
Stone without torment. T i e up t h e f t i n g o f iMan, there will be an Earthquake in the
Scorpion, and the extremity o f the Herb Ba place. And m^rls they call w^mj, becaufe it
F 3 haih
 w
62 KIRANIDES and Bookl. Bookl. HARPOC RATION.
gall o f a black Alanitus, make one to fee tl/ofi
hath great virtue in the (boulders: for
things that are in the dark. And if you mix
is a (houlder. And the Conjeftion of the Pla
it with a little o f a living Magnet, and alit-
ficr is' w this manner$ O f the bones which
tie Rain-water, and anoint, you will fee tlwfe
are in the flioulders of Herrings, Mandrake
things thai arc in the Heaven and in the Air for
Apples, Henbane Seed, Opium, dried Rofes
feven clayes. Engrave on the Stone a Swal-
each ^'j.(in another place Bark o f the R o o t of
low, and at its Feet a Scorpion, (landing up-
Ulmelea ^tij.) ColopLoma li»j. Sulphur rjj. Ni-
on a Herring, and under the Stone enclofe
tre Make it as a Composition, and plalfer
the eyes o f a Scorpion, and a Herring, and
whom you pleafe with it, and he will quick
the Pvoots o f Scurpionia, andwear it. Forit
ly be rid of his Difeafe. But if you make;
averts all venom of Animals, and will humble
Fomentation applied for one day, and woulc
all Enemies and 7 ray tors. If any oiieluftun^
give any relief, it will do no good. But it
by a Scorpion , fign the Wound with the
will not pafs feven d a y e s : for this is the Me-
Stal, and piefently he w ill be cured. If any
dicine o f things that are applied. And Ma-
one lie bitten by a mad Dog, and grow
vis is fo callcd, becaufe it makes a Maniac;
<pu£tyji, he cannot drink a moie precious
CohfLfrion in this manner, T a k e , I f a y , the
Liquor. T a k e then fore the Ring, and |>ut
eyes o f a M<enis, and put them into Wire,
it in Water, and give him to drink, and he
with fome Lily, and infufe them fo for feven
d j y t s , then put into the Wine of Mandrake will be f i f e ; and if Jvou f i v e it In.lure Mad-
»
Seeds ;;xiv. Seed of vj.rooCciiu, 1. c. Dog-Briar nefs, he will not be mad. And i( one give
of the Heib Scorpionia ^iv. Boyl it to the T o n g u e of a young Mxnis dillolvcd in
half, and put it up and u/e it. for mad\ water, and pufri'Tg the Ring into it, give if
s / / / / J / / / / / / /</ s / r M , / c t>v// /><> f a ft. 8 m i(
ft )<]U fee any o r e in iC/adhtfs, or a
you give it to one that is fober, it will nialv
Mania, give him of the Wine -,). with warm
water, ;ind he will be cured (in another Book him raging mad. His Relief is, to give h i m a
it was And if you mix it with an Eye- roafted M<enis to cat, and the nun wii) In-
wat-.'i, and make an infufion, and ufe it for come ignorant of the fort fa id things. A;
liven dayes in a Juffnjion of the Eyes, it will Divine Kiranides fayes unto Men.
cure. And the Stories, that art: m the head •71
F 4
o f a A U / J s , powdered and mixt with the
gall
64 KIRANIDES, See. Bookl.
I

Thu Harpocration finijhed this Bool^, and 1

found no other Book <>f them that are called
Kirahides. But indeed in this, I fay, Har-
pocration was diffonant from Kirani, or the
one from the other : But we colleffed every
Chapter out of each, as is fet down, and we
K I R A N I -
bm made a Book,omitting nothing. And
VOIP rve willpafi to the other Books of Kirani,
iht we may reap benefit by them. Book 1L

A.
e a
A - She-Goat, known to all, which
is aho called the Oracle. For if a man
put a She-Goat's skin about one, troubled
with the Falling Sicknefs,' and lead him along
a River or the Sea-fide, by and by he will
be taken falling and trembling, and in an
agony. For People in bloody Fluxes $ And
tne Blood of a She-Goat heated over the
Fire and eaten, cures Dyfenterick perfons,
and effeQually faves them, that have drank, poy-
fonous potions , and perfectly cures people of the
Dropfie. And the Gall applied with Honey
without drofs cures Dimnejs, Speck, and the
KIRANF. Pin and Web in the Eyes. The Spleen alfo of a
She-goat roafted and eaten, cures the bloody
Flux. And its dry Dung drunk with wine
and honey helps difficulty in Urine. And its
Dung
66 SK IRANI. Book n!
D u n g m i x t with Pultefles, and fprcad upon
the Sores, heals them that are flung with a Spi-
Book II. K IRANI.
of it 1t>j. Wax =vj. Cabbage Juice ^vj. ( ot
in another Book iij. ) raw Eggs iv. the bell
<7
T
cier, or Serpent, or a Prejicty. And boiled in Oyl ti>j- Beat what is to be beaten, melt what
old wine and applied, it perfectly cures fwcl- is to be melted, put in the Epg% anddif-
lings of the Lvjtbs, and Genitals, and Breafis, folve all a little longer. By this PlaJierjn
And mixt with Honey and melted and ap. may cure the Spleen, Falling Sickmfi, Drop(ii,
plied, it cures them , and draws out all Venom, and fuch like, and aijo water Ruptures, i d
And the Spleen o f a She Goat taken frefli the Qout. Keep it fecret, becaufe it is a great
and hot in the Name of the Patient, and thing. And if you diflolve the Uung in Vi-
laid upon the Spleen of one troubled with the ncgar , and anoint any place, o r a Vcjfd ij
Spleen, and fvvathed on only one d a y , after- Honey with it, Ants will not creep up. A j
wards taken o f f , then let the fick party hang C o w s Hoofs boyled, and eaten w i t h Vinegar,
it in the Smoak, or Sun, or Wind ; as much refijl all Poyfon, nothing more. A n d Cow's
as the Spleen of the She-Goat diics a w a y , Call breaks the Corns of our Fh'fl.> and hern Ii-
fo much will the Patient's Spleen wade. And fies the Face. And its Dung fu f l u mi gated un-
the Spleen of a Kid drunk heals them that are der the Patient's Chair, hajieni the Birth, ml
bitten by Serpents • And the Rennet of it brings away the After-burthen.
d r a n k , or eaten roafh'd, cures the Bloody
Flux : And boyled with Galls and Olives, E.
and eaten, it flops the Flux of the Belly. And
l l x T e ^ © ' * i. e. a Frog, a well k'^xrn Ani-
the Spleen ofthis Creature roaltcd and erven,
mal. If one cut its T o n g u e outbi d let it go:,
cures People of the Spleen. Its Skin, burnt in
gain alive, and make a fuperfcription upon
a Fume , rarjes Lcthargick, people, and them
the T o n g u e thus, Z F l^ox. chuoch, eojt
that fall in an Epdepfie, and them that have ]
AIH y edammoth , ar.d fliall lav it pri-
Fits of the Mother. And its Hair futiumiga-
vately upon a Woman, as (lie is alltep, itf
tc-d does the fame.
Woman will tell whatever fie /.<« done ulllur
B. Lifetime. A n d the Afhcs of a Frog, appli
ed in a Platter with Pitch, thicken an Alofecit,
BHM i.e. a Cow, known to all. T a k e the dry And applied with Vinegar, they u/re all bleed-
Dung of this Creature, beat it, fift it, weigh ing at the NofeyofZJ leers, and Women's Fluxei
of The]

%
 « K IRANI. BookII, Bookll. KIR AN I. 69
Tlxralfo cure the Veins and Arteries,and Burns' Chirurgery for Buboes. The Stones help Con-
And if one take a Frog alive in the Name o^ ception, and hinder Conception. For if any
anyone, when neither the Sun nor the Moon one mix the right ftone in an Unguent, and
B above the Earth, and (hall cut off its two put it in a Peltary with wool, and ufe coiti-
hind feet w i t h a pair of ScifTors, and wrap it on, fhe will, as 1 fa:d, conceive prefently. But
in Deer's s k i n , and tie the right to'the right the left Tefticle tied up in a Mule's skin, and
foot, and the left to the l e f t , he will cure carried about one, hinders Conception. Thefe
pvty ptrforiswithoutfail.lf anyone would eaft words muft be written in the Mule's skin,
the hair of his whole Body, let him burn the In ora. i. idacvia. i.joa. viij. i rayo. j.voi.
skin of a Frog, and put it into the water of koox 5. i. coochi. But if you will not believe
the B a t h , h e will eaft it. For an Alopecia, it, try it in a Hen, that lays eggs, and (he
tr falling of the hair ; Apply the a(hes of l i t - will not lay. And cut off its Tefticles in the
tle Frogs w i t h Tar, and you will cure an A- wain o f the Moon , and let it go again
lofccia. alive, and give the Tefticles to be carried in
a Mule's skin, it is inconceptive, and invincible,
I. and amatory. And fave its Blood in Vinegar,
TaAM, i.e. a IVeezle, a little Creature, known and give it fecretly to one troubled with the
todl. A Weezle's Tongue dried, and worn falling Sickness, till it is all gone, and it per-
in ones (hooes, makes all his Enemies to he fe&ly cures.
ante. Another Book f i y e s , it amends For-
gtifnlnefs and an ill Mind. And if at any A.
timeyou find a Wcezle thrown out dead,take, Aopi^t, i. e. a Rocbuck,, » a four footed A-
and boyl it in Oyl, till it be difTolved, then nimal, having a conceptory virtue. If there-
[ b i n o u t the Oyl, and put as much Wax to fore you would have Conception to be ftrong
it as will make it into Plafter, and you will and infallible, do thus ; Of Satyrion i. e- Sa-
km a great Medicine for the Gout, and for all tyrion feed ^iv. all the liquor of a Roe's gall,
Difeafes of the nerves, and for Inflammations of Honey §iij. Mix, and put it up into a glafs
the Feet and Limbs, and for all Defluxions, veflel. And when there is occafion, give it
and it cures a bad King's Evil, and the Breaft/, to a young Woman, when it is dry, and let
ind the Stones, and Apoftemes, and it is good in her ufe coition. And if you would conceive
Chi- a Male
jo KIR AN L Book It" took II* KIR ANI. 71
a Male, take the Ball of a Male R o e ; if a Fe« Alopecia A little of the Body dried, and
male, the gall of a Female. For it is very given in Drink cures Blafiing, the Falling SifJ-
delegable. But if it be too dry, put as much tiefs, Palfie, Swimming in the Head, Head-ach,
Honey to it, as fliall be rcquilite. and all Dijcafes of fuch Nature, and the Kid-
neys alfo, and the Loins. And you muft give
Ii. I), (" another Book has J And its hkin
"E^JW is a Serpent, and it fs a winding Ani burnt and powdered cures an Alopecia. A n d
ntal, known to all, a Viper. And fome take it you muft pickle the whole Body and the Fif
alive, and put it into a courfe earthen pot cera, like Pork in Salt, and dry it like B a c o n :
with Salt, and fet it in the Chimney night Except the Gall and the Guts^ then r u b it
and day, till it is dried; and then they mix well and put it up. And give ^j. of it to
Spices with it , and give it for all Difeafes. drink in Oxymel to Leprous and Dropjical Pir-
The Salt cures the Leprofic of the Greeks and of fons. And in like manner alfo the Liver, and
the Arabians, the Gout, Falling Siclft/cfs, Pal- Kidneys, and Heart, and Lungs dried, curt
fie, and all defperate difeafes. And Vipers Fat the fame.
parpens the fight, and all dulnefs of the Eyes.
And the Eyes hung about the neck, cure all Elnrus, i.e. a Cat, known to all. If there-
inflammations of the Eyes. And the Teeth are fore one fall into a Cotivulfion or .Epilepfie,
good for the Tooth-ach , and tnakg Children*. or Dizzine.fs, or if an Epilepfie take a man,
Teeth breed without pain. And the Agate ftone and he lie lifclcfs, if you prcfently put alive
fumigated drives away the Viper', and this Cat upon him, the Convnlfion, or Dizzipels,
Stone drunk with Deer's Marrow cures the or Apoplexy will immediately depart from
biting of a Viper. him. But repeat this often llobis ba. gK 1).
i. coueltho. And its Dung applied with Oyl
'E^C©., Echidrius terrejiris, i. e.prickly Hog, of Lilies eafes a Fever. Bruifed with dry
a Hedgehog, is a very naughty Animal. When Muftard and Vinegar, u thn kens an Alopcm,
you have catcht this, fait it and dry it, that
yqu may have a great Medicine. But throw "Exaipoi, a Deer , there arc three kinds. It
away the Gall, becaufe it is bad. Its head is a known Animal. And one kind is callcd
burnt, and applied with Honey thickens an irhtTu.tffio,-s, i.e. haviiig broad and ftr.tly
Alopecia, Horns;
 KIRANI Book II. KIRANI. 79
Horns j the fecOnd has round horns i the third tpuft let the Lizard g o alive. And if you find
is Female. The Male cannot couple with her two o f them, the Female, fcil. and Male,coup-'
but at a Spring. For when (he is thirfty, (he ling, and catch them, and cut off the Sex,andi
feeks a Spring,and when (he drinks with great give it to drink, Friendfl)ip will become indiffo-
thirft and eagernefs, then the Male gets upon, hble, and whcnlbevcr they couple,if you eaft
her: For being conftrained with defire of a £kin, or Cloth over them, it will be very gra*
drinking, (he cannot fly. A t another time cjoud. And the Tail carried, caufes Eretfion.
Ik will not endure to be coupled with t And its Liver applied, cures Corns. And its
then fre conceives prelcntly. And this Ani* Gall putrefied in Wine for eleven Days^in the
mal would live five hundred y e a r s , if it qpen A i r , and in the Sun in the Dog-days,
were not taken. Give one fpoonful, I (ay, extirpates, exterminates,the Hairs of the Eye-
ol the limature of the Horns o f the Deer, lids. T h e Solar Lizard can do the fame things
which has round Home, with Hydromel, for tltyt the gr<?en can do. If therefore y o u make
ftven dayes, to one troubled with the Colick, M 9 Trails, and with them put out a Lizard's
m i he will be perfeflly cured of that Difeafe. Eyety, and put it into a courfe Earthen P o t ,
And the Gall with Honey caufes Conception. ijfljrjng Virgin-earth in it, and fet it by for
ijjpje D a y s ; when y o u open the Pot after-
2. wards,-you will*find the Lizard has its S i g h t :
Zx^ej*. i. e. a Lizard $ there are three kinds \ Tfien let it g o alive. Make two Rings o f your
one it called i. e. Solar ; another Shooe-Ieathers, and wear them, and put the
i.e. Brazen $ a third «• C. Green. Ant right E y e in the R i g h t , and the left E y e in
the Solar if known to all. I f any one carrythe L e f t , and enclofe the Stone Carbuncle in
the right hand of this in a golden Cafe a then), which in G r e e k is called and
bout his Neck, having this written in it $ ha in,the .other a J a f p e r , having a Lizard doub-
14. I>a, Ga. h. /'. aulufare , he will efcape al led t|t its Belly,and inferibed, Zibern a. y. u
dangerous Difeafes, and he will never be Pflaw, a n d underneath, Kaka, Fai. ide(icu-
troubled with Difeafe as long as he carries it and we^ai it f i n another Book it was
The Eyes alfo taken out while it is alive, in tl^M Ker. djfe 0. c. a. For you will, not
the Patient's name, and worn about the neck f ^ i i u r t in y o u r Eyes all the Days o f y o u r
cure any Inflammation of the Eyes. But you liffe} y o u will cure Ophthalmicks with the
mud 1 G Touch
74 K I RAN I. Book 11' BbokH. KIRANI 7,
Touch of your Ring, and hanging it about Oyl of Rofts, or Nard,it cwespain toik&rt,
their Neck. and alfo chaps in the Feet. Spiders iWcfes alfo
flop the bleeding of a Vein. And thegfefit an]
H.
black Spider, greater than the white* which
'Hjw,/of©* a Mule. The Ear-wax of a Mule makes Webs in Trees, taken in the N a m e of
tied up in Mule's Skin, is altogether inconce- the Patient, and worri about one, cms ii.
ptive. And if you give that Ear-wax to a Kings Evil in the beginning. Alfo the white
Wotnan in Drink privately, the will not con- Spider, put with an Animal into a Quill, t j.
1
ceive for fome time. And if you fecretly give, fwages an Inflammation of the Eyes, <v?4'pfi<i
in like manner, fome of the Matrix, boyled Rheum, ana all things that come from fuperjiniij,
with other Flefh, fie will never conceive. If any And if any one boyl a Spider, and appint ik
one have a cold Catarrh, and kifs the Noftrils Head of one awake with it, it will caufe Jkf
of a Mule, he will be cured, though he run And if one wrap a Corn of Salt in ? white
at the Nofe. Andifany one privately take 'the Spiders Web, and put it into a hollow toothj
Urine of a Male Mule, and boyl it with Wax, it will be cured.
Oyl, and Litharge,and apply itinaPlafter to a
gouty Mans Foot, the Man indeed will be ctt-
red 5 but the Mule's Foot will'have a Pain in 'hrto-os, a Horfe,a Kingly ^jwift Ahijitf, lym
it: For a Woman, take a Female Mule's U- to all. When this is foiled, take the Cloud,
rine. or Stone from its Forehead, whiditJhe l M
men call i Hippomanes, and carry it la b o u t yon,
as a great thing to procure Love: For if ypU oet
Guest a Spider, is a little Animal of fix ly toutrh one with it, the Party , w i l l vehe-
Feet, weaving Cobwebs on Walls, known to. mently love you t, arid i f y o u give it in drink
all men, this which is called Thyraphos, taken to any one, you will effeft the fime thing;
in the Name o f the Patient,and made up with and i f you give any of it in Meat, y o u will
Wax, and applied to the Forehead, expels fht be entire^ loved. And the Gall of a Horfe
Fit of a Tertian Ague. And if yoti put it aUVe! edulcorated in a Leaden Veflel, given to a
into a Pipe or Quill, and hang it about the Man in Wine,procures great A&ions, and CM-
Neck, it cures a Quotidian. Boyled in a little fes fleep. A Mare's Milk and Honey, anointed,
G n iilh
 76 KIRANI. Book Ifi Book II. K I R AN I. 77

tyls the white Leprofui T h e H o o f , in a Furai- ally lie in the Bed,the Whelp indeed will die,
4r)*es away a dead Chil4- Sufiilunga- but the infirm perfon will be freed from hit Chro-
ted alfo, it hajiens. the Birth. And the Gall nical Infirmity. And the Spleen of a D o g ap-
and Honey anointed, parpen thefight. plied t o a fplenetick Perfon, in the Spleontcures
him. T h e dry D u n g , powdered, and. given
K. in D r i n k , cures People of the Jaundice and bloo-
KtyWw, a Camel, a known Anirhal. The dy Flux. And applied with Honey to the
Milk t h e r e f o r e of a Female Camel, does not Throat and B o d y , it perfeUly cures the guinfey.
' coagillit'e'} and if you- mix it with any other And it muft be given (ecretly f o r all things,
Milk, Htilhcr will it coagulate. And the Gall drunk alfo by the Patient, he not knowing it,
r a Camel coagulated in a leaden Veflel, till it perfectly cures the Dropfie. And the D u n g
grows fweet, adorns one in Company at burnt in a Potftieird, mixt with O y l o f R o -
Meat, and makts bith acceptable. And its Dung fes, heals Chaps in the Arfe. A n d the Sweet-
burnt; and mixt up with O y l , perfe&ly cures bread cures the Piles. Applied with Turpen-
M Alopecia, and the falling of the Hair after tine, it cures edematous jwellings, and the He-
fukpels. This (aid thipg, applied in manner morrhoids. And with O y l of Rofes, it is good
ofa Plafter, evacuates'ihe Dropfieby Urine. Its for putrid and incurable Ulcers, cfpecially with
Dung alfo dried and! Powdered, and ftrewed Oyntment of Rofcs. With Oyl alfo, it is good
upon Watlir, and tfvubki cures.the bloody Flux. agaitdl flinging of Bees and Wafpt. And if any
Suffumigated,' itrttonciles Differences. And its one hold the Heart of a D o g in his left Hand,
flraiityarid Oyl o f ' R o f e s , anointed on the or the T o n g u e tied up in a Cloth, all Dogs
Head', beforehand behind, and all the Body will be clumbt of id run their way. Make up the
over, cures the falling Sicknefi. Which is ad- Eyes o f a gray D o g , as they are, with the
mirable, and a moft excellent thing. Load-ftone, or the Stone Opfianus, i, e. fcjpcr-
tinus into a Confeftion, like a dry Collyrtum,
KKW, a Dog. A little Whelp, whilfc it is and at Evening mix and apply it, you will fee
all things that are in the Dark. I f any one be
yet fucking* if one can get it to He quietly
fick, with a little Pafte wipe the Face, and
with an ancient infirm Perfon, inia Chronical
Cheeks, and Groins, and F e e t , and Hands,
D i f t e m p e r } and if it lie upon the Breaft o f a
and give it a D o g to E a t , and if the D o g eat
Man or Woman, or little Child, and continu-
ally G 3 it,
78 K I R A N I Book Hi >okIJ. KIR AN I. 7
it, the Patient will liVe$ if not, he will die: will caufe Incontinence. The Dung, and Oyl
But the Parte muft be warm. alfo anointed, beautifie the Face. Mixt with
Gall, and anointed, it takes awayftcckjin tlx
Kuw uroTttjuuos, a River-Dog, a Bever $ it is Eyes. And the Blood o f i t anointed, perfeSlj
the Stones o f this, which are called Caftor. cures Dimnefs of fight.
Caftor therefore powdered, and put into a
Peflary,brings down the Menjlrua. And drunk A.
with the Ear-wax of a Mule, it hinders Conce- Aujys, a Wolf a favage crafty Animal, If any
ption. In an Oyntment, it mollifies the Nerves, one therefore drink its Blood, he will go mi,
and cures their fhrinfyng and Drynefs. Applied and can never more be cured. Its right Eye car-
with Wine, it cures Fits of the Mother. Given ried privately about one, performs great tiling:
in a Clyfter, with Oyl of Rue, it cures the For all four-footed Creatures, wild and ttm,vL
Colick. And its Skin worn for Socks, cures the fiytfrom the dearer, and he will pafs through lie
Gout. Eating of Caftor in the fit o f a Quar- midft of his Enemies, and no man will touch km.
tane A g u e , if be given, cures People in (Another Book has it, he will fee) It aljo (ta-
§>uartanes. ble s a Man to conquer in every Caufe. It futit-
way all Phantafms, it alfo expels all Fits of k-
terrenus, an Earth-Crocodile, a gues. And a Sheep will never tread u p o n the
kind of Lizard, kfsoven to all men. It is a four- Skin of a Wolf. And its Liver dried and pow-
footed Creature, with a broad Head, and a long dered, and drunk in Melicrate, perfeftlj cum
Tail: If one make a dry Powder of the Skin epileptii\, lunaHck, and mad People. If v
of this Creature burnt, and fhall ftrew it up- hang its Eye-tooth about the Neck of a In-
on a Limb that is to be cut or burnt* whatever natick, or o f one ff ighted by day, or by night,
is to le cut, or burnt, it will be without Pain. If by a terrible Dream, it cures them. Alfothe
any one ftab a Crocodillo, and anoint himfelf E y e of a Wolf, and the firft Joynt of his Tail,
with it, whatfoever Wounds or Blows he receives, carried in a Golden Veflel, willmak^ the Bar-
he will not at all feel them. And its right Teeth er powerful, and glorious, and honour Me, mJ
drawn out, letting it go again alive,and wear- rich, and acceptable, and he will be much U
ing them, caufe Intention, or Ereftion. And the and embraced by Women 5 neither fliall ht tint
left, by Women : But if both be carried, they carries it, be troubled with an Inflammation cj
will G 4 1I1
8o K I R A N I . Book It. Hook II. K I R A N I . 81
tlx Eyes; »ay, it cures blood-(hot Eyes. And its Pepper, and drunk, it cures the Stone in
Gall heated, and a little coagulated, anointed the Kidneys. And its Down burnt, and pow-
on the Eyes, clears them above any Eye-falve. dered, and ftrewed upon burnt, places,
And ifone tie the Bone of a Wolf's Neck, to fleanfes the Ulcers, heals the Scars, and
the Neck of one Opifthonick^ i. e. tvho in a Con•fetches the Hair again. And applied with the
iiilfion is drawn backyard, it will cure him. white of an Egg, it flops any Flux of Blood.
Hang about, in 'thfc Name of the Patient, the
Aayijo.-, a Hare is a four-footed Animal, ve- Feet of a living Hare, it will cure a fore Throat,
Tyfmft, apd Making Doubles in her flight. Its and the Gout, whether in the Hands or Feet,
Blood applied hot, perfe8ly cures gouty Feet. perfe&ly. Y o u muft put the right to the tight
Applied hot about the Loyns, it cures the Foot, and the left to the left, ^nd the Brain
Stone in the Kidneys. Made into Broth, and of a Hare, anointed on Childrens Gums, makes
eaten, it cures People of the bloody Flux, and the Teeth cut without Pain. And the whole
Jlrengihcus them. The Lungs cut very thin, Skin of a Hare, with the Ears and Nails burnt,
and applied to the Eye-lids, affwages Swellings and the Powder of it given by a Quill, per-
oftk Eyes, and a Chemofis. Wrap the Heart fectly cures People of a Lethargy.
of it in Silk, and hang it about the Neck, it
ftrfiffly cures people of Quartane Agues. The M.
Kidneys alfo drunk out of Pickle or Melicrate, MIJS, a Houfe-moufe, known to all. Burn the
cm Ncphritick. perfons. The Gall diflolved Head of this with Swine's, or Bear's Greafe,
with Foxes Fat and N a r d , cures Deafnefs. and powder the Allies, and anoint an Alopecia,
And ii it be put into a Ptflary, with Juice and it will be cured. And if you have a whole
ofMarfh-mallow, or Malfow and Oyl,;/ helps Moufe, and diflolve it in Wine, and a little
Conception. And put into one with Juice of Oyl of Nard, or Rofes, it wonderfully cures
Leek, and ungiientum irinum, it brings away a an old pain in the Ears. And its Dung diflol-
iad Child. Its Rennet alfo diflolved with ved in Water, and applied-, diffolves hardnefs,
Propolis, and applied, cures Stings and vene* and pain, and fwelling of the Breafts. And ftrew-
mm Bites. And its Dung diflolved in warm ed upon the Piles, it cures them in three days.
Wine, cures Sciatica Pains, when defperate, But they muft firft be wafhed with Wir e. Ap-
N
^ and the Colick. In like manner, beaten with plyed alfo with Water, it cures the Leprofie and
Pepper,
8a K IRANI. Bookljfcokll. K IRAN I. 8?
a Tetter. If you cut off the Tail, Feet, Eari,
and Nofe of a Moufe, alive, and tie them in a N.
Cloth, and hang them about ones N e c k , i Nu>cTee/s , a Bat, is a four-footed
flrangclyputs away thefit, andoldfhakjngin Ague* [ttown to all, it flies like a Swallow, but it briny
A n d if you run a Needle and Thread througl forth young like a four-footed Beaft, and it
the Mouth of a Moufe, and fliall draw th< uckfes its young ones. T h e Blood o f this a-
Thread through the Hole,// will cure the Colic^ oointed on places o f the Eye-lids, out oi
which hairs have been pluck'd, will not fifftt
MvpfMi%tan Ant. There are feven kinds of Ant iether hairs to grow again. And if any one tie
One is known to all men. And fome are of a Ion the Head of this in a black Cloth to ones
Head, and great, blackjn colour. And others an right A r m , he will neither fiumber nor Jktf,
fmall, and lean, and red, which are called.Zi while it is about him. And its Heart carried
nyphes. Others are great and broad. Otheri taufes great watchfulnefs. And if one will
are in the Field, and midling. Others alfo art take the Blood of it in a Cloth, and lay it
iuoSioj, i. e. well wayed, and they are little. Ant under a Woman's h e a d , fhe not knowing it,
others are /xupyAnytJovles-, i. e. Lion-Ants, amif a Man lie with her , fhe will prefentlj con-
they arc great, and of divers Colours, and wing nive. And it has other E f f i c a c i e s , which I
ed, and they eat Flefh ; but they die quickjy. A will now conceal 5 for I muft n o t publilh
of them having their Heads dipt off wit them.
Sciflers, and applied to the Eye-lids, cure ai
Hordeolum. And thus the Field-Ants, whic
eat Corn, do it as well. If any one boyl for Xilonatis, a fort of Bird. Cickonatk is a lit-
ty Ants with Juice of Afphodil, and give it t< tle kind of Crocodile. If any be anointed
any one in his Drink, he will be dvty.TOS, i. with the frying o f this , it makes him with-
remifs, all the days of his Life. T h e Broth out pain in beating. And it is a great thing
them poured upon /juupimMon, Warts fo calleito procure Love. And CrocodtUi, eaten like
makes them to fall, Fifh, make the Eaters impudent and immtdtf.
And their Dung cures dulnefs and white Jptcki
N in the Eyes. And their Blood in like manner,
And the right T o o t h carried, caujes ErtQior,
And
84 K I R A N I , B6okII? I b o k T I . K I R A N I . 85
And the left makes an equal dcficcation in trtdfhe will be cured the fame day. T h e tears
Women. of an Afs fhaken, and mixt with O y l , and
put into a burning Lamp, all that fit at Ta-
O.
ble will fee themfelves to have Affes heads. if
"Owi, Millepede/, which arc found under wa- the Hairs o f a He-Affes Ears be burnt and
Ur-veffels, are little Animals with many feet,powdered, and given to a Woman in drink,
jbe will never ceafe farting. And the curing of this
which in leaking o-aui^f-HTOf, i. e. fweat out.Theft
boyled in Oyl of Rofcs or Nard cure pains in t h i n g s iif yOu burn the hair6 o f a She-Aft,
tie Ears. And if one prick one o f them with and give them to drink. A n d if any one be
i pin, and touch a T o o t h , it cures the Tooth- (lung, and (hall fay in the Affes e a r 5 How
tch 5 and they are very profitable. has a Scorpion (lung m e ! T h e Man w h o
was flung will be cured * b u t the Afs will
r
Oiw, an Afs, a fourfooted Animal known to die. A n d it has other Efficacies.
til men, having fuch Virtues as thefe. Its
Dungfiopiany jinx of Blood. T h e Blood alfo n.
ofa living Afs with the Juice of Snake-grals rie^Cafoc, a Shetp, well k»own to all. O f the
md Chondrilla, appplied with O y l , cures Sewet, and Marrow o f this, Soap is made
Qmian Agues. A R i n g made without fire With-Figtree or Oak afhes .* For it hi good f o r
of the fmalleft part o f the Bit o f an Aflej many thirigs. But another fayes, it has fuch
Bridle, and worn , drives away Devils, and actions as thefe. If therefore y o u cut off
tverts Fevers: it makes Venus alfo great to Wo- its right horn, and make a C o m b o f it, and
men, If any one fleep or lie upon an Affes (hall comb the right fide of the head, when
Skin, he will fear no Devils, even neither Gelo, the Hemicrania is on that fide , with this
nor Gillu, i. e. Hags and Night-mares. And Comb, you will cure it. For you muft comb
ifyoumakea Ring o f the hoof o f the right the right fide with the right, and the left
fore-foot, and give it to one poffeffed with a with the left. When the Sun is in Aries,
Devil, to wear, he will be cured that day. And gather its dung and dry it, and apply it with
if you make a Phylaftery, for a Ligature, of Vinegar for the Hkad-ach, and it will give eafe.
the fore-part of the Affes right Ear, and give And the Worms, that are in the infide of the
it a Woman to wear, that has a flux of Blood,horn,, given in Drink, are moft efficacious for
and Love.
36 KIRANI. Bookll B&ok II. kikAtit:
Love. T h e Horns alio f u f f u m i g a t e d , opei n good againfi aU deadly things
fhe fuffocation of the Matrix. T h e Lungs alio Treacle.
o f a Sheep eaten fading, preferve one fron
Drunkennefi, and how much joever he drin^ 2*iVr©U, a terrefirial Animal, lib? to s CM-
he will not feel it. And its Liver taken out codile, it is found in the Country of Melmitit
frefh and reeking, and applied to a Woman't The extremity of its Tail and the Kidneys c
Cheeks, makes her Face well coloured and beau- levate the Member to Venery, given in
tiful. And its Sewet isufeful in Peflaries, Drink.
And the Lungs o f a Lamb dried and powder- .i
ed, and given in D r i n k , cure them that art A Salamander is a four-footed Am maim-
hurt by Poyjbn. A n d the Gall and Blood df er than the green Lizard; Audit livts tm^
a Lamb cure the Falling Sichpefs. Brambles and Bufhes. Its Heart carried about
one, makfs the Bearer to be Without fear tgmft
P. Fire, and bold againfi burning, 'and itimk-
'Piyotufus is a four-footed Animal having om fiible. T h e Animal therefore put in the
great horn about its Nofe ( a n d in another place Chimney or F i r e , extinguifhes ail the fkm.
ft is thus ) Nor can it be caught, but by ibt And i f y<ni hang the Heart of it about the
Scent and Beauty of very hdndfome Women< For neck o f one in a Fever, prefently the Few
it wi a Creature lafcivious to Love. T h e Horn will be extinguipfed. And if a Woman carry
or Stone which grows upon this Crea- it about her knees, fhe will by-no mm en-
tures N o f e , worn about one , cajis out De- dive, nor have her Menftrua^ pa they mil in
vils. And its Tefticles or genital Member, fiopt. And if you tie it Up in a black skin,
drunk by Men and Women, do violently in and hang it at Ones Arm, it takes away iTtr-
cite to Lufi. tian, and a Hemitfitxus, and a Quartan^ mi
evfry Fit of an Ague. And the afhes of it
X. burnt, ftr^wed upon Warts , kdl themymi
Mt ' out Corns of the feet, and draw
Xuafcfii, i. e. a wild Boar. The Stones of
this drunk , provoke Venery'. And its Dung
diflolved with V i n e g a r , cures an Eryjipelas,
and the Gall likcwife. T h e Rennet o f a Boar T,
 K I R A N I Book U j I b o k H . KIRANI. *9
Child. And the Gall by it felf applied ei-
T. ther to the Arfe o r N a v i l , evacuates the Belly
Taw©., a Dull, k»on>n to all, and bold., iliore than A C l y f t c r : A Plafter o f it to the
The Gall of him mixt with an Egg-(hell, and Belly brings away Worms. And the dung of
anointed, on any place, makes a Star ofth* a Bull flops bleeding at the Nofe, and thickens
jm colour. Wa(hing with it and Vinegar in Alopecia, andfiopsthe hair from falling after
art! the black. Leprojie, and Dandriffe in theSickftefs. And the Blood of him dried, and
Had, and Nits, and Moles and Freckfcs in mixt with O y l o f nnripe Olives, and anoint-
Women, vhicb they are troubled with, becaufeed, makes gray hairs black'-) hut the Bull muft
ibejare with child. For it is not only a ftrongbe black. And after a Bull has been dead
Creature it felfy-but. the Virtue refiding in it, feven dayes, he breeds worms, which in one
applied, penetrates inwardly. And if a man and thirty dayes turn to Honey-Bees, which
arty it about him, he (hall know all things. ^ou may gather in hives.
Alfo one that has,no horns on his head, if a
e a
man carry that, it will give an Oracle, and Testy&> » Goat. T h e Blood dried
Cuijitrerj and Exorcifis will confefst and makpand given in meat with Galls and Pomegra-
mnifcfl, and bill Jay great Gifts in that place* nate Flowers, cures the bloody Flux. In like
Take; thte Hierax pelagi, i. e. the Sea-hawk, manner enclofe it in a round GoltJ Signer,
and
and kill it in water, take their eyes, and with the T o n g u e o f a F r o g and Cinambn a n d
feafon them wi^h Myrrhe and Saffron, and MUsk, and few it in Deer's Skin, and hang it
dfty thea) in the (bade without the S u n : Bury or tie it to a Sculpture Or Idol, and there wilt
their Carcafes;in the Earth, where thou art,, be in that place Qua la] or Sacrifices, i. e{ famous
and,the Bearer,whether Man,or any thing;elfe. Miracles.And the commonHawk is very g o o d
take them and darry them. A n d the Gall, fot this. But y o u muft Very much hide this-
mitt with Honey, as I think, perfectly cures thing. And the Sewet o f h i s Kidneys, boyled
i W Stomach. And double the q u a n t i f y with Barley and Juiqe o f Spelt, is put in foe
mixt with Vnguentum irinnm, and put, i u , ^ the fame. And the Labclanum of his Beard,
Peliary, brings down much Menjlrup \tqe 1.e. the Mummy, efyptts, or foppy Sweat, ga-
fame day. And mixt with Unguentum amara- thered, is good for an Alopecia and f illing of
tlmi, and aphronitrum, it brings away a dead the Hair, with Wine and Oyl of unripe O -
Child. H lives;
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TI. KIRANI.
lives j and applied with Vinegar it cures the
Head-ach. T h e Sewet alfo made into a Pla- they will think it is the Bead, of which it,
tter with Birdlime and Sandaraph, roots out Ithe F a t , Whether of a Lion, or a Bull,ora
fcabby nails. If one anoint a Goat's Nofe with Serpent, or of any other Creature. If there-
Unguent, and chafe it with his hand, he will 'Tore you will work a Miracle, or a Phantafm,
make him to void hi9 Seed for delight; if put a little Fat of what Animal or wild
with this Seed you anoipt a Man's Member, Beaft you pleafe, with a little quantity of
he will have great tenjion and be invincible by any the Confedion upon burning coah in themid
Woman. die of the Houfc, and the Bead; will appear,
whofe Fat you# niixt with it. And you
r. may do the fame with Birds. And if you
mix a littld Sea-water with the Compofition,
'Tajva, the Hy<ena, is a four-footed Animal, and fprinkle among the Guells, th?y will all
favage, and ambiguous ; for this Creature ist fly, thinking that the Sea i9 in the midftof
born Female, and after a year turns Male, and them. And if you facrifice or kill afi fys-
then for the next year turns Female again, and na, when the Moon is in Gemini or %
fomqtimes it covers, fometimes is covered, and and fecretly give fome of the boyled Lungs
and brings forth and gives Suck. And it hot, you will cure Lunaticks. I knew this,
has thefe Virtues. And the Gall of this and I admired it^in an Epileptick. peffon, who
Animal being f w e e t , has efficacy for a Mi- fell frequently, but did not fall afterwards.
racle : And a great Miracle is made of it. And give f i j . or iij.'And I faw the Confetti-
And this is the Compofition; Take the Eyes on, and I experienced it. And it has alia
of the Fifh Glaucus , and the right Eye of another Preparation. For the Gall is goo 1
the (aid Hytna, and ajl that is liquid of the for dimnefs of fight, twinkling of the ww, lit
Hyana , diflolve all together, and put it up beginning of a 'jaundice, fuffujion, mifls, ml
in a Glafs VefTel, covering it well. If there- blear eyes. Take of the Gall of a hke-filh
fore you will fhew a great Miracl?, when you f v j . Indicum j. Opobalfamumft. Myrrh -nj.
have fet a Light, mix the Fat of any creep- the Juice 0 $ Hseracindis, or Herba accipitmiJ,
ing thing, or four-footed Bead you pleafe, or Laihica fylvefirH §vii j. Pepper f). Honey
with a little of the forefaid Compofition,and if f v j . Diflolve all diligently, and make a foft
you anoint the wiek of the Lamp or Candle, Eye-falve, put it up in a Glafs Bottle, and ufc
they
H a it,
p K I R A N I Book If. Book II. K I R A N I . 93
it. If you give the Fat of a Hy<ena to an Wine, cures thofe that pifs iri Bed. And a lit-
k^rofhobiek perfon >> or to one bit with a mad tle of the skin worn about one in a Sock or
Dog, you will fave him : But he muft be Shooe, cures the Gout in the Feet JCnees,Hands,
ignorant of the giving of it. And if you and any where elfe 5 it alfo cufts all Rheums in
pluck out the two eyes of a Hytena alive, the Eyes, and inflammation of the Eyes. And
and tie them to the two aims in a purple anointing with it and Honey Jharpens fight;
cloth, you will cafl off AII noClurnal fear, and and the Skin of an Hy<ena puts Dogs to flight,
of Witches which kill Infants, and which he in hung before the D o o r , and averts all Trea-
mit agahtfl Conception or Birth j and every De-chery.
vil will fly amy. Its Belly dried and powder-
ed, and mixt with Unguentum irinum, and
applied as an Oyntmenr, cures People of the 4>uw, a Seal, is a four-footed Animal. It
Colic{; and fuch as are convnlfe after much h is many Virtues. For its Brain drunk expels
mmtioti, and takes away pains of tho Limbs. Devils. And its Head burnt, and mixt with
And if the right foot be tied up, and given Oyl of Cedar, cures an Alopecia and cviry
to carry about one j give it to a hydrophobous Difeafe. And its right E y e , carried in Depr's
Perfon, or to one bit with a mad Creature, he skin , makes one amiable, and fortunate, and
will lit prefently cured. And its Liver eaten powerful And its Heart in like manner'drunk,
am Quartan Agues, a%d Tremblings and Paf- and its Rennet, averts all difficulty, and con-
fniof the Heart: But you muft give it to all fers all good. And if you carry the hairs of
of them privately. And if any one carry its its Noftrils tied up in the skin, I mean the
Tongue jn his right Shooe and walk, all Men greater and frittering ones, and fhall enter
ml Dogs will be mute j for it is a great Silen- into the midft of your Enemies, all of them
cer. And its Cawl, raplted with O y l , cures will fafnte you as their Frigid. The Tongue
til fear. And its Marrow anointed on the carried in ones fhooes, procures Vittory. And
Back-bone cures all pain in the Loins and the the Fat cures all fwelling and pains of the Limbs.
H The Fat of the Bones o f the Loins Its Skin alfo, girt about one, firengthens the
fuffumigated procures fpeedy Travail to her that Refctand the Hips. Its Flefh eaten, and its
ins difficult Labour. Alfo the Bladder o f an Blood chied and drunk privately with Wine,
fy/M, d r i e d , and powdered, and drunk in cures evety Falling Sifkpefs, and Madnefs^and
Wine, H 3 Swinf•
94 K I R A N I Book 11/ Book II. KIRANI.
Swimming in the Head , and every Difeafe. Al- Tail of a Crocodile, it has divers Colours; from
f o the L i v e r , and Lungs, and Spleen, dried pthe Head to the Tail it has only one felitt
and ftrewvd upon D r i n k , cure fuch things and Nerve. Which being drawn out in the Name
all Difeafis. T+ie Bones alfo fuffumigated, of the P a t i e n t , and tied to the Neck, emu
haflenBirth.hwA the Gall and Honey anointed, backward Convulfton. A n d its Gall dulcified,
cure any Inflammation of the Eyes. The Brain adorns ones Converfation. And all other patts
alfo drunk genres the Falling-Sicknefs. And of it do equally perform, whatever the Gall
if any one fhall tie up the Heart of a Seal, and of a Seal, or of an Hyaena does. The Tongue
the T i p of the T o n g u e , and the Hairs o f its of i t , kept or carried with Root of Carline
N o f e , and the right E y e , and the Rennet, Thiftleand liuglofs, makgs a mans Entmitivt•
in a Deei'sor a Seal's Skin, and vtaar it, he ry ftlent.
nil I conqucr all men by Sea and Land, and all
Infirmity and Difeafe, and In for tune of Degrees,
and every Devil and wild Beaft will jly from
*TTT/(ULOII)TW;, a Sand-Spider, which is cM
him f, For he fhall be bleffed , happy , rich , ana
Harpocration. Becaufe as many Parts as it
beloved.
has, it has fo miny Virtues and Utilities; it
aires the Falling Sicknefs, Morphew, the Fed,
ii a kind of Frog, living in dry places.
the Leprofie, and otp/am, or falling of -the Hnir
If this (pit ujJon a man, he prdently lofts all
in patches. It is a molt ufeful and very com-
his hair. And its Blood is the poyfon o f the
modious Animal.
Hair. Many Rubct<e, or Land-Toads, boyled
in O y l with Sprigs o f T h y m e , and Hore-
"i'JAA©-, 1 Sea-Flea, which is found upon
hound, and Squill, for three dayes continu-
the ( h o r e , boyled with O y l of Rofes or white
ally in the Chimney of a B a t h , cure Gouty
W i n e , affwages the fain of the Ean. Boyl
Per fans.
Pfylli, or Sea-Fleas, in Sea-water with the
X. Herb Pfyllium, and fprinkle the Decoftionin
the Houfe, and Fleas will alwayesfhun it. And
a Chamalion, is an Animal, like if a Fifher ufe Pfyllus in a Bait for Fifh, he
to a Crocodile, changing its Colour every hour of will catch Fifh. A n d let him tie it up in the
the Day $ it has the Face of a Lion} the Feet and skin of a Dolphin.
Tail H 4 f:
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n.
M e Eggs of a Spider,found in the waves
;n the beginning of Spring, and if you take
tbe t g g s o f a Phalangium, or hurtful Spider
1;
, >'in fhe Name of the Patient, and tie
t cm up .n a black Cloth, and hang them on
SUPPLEMENT
J left Arm, it cures the Fit of a Tertian, and TO T H IS
Quotidian Ague. But you muft
uke them when the Moon is in the wain, and
"i Pifccs, on the Sabbath d a y about the
ninth hour, in a Quotidian, j. in a Hemitri-
JwjS in a Tertian, iij* in a Quartan, iv^
and hang them zbout your Neck or your B e d .
Book in A.
And either fumigated, or tied about one, pxT©., a Bear, is a fierce 4»intal, and
tyhtfen Child-birth.
A rough, lil^e to a Man in all things, and
cunning, and he endeavours to walk, upright.
Each part of him is good for each part of
Man in Medicine. Therefore hang akont a
man the Bones of the Head fir any Head-
tch. Its Brain eaten, cures thetFalling Sickr
nefs. The Eyes alio cure the Inflammation of
the Eyes. The Ear-wax, w i t h O v l of ftofes,
cures all pain in the Ears. And the Teeth
cure the Tooth-achj hung about Children,
they help them to breed their Teeth without pain.
The Eyes carried about one, are gracious. And
the Hair fumigated, or carried about one,
drives away evil Spirits, and any Fever. The
Nails of the right hand, earned about one,
keep
98 KIRANI. Booknlfco^"- K I R A N I 9?
keep off all Fevers. T h e Liver d r i e d , and br this. Its right Tefticle dried and powder-
powdered, and given in D r i n k , cures Epa- efj, and put in Drink, is a Love-potion, giv-
tick/. The Sinews of the Feet and Hinds en to Women, and the left to Men. And the
held, help the Gout in the Feet and Hands. And end o f the Mafculinc Sex hung about one,
its Dung and Vinegar anointed, Parpens thi Itakes flrong Tenfion. Being in like manner
Sight. T h e H e a i t carried about one, makf> >owdeved, and given in Drink privately:
the Bearer cheerful, and rich , and powerful. And the Tefticles dried, and drunk, perform
And its Greafe mixt with Lahdanum and Mai the fame thing. Y o u may give about afpoon-
denhair in an Ovntment, cures an Alopecia or ful, for fo much is invincible, and caufes a
fulling of the Hair : And in like manner it competent and innocuous Intention. When
cures the thnmefs of the Eye-brows and Beardt you have cut off the two Tefticles o f the Ani-
made into an Oynrment witlrGalls powder- mal, letting the Animal indeed go alive, and
ed . and Vitriol, and Oyl of Cedar , and hang them about one, you will cure; for if
Lychnithiris. The Fat alfo by it felfcures Paro you touch one with the Tefticles, he will pre-
tides , or Swellings under the Ears and Chaps. Jently aff 'ent. And fome put them into the
And the end of the M ifculine Sex, put into Huckle-bone of a Goat. And if you tie the
the Matrix, fo as to touch the mouth of the end of its Yard irt the Bladder, or in theSkin,
Womb, opens a Suffocation. And you muft and write this in it with Syrminizated Ink, u
have it prepared 111 a Powder. T h e Gall pp g I XLCI. i. tinbin ilithi, and hang jt about
diunk with H o n e y , a fpoonful of it , per you, you may he with a Woman without Harm.
feflly cures Epaticks. And its Skin drives a' And its Blood dropt on hot, takes amy pain in
way Fleas from the place, where it is laid the Kidneys. Its Kidneys eaten and drunk,fret
and excite Venus. And its Liver dried and
'AAw-7m£i i. e. a Fox, is a mofi fagacious am powdered, and drunk with Oxymel, perfidlj
wife^Animal, and of a fiinkjng Breath, eating cures people of the Spleen: And fo does the
Hens. I f ' y o u take one alive, and boyl it in Spleen, carried about one. Its Liver drunk
very old Oyl, till the Flefh be boyled from in Wine,ewe/ Afthmaticl^perfons. And its Lungs
the Bones, by anointing with it, you will ad roafted and eaten , cure difficulty in Breathing
mirably cure the Gout,. and old Sciatica Pains, And its Fat perfe&ly cures an Alopecia, or fil-
And when you take the F o x , fay, I take thet ling of the Hair. And its Dung ufed with Oyl
for
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100 KIRANI. Book II.T Book II. KIRANI. IOI
of Roles in a Pellary, caufes Conception. And I), of it, when thc Sun rifes, he fhall know all
its Heart carried a b o u t one,. preserves from things till the Sun fets. And this is the pre-
Witchcraft. Tlu- Tooth of a Fox hung about paration of the Guttation. Take 'a Mole,
one, is good fir Efihars, anel k proper for ChiU ®nd drown it in three Pints of Rain- Water,
dren that breed Teeth. A n d its Nails mixt withand boyl it till it is difiolvcd then ttrajn the
Alphdtm, Oyl of u n r i p e Olives, a n d O y l of Water into a Brafs Veflel, adding thefe things*
Hofes, and put in a l M l i r y , perfectly open the Of Roots of Thelygonum ^iv. Mugwort which
fftocatwn of the Matrix. The Tefticle pow- is only of one Branch -jiv. Storax calatqita
dered, and p u t into a Ore-cloth, cures the Troglodytick Myrrh,Bdellium,Spheruttm, each
Pmticlci, or jmllingt under the Ear. If yon 31V. Ohbannnt, t. e. the bett Frankincenfe ^viij.
tie its Member in Cloth to t h e Hcad,jf.0« will Beat and fift it, and put it to tt>j. of the beft
cure the Head-ach, Hemicrania, and fwimming inHoney, and boyl it till it is thick ; put it up,
the Head. A p p l i e d with the Fat in a Flatter, and ufc it as aforcfaid. Put the Bones of a
it thickens an Alopecia Mole under Ground in your Houfe. For a
Mole is u&fiiLboth alive and dead, and fo is
'ArraAa^, i. c a Mole,is a blind Animal, ma- the Head o f f l i e Female. And if any one have
{nDemand Ncfts^and walking under Ground; Parotides, the King's Evil. or any Apofiemepnd
And if the Sun fhme on it, it betakes it felf no you take a living Mole,and handle it fo long
more into the Earth, b it will die. T h e Heart in your Harris till it dies, yon will cure allfitch
of it carried in Deer's Skin, cures Lunatickj. I f Difeafes 5 neither will the Patient afterwards
anyone tie up, and hang on the Heart o f a have any fore Throat, or Bhflers, or Buboes, or
Mole in the Skin of the Bird H O U P , with the King's Evil any more, or any Apofleme. Its Fat
nvo.Eyefcof the Bird, jctl. of the Houp,he will, melted, cures Jore Eyes excellently well. There-
foreknow all things a s long :is he carries them fore bupy a Mole in your Houfe. And if any
cliaftc. But i f he carry the Heart o f the Bird one fwallow its Heart, while it is crawling, or
inwardly, he will be great and potent. For the panting, he will receive fore-knowledge of
Virtue o f this Animal is divine and efficaci- future things, and what will be in the World.
ous $ concerning which, now that we are difc
comfmg, we will not be filent } whereof the
Pregudation is this. For if any one fhall tatte K I R . A -
 1 Llook III. KIRANI. 10,
by and b y , while (he is yet fpralwling, cuther
up, and take out her Heart, and all her In-
wards, and put them in fome Veflel, in which
there is odoriferous Wine f o r drinking; An'd

K I R A N L
put up the Head with much Salt: But take
out the Eyes and Brain apart: And take all
the Inwards out of the Wine, and fmyrnizate
(or fpice) them with Salt, and dry them in
the Sun, and take the Blood, and dry it, and
Book III. jut it up in a Veflel.' And pull the Eagle,
and fave the great Feathers of her Thighs.
Take therefore the Sinews of her Thighsi
A. Mark which are of the right, and which of
the left. So alfo do with the Feathers which
EtOS, i. e. an Eagle k theKj/tgof all Birds, are o f the Wings. And make all the Flefh
A 'blackifi in Colour 5 whin fie' flies through fragrant, fmyrnizating it with much Spice, as
the Air, every Bird trembles. And it has great alfo the I n w a r d s , and dry them. You mud
Anions. Take therefore an Eagle, and let keep them all apart, and write upon them.
hqjr.live one,Day, and a Nighr, y i d take, and For the Hcad-acb a certain great Miracle \ The
gather the D u n g that (he has made, then tie Bone o f the Crown of the Eagle's Head, tied
her Feet, and ftop her M o u t h , and fay in the to the Patient in Deer's Leather, cures tk
Eagle s Ear, 0 Eagle, Friend of Man, now I Crown of the Head., And an Eagle's Temples
kjll thee for the Cure of all Infirmity $ I conjure cure a Hemicrania. Alfo the Brain o f it, with a
thee by the GOD of Heaven atid Earth• and by little O y l 8c T a r , applied as an oyntmenr,cures
the four Elements, that thou have efficacy for eve- all fwimming and indifpofition of the Head. For
ry Cure,for which thou fhalt be given ! After this, Favour and Fortune } its right Eye tied in a
take a Sword all of Iron, fuffumigating with clean Cloth, and held in the left H.ind,inDif-
Storax and Honey $ ihen fet a Bowl under- courfes,with great Men, procures Favor and
neath, cut o f f her Head over the Bowl, that Friondfhip. And i t s right E y e hung about one
all the Blood may run into the Bowl. A n d in Dser's Skin, will never permit the Bearer to
hue
by
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104 KIRANI BookllR »k in. K I R A N I . 16$
kvc fore Eyest A b o v e the eyes of an Eagle 4 hold a Feather o f the left Wing, and dip it
in the eye-brows, two (tones are found, one In O y l , and anoint a Woman in travail from
in each eye-brow, which bound in the skirt, the place grieved to the Spina facra, fhe will
oHn the Leather of a Wolf, or o f a S e a l , or be delivered immediately. And its dry D u n g
of a Hyena, or of an Eagle, and worn a b o u t fuffumig.1ted , helps Women in travail, and
the Neck,, preferve the Bearer from all the Crw brings away a dc.id Child , and cx trails the
fIty and Mifchief of wild Beafls, and from the After-burthen, T h e Sinews alfo of its Neck
Snares of Devils and Men, and confer all good.and Back , and the Spondyls o f the N e c k ,
And its Tongue, hung about one in Linnen- tied the right to the right, and the left to the
Cloth, does excellently cure the Gout, and fore left fide, arc good fopthe Gout. And in like
Thrdbts, and difficulty in breathing. And the manner the Sinews o f the Legs cure'the Gout
Liver dried, and powdered with its own in the feet and pain in the kpces, And its T a -
Blood, and drunk for ten dayes in Oxymel, lons carried by Children or old People, free
cures the falling-ftcknefs. And the Gall applied the Bearer from evil and cruel Phantafms, and
as an Oyntment with Juice o f Horehound, from all harm. And the Skin drefled, and
with Myrrh alfo and Honey without drofs, Carefully handled , and kept with the Fea-
tufas amy all obfeurity and dulnefs, and does thers o n , applied as a Stomacher to the Belly
not permit any thing amifs to be in the Eyes. For and Stomach, cures them excellently well that
*ll Prosperity ^ And its Heart, as w a s f a i d , put have the Colick., and a bad Stomacland the.
into wine, and fmyrnizated with Honey and Colick in their Stomach, and it caujcs digeflion
Spices for feven dayes, then fewed in Wolf's It gives alfo an Oracle in Sleep, of fuch things as
skin, and worn about a man, he will fall un- Jhall come to pafs. And if any one, when he
der no infirmity nor wild Eeafl, but will grow prof goes to f l e e p , lay the Mouth or Bill of an
fcroW) and happy, and rich. For IAOI e ; The Eagle at his head, he will fee in his Sleep what-
Kidneys dried , and ftceped , and ftrewed in ever he pleafes. And all thofe things we have
Sawce, and given in Drink, or Meat, will draw faid, are concerning the Eagle. But if y o u
the Party that drinks them,be it Man or Woman, cannot find an Eagle , take a Vultur, and
into Concupifience and great Love. And aaft in the fame manner : For it will do the
Feather o f the right wing held by one, mak$s fame things, but not fo intenfely. And the
the Bearer rich and amiable. And if any one Vultur has its proper Virtues and Efficacies.
hold I And
fo6 K I R A N I . Book III/ Book III.
And if you have not a Vultur, a Hawk does to the quantity o f a N u t , for ten day?s, to
the bufinef9, but left effe&ually. Each hat eat it if good for fuch as bring Blood »jmrk
its proper Virtues. And the Eagle, being Alfo anointing with its Gall, and the Juice
greater than all, can do greater things, ana of Celondine, and Honey, Jbarpens the to
this is its proper Virtue. And if one put the perfe£lly. And a Plafter of its Dung an
Feather or the Wing of an Eagle under the Vinegar heals the Bites of mad Beajls avd Ul-
Feet of a Woman in travail, fie will prefently cers And applied with Vinegar it ript
be delivered j but afToon as (he is delivered, Felons. And its Brain drunk with Vinegar,
take away the Feather. And the'Eagle-Stone, nor with Vinegar, but drunk with the Pickle
which upon (baking rattles within , is red of of a Seipint, helps the biting of a Street. Its
colour, «nd carried in wax, preferves Children T e f t i c l e s drunk with Wine irritate Venus, tnd
in the womb, and fuffers them not to become a* create a good habit. And the inner horpy
bortive: But naked, it hajiens Birth. coat of the Gizzard, which they call a m ,
fome Sifnkion, put into Wine, and then dried
"Ap-m, an Harpy, if a rapacious Bird, like to and beaten with Salt, drunk in Wine, or Sy-
a Vultur, lefs indeed, and redder. T h e Belly rup, perfeaiy cures the Stone in the Kafajt.
of this dried and powdered, and eaten in And the Comb of a Cock's head with one
Broth or Pap, cures difficulty of Urine, breaks grain of Olibanum, and a little Harts-horn,
the Stone in the Bladder , and cures racing carried about one, averts all noQurnal far,
pains in the Loyns : for the Belly of the Bird and the meeting with any Evil, and it mkfi
eaten, and carried about one, creates a great the Bearer without fear. And its Dung drunk
Digejiion. with good wine, dots wonderfully me lo-
cation caufedby Cold.
'Axixfap t i.e. a Cock, known to all. The
Broth o f a Cock's belly drunk, loofens the 'AixTwr, i.e. a Nightingale, is a Bird
Belly. And its Blood cures an Eryfbelas and to all, like to a Swallow. This Bird
Chil-blains,and thofe that have eaten a, Sea-Hare. tinning of Spring never ceafesto fingmgbtm
And if one firft eat Garlick, and drink the day in a mournful and bewailing Note * whence
Blood hot with Wine, he need fear no creeping alfo it had its Name, becaufe tt almyesk,
thing. And ftrewed upon Broth, and[given, If any will fwallow down its Heart w i t h H o
to
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ncy, while the Bird is panting, and will car- a man fall into the midft of hit enemies, he fhall
ry abSut him the Heart and the Tongue of receive no harm, and he fljall neither be hurt by
the lame Bird, he will he fweet in fpeech, and florm, nor by thunder 5 but he fh ill be accepta-
if a fhrill voyce, and will he heard gladly. If ble and pcaccable to all. But it muft be put in
onctakcoutits eyes, and let ir go alive, and its own Shin, and fewed, and put into a gol-
carry thefn about him , he (hall in no 'wife den Pipe. And if a Fifher carry the Belly,
deep, while he carries them about him. And or the Head, or the Feathers, that Fifher fhall
and anointing with'its Gall and Honey, fhar- never be difappointed. And the whole Bird
pslhc fight perfectly. roafted in its Feathers, and eaten, quiets peo-
ple pojfeffed with the Devil. And let vn the
' A a n Halcyon, if a very beautiful Houfe, it averts all fedit ion and fir ife.
Bird, blemfi or greenifh, of diver J Colours, HI-
m on the Sca-(1me. This Bird hatches on the "A/^wa, a Cormorant, is a Sea-bird, infatidr
bmefthe Sea, and when fl)e lays her Eggs ble, and known to all : If this Bird meet a (hip
were is a great Tranquility in the Sea, left the under fail, and as fhe flies dives in the Sea, (he
Set ftmld either break or wet them : For fix ftgnifies a fiorm to the pip } but if flse fly before,
Ms near the brim of the Sea, where the Sea or fit upon a Rocl'{_, fhe portends a good Voyage,
brinks or mfhes. After therefore that fix has The Blood therefore of this Bird is an Antir
dm with her Nefi , and her young ones are pharmacum and good againfi venomous Beafis.
the Sea flutfuates again after its wonted And its Belly dried, and drunk, and carried
Iumr. If any one tie the eyes of this Bird about one, creates a perfect digefiion or a good
m a Cloth, and lay them at the head of one- flgmach. And anointing with it9 Gall and
thatfleepstoo much, they will k^ep him from Tar, fuffcrs not the hairs plmkt from the eye-
fito. If any fliall carry its eyes, when he brows to grow again. And A whole Cormo-
fails at Sea, he fliall not fear Tempeft rtor Storm, rant dried and eaten cures a Lcprojie. And
nor any ncceffity whatever. Alfo the Pilot, that jt is good againfi the Spleen. And the Eggs
ernes them, flail ficer his Veffel quietly, and cure difficulty of Urine, and .the Kidneys, and
™ the of a Storm. And its heart the Stomach.
carried mil make a man beautiful and beloved,
endeared, and peaceful to all people 5 tho'
a man I B.

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man, creates great friendjhip, and lafcivmt
B. defire in her. And its feet carried about one,
, an Owl, fome fay this Bird is tl$ conduce highly to Eloquence of Speech, and In
Mother of watching 5 for Jhe appears not in the Gain, and to the filence of Enemies, and foolh-
day, but in the night fhe whoops and hollows. Her ing of Adverfaries. And its Talons burnt, and
Claw, hung about a man as a PhylaQcry, is for- diffolved in old Wine, anointed all over the
tunate,, and never fails. heart, and drunk, caufe Vittory over Enemiti,
And its Mouth or Bill, with the Tongue,
r. carried about one , is good for journeying kj
nty, a Vultur, a great and a very ufeful night, and drives away Devils, and wild Bap,
Bird, known to ail. And the utility o f a and every creeping thing, and all evih. And
young Vultur is this 5 T h e bones of the we will fay metre, it will acquire to ihehtsrtt
head of this Bird tied with a purple thread all victory, and abundance of things, elomm
to the Arm, cure the head-ach and an old fwim• of Speech, and Caufes, andGlory, and Honour,
tning in the head. And its brain diflolved Carry therefore the Eyes and the Tongue,
with T a r and old Oyl , and anointed on and you will preferve your body in all Chi-
the Temples, cures every Head-ach. And the ftity. And if a Woman diffolve the brain,
Gall, with Honey and Juice o f Horehoundt, and anoint her belly for feven dayes, and
cures a Juffufton of the Eyes. And its Fat mixt anoint alfo the belly of the Man, jhe mil ml
wixt with Hog's Lard, helps the Gout, a bad conceive at all. Keep alfo it bone6 burnt and
Stomach, the Palfie, and fuch as have a ConvuU beaten for a Powder, and this Powder firm-
fion upon too much evacuation. Its heart alfo ed upon any 7J leer, will heal it, and m i x t with
tied up in the skin, flops all Bleeding. And wine, it will put an end to the Tooth-ach. And
all this is o f young Vulturs.. And Devils, and its Gall mixt with with Juice of Hore-hound,
mid beaftswill very much fhun the bearer 5 and and Opobalj'amum, and Honey, does perfcSI)
he will have favour with all men, and with all cure all dimnefs of the Eyes and Sufiufton. And
women, and will live in riches 5 and thk is its Feathers fuffumigated, cure the Letkr
victorious in every thing. And the heart o f a and fits oj the Mother, and the Phwifie. An i
great Vultur boyled, and given privately in the Vultur does as many things us the li>
meat, or dried and oivcn in drink to a wo- gle. lint tho' wc have palled b y m a n y ulcs n
man, I 4 i.
 ID K I R A N I Book IIL Book III. KIRANI. u 3
ihc Vulnir, yet in nil things as is the nfe of
the Eagle, fo is the ufc of this. Z.
2w«, is a Bird of J o v e , which the Greeks
A.
call Aftragallinus, and the Latins, Carduelip,
AmiepiyAa'^Mf, i. c. Picus, a Wood-pecker,yiz. Thifile-bird, a fort of Linnet y it has red
tr Oak-tutter, is a Bird of a very flrong Bill, Feathers in the Head -and golden ones in the
which breeds in the hole of an Oak.: If anyone Wings, and all orer befides it is of divers Co-
flop up its young ones with a Stone, and go hi; lours. This roafted and eaten does excellently
vtj, the Wood-pecker comes, and fetches an herh, cure Loofeneffes and Colickj. >.
ad applying it, opens all fajlnings. And its
Eyes carried , fharpen the fight. And its Bill H.
hung about ones neck, cures the Tooth-ack and
'H/io'^ef/uoj is a Bird in India, which affoon
Vvnla, and fore Throat, and the g u i n f e y , And
as it is hatcbt, flies towards the Eafi againfi the
the Bird roafted or boyled, recovers fu k peo-
Sun -j and when the Sun comes to the Wejt, it
f k jjicedily, andloofes fuch as are bound by in-
turns alfo : It lives no longer than one year, but
chintmcnt, and cures t h e m , a n d gives projpe-
it breeds a Male and a Female. And this in
rilj.
Drink has Favour. If therefore any one
open it, and carry its Inwards about himj
E.
embalming it in Myrrh, he will grow rich. And
'fyvh&s kind of Stork, is a Bird that mak$s eaten it gives health, and he that carries it will
ill Ncji and lives in Temples and JUdifices, not be fic\ all the dayes of his Life, and l.e will
which are in the City: upon its head it hatha grow rich.
Tuft of Feathers lify hair, Uout three fingers
% If its Claws with the Gall of a Crab e.
be hung in an Afles Shin about the Neck of
oi:e that cannot deep, he will fieep. A n d if any ©«<7n®. is a noflurnal Bird. T h e eyes ?nd
one at the Table put a C l o t h , wherein the heart o f this carried, makfthe bearer.bold and
Claws are, into wine, they that drink it will without fear in the night, and unhurt in his eyes.
p ? over the Table. And eaten, it gives Profperity and a good flo-
mach.

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them will be infeparable. And if you give to
I.
a Woman the Inwards of it roafted, (he
a
Hawk., can do whatever the Vul- not knowing it, Jl)e will love you well. And if
tur does, but weaker. And its Dung drunk you anoint your Genital with its Brain and
in fweet wine, hajiens the birth of Children, Honey, and (hall lie with her, Jhe will Im
And being pulled alive, and boylcd in Oleum you entirely, and (he will adhere to no man hi
Sufinum,till it is di(Tolv'd,and afterwards (train- your felf. Its Dung in wine, cures difficult)
e d , whatever you anoint with it, it will tajy in breathing. T w o fpoonfuls of its Wood
sway all clouds and dintnefs ef the Eyes. And drunk in wine, per fell ly cures the Dropjii.
the Bird roafted, and eaten, cures the facred Catch a Crow without hurting her, if ym
Infirmity, And its E y e s , hung about the Feet pain you, and cut off the hind Claw trom
N e c k , drive away a Tertian. T h e Heart the right foot, juft by the Leg unbroken,tie
alio carried for all thing*, flrengthens and pre- it in a thread, hang it, and faften it about;
ferves ihe bearer. but anoint the Crow all over with Oyntment
of Turpentine, or with Oyl, and let her fly
K- away alive: And tie the Claw to the Foot
, a Raven, is known to all men. This afflifted, the left to the left Foot 5 He muft
taken and buried alive in a Horfe Dunghil, not wafh, left the Ligature (hould fal) down:
and putrefied forty dayes, then burnt, and but the Ligature mult be made in Deer's Skin,
made into a Cerecloth, perfeHly cures the Gout. and fo it muft be carried. And when you
And its Dung in fuftumigation, cures the Mor- cut off its T o e , fay, I take this Claw f o r t h
phea and white Leprojie. And its eggs blacken Cure of the Sciatica, and of the Gout of the fal,
gray hairs. and for all the Limbs, and anointing her kt
her go.
Kopmn, a Crow. The Heart carried cre-
ates Concord between a Husband and a Wife 5 K/eotc, 4 Jay, » * fagacious Bird, i r n i m
If he that has a Wife, (hall unwittingly carry the Voyce ofa man. The heart of this, car-
the Heart of a Female Crow, and it the wo- ried about one,with I v y root, cures Worn*
man well knowing i t , (hall carry about her of Cotrvuljtons: In likp manner it cores difficult)
the Heart of a Male Crow , the Love between in 'Urine. And it is a Bird of various Colours,
them KGw' i/W
II* K I R 4 N I Bookllffljtakni. KIRANI. " 7
lit Alcyon. This Bird, when fhe is bringing up
KWU^OJ, an Oitzle , if a fweet-finging BirdA her young ones , left any one fhould take them
[wgitfg much in Summer, and it is all over ve~ way, changes them from place to place : She
rj black, only it has a golden hill. This boyled| tlfo, when Jhe fpies him , that feeks her young
in old Oyl, rill it is dillolved, Anointing with [ones, fhifts her felf hither and thither, left per-
this 0)1 cures a backyard Convulfion and the haps it might be known, where fie feeds her
Sciuticu. -
joung ones. T h e heart of this is fit for too much
Love, and eaten it helps them that are troubled
Iffith' the Pajfion of the Heart, and the Jaun-
Axpos, Sea-Gull, can do the lime things dice, and a bad Stomach. And it is there-
that the Halcyon does. Therefore a Woman fore called Meropt, becaufe it quickly creates
in travail, that holds the heart of this Bird, Love in a Man.. And its Gall with Honey,
jrill quickly he delivered : And afToon as (he is or Juice of R.ew , cures a Suffufton in the
delivered, carry it out, left the Guts follow.
Eyes.
Its Belly alio dried, and drunk , and carried
about one, makes perfc8 Digeflion. Mf?uv< * a ftn&'"& fi*cetb i n Summer.
| This Bird burnt and mixt with Honey, and
Aafiww^s, is a winged Worm, jlying in the
applied in an Oyntment, cures the Sore called
Night, and it Jl)iues as a Star: for it has Light
I Meliceris. And rofted and eaten, it cures the
behind in the Coat of its Belly. If therefore
| bloody Flux.
you tie it up in the Skin of the Matrix, and
hang it about a Woman, it hinders Conception N.
iltopther: And if any one put a G l o w - NWa, a Duck, living in Rivers and Fens.
worm on the Floor of the H o u f e , where' | is kpown to all: And the blood of a Duck
there are Fleas„ they will all get away. drunk either hot, or dried in wine, prefcrves
the Drinker from all poyfon, and heals them that
M.
1 are bitten by a Viper i, and it gives health, and
M«e*4 > a Lapwing, is a Bird all green , flrength, and a good habit.
which fomc call Gangraena: And it is a very
aiming Bird, good alfo for many things, as is XU77JEOS,
the
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cures galling caufed by ones Shooes, and it takt

T J Tr Y T n k i n ^ a t e wine
XTJTHEOS according to fome f-jwflds, i. c. a good for them that have eaten poyfim
Sparrow t according to others m/fytrtis, Tower« Mujhromes. Alio dried, and powdefi, Z
bird 5 according to others rpuiyAnns, Hole-bird. applied in an Oyntment w i A Vitriol and
T h e dung o f this drunk with wine, caufes Vnguentum aridum,, it thickens an Alopecia.
great Ereuion. And applied in an Oynttnent
with Hog's Lard, it cures an Alopecia, and ' < W , 4 guail. T h e Eyes with Marfh-
thickens it, ard breaks Carbuncles. And the mallow Root, hung about one, cure fore mt
Bird roafted and eaten, moves Venereal De- a Tertian and a guartan Ague. And its Broth
light.
y% And eatcn
Kidneys »
O.

"Opwst a domefiick. Hen. T h e Brain rubbed n.

upon Childrens gums, makgs their Teeth breed nh*pyot, a Stork is a very good Bird. Ftt
Without pain. And drunk in wine, it curu prefently when the Spring comes, they proctcddl
them that are flung by a Scorpion. And her e Arf in dvum Fi
Heart, while the Bird is ftill panting, tied to TLZ
% Z i
^ "r
Geefe
> a
" d
7*
DliC
^
m
And all forts of
a Woman's hip , hafiens travail excellently
well. And its Liver bruited, and applied as a come tnto Lycia t to a River, called Xmh^nd
Plafter with Barley Bour and water, is good *nd, n the fane place they engage in battel with R*
for the Gout. Its Greafe melted with N a r d , vtns andCrmstand Magpies,and VH Iturstand with
is good for pain in the Ears , and in Women's f c*rmv°rous Fowl. For they know the timtfm-
Peffariesy and for Difeafes of the Nerves. And band and all come thither. The Amy of tit
Chickens fplit, and applied hot to venomous Storks tndeed put themfelves in Battalia on m
ftings, draw out all the Venom. And w e muft RlVer 5 and thc Crem
L Vnltwu.
change them often and apply frelh ones. A J II L AN<

and all the carnivorous Birds tarry on the otter

Then we muft bruife fome green Olive fide of the River. And they tarry the whole faf
Leaves with O y l and Salt, and f o apply it to Month for battel. For they know the dy
the Wound. Aud frefti Hen's D u n g applied, "hereon they arc to engage. And then a Cr/js
cures
heard
lab K IRANI. fcooklH '^fcobkllL xiit mn- Hi
hard to the very Heavens, and the Jhedding of »with Oyl of Myrtle, antj with i t n r i p e O y l d -
lie blood of wounded Birds tsfeen in the Rivery^ive, in which Beat's, or Boar's Greafe is dif-
4»d the plucking off of many Feathers, of whichfolved.'And if you take a little young Stork,
the Lycians make Feather-beds. And after that and put it in a courft: Earthen P o t ; and fet
the Field is clcared, they find the Crows, and all njt in an Oven to'bake,and when it isb^k&i to
arniverous Birds torn in pieces. And Iskfwife a C o a l , yOu make Powder of it, jw/ w)lttyive
Stores and Pelicans, and no fmall number of a dry Eye-falve for Speck/ in the Eycsj and for
fiich M are of their ftde. For many of the Birds blear-ey'dnefs, and for Inflammation, arid for
fill down dead in the battel. And this Conten- falling of the Hair 5 and you will do all thefe
tion mong them, and Viftory, on whether ftde thirtgsas an Artift. But if you have a mind
fdever it falls, is a Sign to all Men. For if the 40 make a raoifl Eye-falve,put it into Honey,
Amy of Storks be Conquerors, there will be Without Drofi, and ufe it as an Oynrment.
Riches, and abundance of Bread command Fruits While the Stork is alive,take away the Sinews
on the Earth: but if the Crows get the better, of her Feet, and Legs, and Wings, and apply
there will be a Multitude of Sheep, and Oxen, them to the Gout in the Feetxandin the Hands,
and other four-footed beafts. And the Storks joyning like to like, and you will eurethetri.
have another certain, excellent natural Qua- And a Stork eaten roafted ot Ipdyl'd once a
lity. For when the Parents are grown old, and year, in the Spring time, before th£y take
are not able to fly, their Children, on every fide,their Fight to the War, will preftrve the Ea-
wry them upon their Wings from place to place, ter fafe and found in his Nerves and Joynts 5
M alfo maintain them j and if they be blind, for the Gout in the Feet, and in the Hdnds, and
their Children feed them $ this Retribution, and >in the*Knees, the Sciatica, backyard Convulfi-
due Gratitude from Children to Parents, is cal- on, and the Difeafes of the Nerves and Joynts
led anmehapyia., antipelargia, i. e. Stork.-gra> will fly away. And its Dung in a Cataplafm,
titHde. And the Stork has fuch Vertues as with Leaves o f Henbane, and wild Lettuce,
thefe. The Eggs diffolved in Wine, make Hair is-good for the Gout. And take the Skin o f
•bttck. But you muft cover the Forehead and the ifnfide of the Gizzard, wafli it in Wine,
Eyes with Pafte,left the Liquor running down and dry it in the Shade, and make a Powder
tinge them- And after the Tinfture o f the of it. If any one therefore have drunk deadly
Hair, wa(h the Hair very well, and anoint it Poyjort, fcrape a little of it, and give it him
with K to
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i III. K I R A N I . 123
t o drink in Wine, mixt with Sea* water, and avert all evil (that i s , venomous Beads.) If
it will be well with him. And it9 Guts eat- any one is blear-eyed, the blood of a Dove
en, cure the Colicky, and Stone in the Kidneys. poured on hot cures wounds and breaches of
A n d its Gall anointed, Jharpens the light. A n d the Eyes. And its D u n g applied with Barly
if any one take the Heart of a Stork,Conque- Flower and Iris P o w d e r , and Birdlime, and
ror in the War, and tie it up in the Skin of Hogg's Lard, does hollow out Gangrenes, and
a H a w k , or o f a Vulture that is conquered, breaks fcrophulous Tumors. And applied with
and. write on the Heart, becaufe I have con• Vinegar, it takes away Specks and Freckles in
gutr'd my Enemies! And (hall tie it to his right the Face. And mixt with T a r it perjetily cures
Arm. He that carries it, will lie invincible by the Morphew and Leprofie. And d i f l o l v e d in
all, and admirable in War, and in all Contro- Vinegar with JEgyptian Earth, aud Enphor-
versies, and his Vitlory will be irrefragable and mm and Crocomagma , and applied t o the
great. ore head, it cures the Headach ferfettly, And
pplied to the Seat with Oyl, it matys the bel>
Tle&nest, a Dove, is a known bird. And coftive. And the Tefticles of the Male are
there isaTree in India which is called Peridexi- a Love-potion given by a Man to a Woman,
on , whoje Fruit is fweet, and ufeful, fo that and f o is the Matrix of the Female given to
Doves alfo delight and tarry in it: And the Uert.
Serpent fears this Tree , fo that he avoids the
fhadow of it. For if the fiadow of the Tree go P E R D I X , a Partridge is a crafty Bird!
towards the Eaft, the Serpent flies towards the hr Jhe calls her Neighborus and Kiridred into
Weft i and if the fhadow of the Tree reach to- he Snare : She vouches auothers Eggs for her
wards the Weft, the Serpent flies towards the mn \ but affoon as the young ones are hatch,
Eaft , and the Serpent cannot hurt the Doves, iey return to their own Dams, and leave her
becaufe of the Virtue of the Tree. But if any of defolate that hatcht them. The Gall therefore
them ftraggle from the Tree, the Serpent by its of a Partridge with honey , and Qpobalft'
breath attra&s it, and devours it: Yet when ttium, and Juice of Foenil, Jl)arpens tlx fyk
they Hy and go together, neither the Serpent nor Andboyled with Quinces, and eaten, and
tlx Spar-hawk, can or dares hurt them. There- the broth drunk with ftyptick wine, cures
fore the leaves or bark, °f the Tree fufumigated Loofeneffes and a bad ftomach. And its Eggs
avert K 2 eaten
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eaten incite to Venery: And they are a Ijyve
Potion. Diflolved indeed with G o o f e greafe,
2.
and applied to Nurfes breads, they produce Sapinus, is a beautiful Sparrow, and kjtown
jiortof Milk; And the fhells Of. them pow- it all, living in the fields. This eaten confers
dered^ and united and well mixt with beauty, and preferves from dulnefs of fight.
Wax and Cadmia, raife the Jhrunk. and fallen
Brtsfls of Women. Xeioomyig, i. e. E r o p a , vel Caudatremula,
is a Bird, or Sparrow, that alwayes wags its
V. Bead or Tail, which is found about Rivers and
Pa/j.p(&, is a Bird by the River Nile, Brooks: It is called Caudatremula, or Water-
dicb is called a Pelican, and lives in the Fens wagtail, becaufe it alwayes wags its Tail, if
of Egypt: fhe loves her brood extremely welly any one therefore take it, and fhutit alive,
vhen therefore the young ones are hatcht and with its Feathers on, into a pot, and bake it
pom a little, they continually beat the old ones to P o w d e r , and give fome o f it to a W o -
in the face } but they not being able to endure it, man in her Drink, it will make her to diffolve
caff their young ones, and kfll them ; then mo- and melt away for Love : For this is an irrefra-
ving the bowels of compaffton over them, they gable Potion, to which there is no like.
lament their )0ung ones, which they killed 5 the
T.
fame day therefore the Mother, to get to her own
Children, tears open her fides, and fhedding her Taut, i.e. a Peacock.,' is a mofi facred Bird*»
om blood over her Children, fhe revives them, confpicuous for divers colours, beautiful indeed,
and they rife again in a certain natural man• having delight in its Tail: This Bird , when he
tier. The Gall of them therefore mixt with treads, cries, and after he has done coition, he
W i n e , makes the black. Morphew, and black retires backyard, and he treads only in the
furs, of the fame colour with the other flefb) Spring. Its Eggs are good to makf a Golden
And it makes dull Silver bright, and cures and Colour, and fo are Goofe Eggs. And when *
cleanfts all blacknefs. T h e blood o f them Peacock is dead, his Flefh does not decay, nor
d r u n k cures the falling fickpefs. yield any fiinkjng fmell, but continues, as it were
embalmed in Spices. T h e Brain o f this Bird is
4 Love-potion. Its Heart carried, procures
K. 3 good
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goodwill and felicity. Its blood cajlsout De- $ct<nawj, a Pheafant, if a bir4k»omtod
vils. Its Inwards and D u n g futtiimigated
T h e dung o f this anointed and drunk, caufes
calls out all Evil. And eaten it cures the
Eretfion., And its Fat is good for fuch as are
Woody Flux. Its Dung drunk, cures the fal-
troubled with difienfioh of Nerves, arid fir fits
ling jicknefs.
of the Mather. And its Blood is an Antidote
againfi Poyfon.hnd the Gal \ parpens tbeSi$k
T'puy*t a Turtle , is a Bird known to all
content with one Mate. T h e Dung o f this " the bird, which is called Alty-
With honey cures (pecks in the Eyes. Aj)d it f r o n s , or White-brow : for it is all b^lack,
and O y l of Rofes, in an Oyntment, cures the only it has a white' forehead, and it is found in
I Vomb.
Rivers and ftanding Waters. The brain of
this mixt with old O y l and anointed, cms
T. all Difeafes of the Arfe. And the Bird eaten
'Tme/ovis, is the Female Eagle. T h e virtue is a Medicine againfi Poyfon.
of this is fuch as of the Male. And its dung
with honey pcrftHly cures the guinfie, and ii ff - X
good for all Difeafes about the Throat, and for•
XeAi<Wv,i.e. a Swallow,which in the Spring raifes
Coughs.
all people by ftnging. And it has fuch Aftionsas
thefe j If any one take its young ones, and put
9 I
them in a pot, and when it is luted up, bake
<J>«w, is a bird that breaks bones, an OfJ>rey } them, then opening the Pot, if heconiiders,he
fofiit.does not only eat flefh, but the very bones. will find t w o young ones killing one another;
TI\e Stqojach of >this dried, if any one drink and t w o turning the one from the other: If
it in powder, or carry it about him , will therefore y o u take thofe two that kiG one
mkeperfctf digefliott. T h e Hip bone of the another, and diflolve them in Oyl of Roles,
Bird hung about the Hip, cures the Varices, or and anoint a Woman, fhe will immediately
broken Veins that arc in the Legt. ' A n d its G a l l , follow you j And if you give her fome of
and Honey anointed, cures the Morphtw and the a flies in D r i n k , fhe will go mad lor
Leprofie.
Love.But y o u may diflolve this,if you give a
little of the afhes o f thofe that turn one
K 4 iron
 »8 £ I R A N I . Book Illi
ok IU. K IR/i N l tap
from another, in anOyntment or D i i n k , and But if the Bird look the fick Man in (the face,
fhe Will recover. And t h e a f b e s o f them and it takes a w a y all the Sicknefs from him, and
of the old ohes, applied as an Oyntmcnt with flies agAinft the Sun, and gqts a W y the Sick-
Hority , cure the gtanfey, and drunk with nefs, and both the fick perfon and the Bird
Meliorate they cure 'hoarfeneffes. A n d thi; faved. T h e H e a r t , and the Head of it,
M l b w her felf, eaten frequently cures the carried about one, preferves the bearer fafe and
Filling Skfaefs. And the Gravel that is found foi/nd from all Sicknefs all the dayes of his
in tjie Qizzajrd of the young o n e s , hung at Life. ' ;
thc iight Afai, perfectly cures bad Livers: It
it ijtyrtniic*) of a Cough, Running at the Nofe,
yLlw. a Goofe. If 1 any one cut out the tongue
fire Throats, and of all manner of Jore
of a G o o f e alive, and lay it upon the Breaft
Ejes. .'And the Eyes, tied to the Forehead,
o f a M a n o r Woman afleep, they will confefs
cutt loft Eyes, and take array the cold fit of
alltfat ever thty have done. And its Brain with
Af>)tts•: And Swallows eaten, cure the Fat
its own Greafe and Melilot or Fcenugreek in
ling Sicfy:efs , and hafien the birth. A n d it's
a Deco&ion or Broth, applied, cures Chaps
Allies.and Honey anointed, fharpen the Sight:
and the Hemorrhoids and all fwellings in the
And anointed alfb they perfiSly cure Vleers in
Arfe. And with Oyl o f Rofes and F a t , and
the Throat or Tongue, and all eating Sores, and
the fliells of the Eggs rofted or fried, it is good
Gangm.es. And the Earth o f the N t f t , diP
for all fivellings of the Matrix, With Deer's
folvcd in Water, and applied, cures firelhngs
Marrow it is good for chapping of the Lips, and
of the Throat and Jam, and tl. e Qun;fey. And
for Chil-blains. And inje&ed with Oyl of L i -
with Vinegar it cures the Head-ach. And its
lies, it brings away a dead Child. With an au-
Dung drunk , cures Nafientia And mixt
ftere Juice, it is good for a Thrufls. And with
WitlvGoat'b Gall, it tinges the Hair black, and
Honey alfo it cures aU that is about the Tongue.
cures the white and blacl{ Lcprofie.
With Nard, it is good for old running Ears.
And with Raifins ftoned, it cures Carbuncles.
Xuesif &a, is a Kingly Bird, foreknowing And the Gall, efpccially o f a wild Goat, put
wUt u to come. If any one is i l l , and the in a Pefl'ary with Juice of Horehound and
Bird walk before him, and it turn afide its Knotgrafs, helps Conception, and in Menlnten-
head from the lick Perfon, he will d i e : fton. And its Greafe is good in Peffaries,
But * and
i3o KIRANI. Book nBoofcllf, KIRANI. 131
and in Anodyne and emollient Oyntments. Am \<tt fytailt and Partridge eat Hellebore. This
its D u p g drunk in w i n e , afwages a Cougi&Xtn helps aU who have drunks Come deadly
T h e D u n g alfo o f a wild G o o f e fuffumigated fhing^ and he that taftes it, pall not be hurt
cafls out Devils, and cures the Lethargy ant [4t all.
Fits of the Mother. A n d its Gall, with thi
Gall o f an O x e and Juice of Bayes , curei n.
Deafnep. And the Broth of a G o o f e drunk ' f l a , I.e. Eggs. N e w laid Hen's£ggs anoint-
with wine, is good for them that drink much ed, cure burns with fire. Alio an Egg ntvv
Wine , or Aconite, i. e. Hemlock, or Dorigi- Uid , tied about a Vyoman, hafiens Travail,
num, i. e. Hcrba Apollinaris, or Henbane. The And it is very good for Difeafes of the Eyes.
Inwards alfo of a G o o f e rotted and eaten are And the fhell o f it rofted, with Myrtle, heals
good ( a s ) the Liver is good for the Liver, the galling of the feet by the Jfmes, and Jlopj every
Stomach for the Stomachy the Guts for Looj- Tumor and Defluxion. And it is good in Pef-
nejfes: And the Heart and Lungs are good for faries, and in things that are good againfl Dif-
Confumptive People. eafes of the Feet and Matrix, and it ajfm^es
all pain, but efpecially fwellings of an Eryfipe-
las and Nafcentiae. And if it be fupt raw, it
^nldtui,, a Parrot, is a Bird all green, having flops a Woman's Flux, and voydiug of Blood
the feet apef the bill red: This is found at The- upwards , and it attenuates dnd beautifits an
ba is in iEgypt, and in India ^ It has a ftrong Artery. And it is good for an Inflammation,
beak., Jo that it break/ Iron: And it imitates and it per fed ly cures all Pain. And an Egg-
the vojee of Men, and of all Animals. T h e (hell burnt and powdered fine, is blown into
beak of this Bird carried, cajlsout Devils,and the Noftrils to ftop bleeding at the Nofe. Waft-
the cold fits of Agues. And it can d o all that ing the Mouth with it, cleanfes the Teeth. And
the G o o f e can do. And the eating it helps all thte Pellicle o f the E g g which is called Vemen,
People in the Jaundice, and cures the Confump- is good for chapped Lips and a rough Tongi lie,
Hon well. And it is very good for any breach in the Ears,
And G o o f e and Peacock Eggs do the fame
Yap©*, <t Starling, is a Bird of a red or va- thing. A Snipe's E g g rofted oaufes Mifcarri-
riable Colour, known to aU, which cats Hemlock, age. And a Crow's Eggs anointed on the Te-
as flicks,
 K I R A N I Book III-r T
fticles, caufc Delight, and drunk, they caufe C'33 )
Ijjvt And fo Swallow's Eggs make the hah,
blick, W cure the white Lcprojie. And P i e e - '
on s Errs eaten caufe Intenjion. A Partridge's 1

K I RAN I
Eg*i ditto!ved with Honey, jharpen the Sight,
"j Btrth. An Eft rich's Eggs applied
2 Spiders Eggs drunk, three for
tTtrtm four for a Quartan, put away the

° d d Hen's
Eeg boyled in. A f f e s Urine and eaten, c„re Book IV.
Ntphritick and Colick Pains.

A.

E J O S, the Eagle-Fiji), is a Fifh without

A Scales, like to the Hawkrfijb, likf to a lit-
tle Fierce• claw , becaufe of its Prickle. The
(tones therefore that are f o u n d in the Head
o f this F i f h , hung about o n e , cure Quartan
Agues. And its Gall anointed Jharpens the
Sight. Its Prickles burnt upon Vine-branches
cafi out Devils. And the Fifh eaten perfect-
ly cures the falling Sicknefs.

KIRANI. A N T H I A S is a great Fiji). Its Gall

applied with Honey, cures Pimples, and makes
a florid Countenance. And its Fat with a Ce-
rote, cures Carbuncles, Steatomata, Apoflemes,
and the Breafts, and the King's Evil, and Fe-
lons. T h e Stones of the Head hung about
the
 134 K I R A N I . Book KIRANI.
a a An d the y
the Neck, cure the Head-ach, and all Difeafek & '"\ . , . *hemmfe,ves ^PP 1 1 * 1 a*
of the fiead and Neck. ive to a place, in which Matter does fuper*
ibound, evacuate i t , and make a man
A M l A » / ; ^ a Tuny, it if a bold Fiji.\ and ound. T h e y are therefore good for the Spleen,
purfuet other Fijhes. T h e Teeth o f this car- Dropfie, and for Jore Eyes, fet to the Fore-
ried, caufe Childrens Teeth to breed without bead. Suffumigated they kfU Chinees $ and
pain. T h e Fifh eaten, cures a Dyfury. , Chinees fuft'umigated fetch up Leechs drunk
A ^ U An XT, , ™ , . i down, for they cannot endure one another.
A C H AR N I are little fijhes, a kindofT.
Roaches. T h e Broth of them loofens the belly, B L A C E I A S , a River-fiflj. The head
and is good for the Kidneys. of this burnt, and difToIved with honey, and
anointed, makes the fight very Jharp 5 its Gall
A S T A C U S , a Crey-fifh, known to all. alfo does the fame.
G i v e the Shell o f this b u r n t , and difToIved
in Broth of Rice, it cures the bloody Flux and B O B E S, Some call them Bufei, Oxeyes, are
Loofnejs. Ifhes like to little Chevins. Thefe eaten are
ood for the Kidneys. And the Gall parpens
B. be fight. And the bones burnt, and ftrewed
B A T O S or V A T O S , a Fiji) without on d r y , heal Ulcers.
Scales, which the Romans call Culpelna. The^
eating o f this frequently provokfs Venus. G.
B I I G L O S S A , /. e. Bovis Lingua, a Sea- G I S E N T E R A , i.e. T e r r * Inteftina,
fijh% which is called Skitopmia, a Sole* This or Worms,applied,perfeftly cure fijrunk. Nerves:
applied to the Spleen and fwathed o n , dimi- And they are good for Apojlemes of the Nerves,
nrjhes the Spleen in a natural manner: But y o u and they di(folve Gangrenes. Bruifed with
muft after three dayss hang it in the fmoak. honey and applied, they cure fuch as are bit-
ten with a Scorpion, and the fling of the Sea.
B D E L L JEt i. e. Leeches. Burn t h e m , jijb Mursena. Bruifed with Wine and drunk
diflolve the Afties in Vinegar, and pluck o f f privately, they break, she Stone, and cure diffi-
the hairs of the Eye-lidstand anoint,they will not culty in Urine : A n d drunk fo, as was faid,
grow they
136 JCTkAMl. BookttfBook IV. K I R A N I . ,37
they breed much Milk in Nurfes. And appliedGall of an Hyana bruifed and mixt with the
to aking Teeth, they cure the Tooth-ach. Boy|» Fat of any heart or bird whatfbever, and put
ed in Oyl till they diflolve, the Oyl anoint- into a lighted Candle or Lamp , they that
ed cures pain in the Ears. And burnt, and look on it will think they fee that beart, if it
thealhes of them diflblved in Vinegar, and be of the River, a River-Creature^ and if o f
anointed, cure an Eryjipelas. Put into the the Feather, a feathered Creature. But y o u
holes of Moles, they bring them away without muft put i.n the whole Star-fifh, and bruife it.
pain, fo that the Moles drawn with the hand, And the Fat of a Glaucus is good for many
follow by the roots. Diflblved with an oynt« things, and efpecially for D/feafes of the Arfe
mcnt of Eggs, and applied, they cure the Gout, and the Womb.

G O N G R . U S , ha River-fifh, like an Ed D.
This boy ltd in Oyl till it is diflolved, and D E L P H I N , a Dolphin, brings forth
drained, and a Cerecloth made of the (train- young ones, and is a Sea Animal. Many of
ed Oyl and Wax, and applied, fuficrs.not tlx them play about the Euxine Sea, where fox<pivi-
belly of a Woman with Child tohurfi\ And it Xa/or and ij^fioujyMo., i. e. Oyl of Dolphins and
if good for the Gout, and Chaps in the feet. Icing glafs are made. T h e Womb of this a-
oointed ( fome have it blown and turned) turn-
G L A N E U S is a River fifh. The bond
ed to the North makes the North-wind blow 5
of it burnt, drive awayDevils. And its Gall
anointed, cures the Speck i» the Eyes. And its and if to the South," the South-wind , and in
Liver eaten, cures the Falling Sickpefs. And like manner it operates upon other Winds. And
the whole Fifh is good fair thewontach. its Teeth, hung about the neck, are good for
breeding of Teeth. And its belly dried, and
G L A U G U S , a large Sea fifh. This boyl powdered, and drunk, aires the Spleen, lis
ed with Herbs and Foenil, and eaten, and the Liver rofted and eaten, perfeftly cures a Terti-
Broth of it drunk, caufes much Milk: And an, and guartan, and noflurnal (perhaps a
its Gall blackens the >Aau>y<p0aA,oux, or grey- Diurnal or Amphemcrinus) ague, and every
tiefs of Childrens Eyes, and white fpecks. Both Fit.
of its eyes, and hkewife of an Orphus, and
of a T u n n y , and of the Sea-Star, and the L DA. A C O ,
Gall
i38 K I R A N I . Book IVl Book tv. K I R A N I .
carried about one, cure all fore Eyes and tit
D R A C O , the Dragon fifh, is very poyfo•
Hcmicrania.
MU1. This opened and applied, cures its own
venom. And the Sting ( others have it the
E C H I N U S , the Sea-Urchin. The Flefh
Brain ) if it be burnt, and applied to a
of it eaten loof-ns the belly, and perfectly cures
Tooth with Juice of Tithymal, niak$s it fall
pijfmg of Gravel, taken with the Pickle. And
out. And the Stones, that are in the Head
the Sca-Urchin it ft If burnt, and reduced to
of it, drunk, cure pijfing of Gravel. And if
powder, and auoi^trd, curcs the Lejirofie, and
it be reduced to a flies, and (hewed on its own
reduces any 'Ulcer to a Cicatrice and dolulity, it
wound, mixt with Sulphur (others fay Bran)
alfo cures unci thickens an Alopecia, if it be
it cures the Sores.
anointed with litais Greafe, or with the Fat
of a Dolphin, or with Hogs Lard.
E.
E N C H E L Y S , is a Fifh like a Serpent E C H E N E I S , a Remora, is a rnji
without fca!esy i. e. an Eel. If you privately powerjul Fifh. If it flick. 10 a Ship under Sail
give the Liver and Gall of this difToIved in before the wind, it flops the Ship. Take there-
wine to any one to drink with his wine, ht fore a living Echeneist and put it into Captie-
can never drink wine again. This Eel alfo bum, that it may be fuffocated , and when
killed in wine preferves from Drunkennefs 5 if you will boyl it, weigh the F i f h : For if it
y o u give a little of the wine to drink where weighs a pound, you muft put it into a quart
in it was killed. And roafted and eaten, it of O y l , a quart for every pound of Fifli,
cures a bad flomach and the bloody Flux. and boyl it on a gentle Fire, and when you
find the Fifh is diflolved, and dry, ftrain out
E L O P S, is a great Sea-fiJIj , like to a the Juice and O y l , and mix of the firft But-
Glaucus. T h e Fat and Gall of this cure all ter §iij in a quart of the Juice of the Fifh and
dimnefs of the eyes. And its Liver rofted and the CapneUum: And when it is well boyled,
eaten cures Epatickj. T h e Stones of its head put it up in a Glafs-Vellel, and ufe it. And
hung about one, cure every Head-ach and He- you fhall anoint the Joynts of the hands and
micrania.- T h e right muft be applied to the feet with this. Forif the Gout in the feet be of Ten
right, and the left to the left. And its Eyei jears ftanding, it will perfectly cur* it, and the
carried L 2 Gout
140 K I R A N I . Book IV, Book III. KIRANI. 141
Gout in the hands, and the Gout in the faces Liver bruifed applied plafterwife^we/a// fweU
likfwifi. And when you boyl it, fee that it ling and the Gout. And its Head burnt and pow-
do not boyl over, and throw out the Capne- dered, and the Powder firewed vpon old eating
U m , becaufe you will fet nil on fire: Boyl l)lcersJ heals the Flefl).
therefore the forefaid me.ifure in the open
Air, as if the Fifh weigh 1t> ix. and Butter T H.
^iv. And CapneUum is the thing, which is T H Y N N U S , a Tunny. I f one bruife
called Naphtha. + the eyes and lungs of a Sea-Tunny, aud fprin-
kle them on the roof o f the Houfe at night,
Z.
they that are in the Houfe will think, they fee
Z M U R j E N A, A Sea-Lamprey , is 4 jlars. And if you anoint a wand and walk
malicious marine wild Beafl, and ingenious,at night, when the Moon does not (hine,
without fcales, having black fpots upon. the bacl( they will thinly that Light fliines from the wand.
and in the skin, it is venomous, and violent up- And if you draw a wild Beaft or any Image
on Men. And the Sea-Lamprey is contrary to upon a Wall or P a p e r , the Beholders will
the Polypus, and kills it, and the Lobfier killt admire.
the Sea-Lamprey $ Jo that if a Sea-Lamprey and
a Lobfier be bdyled together, the Sea-Lamprey T H R I S S A, fume call it C o p l a , others
wajles away, and will not appear. And the Po- fay it is that Fifi which is now called Trichias.
lypus kills the Lobfier. T h e T t e t h therefore A Thriffa there tore dried and eaten, cures dif-
of a Sea-Lamprey hung about one, are goot ficulty of Urine. Burnt and anointed with
for Children, when they breed their Teeth. More Unguent um Irinumt it makes the hair curl and
e
over, eaten in Broth and Pepper it cures thi thick., and k? p* it Jrom falling. Rotted and
Stone in the Kidneys, and the Leprofte, and al eaten it is good for bad fiomachs.
fcabby difeafes.
I.
E.
H I R P U R U S , i, e. Horfe-tail, is a fifi.
H E P A R , the Liver-fifi) if a foft and fiov which fome call Coryphaeus , i. e. a Prince, or
fjl), having a great Liver. T h e Gall o f thii
Crown. T h e Gall of this and Honey without
drunk with Melicrate cures Epatickj• And id
drofs, cures aU dulnefs, or black*>cfs, orobfeuri-
Livei L 3 ty.
 14* IC Ik ANT. Book IV. Book I V . K I R A N I . 143

ty. It has altogether the fame V i r t u e , that nefs of fight. And fo doe6 the Gall of a Vultur.
the Gall of an Hyjcna has. And it is very C A N I S Marinus, a Dog-fiflu The Teeth
good and fweet to cat. burnt, and difToIved in Vinegar, cleanje the
H I P P O C A M P U S marinus, is a Sea-In. Gums. And its Skin carried, puts Land-Dog:
f e t f , kpown to all. This burnt, and mixt with to flight.
Hogg's Lard, perfe&ly cures an Alopecia. With ; K Y P R I N U S , a Carp, a River-fib t
Leaves of the black wild Fig-tree , or with fiiffumigated, drives away Devils. And its
Allies of Butcher'? Broom, diflolved in Vine- Gall anointed cures all olifcurity. And its Fat
gar, it cures the Morphew and Leprofie. And flirs up Venery. If any one melt it, and anoint
tied about one , it eafes //><? Sciatica , and is the Sex in a Bath, it will caufe a good Colour,
good for the Pa Hie. and Conception immediately after Coition,

I U L I S , a partie-colourcd Fiji), known to C O M O S , T h e Fifh boyled in Water

all. T h e Teeth o f it carried about one, di- and S.dt, till it is diflolved, and the Broth
jhtrbs Devils and Witchcrafts. of it drunk, efpecially with Milk , loofensthe
Belly.
K-
t K I C H L A, A Sea Jiflj like a Tench. The
K E P H A L U S , * Mullet. T h e Head of Broth of it loofens the Belly, caujes good'dige-
this Fifh b u r n t , and anointed with honey, Jiion, jiirs up to Venus, and breeds Mill'{_ 1 n
cures the Piles and fwell/ngs in the Se.it, and in Nurfes.
any other place. T h e Head alfo of a little
Tunny does the fame t h i n g : Y o u mult ufe K A 1 1 1 S Marina,/', e. Gatnmarus,* Shrimp
ihim therefore both mixt. tied about one cures them that are flung by
K O R A S C U S , a Crow-fip. T h e Gall Scorpions. In like manner, if you write up-
boiled with Honey , cures dimnefs of fight. on the flung place, Karisit takes amy the
T h e Gall of this, and of a Cabote, and o f a pain the fooner: fuch efficacy it has. And it
Partridge, and o f a Scare, and o f a Scorpion, any one engrave a Shrimp in an Agate,
equally with Honey and Opobalfamum, anoint- and wear it in a R i n g , he fhall not he J'lutig
ed, greatly helps old men labouring under dim• by a Scorpion at any time.
nejs L 4 KAR,
>44 K I R A N I . Book IV. B o o k l V . KIRANI. i4s
K A R K I N I, River-crabs bruifed, and K I R U K. E S marini, Sea-trumpets, tied
drunk in Goat's Milk, heal fuch as are Rung about a Woman newly brought to Bed,affwage
by a Scorpion, or are bitten by a Spider, or by a the pains and fwellings of the Breafls. And the
dcfperate Serpent, or by a homed Serpent. Given Afhesof them ftrewedon with Honey, cure
in black Wine to a Woman that has hard La- Freckles, and fwellings in the Face and Warts.
hour, they haften the birth. Bruifed, and tied And Shell-fi(h,and Sea-trumpets, boyled, and
to the Holts of Darts or Ponyards, they draw eaten are good for them that haze drunks
out pieces of Iron, and fplinters of Wood, and Hemlock, or Aconite. And the Broth of them
Thorns out of Wounds. Applied with Wax, well boyled, is very good for fuch as have drunk
they cure Chil-blains. Poyfon. T h e Horny part of them burnt, cures
i
grained Sinews. And the Shells of them burnt,
C A N C E R marinus, a Sca-crab, raw
and diffolved with Honey, cure fwellings and
With Lead, and burnt, and powdered, cures
Warts in the Cheeks. And difTolved in Water,
tmrous places. And its Allies, with Oyl of
they dr^w out pieces of Bones, and caufe new Fief!)
unripe Olives anointed, are good for ChiUlains.
to grow. And the Fifh of them bruifed with
And applied with an Oynimenr, they are pood
for the Gout. the White of an Egg,and applied to the Fore-
head, cures the Rheum of an Hemicrania.
K A R A B U S , * Lobfier, ro.ifted and eat-
cn, fs good for a bad flomach. A n d the B r o t h K O C H L I A S, an Earth-fnail, bruifed,
of it drunk with Wine, cures the Jlune w the and applied as a Plafter, cures the pain in the
Kidneys, and difficulty of Vrwc, and looter,s Forehead, and Rheum in the Eyqj, and dejlroys
J
the belly. the King's Evil. And tied about, it cures
wounds and breaches of the Ears. And a na-
C O C H L E / E , marina?, Sea cocklcs. The ked Snail difTolved in Manna, i. e. the pure
Broth of them, and o f Achami, and of Moles, Grain oiOhbanum, and put up the No(e, Jlops
and of Sprat?, and of Crabs, and of Palours, the bleeding thereat, and opens the Jhut Mouth of
and of Lepots, and of lepades, mollife and the Womb. T a k e a naked Snail after the Sun
holm a cojiive belly.
is up, and cutting in the middle between her
Horns, with a fharp Quill, take out what
Bone it has: Keep it wrapt up in Silk, for all
KIRU- manner
146 KIRANI. Book IV. Book IV. KIRANI. ty
manner offote Eyes. T h e Preguftation fuffers
tto fore Eyes, nor fore Throat, nor Cough, not M.
Head-ach, nor any Difeafe about the Neck. and
M IE N I S, a Herring. Its Head burnt, and
Head to happen. And if there be any of them, it
applied, cures the Piles, and leprous Nails, and
cures them, tied about. And the Froth oi
Chaps, and Warts in the Arfe. And the Brine
Snails, plucks out the Hairs of the Eye-lids. And
of pickled Herrings, is good for the Itch, and
they, and their Shells bruifed, drunk with
wafting with it, wonderfully cures Drjnefs, and
Myrrh and Dates, cure the Colic!And tht
eating away of the Throat.
Antes applied in an Oyntment, cure the Seal
fallen-down. M A R. 1 D E S, Pilchards burnt,powdered,
and ftrewed upon Warts of all forts, eradicate
L A B (l A X , A Sea-pike,is an excellent Fiji\ them. Boyled with Fenil, and the Broth of
and like a Mullet. T h e Gall o f it anointed them drunk, is good for Womens Milk.
with Honey, makes the (ight quick., Clires
M E L A N U R U S , a R u f f , roafted and ca
white Specif. And its Belly caufes Digeflion,
ten,parpens the fight. And the Broth of it aires
and to eat well: And car l ied about one,it does
the Colicky
the lame thing.. And the Pearls of its Eyes,
carried about one, eafe an Opthalmia. And tht M Y O N marinorum,Sea mufcles,their Broth
Stones that are in the Head, cure the Head-acl b o y l e d with Alexanders and Leeks, and Par-
and Hemicrama T h e right to the right, and fley , and drunk with Wine, cures the Sci-
the left to the left. And its Teeth tied about,
atica.
are good for Children that breed Teeth. And tht
Bone in the Crown of its Head, laid upon the M Y A K O N , Rher-Mufcles, the Broth of
Head, brings up bones that are fwallowcd> them drunk, loofens the Belly. And the Shells
of them burnt, and made a Xeron, i.e. a delic-
L A G O U S , a Sea-hare,difToIved and an catory Medicine,cures Galling, and Cicatrical,
ointed, fuffers not the Hairs of the Eye lids thai Anointed in Honey, they attenuate thick. Eye-
are pluck! o f f , to grow again. And they tha brows, and white Specks. And Sea-trumpets
have drunk of it, give to them the Blood ofa have the fame u f e ; but. you muft wafti the
G o o f e hot, as it runs from the Wound. Afhes in Water.
M
 KIRANI Book I V . KIRANI- 149
i48 Book IV.
N. Fifh often makes all the Birds o f the Air to
hover over it, that when they would eat it,
N A R . C A Mar ift a, a Cramp/iff). Applied it may catch them. Its Bones fuffumigated, a-
to old Aches, it affwages them, and it miti- vert all Evils, and fo does the Star-fifh.
gates violent Head-aclses, and applied, it wonder,
fall) deprejfes the falling down of the Arfe-gut. P E L A M Y S , a young Tunny. T h e Guts,
and the Head burnt, and ft re wed upon eating
X. Sores, cure them.
X U T H O S , is the Fiji) which fome call Sma-
P E R C A , <* Pearch. T h e Afhes of it ftrew-
ris-, a Pickerel. The Head of it dried and burnt,
cd upon pntrlcl Ulcers, and fores in the Mouth,
checks proud FleJI.j, Ulcers, and Sores,and it con-
fines Corns and Warts. R a w , it is good for cure them.
the fling of a Scorpion, and the bite of a Dog. P E T R E O S . T h e Broth of it eaten with
Pepper is good for a bad flomach, and cures dif-
O. ficulty in Urine. For its Broth is very good.
O N OS, a Sea Aft, which fomc call a Poly-
R.
pus, or Eight-foot. Pur it alive into a new
Pot, make it boyl, and the Stuff (others fay R A P H I S , i.e. Sutura, is the Fifi), which
the Blacknefs) that comes out of it, give it to is called (ItMm, i. e. * Needle, having.t little
vephritick Perfon s, and to jiich as pi ft Gravel, lone Mvitb, like to a Sphyrana. T h e Cheek o f
with old Wine in the Bath, and they will be it carried, or fuflrumigated, cajis out Devils.
cured, and will void Gravel. And all the Fifh bruifed with unguentum iri-
nttm, thickens an Alopecia cfictiually.
P.
P E L O R I D E S, Paloitrs, are fnsall Sea- R I N A , i.e. a Frog's skin burnt,and mixt
fifi. The Broth of thefe, and of Crey-fifh, with Water, and laid o n , and anointed, cures
with Wine, Ioof en the Belly. Warts.

P U L M O N A R I U S , Sea-Lungs, applied
to the Gout, and Chil-blains, cure them. This
Fifh
 15© Kill A NL Book IV, Book IV. Klk ANI. i5l
pves Fortune, and All Utility. And if anyone
S. bruife the Eyes, and anoint any ones Eyes
S A L P E , A Stockrfifb. The Stones that with it, he will prefently labour bf dintnefs of
are in its Head carried, the right indeed can* jIght. T h e Cure o f this thing is 5 the Gall of
Jes earnejlnefs, and the left the contrary. And the Fifh anointed in Honey, jharpens the fight.
its Fat anointed, caujes great delight. The whole Sea-barbel burnt, andB diffolved
with Honey, and applied, eradicates Carbun-
S A U I V U S , a Lizard-filh. The Gall and
cles, and pisrfellly cures thtm. And its Liver
Honey anointed, brings much Milk into the
applied, cures the Wounds of the Fierce-claw,
breajis.
and of the Sea-l.tmprcy, and of the Sea-dragon.
S E P I A , the Cuttle-fft. T h e Shells cleanfe And killed in Wine, and the Wine given to
the Eye-brows, and thin the Hairs of the body. drink, helps Women that have hard Travail.
T a k e therefore fuch as are found on the Shore. And.the Broth of it chunk, helps them that
And boyled, and eaten, they cure the Bladder, have drmil^ hurtful Drink^
and Kidneys, and difficulty of Urine.
T R I G O N , a Fierce-claw. The Prickle,
S Y N A G R. I S „ Tooth-fft. The Teeth a re or Sting of it ftucU into a Tree, dries it. And
gopdfor breeding of Teeth, and for the Tooth-ach. if you fix it in an Houle, or Ship that is build-
Its Gall alfo with O y l o f f w e e t Almonds, cajes ing, it will prove unfortunate, -and will not be
the Tooth-ach. finifted. And if it be in an Houfe, or in a
Ship, it will fuffer Dimmage : For it is in aU
S A R G U S , a Fift like a Ruff. The Teeth Cafes the c^ufe of Milehief and Hurt. But if
carried about one, prevent all Tooth-ach. you prick aking Tcttb round about with-it, it
will cure them.
T.
, 'y.
T R . I G L A , a Sea-barbel. If any one cut
off its Beard alive, and put it alive into the Y D R O S , is a {Vat orfnakf, living much in
Sea again, and give a little of that Beard to the Fields, and frequently fwimming upon tl:e
a Woman in Drink, he will kindle great Love Water in Ponds, creeling its breajl, a crafty A-
and Delight in her. And the Beard carried, nimal. This has a Stone in its Head, if any'
gives catch
catch the Serpent alive,he will find the 9ton e Book IV. K I R A N I . 153
if he charm it, it will vomit up the Stone. PH.
Hang up, I f a y , the Serpent alive, and fuffu- P H O C A , a Pore- pifee or Seal, is a Sea-
migate it with Laurel, conjuringit in this man* Animalpi u hich mention has been often made.
ner j By him who created thee,to whom that cloven .The Fat of this in a Fume, prefeutly helps a
Tongue of thine does often devout lypr ay Jf thou wilt Lethargy and Fits of the Mother. And as much
give me thi ft one, I will not hurt thee, yea, I will' Seal's Rennet ns a Vetch in bigntfs drunk,
let thee go home again to thy Friends• And af. cures Quartane Agues. And drunk in like man-
ter it has vomited up the Stone, gather it in ner, it cures backward Convulfions. Alfo, if
a clean filken Mantle, and keep it. T h e Ver- any one c a n y about him a Seal's Rennet, he
tue of this Stone is tried thus ; Fill a brazen will overcome all his Adverfaries in Law. If you
Bowl full of Water, and tie the Stone about tic a Thong of it about a Bottle, and give it
theBafon, and fb you will find the Water e« them to drink that are bitten by a /Had Dog, or
very day to deereafe two Pints, /. e. a duart. to one Mad\. he will prcfently recover. And the
For I once tied this Stone about a Woman in Skin, wherefoever it is put in an Houfe, or
a Dropfte, and fhe was cured : I fay, I meafu- Jn a Ship, or if it be carried about one, no
red her Belly with a Line, and every day it Mifchief can hi tide them: For it averts all Thun-
fell above four Fingers, till her Belly return- der, Storms, Dangers, Enchantments, Devilst
ed into its Compafs, and then I took it away : Wild-beafts, Thieves, and Notturnal Invaftons.
For if I had let the Stone tarry on any longer, But one muft have with it the Sea Stone of
I fhould have dried up even the natural Coral. And it is good for the Gout, to wear
Moifture. The Stone, I fay, is proper, carriet Shooes made of its Skin. And the. Hairs of it»
to a meafu re : For being carried .about one, Noftrils, with the Heart carried about one,
it is not only good for a Dropjie, but alfo it hat are Fortune and great Favour to him.
fympathy with a Defluxion into the Feet, ant CH.
with a Rheum in the Eyes, and with a rkcuma> C H ^ Y S O P H R U S , a Guilt-head. T h e
tick Head, or any other part $ and upon ac- Stones found in its Head, cure confumptive Per-
count of its Nature, it cures th(m of over much fons, tied about them. And its Gall, anointr
Moifture. ed on the Member, in an Oyntment, caufes
Luft, and delight in Coition. And its Eyes
PH, cure a Tertian, and all fore Eyes.
?
M CHE-
,54 KIRANI. Book IV. 1
K l k A t i L
C H E L O N E , i.e. T e f t u d o marina, a Sea-
the Blood o f a Marfti-Tortoife, anointed on
Tortoife. T h e Blood of it is a gpod Remedy a- the Head, does very well cure all Head-aches.
gainfi all Wild-beajls, and it cures the bitings of
;Atld the telood of ft Sta-Tortoife, htlpt them
•every Wild-beafi, and of the Afp magnificently. ihtH aft bitten by a Piper., both dn!ink,t»rid dp-
Its Eggs eaten, cure Lunaticks. T h e Wine al-
plied to the Sores: And made into tStfrifh^rtd
fo of tne fame Sex, d r u n k , cures fuch are bib drunk, it cuYes fhortnefs of Breath* and them
ten by an Afp, or a Viper. Hhat have, druvl^any Jmr iful thing. The- Stones
'ChclQniticles carried with;tfue-Ro^c ot^oeany,
C H E L O N E terreflris, a Land-Tortoife. make one very JucccfJ'u{.Aija \i$X*a\L anoipt;
T h e Blood of it alfo drunk, cures the falling ed,cures ail Di»(nejs xof Sigh*- its Liver ch^nk,
Sickpefs, and greatly helps fuch as are bitten by cures the *~J\undice.
a Viper, or flung by a Scorpion. Anointed on
the Head, it cures an Alopecia,. and clcanfis . . C H I L r O N , « F i p J ' k f * fyevitr.: The
v
Dandriff. Diflolved with a Serpent's Slough t a t o £ i t : d i f f o i v e d w i t h J u i c e o f ^aenugr^el^
nnd Vinegar, it cures Pains in the Ears and to the Lips,. a,yd tQ;\th(^,SQle^ of
Burns. T h e Gall and Honfcy greatly helps tne Feet, [perfectly cures Chaps* . ,
Scars, and white Specks in the Eyes. And the
.." ?:. 1 i,
Ivhole burnt, and ufed with Honey, prefently
clears old fpeckj in the Eyes, and anointed, it C H A N N U S, a Fifli like a
cures the Pain and Clouds. And diflolved with ed and eaten frequently, it makes tie fight
old Butter, it cures Carbuncles. flvrp. v;. . . ,, .....

C t j f f c L i p O I v I , the W fiji^jltk*
C H E L O N E paluftris, which is called Emy-
Ihlte Pifo'fi: t'hat in fiords,,it eve* aiidf anon
lus,(i. e. e^s (Aeo;) * MarfijTortoife. T h e Blood
Jties above %e 'Waters, wl:cn 'many of thefe rife
of it anointed on the Forehead, cures a Hcmi-
up together, and fink, again,' Maritiert know,
crania, and all Head-ach. And its Afhes anoin-
that they forebode Wind >wd Storms to come. If
ted in Oyntment o f R o f c s , do very well curt
any one take this, and carry it dry in a
burns by Fire, Eryfipelas, and the hot Gout.
Ship, it will fail fwJftly,and he will be fuccefsful
A n d its Afhes applied, Jlop all Eruption of
in all things.
Blood, both at the Nofe, and at Wounds. Anc
the M 2 PSARI.
156 K I R A N I Book IV.

P S A R I , are excellent Fiji), which being

eaten frequently, caufe Beauty, and create a
goodjlontach.

P S Y L L U S ntarinut, a Sea-Flea. I f you

boyl them in Sea-water, with the Herb Flea-
bane, apd fyrinkle.it in a Houfe where there
are Fleas, th$re pill be no more. If a Fiftier car-
ry aSea-Flea, be xviB obtain great Fijl)ing.

O.
O V A pifcium, the R o w s of Fifh kept and
dried, and eatert, c«yc all Trouble, and Difeafe,
andall^Naufeoufnefs ; efpecially thofe of Mul-
lets, and of Sea-Pikes, and o f Spets, and of
fuch like Filh, both freth, and dried, cure all
Naufeokfnefs.
» \

And theje Gifts indeed Divine Nature, for

the benefit, of Men, has beftowed upon all
Aerial, and Terreftrial, and Aquatick, Ani-
mals: That nothing may be left vpithout a
Gift for Life.

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Tg/^an. Ittnpvpof. imttriKff-fiTns. i»Ais.
A*
AeAp/V. S^esf-yMv. "E^jjjAot. lAo^. e%*vos. iygvnlt, Fter burthen, 6, 6 7 , 1 0 5 .
i t o / w w , ,67, 7 1 , 7 6 , 8 1 , 8 9 , 9 3 , 9 8 , 9 ? .
1 1 8 , 1 1 9 , 1 3 9 , H9- :
AOS. 5(<ip0OtJv0£. wW ^aAttTflOS. YJSapiVOi' "XMfA.Qi, oplexy,, 6 , 7 1 .
xlxA». j^pi'f. jfpipiwos. )^/K,uapos. i^'paCos. Apoflems, 5 1 , 6 8 , 1 0 1 , 1 3 3 , 1 3 5 .
Aicm SrtA/xocrios. Jgpovwos. Aa!« jjr/e, its Difeafes, 2 , 3 6 , 3 7 , 3 8 , > 7 , 1 2 7 , 1 2 9 ,
/3paf. Abtywos. Ma/rn* ^tp/ifes ft af^j>iSis. jue^r 1 9 1 , 1 3 7 , 146,148.
rwpoj. /tu>e$. fjuutcMi. NapxAt. EtffipJ. 'Ocos. I7eAo« Ajlhtna, 1 0 , 99.
p/ite. irheufyv aAtos. im?m/mjs. nif>w> 'mpoticu, B»
Peupls. Belly to bind, 1 2 3 .
pim. 2aA7m. caupas. eirma.. atwaypW
cdpyfi. TplyXn. rpuyvv. TeTgpS. 4>&>X/M. XpuW
147,148- , n „
9pos. ptf Acmm 3aA«tTfia, yepacua, *)
B / w J ^ , 3 6 , 37o38» S i , 5 3 , 6 7 , 7 5 , 8 1 , $ 4 ,
AWK. ^otwof. ^apos. \]wMos SttAttTrTiof. 'fla.
89, n o , 1 3 1 , 1 4 5 , ! 5 4 -
idt/atc.
Breajlf, 1 2 4 , 1 3 5 , 1 4 5 .
Breath, Jhprtnefsy 1 0 , 9 9 , 1 0 4 , 1 1 5 .
bubo's, 6 9 , 1 0 1 .
for?/, 6 8 , 1 3 1 , 1 5 4 .
G.

Lfoftaww 4, 144.
I
JCurfowc/e, 1 1 8 , 1 2 9 , 1 3 3 , 1 5 1 , 54-
T h e j a ^ f j f , 17,30, 32,4*,
Chilblains, 129,144,148.
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Child dud, 56,80,88, 105, 129.
Cilia'ta, 113,123V.i?0> • ' • . • i
2 2
Colick, 19, 20,72, 78,8 > 9 > 105,113,121,
142,146,147*' n ; -
E.
Conception , 1 | , 18,47, 69, 72, 80, 8 3 , IOO* their Pam^ 75, 81, 84, 95,97, U $ , is*9»
129, 143.
Confumption, 5 7 , 130. fireSion, 17, 41,49, 73, 78, 83$ £7,:90,99.
Cfavuljion of Women, 11$. 1 1 8 , 1 2 9 , 192)
CcnvJfton backwards , 80, 95, 1 1 6 , 1 2 1 , 159, Eryfipelas, 86, 106, 1 3 1 , 136.
Corns, 5, 67. Evacuation, 36.
Ctugh, 126, 128, 146. fye-falve, 35, 45, l a i .
.., their DifeafeJ 10, 116, ^ 45- 651,70,
D.
. .^o, 104^ 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 2 , 119,^28,138:. n
Davdrif, 4,^,88,154- Eye brows ', the Hairs , 52, 73> *34,146,
Dtfluxions, 6 8 , 7 5 , 9 3 , I3»» ! 4 5 , >5 a - 147, 150.
Dcafnefs, 80,129. T 1'
.- .t. v.vv./.
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F . - ' '' T>
Devils, fo <M/* out, 1 2 , 1 6 , t8, 26, 40? 47,oo.
84, 92, 94, 97, 104, n o , 1 2 6 , 1 3 0 , 1 4 1 , Falling Sicknefs , 1, 7, 10, 1 7 , 65, 66, 69,
1^6,143, 149''5?- , , 70, 7 1 , 7 6 , 79, 86, 95, .94, 95^97*
Digejlion, 49, i ° 5 » 1 0 6 , 1 0 $ , " 3 , 1 1 6 , I ! 7 , 1 2 4 , 1 2 6 , 1 2 8 . 1 3 3 , 136, 154.
126, 146, 156. Fafcination, 26, J 1 2 , 1 4 2 , 1 5 3 .
Dimnefs of fight, 8 3 , 9 1 , 1 0 4 , 1 2 5 , 1 4 3 , I55 : Felons, 107, 1 3 3 . - •— 'v.r
Dropfte, 1 8 , 6 5 . 6 7 , 7 1 , 7 6 , 1 1 5 ^ 5 , Fevers and Agues, 53, $7, 7 9 , ^ 2 , 8 4 , 87*96,
Druukennefs, againfi //, 2, 8,28,86, 130,138. 9 7 , 1 2 8 , 1 3 0 , 1 3 2
For it, 8,27. .JkFfoflf, 58, 95', 98,"116.
Dyfentery, 12, 20,65,66, 76, 77, tfo, «9,l26j $orgetofM j mf^ y ' 53.
134, 138., " ' '
Future things to foreknow, 22, 24, 40, 54, 55
88, 1 0 0 , 1 0 ^ , 1 0 5 ^
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Gangrene, 5, 1 2 8 , 1 3 5 .
Gout, 5 3 , 6 8 , 8 1 , 9 2 , 93,98, 104, 1 1 0 , 1 1 5 ,
^21, 136. Gout
Gout in the Hands, 8 1 93 98 1 2 1 140.
in the Knees, 93 16^ i a i 140.
in the Feet, 46 §3 58 6? 7 4 7 8 8*' 9 ^ fortfe* 6 1 4 19.70 7 r 81 i6o r J i
98 105 n o 1 1 4 118 i l l 132 14b 14J : 1 2 3 1 2 6 1 2 8 1 3 9 1 4 0 1 4 2 . *
144 148. ^ £ethargy, 66 81, i n 1 3 0 1 5 3 .
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F J N IS.
 he book of natural and
talismanic magic k n o w n a s the
Kyranides or Cyranides, i s o n e
of the most important w o r k s o f
technical Hermetica, the practical
magical, astrological and alchemical
w o r k s attributed tothe sage H e r m e s
Trismegistus.

h e Kyranides i s a c o m p i l a t i o n o f s e v e r a l e a r l i e r w o r k s , n o t a b l y
the treatise o f Harpocration, that deal with the occult and magical
p r o p e r t i e s o f b i r d s , a n i m a l s , p l a n t s a n d s t o n e s . T h e Kyranides i s
truly a n ancient text, dating to b e t w e e n the 2 n d a n d 4th centuries
A . D . T h e eminent scholar ofHermeticism, Garth Fowden,
d e s c r i b e s t h e Kyranides a s t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t s o u r c e f o r t h e
H e r m e t i c doctrine of the occult virtues and
powers.

T ,h e Kyranides is divided into f o u r b o o k s , loosely o r g a n i z e d b y

the letters o f the G r e e k alphabet. E a c h c h a p t e r contains the
magical a n d occult properties o f animals, birds, plants and stones
b e g i n n i n g w i t h t h a t letter, p l u s t h e f i r s t b o o k i n c l u d e s i n s t r u c t i o n s
for talismans using the appropriate plants, animals and stones.
T h i s t r a n s l a t i o n o f t h e Kyranides w a s m a d e i n 1 6 8 5 a n d i s t h e o n l y
c o m p l e t e t r a n s l a t i o n a v a i l a b l e in E n g l i s h o f this k e y H e r m e t i c
text.