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cause many tempests, thunder, and lightnings . . . . , make it rain stones" and so forth. Turning to incarnate spirits he tells us tha " nothing is so familiar as for Witches and Sorcerers, in Lapland Lithuania and all over Scandia, to sell winds to mariners, and cause tempests. " Such, was the power of Prospero over the elements of air and water. We meet, moreover, with a less elusive witness than Burton, who is ever ready to take refuge behind other authors, hedging with, " Paracelsus stiffly... maintains, " or, " if we may believe Saxo Grammaticus. " The courts of law have handed down the strange story of a piece of authentic witchcraft of this nature, which took place shortly after the invasion of the Spanish Armada. James VI. King of Scots, was awaiting his bride, Anne of Denmark. Twice she set forth to cross the North Sea and to win to Scotland. Twice she was driven back by sudden storms and contrary winds, and the second time was carried away to the coast of Norway. James set forth himself, on hearing the news, a chivalrous bridegroom, to seek his storm-tossed bride.
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