perswade others, that they are Caress'd by Devils. The Witches of the
Kingdom of _Fez_, according to History, are very desirous that People
should beleive them to be familiar with Devils, and for that Reason
endeavour to tell surprizing Stories to those that consult them; they do
not require any Fees from handsome Women that come to see them, but only
intimate the Desire their Master has to Caress them for a Night. The
Husbands take these Impostures for Truth, and surrender their Wives to
the Gods and the Winds. Night being come, the brawny Sorcerer (who
Employs the Persons abovemention'd, to ensnare fine Women to his
Caresses) Embraces the fair one closely, and Enjoys her instead of the
Devil. If this Ignorance and Superstition prevail'd in this Kingdom, I
doubt not but it would very much Pleasure the frolicking Libertines.




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_Extraordinary Conceptions_.


Before I begin to trace any Particulars of extraordinary Conceptions, I
shall insert a surprizing Account of a Woman that went Twenty five Years
with Child, from the Writings of Monsieur _Baile_, which contains a
great deal of Variety relating to untimely Generations.

_Margaret Matthieu_ a _Cloth-worker_'s Wife at _Tholouse_ in _France_,
in the Year 1653, and towards the Ninth Month of her Reckoning, had the
Pains of Woman's Labour upon her at Church; and some part of the Waters
being already voided, she acquainted the People about her, that she