is by Plutarch described.  He is of the nature of the Lamian witches, who in foreign places, in the houses of strangers, in public, and amongst the common people, had a sharper and more piercing inspection into their affairs than any lynx, but at home in their own proper dwelling-mansions were blinder than moldwarps, and saw nothing at all.  For their custom was, at their return from abroad, when they were by themselves in private, to take their eyes out of their head, from whence they were as easily removable as a pair of spectacles from their nose, and to lay them up into a wooden slipper which for that purpose did hang behind the door of their lodging.

Panurge had no sooner done speaking, when Herr Trippa took into his hand a tamarisk branch.  In this, quoth Epistemon, he doth very well, right, and like an artist, for Nicander calleth it the divinatory tree.  Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus Barbarus.  Come hither, and I will show thee in this platterful of fair fountain-water thy future wife lechering and sercroupierizing it with two swaggering ruffians, one after another.  Yea, but have a special care, quoth Panurge, when thou comest to put thy nose within mine arse, that thou forget not to pull off thy spectacles.  Herr Trippa, going on in his discourse, said, By catoptromancy, likewise held in such account by the Emperor Didius Julianus, that by means thereof he ever and anon foresaw all that which at any time did happen or befall unto him.  Thou shalt not need to put on thy spectacles, for in a mirror thou wilt see her as clearly and manifestly nebrundiated and billibodring it, as if I should show it in the fountain of the temple of Minerva near Patras.  By coscinomancy, most religiously observed of old amidst the ceremonies of the ancient Romans.  Let us have a sieve and shears, and thou shalt see devils.  By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.  By alentomancy, mixing the flour of wheat with oatmeal.  By astragalomancy, whereof I have the plots and models all at hand ready for the purpose.  By tyromancy, whereof we make some proof in a great Brehemont cheese which I here keep by me.  By giromancy, if thou shouldst turn round circles, thou mightest assure thyself from me that they would fall always on the wrong side.  By sternomancy, which maketh nothing for thy advantage, for thou hast an ill-proportioned stomach.  By libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little frankincense.  By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Engastrimythian prophetess.  By cephalomancy, often practised amongst the High Germans in their boiling of an ass’s head upon burning coals.