Note 255 — CAIN AND HIS WORSHIPPERS the spell of the mirror—the invocation to cain—the witch-history of cain and abel

Such incantations are intoned or chanted in a very peculiar style, so that those who can only hear the sound know that it is a magic spell. Therefore they must be expressed very accurately to the letter. It may be observed that there is a contradiction in the original MS., which here speaks of three companions, and subsequently of two. I believe the latter to be correct.