Note 1138 — Chapter XI · BIER-RIGHT.
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Marsilii Ficini de Immortal. Animæ Lib. XVI. c. 5.—Del Rio, Magicarum Disquisit. Lib. I. cap. iii. Q. 4, ¶ 6.—C. C. Oelsner de Jure Feretri cap. I. § 6 (Jenæ, 1711).
The passage relied on has usually a much less decent significance ascribed to it—
“Idque petit corpus mens, unde ’st saucia amore: Namque omnes plerumque cadunt in volnus et illam Emicat in partem sanguis unde icimur ictu, Et si cominus est hostem ruber occupat humor.” De Rer. Nat. IV. 1041-44.