Introduction: For thousands of years superstitious people have believed that certain animals and human beings have the power of casting a spell or producing a malignant effect on everything the look at.

Chapter One: "There be none of the affections which have been noted to fascinate or to bewitch, but love and envy; they both have vehement wishes, they frame themselves readily into imagination and suggestions, and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the presence of the objects which are the points tat conduce to fascination, if any such there be."