should talk in strange tongues, should take up serpents, and if

he drank poison should not die, but remain well.

The essence of the service consisted in the supposition that the

bits cut up by the priest and put by him into the wine, when

manipulated and prayed over in a certain way, turned into the

These manipulations consisted in the priest's regularly lifting

and holding up his arms, though hampered by the gold cloth sack

he had on, then, sinking on to his knees and kissing the table