Where persuasions and other remedies will not take place, many fly to unlawful means, philters, amulets, magic spells, ligatures, characters, charms, which as a wound with the spear of Achilles, if so made and caused, must so be cured.  If forced by spells and philters, saith Paracelsus, it must be eased by characters, Mag. lib. 2. cap 28. and by incantations.  Fernelius Path. lib. 6. cap. 13. [5817]Skenkius lib. 4. observ. med. hath some examples of such as have been so magically caused, and magically cured, and by witchcraft:  so saith Baptista Codronchus, lib. 3. cap. 9. de mor. ven. Malleus malef. cap. 6. ’Tis not permitted to be done, I confess; yet often attempted:  see more in Wierus lib. 3. cap. 18. de praestig. de remediis per philtra. Delrio tom. 2. lib. 2. quaest. 3. sect. 3. disquisit. magic.  Cardan lib. 16. cap. 90. reckons up many magnetical medicines, as to piss through a ring, &c.  Mizaldus cent. 3. 30, Baptista Porta, Jason Pratensis, Lobelius pag. 87, Matthiolus, &c., prescribe many absurd remedies.  Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c., quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur.  Noctuae ocum abstemios facit comestum, ex consilio Jarthae Indorum gymnosophistae apud Philostratum lib. 3. Sanguis amasiae, ebibitus omnem amoris sensum tollit:  Faustinam Marci Aurelii uxorem, gladiatoris amore captam, ita penitus consilio Chaldaeorum liberatam, refert Julius Capitolinus.  Some of our astrologers will effect as much by characteristical images, ex sigillis Hermetis, Salomonis, Chaelis, &c. mulieris imago habentis crines sparsos, &c.  Our old poets and fantastical writers have many fabulous remedies for such as are lovesick, as that of Protesilaus’ tomb in Philostratus, in his dialogue between Phoenix and Vinitor:  Vinitor, upon occasion discoursing of the rare virtues of that shrine, telleth him that Protesilaus’ altar and tomb [5818]"cures almost all manner of diseases, consumptions, dropsies, quartan-agues, sore eyes:  and amongst the rest, such as are lovesick shall there be helped.”  But the most famous is [5819]Leucata Petra, that renowned rock in Greece, of which Strabo writes, Geog. lib. 10. not far from St. Maures, saith Sands, lib. 1. from which rock if any lover flung himself down headlong, he was instantly cured.  Venus after the death of Adonis, “when she could take no rest for love,” [5820]_Cum vesana suas torreret flamma medullas_, came to the temple of Apollo to know what she should do to be eased of her pain:  Apollo sent her to Leucata Petra, where she precipitated herself, and was forthwith freed; and when she would needs know of him a reason of it, he told her again, that he had often observed [5821]Jupiter, when he was enamoured on Juno, thither go to ease and wash himself, and after him divers others.  Cephalus for the love of Protela, Degonetus’ daughter, leaped down here, that Lesbian Sappho for Phaon, on whom she miserably doted. [5822]_Cupidinis aestro percita e summo praeceps ruit_, hoping thus to ease herself, and to be freed of her love pangs.