These things are Lunary,
amongst Elements, viz. the Earth,
then the Water, as well that of the Sea, as of the Rivers, and
all moist things, as the moisture of Trees, and Animals, especially
they which are White, as the Whites of Eggs, fat, sweat, flegme, and
the superfluities of bodies. Amongst tasts, salt, and insipid
Amongst Metals, Silver;
amongst stones, Crystall, the Silver Marcasite, and all those stones
that are White, and Green. Also the stone Selenites, Lunary, shining from
a white body, with a yellow brightness, imitating the motion of the Moon,
having in it the figure of the Moon which daily increaseth, or decreaseth
as doth the Moon. Also Pearls, which are generated in shels of fishes from
the droppings of Water, also the Berill.
Amongst
Plants and Trees,
these are Lunary, as the Selenotropion, which turns towards the Moon,
as doth the Heliotropion towards the Sun, and the Palme tree sends forth
a bough at every rising of the Moon; Hyssope also, and Rosemary, Agnus
Castu, and the Olive-tree, are Lunary. Also the Hearb Chinosta,
which increaseth, and decreaseth with the Moon, viz. in substance,
and number of leaves, not only in Sap, and vertue, which indeed
is in some sort common to all Plants, except Onions, which are
under the influence of Mars, which have contrary properties
Lunary Animals
are such as delight to be in mans company, and such as do naturally excell
in love, or hatred, as all kinds of Dogs: The Chameleon also is Lunary,
which alwaies assumes a colour according to the variety of the colour
of the object: as the Moon changeth her nature according to the variety
of the Signe which it is found in.
Lunary also are Swine, Hinds, Goats,
and all Animals whatsoever, that observe, and imitate the motion of the
Moon: As the Baboon, and Panther, which is said to have a spot upon her
shoulder like the Moon, increasing into a roundness, and having horns that
bend inwards. Cats also are Lunary, whose eyes become greater or less,
according to the course of the Moon: and those things which are of like
nature, as Menstruous blood, of which are made wonderfull and strange
things by Magicians;
Lhe Civet-Cat also changing her sex, being obnoxious
to divers Sorceries, and all Animals that live in water as well as on land:
as Otters, and such as prey upon fish. Also all Monstrous beasts, such as
without any manifest seed are equivocally generated, as Mice,
which sometimes are generated by Coition, sometimes of the putrefaction of the Earth.
Amongst fowle,
Geese, Ducks, Didoppers, and all kind of watery fowl
as prey upon fish, as the Heron, and those that are equivocally produced,
as Wasps of the Carkases of horses: Bees of the putrefaction of Cows,
small Flies of putrefied wine, and Betles of the flesh of Asses;
But most Lunary of all is the two-horned
Betle, horned after the manner of a
Bull: which digs under Cow-dung, and there remaines for the space of
twenty eight daies, in which time the Moon measures the whole Zodiack,
and in the twenty ninth day, when it thinks there will be a conjunction
of their brightness, it opens the dung and casts it into Water, from
whence then come Betles.
Amongst fish,
these are Lunary, Aelurus, whose eyes are changed according to the
course of the Moon, and whatsoever observes the motion of the Moon,
as the Tortoise, the Echeneis, Crabs, Oisters, Cockles, and Frogs.
For the Moon we make a suffimigation of the head of
a frog dried, the eyes of a bull, the seed of a white poppy, frankincense and camphor,
which must be incorporated with menstruous blood or the blood of a goose...
To the Moon the leaves of all vegetables, as the leaf
Indum, the leaves of the myrtle and the bay tree.
To the Moon, wildernesses, woods, rocks, hills,
mountains, forests, fountains, waters, rivers, seas, seashores, ships, groves,
highways, granaries for corn and such like.
