Saturnine things,
amongst Elements, are Earth and also Water:
amongst humors, black Choller that is moist,
as well natural, as adventitious, adust Choller excepted.
Amongst tasts, soure, tart, and dead
Amongst Metals, Lead, and Gold,
by reason of its weight, and the golden Marcasite. Amongst stones,
the Onix, the Ziazaa, the Camonius, the Sapphire, the brown Jasper,
the Chalcedon, the Loadstone, and all dark, weighty, earthy things.
Amongst
Plants and Trees, the Daffodill, Dragonwort,
Rue, Cummin, Hellebor, the tree from whence Benzoine comes,
Mandrake, Opium, and those things which stupifie, and those
things which are never sown, and never bear fruit, and those
which bring forth berries of a dark colour, and black fruit,
as the black Fig-tree, the Pine-tree, the Cypress-tree,
And
a certain tree used at burials, which never springs afresh with
berries, rough, of a bitter tast, of a strong smell, of
a black shadow, yielding a most sharp pitch, bearing a most unprofitable fruit,
never dies with age, deadly, dedicated to Pluto, as is the Hearb pass-flower,
with which they were wont Anciently to strow the graves before they put
the dead bodies into them, wherefore it was lawfull to make their Garlands
at feasts with all Hearbs, and Flowers besides pas-flowers, because
it was mournfull, and not conducing to mirth.
Also all creeping Animals,
living apart,
and solitary, nightly, sad, contemplative, dull, covetous,
fearfull, melancholly, that take much pains, slow, that feed grossly,
and such as eat their young. Of these kinds therefore are the Ape,
the Cat, the Hog, the Mule, the Camel, the Bear, the Mole, the Asses,
the Wolfe, the Hare, the Dragon, the Basilisk, the Toad,
all Serpents, and creeping things, Scorpions, Pismires, and such
things as proceed from putrefaction in the Earth, in Water, or
in the ruines of houses, as Mice, and many sorts of Vermin.
Amongst birds,
those are Saturnine, which have long necks, and harsh voices, as
Cranes, Estriches, and Peacocks, which are dedicated to
Saturn, and Juno. Also the scrich-Owle, the horn-Owle, the Bat,
the Lapwing, the Crow, the Quaile, which is the most envious bird of all.
Amongst fishes,
the Eel, living apart from all other fish;
the Lamprey, the Dog-fish, which devours her young,
also the Tortoise, Oisters, Cockles, to which may be added Sea-spunges,
and all such things as come of them.
Macedonia, Thracia, Illyria, India, Ariana, Gordiana
(many of which are countries in the lesser Asia) are under Saturn with Capricorn;
but with Aquarius under him are the Sauromantian country, Oxiana, Sogdiana,
Arabia, Phazania, Media, Ethiopia, which countries for the most part belong to
the more inward Asia.
For Saturn take the seed of black poppy, of henbane,
the root of mandrake, the loadstone and myrrh, and make them up with the brain of
a cat or the blood of a bat...
To Saturn are appropriated for fumes all odoriferous
roots, as pepperwort root, etc., and the frankincense tree...
But amongst places that are appropriated to the stars, all
stinking places, dark, underground, religious and mournful places, as churchyards, tombs,
and houses not inhabited by men, and old, tottering, obscure, dreadful houses,
and solitary dens, caves and pits, also fishponds, standing pools, fens and such like
are appropriated to Saturn.
