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'Is not Glaucus, replied Julia, with the customary deceit of her sex. 'Glaucus no! Nydia drew her breath more freely, and after a short pause Julia recommenced. 'But talking of Glaucus, and his attachment to this Neapolitan, reminded me of the influence of love-spells, which, for ought I know or care, she may have exercised upon him.
'Thou comest to me for advice in unhappy love, said he; 'well, turn that face on the ungrateful one: what other love-charm can I give thee? 'Oh, cease these courtesies! said Julia; 'it is a love-charm, indeed, that I would ask from thy skill! 'Fair stranger! replied Arbaces, somewhat scornfully, 'love-spells are not among the secrets I have wasted the midnight oil to attain.
I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she. "My mother told me that the only potent love-spells are those which are told you for love. This seal-cutter man is a liar and a devil.
That degeneration I would account for by the attractions which animism, when once developed, possessed for the naughty natural man, 'the old Adam. A moral creator in need of no gifts, and opposed to lust and mischief, will not help a man with love-spells, or with malevolent 'sendings' of disease by witchcraft; will not favour one man above his neighbour, or one tribe above its rivals, as a reward for sacrifice which he does not accept, or as constrained by charms which do not touch his omnipotence.
It was at the Count's instigation that the Chevalier kept Moritz so long shut up in his chateau, and practised all sorts of love-spells on him. I myself could go deeper into this subject, and say more about the mysterious means by which the Count could influence the Psychic Principle of others, as Marguerite divulged some of them to me.
I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she. "My mother told me that the only potent love-spells are those which are told you for love. This seal-cutter man is a liar and a devil.
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