Honey, whence the proverb, Glaucus was raised from death by taking in Honey into his

body. Apuleius also relating the manner of these kinds of restorings to life, saith of
Zachla the Egyptian prophet: The prophet being thus favourable, layes a certain Hearb
[herb] upon the mouth of the body of a young man being dead, and another upon his brest
[breast], then turning towards the East, or rising of the propitious Sun, praying silently (a
great assembly of people striving to see it) in the first place heaved up his brest [breast],
then makes a beating in his veines [CPR!?], then his body to be filled with breath [mouthto-
mouth?], after which the Carkase ariseth, and the young man speaks. If these things
are true, the dying souls must, sometimes lying hid in their bodies, be oppressed with
vehement extasies [ecstasies], and be freed from all bodily action: So that the life, sense,
motion, forsake the body, and so, that the man is not yet truly dead, but lies astonied
[dazed], and as it were dead for a certain time. And this is often found, that in times of
Pestilence many that are carried for dead to the graves to be buryed [buried], revive
again. The same also hath often befeln women, by reason of fits of the Mother. And
Rabbi Moises out of the book of Galen, which Patriarcha translated, makes mention of a
man, who was suffocated for six dayes, and did neither eat nor drink, and his arteries
became hard. And it is said in the same book, that a certain man by being filled with
Water, lost the pulse of his whole body, so that the heart was not perceived to move, and
he lay like a dead man. Also it is said that a man by reason of a fal [fall] from a high
place, or great noise, or long staying under the Water, may fall into a swoun [swoon],
which may continue fourty eight [forty-eight] hours, and so lye as if he were dead, his
face being very green. And in the same place there is mention made of a man that buried
a man that seemed to be dead seventy two hours after his seeming decease, and so killed
him, because he buried him alive, and there are given signs whereby it may be known
who are alive; although they seem to be dead, and indeed will dye [die], unless there be
some means used to recover them, as Phlebotomy, or some other cure. And these are such
as very seldom happen. This is the manner, by which we understand Magicians, and
Physitians [physicians] do raise dead men to life, as they that were tryed by the stinging
of Serpents, were by the Nation of the Marsi, and the Psilli restored to life. Now we may
conceive that such kind of extasies [ecstasies] may continue a long time, although a man
be not truly dead, as it is in Dor-mice [dormice], and Crocodiles, and many other
Serpents, which sleep all Winter, and are in such a dead sleep, that they can scarce be
awakened with fire. And I have often seen a Dormouse dissected, and continue
immovable, as if she were dead, untill she was boyled [boiled], and when presently in
boyling [boiling] the water the dissected members did shew life. Also, although it be hard
to be believed, we read in some approved Historians, that some men have slept for many
yeers together, and in the time of sleep, untill they awaked, there was no alteration in
them, as to make them seem older: The same doth Pliny testifie of a certain boy, whom
he saith, being wearied with heat, and his journey, slept fifty seven yeers in a Cave. We
read also that Epimenides Gnosius slept fifty seven yeers in a Cave. Hence the proverb
arose, To outsleep Epimenides. M. Damascenus tels, that in his time a certain country
man being wearied in Germany, slept for the space of a whole Autumn, and the Winter
following, under a heap of hay, untill the Summer, when the hay began to be eaten up,
then he was found awakened as a man halfe dead, and out of his wits. Eclesiasticall
[Ecclesiastical] Histories confirm this opinion concerning the seven sleepers, whom they