Natural Magic (Magia Naturalis)

was found, and therewith a glass vessel in which there was a burning lamp that had lain hidden there for several hundred years. At this the people marveled greatly, and out of thoughtless curiosity they desired to see how the lamp sustained itself; and when they opened the vessel and it received air, it was extinguished, to the great regret of those who had beheld this wonder.

Likewise, one who was present in the year 1571 with the legation of the Roman Imperial Majesty, which conveyed the Turkish presents to Constantinople, writes that in a village called Eskibaba or Babateki (in German, Altvatter), eight miles beyond Adrianople, there is an old Greek church—