pretty impressive
Gervase of Tilbury (1200s) says:
Some say that Solomon was the first to discover, which some include in a ring an unclean spirit, by which they command other demons. But there were also exorcists among the Jews, who cast out demons by the exorcisms of Solomon, especially if the root of a certain herb was placed in the nostrils of the possessed. For Josephus says that he saw a certain exorcist captured and brought to Vespasian, while he was besieging Jerusalem, who placed a ring, under the gem of which was a root, in the nose of a certain possessed man and he adjured the demon and the demon came out. But to prove that the demon had been cast out, he placed a basin full of water in the middle, and adjured the demon to overturn the basin, and it overturned it.
But also Cyprian, a certain Carthaginian magician, had demons locked up in a box, and whenever he wished, he sent them to carry out his business. One day, therefore, he ordered them to bring to him the virgin Saint Justina, whom he loved, and they could not; for she had protected herself with the sign of the cross. When he found this out, the magician immediately became a Christian, and together with the virgin he underwent martyrdom in the faith of Christ.
We read that magicians also raised the dead with certain characters tied under each armpit, and they make them speak and walk, but they cannot possibly make them eat, which belongs to God alone.
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In the time of Jacob, a virgin appeared at Lake Triton, whom the Greeks called Minerva. She invented many arts, and especially weaving (wool-making). The same was called Pallas from Pallene, an island in Thrace where she was raised, or from the giant Pallas, whom she killed.
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In Belgium, a city in Gaul, from which Gallia Belgica or Belgium is called, the use of chariots was invented; of which it is said thus: "The Belgae of the Celtiberians are called Belvacum Belga."