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“The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common
people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.”; Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994; Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness... Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth.
