☿ Mercury
What Agrippa places under Mercury, sorted as he sorted it. The words below are his.
Elements
Elements, Water, although it moves all things indistinctly
Humours
Humors, those especially which are mixed, as also the Animall spirit
Tastes
Tasts [tastes] those that are various, strange, and mixed:
Metals
Metals, Quick-silver, Tin, the Slver Marcasite
Stones
Stones, the Emrald [emerald], Achates [agates], red Marble, Topaze, and those which are of divers colours, and various figures naturally, & those that are artificiall, as glass, & those which have a colour mixed with yellow, and green
Plants and trees
Plants, and Trees, the Hazle [hazel], Five-leaved-grass, the Hearb [herb] Mercury, Fumitary, Pimpernell, Marjoram, Parsly [parsley], and such as have shorter and less leaves, being compounded of mixed natures, and divers colours. Animals also, that are of quick sence, ingenious, strong, inconstant, swift, and such as become easily acquainted with men, as Dogs, Apes, Foxes, Weesels [weasels], the Hart, and Mule; and all Animals that are of both sexes, and those which can change their Sex, as the Hare, Civet-Cat, and such like
Birds
Birds, those which are naturally witty, melodious, and inconstant, as the Linet, Nightingale, Blackbird, Thrush, Lark, the Gnatsapper, the bird Calandra, the Parret [parrot], the Pie, the Bird Ibis, the bird Porphyrio, the black Betle [beetle] with one horn. And
Fishes
Fish, the fish called Trochius, which goes into himself, also Pourcontrell for deceitfulness, and changeableness, and the Fork fish for its industry; the Mullet also that shakes off the bait on the hook with his taile
From Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book I, chapter 29 — “What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called” — page 35 of the library’s copy.
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