Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
Pliny the Elder....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
Pliny the Elder