"(About demons) Sometimes, however, they predict beforehand, not things they themselves are doing, but things which they know by natural signs are going to take place. [...] Sometimes also they learn with complete ease the dispositions of human beings not only as they are expressed in speech, but also as they are conceived in thought, when certain signs from the mind are expressed in the body, and on this basis predict even many things that will come to pass, things wondrous to others, who have not known these things which were so disposed."
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Saint Augustine of Hippo, On the divination od demons, § 4.8, p. 6.
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