was transformed into an ass, which he mounted and rode to the market-place. One of her companions having come up, broke the spell, and the ass he had ridden was on the spot transformed back again into a woman. In reference to the above, Rashi naively remarks that " we are not to suppose that Yannai was a Rabbi, for he was not held in esteem, because he practiced witchcraft. But Rashi is mistaken; see Sophrim, chap. 16, hal. 6 Sanhedrin, fol. 67, col. 2. Ten measures of witchcraft came into the world; Egypt received nine measures, and the rest of the world one