1844, w:Conyers Middleton, A New Edition of A Free Inquiry into The Miraculous Powers, Thus in a book ascribed to Justin Martyr, containing a number of Quæstions with answers to them, for the use of the Orthodox, one of the questions is this; “if all the arts of delusion are abolished by the coming of Christ, how comes it to pass, that Dæmons still speak by those who are called Ventriloquists, and that they do not make Christianity ridiculous and contemptible, by shewing forth the works of imposture and uttering oracular prædictions in the bodies of Christians?”
