The Deuteronomic law commanded the extirpation of any one who could be
called «an
enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.»
The story is told to the Hindustan Emperor Abul - Fath Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, The Grand Mughal, grandson of Babar, by a Florentine storyteller dressed in a long patchwork cloak made up of bright harlequin lozenges of leather, the yellow haired Niccoló Antonino Vespucci, who
called himself Mogol dell» Amore, and seems also to be an
enchanter.