" At other times the children discerned in the water of the vase a figure which Giuliano recognized as the ‘mistress of the game’, (a designation used alternately for Diana and Herodias) who ‘clothed in black, with a chin to her stomach’, appeared before Giuliano himself, saying she was ready to reveal to him ‘the properties of herbs and the nature of animals "

― Carlo Ginzburg , The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries