 This does not mean that Porta and his contemporaries considered the human imagination as a secondary, harmless entity: quite the contrary was true, as this mental faculty with the power to produce images had somatic effects not only on the body and mind of the individual, but these effects could be passed on—again a set of ideas Porta shares with the Renaissance Neoplatonic Tradition as well as for instance Pietro Pomponazzi’s psychological explanations of the miraculous (Copenhaver 2007, Kodera 2018).