Barrington, _Ancient Statutes_, p. 422. Footnote 508: Andrews, _Old-Time Punishments_, p. 152. Footnote 509: _Ibid._ p. 140. Footnote 510: Jewitt, “Scolds and how they cured them,” _Reliquary_, October 1860. Footnote 511: Andrews, _Old-Time Punishments_, p. 45. Footnote 512: See Jewitt, “A few Notes on Ducking Stools,” _Reliquary_, January 1861. Footnote 513: Andrews, _Old-Time Punishments_, etc., etc. Footnote 514: Holdsworth, _Hist._ ii. p. 327. Footnote 515: At some of the American lynchings the injured woman applies a match to the wood upon which the offending negro is to be burned to death. Footnote 516: “They died alone and unpitied,” says Lecky; “... their very kinsmen shrank from them as tainted and accursed.”—_History of Rationalism_, p. 149. London, 1865. Footnote 517: Meetings of a more or less bacchanalian character really took place in Europe through the middle ages, survivals of old rites and nature-worship. See Professor Karl Pearson’s long and learned account of these in _The Chances of Death_. London, 1897. Footnote 518: These were often domestic pets or animals about the yard. Even feeding the sparrows on the winter snow would have been dangerous for a suspected person. See kind of evidence sought for by R. Bernard in his _Guide to Grand Jurymen_, p. 235. London, 1627, etc. The miserable witches, in the agony of sleeplessness and torment, ultimately doing or saying anything that was already expected of them. See, for instance, F. Hutchinson, _An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft_, pp. 37, 57. London, 1718. Footnote 519: On the power of suggestion and imagination, see, for instance, G. le Bon, _Revue scientifique_, March 26 and April 2, 1910. Footnote 520: The whole hideous and devilish procedure is given by J. Sprenger and H. Institor in their _Malleus Malificarum_, about 1485–89. Frankfort ed., 1580. Paulus Grillandus, _De sortilegiis_, lib. 4, _De questionibus et tortura_. Lyons, 1533. J. Bodin, _De la démonomanie des sorciers_. Paris, 1580. R. Scot, _The Discoverie of Witchcraft_. London, 1584. B. Nicholson’s edition. London, 1886. H. Boguet, _Discours des sorciers_. Lyons, 1608. Footnote 521: Esquirol gives this as a symptom in some forms of insanity. See E. K. Hunt’s translation of _Mental Maladies_, p. 245. Philadelphia, 1845. R. Scot, _Descoverie Booke_, ii. chaps, v.–viii. Bodin, _Démonomanie_, p. 170. James I., _Daemonologie_, p. 81. H. Boguet, chap. xlvi. Footnote 522: _The Cenci._ Footnote 523: _Historical Essay_, p. 139. Footnote 524: See J. P. Migne, _Encyclopédie théologique_, vol. xlix. tome second, p. 72. Paris, 1848.