♦_Mal. malef. cap. 7. par. 2. quæst. 1._♦ ♦Note.♦ The fift Chapter. _Of bishop Sylvanus his leacherie opened and covered againe, how maides having yellow haire are most combred with Incubus, how maried men are bewitched to use other mens wives, and to refuse their own._ You shall read in the legend, how in the night time _Incubus_ came to a ladies bed side, and made hot loove unto hir: whereat she being offended, cried out so lowd, that companie came and found him under hir bed in the likenesse of the holie bishop _Sylvanus_, which holie man was much defamed therebie, untill at the length this infamie was purged by the confession of a divell made at S. _Jeroms_ toombe. Oh excellent peece of witchcraft or cousening wrought by _Sylvanus_! Item, S. _Christine_ would needes take unto hir another maides _Incubus_, and lie in hir roome: and the storie saith, that she was shrewdlie accloied. But she was a shrew indeed, that would needes change beds with hir fellow, that was troubled everie night with _Incubus_, and deale with him hir selfe. But here the inquisitors note maie not be forgotten, to wit: that Maides having yellow haire are most molested with this spirit. Also it is written in the Legend, of S. _Barnard_, that a pretie wench that had had the use of _Incubus_ his bodie by the space of six or seven yeares in _Aquitania_ (being beelike wearie of him for that he waxed old) would needes go to S. _Barnard_ another while. But _Incubus_ told hir, that if she would so forsake him, being so long hir true loover, he would be revenged upon hir, &c. But befall what would, she went to S. _Barnard_, who tooke hir his staffe, and bad her laie it in the bed besides hir. And indeed the divell fearing the bedstaffe, or that S. _Barnard_ laie there himselfe, durst not approch into hir chamber that night: what he did afterwards, I am uncerteine. Marrie you may find other circumstances hereof, and manie other like bawdie lies in the golden Legend. But here againe we maie not forget the inquisitors note, to wit; that manie are so bewitched that they cannot use their owne wives: but anie other bodies they maie well enough away withall. Which witchcraft is practised among manie bad husbands, for whom it were a good excuse to saie they were bewitched. ♦_In vita Hieronym._♦ ♦Saincts as holie and chaste as horsses & mares.♦ ♦Maides having yellow haire.♦ ♦_Mal. Malef. par. 2. quæ. 2. cap. 2._♦ The sixt Chapter. _How to procure the dissolving of bewitched love, also to enforce a man (how proper so ever he be) to love an old hag: and of a bawdie tricke of a priest in Gelderland._