[15] Locus in diuersis regionibus est diuersus; plerumque autem comitia in syluestribus, montanis, uel subterraneis atque ab hominum conuersatione dissitis locis habentur. _Mela._ _Lib._ 3. _cap._ 44. montem Atlantem nominat; _de Vaulx_ Magus Stabuleti decollatus, fatebatur 1603, in Hollandia congregationem frequentissimam fuisse in Ultraiectinæ ditionis aliquo loco. Nobis ab hoc conuentu notus atq; notatus mons Bructerorum, Melibœus alias dictus in ducatu Brunsuicensi, uulgo _der Blocksberg oder Heweberg_, Peucero, _der Brockersberg_, & Tilemanno Stellæ, _der Vogelsberg_, perhibonte _Ortelio in Thesauro Geographico_. For the Bructeri see Tacitus, _Germania_, 33: Velleius Paterculus, II, 105, i. _Bructera natio_, Tacitus, _Historiæ_, IV, 61. [16] ... le lieu où on le trouue ordinairement s’appelle Lanne de bouc, & en Basque _Aquelarre de verros, prado del Cabrón_, & là des Sorciers le vont adorer trois nuicts durant, celle du Lundy, du Mercredy, & du Vendredy. De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 62. [17] Boguet, _Discours des Sorciers_, p. 124. [18] _A Pleasant Treatise of Witches_, London, 1673. [19] Psalm xc. [20] Conuentus, ut plurimum ineuntur uel noctis mediæ silentio, quando uiget potestas tenebrarum; uel interdiu meridie, quo sunt qui referant illud Psalmistæ notum de dæmonio meridiano. Noctes frequentiores, quæ feriam tertiam et sextam præcedunt. Delrio, _Disquisitiones Magicæ_, Lib. II. xvi. [21] _Discours_, XIX. 1. “The Sorcerers assemble at the Sabbat about midnight.” [22] Her indictment consists of fifty-three points. [23] Spottiswoode’s _Practicks_. [24] Spalding Club, _Miscellany_, I. [25] MS. formerly in the possession of Michael Stewart Nicolson, Esq. [26] ... je me trouvais transporté au lieu où le Sabatt se tenait, y demeurant quelquefois une, deux, trois, quatre heures pour le plus souvent suivant les affections. [27] Ferunt uagantes Dæmonas Lætas tenebras noctium Gallo canente exterritos Sparsim timere et credere. [28] Nocturna lux uiantibus A nocte noctem segregans, Præco diei iam sonat, Iubarque solis euocat. Hoc nauta uires colligit, Pontique mitescunt freta: Hoc, ipsa petra Ecclesiæ, Canente, culpam diluit. Surgamus ergo strenue: Gallus iacentes excitat, Et somnolentes increpat, Gallus negantes arguit. Gallo canente, spes redit, Ægris salus refunditur, Mucro latronis conditur, Lapsis fides reuertitur. The translation in text is by Caswall, 1848. [29] _Tableau_, p. 154. [30] For London, see Dr. Johnson’s _London_ (1738): Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. In 1500 Paolo Capello, the Venetian Ambassador, wrote: “Every night they find in Rome four or five murdered men, Prelates and so forth.” During the reign of Philip IV (1621-1665) the streets of Madrid, noisome, unpaved, were only lit on the occasion of festal illuminations. [31] 1475-1546.