The history of witchcraft and demonologySummers, Montague
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The history of witchcraft and demonology
Summers, Montague
Demonology; Demonology -- History; Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- History
[32] Quando uadunt ad loca propinqua uadunt pedestres mutuo se inuicem
inuitantes. _De Strigibus_, II.
[33] Les Sorciers neâtmoins vont quelquefois de pied au Sabbat, ce qui
leur aduient principalement, lors que le lieu où ils font leur assemblée,
n’est pas guieres eslongé de leur habitation. _Discours_, c. xvii.
[34]
Enquis en quel lieu se tint le Sabbat le dernier fois qu’il y
fut.
Respond que ce fut vers Billeron à un Carroy qui est sur le
chemin tendant aux Aix, Parroisse de Saincte Soulange, Iustice
de ceans.
Enquis de quelle façon il y va.
Respond qu’il y va de son pied.
De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 803-805.
[35] Aussi vilain & abominable est au Sorcier d’y aller de son pied que
d’y estre transporté de son consentement par le Diable. _Tableau_, p. 632.
[36] Sinclar, _Satan’s Invisible World Discovered_ (Reprint 1875), VII.
[37] _Idem_, p. 25.
[38] _Idem_, pp. 175, 178.
[39] Illud etiam non omittendum quod quædam sceleratæ mulieres retro post
Satanam conuersæ, dæmonum illusoribus et phantasmatibus seductæ credunt
se et profitentur nocturnis horis cum Diana paganorum dea et innumera
multitudine mulierum equitare super quasdam bestias et multa terrarum
spatia intempestæ noctis silentio pertransire eiusque iussionibus uelut
dominæ obedire, et certis noctibus ad eius seruitium euocari. Minge,
_Patres Latini_, CXXXII. 352.
[40] See Professor A. J. Clark’s note upon “Flying Ointments.”
_Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, pp. 279-280.
[41] Posset dæmon eas transferre sine unguento, et facit aliquando;
sed unguento mauult uti uariis de causis. Aliquando quia timidiores
sunt sagæ, ut audeant; uel quia teneriores sunt ad horribilem illum
Satanæ contactum in corpore assumpto ferendum; horum enim unctione
sensum obstupefacit et miseris persuadet uim unguento inesse maximam.
Alias autem id facit ut sacrosancta a Deo instituta sacramenta inimice
adumbret, et per has quasi cerimonias suis orgiis reuerentiæ et
uenerationis aliquid conciliat. Delrio, _Disquitiones magicæ_, Liber II,
qᵗᵒ xvi.
[42] In antiquity we have the case of Simon Magus, who was levitated in
the presence of Nero and his court.
[43] Henri Boguet, the High Justice of the district of Saint-Claude, died
in 1616. The first edition (of the last rarity) of his _Discours des
Sorciers_ is Lyons, 1602; second edition, Lyons 1608; but there is also a
Paris issue, 1603. Pp. 64 and 104.
[44] Scot, _Discoverie of Witchcraft_ (1584). Book III. p. 42.
[45] De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 211.
[46] Thomas Wright, _Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler_, Camden
Society. 1843.
[47] Cotton Mather, _Wonders of the Invisible World_, 1693. (Reprint,
1862. P. 158.)
[48] _Quarterly Journal of Science_, January, 1874.
[49] J. Godfrey Raupert, _Modern Spiritism_. 1904. Pp. 34, 35. See also
Sir W. Barrett, _On the Threshold of the Unseen_, p. 70.
[50] Arthur Lillie, _Modern Mystics and Modern Magic_, 1894, pp. 74, 75.
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