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
[104] Uinum eorum præterea instar atri atque insinceri sanguinis in
sordido aliquo scipho epulonibus solitum propinari. Nullam fere copiam
rerum illic deesse afferunt præterqua̅ panis et salis. Addit Dominica
Isabella apponi etiam humanas carnes. _Compendium Maleficarum_, I. xiii.
[105] _De la Démonomanie_, III. 5.
[106] _Dæmonomagio_, Quæstio vii.
[107] Il n’y a jamais sel en ces repas. _Discours des Sorciers_.
[108] On se met à table, où il n’a iamais veu de sel.
Shadwell draws attention to this detail: _The Lancashire Witches_, II,
the Sabbat scene; where Mother Demdike says:
See our Provisions ready here,
To which no Salt must e’er come near!
[109] Père Sébastien Michaëlis, O.P. _Histoire admirable_, 1613.
[110] Isti uero qui expressam professionem fecerunt, reddunt etiam
expressum cultum adorationis dæmoni per solemnia sacrificia, quæ ipsi
faciunt diabolo, imitantes in omnibus diuinum cultum, cum paramentis,
luminaribus, et aliis huiusmodi, ac precibus quibusdam et orationibus
quibus instructi sunt, adeo ipsum adorant et collaudant continue, sicut
nos uerum Creatorem adoramus. _De Sortilegiis_, Liber II. c. iii. n. 6.
[111] _The Wonders of the Invisible World_. A Hortatory Address, p. 81.
[112] J. Hutchinson, _History of Massachusett’s Bay_, II. p. 55. (1828.)
[113] _Euchologion_ of the Orthodox Church, ed. Venice, 1898, p. 63.
[114] Baissac, _Les grands jours de la Sorcellerie_ (1890), p. 391.
[115] Calmeil, _De la folie_, I. p. 344.
[116] Sébastien Michaëlis, _Histoire admirable_. 1613. Translated as
_Admirable Historie_. London, 1613.
[117] Desmarest, _Histoire de Magdelaine Bavent_. Paris. 4to. 1652.
[118] For full details see François Ravaisson, _Archives de la Bastille_,
Paris, 1873, where the original depositions are given.
[119] _Là-Bas_ appeared in the _Echo de Paris_, 1890-1.
[120] _Tableau_, p. 401. For the full account of these ceremonies I have
chiefly relied upon Guazzo; Boguet, _Discours_, XXII, 10; De Lancre, pp.
86, 122, 126, 129; and Görres, _Mystique_, V. pp. 224-227. It hardly
seems necessary to give particular citations here for each circumstance.
[121] De Lancre, _Tableau_, IV. 4.
[122] _Corriere Nazionale di Torino_, Maggio. 1895.
[123] De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 401.
[124] Görres, _Mystique_, V. p. 230.
[125] Roland Brévannes, _L’Orgie Satanique_, IV. Le Sabbat, p. 122.
[126] _Discours_, p. 141.
[127] S. Caleb, _Messes Noires_, p. 153.
[128] _Confession faicte par Messire Loys Gaufridi_, A Aix. MVCXI.
[129] A vne Chasuble qui a vne croix; mais qu’elle n’a que trois barres.
[130] Le Diable en mesme temps pisse dans vn trou à terre, & fait de
l’eau beniste de son vrine, de laquelle celuy, qui dit la messe, arrouse
tous les assistants auec vn asperges noir. Boguet, _Discours_, p. 141.
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