[148] ... toutes generalement sans exception, confessoient que le diable auoit copulation charnelle auec elles, apres leur auoir fait renoncer Dieu & leur religion. [149] ... c’est à sçauoir que les diables, ta̅t qu’elles auoient esté Sorcieres, auoie̅t eu copulation auec elles. Henry de Cologne confirmant ceste opinion dit, qu’il y a rien plus vulgaire en Alemaigne. [150] ... quod sacrificia dabant dæmonibus in animalibus uiuis, quæ diuidebant membratim et offerebant distribuendo in inferne quadruuiis cuidam dæmoni qui se facit appellari Artis Filium ex pauperioribus inferni. _Dame Alice Kyteler_, ed. T. Wright. Camden Society. 1843. pp. 1-2. [151] _Highland Papers_, III. p. 18. [152] _Æneid_, VI. 243-251. [153] Horace, _Sermonum_, I. viii. [154] _Dictionnaire Infernal_, ed. 1863, p. 590. [155] Salgues, _Des erreurs et des prejugés_, I. p. 423. [156] III. 44-45. [157] Alludit ad Haruspicis officium, qui exta & viscera inspiciebat. Plinius inquit: _Ex ranæ rubetæ uisceribus; id est, lingua, ossiculo, licne, corde, mira fieri posse constat, sunt enin plurimis medicaminibus referta_. Forte intelligit rubetam uel bufonem, indicans se non esse ueneficum, nec rubetarum extis uti ad uenefica. Cf. also Pliny, _Historia Naturalis_, XXXII. 5. [158] Ravaisson, _Archives de la Bastille_, VI. p. 295 _et alibi_. The interrogatories of these scandals may be found in volumes IV and V of this work. [159] L. Strackerjan, _Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg_ (1867), I. 70. [160] _Königsberger Hartung’sche Zeitung_, 1866. No. 9. [161] V. Fossel. _Volksmedicin und medicinischer Aberglaube in Steiermark_, Graz, 1886. [162] U. Jahn, _Zauber mit Menschenblut und anderen Teilen des menschlichen Körpers_, 1888. [163] A. Löwenstimm, _Aberglaube und Strafecht_, (_Die Volksmedizin_), 1897. [164] V. Fossel, _Volksmedicin_, _ut supra_. [165] Adrian Kembter, C.R.P., writing in 1745 enumerates 52 instances, and his last is dated 1650. This number might be doubled, and extends until the present century. H. C. Lee, in an article, _El santo nino de la Guardia_, has signally failed to disprove the account. See the series of forty-four articles in the _Osservatore Cattolico_ March and April, 1892, Nos. 8438-8473. [166] _Le Temps_, Paris, 1 Feb. and 23 March, 1892. [167] _Fetichism in West Africa_, New York, 1904. [168] De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 154. CHAPTER V THE WITCH IN HOLY WRIT