[_frontispiece_] The History of Witchcraft and Demonology By MONTAGUE SUMMERS _Initiati sunt Beelphegor: et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum._ _Et immolauerunt filios suos, et filias suas dæmoniis_ _Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem. Et fornicati sunt in adinuentionibus suis._—PSALM CV. [Illustration] NEW YORK ALFRED A. KNOPF 1926 _To_ _PATRICK,_ _in memory of Loreto and Our Lady’s Holy House, as also of Our Lady’s miraculous Picture at Campocavallo, Our Lady of Pompeii, La Consolata of Turin, Consolatrix Afflictorum in S. Caterina ai Funari at Rome, la Santissima Vergine del Parto of S. Agostino, the Madonna della Strada at the Gesù, La Nicopeja of San Marco at Venice, Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle of Rennes, Notre-Dame de Grande Puissance of Lamballe, and all the Italian and French Madonnas at whose shrines we have worshipped._ Printed in Great Britain at _The Mayflower Press, Plymouth_. William Brendon & Son, Ltd. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii CHAPTER I. THE WITCH: HERETIC AND ANARCHIST 1 II. THE WORSHIP OF THE WITCH 51 III. DEMONS AND FAMILIARS 81 IV. THE SABBAT 110 V. THE WITCH IN HOLY WRIT 173 VI. DIABOLIC POSSESSION AND MODERN SPIRITISM 198 VII. THE WITCH IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE 276 BIBLIOGRAPHY 315 INDEX 347 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE I. THE DEPARTURE FOR THE SABBAT (David Teniers) _Frontispiece_ PAGE II. THE WORLD TOST AT TENNIS. 4to., 1620 8 (_Facsimile title-page._) III. COMPENDIVM MALEFICARVM. MEDIOLANI, 1626 82 (_Facsimile title-page of second edition._) IV. OFF TO THE SABBAT (Queverdo) 120 V. THE SABBAT (Ziarnko) 144 VI. THE WITCH OF ENDOR (W. Faithorne) 178 (_Frontispiece to Sadducismus Triumphatus_, 1681) VII. S. JAMES VISITS THE WARLOCK’S DEN (Pieter Breughel) 250