[66] _The Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 16. It is true that the Brethren of the Free Spirit, anarchists, who vaunted the Adamite heresy, in the Thirteenth century, went to the stake with pæans of joy. But they were probably drugged. J. L. Mosheim, _Ecclesiastical History_. London. 1819. III. p. 278. _sqq._ The Adamites were a licentious sect who called their church Paradise and worshipped in a state of stark nudity. They were Gnostics and claimed complete emancipation from the moral law. They lived in shameful communism. Bohemian Adamites existed as late as 1849. In Russia the _teleschi_, a branch of the sect known as the “Divine Men,” performed their religious rites in a state of nature, following the example, as they asserted, of Adam and Eve in Paradise. These assemblies were wont to end in promiscuous debauchery. [67] _Idem._ p. 161. [68] _Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 161. [69] _Additional Notices of Major Weir and his Sister_; Sinclar’s _Satan’s Invisible World_. (Reprint. 1875). [70] _Criminal Trials_, 1536-1784; Hugo Arnot, 4to, 1785. [71] _Ravillac Rediuius_, Dr. George Hickes, 4to, 1678. [72] Iubemus namque, auctores quidem et principes, una cum abominandis scripturis eorum seueriori pœnæ subiici, ita ut flammeis ignibus exurantur. Baronius, 287, 4. [73] Scio multos [Proconsules] et ad bestias damnasse sacrilegos, nonnullos etiam uiuos exussisse. _Lex Romana Visigothorum nouella_, XLVIII. tit. xiii. c. 6-7. [74] Plures etiam per Italiam tunc huius pestiferi dogmatis sunt reperti, qui aut gladiis, aut incendiis perierunt. [75] Tanchelinus, Tandemus, Tanchelmus. The history of this important revolutionary movement has been carefully studied. The following authoritative books are a few from many of great value and learning. _Corpus documentorum Inquisitionis hereticæ prauitatis neerlandicæ_, ed. Dr. Paul Frédéricq, vol. I, p. 15 _et sqq._ Ghent. 1889; _Tanchelijn_ by Janssen in the _Annales de l’académie Royale d’archéologie de Belgique_, vol. XXIII, p. 448 _et sqq._ 1867; Foppens, _Historia Episcopatus Antuerpiensis_, p. 8 and p. 146, Brussels, 1717; Dierxsens, _Antuerpia Christo nascens et crescens_, vol. I, p. 88, Antwerp, 1773; Poncelet, _Saint Norbert et Tanchelin_ in the _Analecta bollandiniana_, vol. XIII, p. 441, 1893; Schools, _Saint Norbert et Tanchelin à Anvers_ in the _Bibliothèque norbertine_, vol. II, p. 97, 1900; De Schapper, _Réponse à la question: Faites connaître l’hérésiarque Tanchelin et les erreurs qu’il répandit au commencement du XIIIᵉ siècle_ [an error for _XIIᵉ siècle_] in the _Collationes Brugenses_, vol. XVII, p. 107, 1912. L. Vander Essen, _De Katterij van Tanchelm in de XIIᵉ eeuw_ in _Ons Geloof_, vol. II, p. 354, 1912; _Antwerpen en de H. Norbertus_ in the _Bode van Onze Lieve Vrouw van het H. Hert van Averbode_, Nos. 18 and 19, pp. 207-211 and 217-220, 1914.