La seconde est en la region des lombes en la partie droite, un poulce près de l’épine du dos et quatre doigts au-dessus les muscles de la fesse, en laquelle nous avons enfoncé l’aiguille trois travers de doigts, la laissons comme avions fait à la première plantée en cette partie quelque espace de temps, sans toutefois que le dit Gaufridy ait senti aucune douleur et que sang ni humeur quelconque en soit sorti. La troisième est vers la région du cœur. Laquelle, au commencement qu’on mit l’aiguille parut comme les autres sans sentiment; mais à mesure que l’on enfonçait fort avant, il dit sentir quelque douleur; ne sortant toutefois aucune humidité, et l’ayant visité le lendemain au matin, n’avons reconnu aux parties piquées ni tumeur, ni rougeur. A cause de quoi nous disons telles marques insensibles en rendant point d’humidité étant piquées, ne pouvoir arriver par aucune maladie du cuir précédante, et tel faisons notre rapport ce 10 mars, 1611. _Fontaine_, _Grassy_, médecins; _Mérindol_, _Bontemps_, chirurgiens. So great was the importance attached to the discovery of a witch-mark upon the body of the accused that when the above medico-legal report was read in court, Father Sebastian Michaelis, a learned Dominican, who was acting as consultor in the case, horror-struck, involuntarily exclaimed: “Good sooth, were we at Avignon this man would be executed to-morrow!” Gaufridi confessed: “J’advoue que les dites marques sont faites pour protestation qu’on sera toujours bon et fidèle serviteur du diable toute la vie.” (I confess that these marks were made as a sign that I shall be a good and faithful servant to the Devil all my life long.) [60] Pitcairn, _Records of Justiciary_. In 1663 Kincaid was thrown into jail, where he lay nine weeks for “pricking” without a magistrate’s warrant. He was only released owing to his great age and on condition that he would “prick” no more. [61] This shaving of the head and body was the usual procedure before the search for the devil-mark. We find it recorded in nearly every case. Generally a barber was called in to perform the operation: e.g. the trials of Gaufridi and Grandier, where the details are very ample. [62] _The Wardlaw Manuscript_, p. 446. Scottish History Society publication, Edinburgh. [63] _The Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 86. [64] Angelica in _Love for Love_ (1695), II, mocking her superstitious old uncle, Foresight, and the Nurse, cries: “Look to it, Nurse; I can bring Witness that you have a great unnatural Teat under your Left Arm, and he another; and that you Suckle a young Devil in the shape of a Tabby-Cat by turns, I can.” [65] _The most wonderfull ... storie of a ... Witch named Alse Gooderidge._ London. 1597. [66] Goodcole’s _Wonderfull Discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer_, London, 1621. There is an allusion in Ford and Dekker’s drama, IV: _Sawyer._ My dear _Tom-boy_, welcome ... Comfort me: thou shalt haue the teat anon. _Dog._ Bow, wow! I’ll haue it now.