[Footnote 707: The following references are in chronological order, and are only a few out of the many trials in which this coldness of the Devil is noted: 1565, Cannaert, p. 54; 1567, De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132; 1578, Bodin, _Fléau_, p. 227; 1590, Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 219; 1598, Boguet, _op. cit._, pp. 8, 412; 1645, Stearne, p. 29; 1649, Pitcairn, iii, p. 599; 1652, Van Elven, _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215; 1661, Kinloch and Baxter, p. 132; 1662, Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 611, 617; 1662, Burns Begg, x, pp. 222, 224, 231-2, 234; 1678, Fountainhall, i, p. 14; 1682, Howell, viii. 1032; 1705, _Trials of Elinor Shaw_, p. 6.] [Footnote 708: Boguet, p. 92.] [Footnote 709: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 611, 617.] [Footnote 710: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132.] [Footnote 711: Boguet, p. 78.] [Footnote 712: Bodin, p. 227.] [Footnote 713: _A Prodigious and Tragicall Historie_, pp. 4, 5.] [Footnote 714: Boguet, p. 70.] [Footnote 715: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 225.] [Footnote 716: H. G. van Elven, _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215. Place and names not given.] [Footnote 717: Kinloch, pp. 122, 123.] [Footnote 718: Pitcairn, iii, p. 601.] [Footnote 719: Id., iii, pp. 611, 613.] [Footnote 720: _Scots Magazine_, 1817, p. 201.] [Footnote 721: Boguet, p. 141.] [Footnote 722: Id., p. 65.] [Footnote 723: _Pleasant Treatise of Witches_, p. 6. The remembrance of the numerous male devils at the Sabbath survives in the Samalsain dance in the Basses-Pyrénées, where the male attendants on the King and Queen of the dance are still called Satans. Moret, _Mystères Égyptiens_, p. 247.] [Footnote 724: Baines, i, pp. 607-8, note.] [Footnote 725: Bourignon, _Parole_, pp. 86, 87; Hale, pp. 26, 27.] [Footnote 726: Id., _Vie_, p. 211, 214; Hale, pp. 29, 31.] [Footnote 727: Gaule, p. 63.] [Footnote 728: Remigius, p. 131.] [Footnote 729: Record of Trial in the Edinburgh Justiciary Court.] [Footnote 730: Pitcairn, iii, p. 616.] [Footnote 731: Howell, iv, 842.] [Footnote 732: Nicoll's Diary, p. 212. _Bannatyne Club._] [Footnote 733: Horneck, pt. ii, p. 323.] [Footnote 734: Davies, p. 183. Cp. also the birth of Merlin. Giraldus Cambrensis, _Itinerary_, Bk. I, xii, 91b.] VII. THE ORGANIZATION The cult was organized in as careful a manner as any other religious community; each district however was independent, and therefore Mather is justified in saying that the witches 'form themselves after the manner of Congregational Churches'.[735] 1. _The Officer_