[275] I have been unable to find the authority for this discourse, as a whole, but some fragments of it are cited by Gabriel Naudé.
[276] There does not appear to be a story with this title either in The Phantasus or elsewhere in the works of Tieck.
[277] See Pierre De Lancre: Tableau de l’Inconstance des Démons, Book VI., Discourse 4. But Éliphas Lévi seems to have followed the summary account of Garinet.
[278] The account is in Bodin and in the record of Henri Boguet. Her physical peculiarity is described as un trou qu’elle avait au dessous de sa parti gorrière. The work of Boguet is entitled Discours Exécrables des Sorciers, 1602. It is exceedingly rare.
[279] The prosecution and execution of secular priests and monks recur frequently throughout the annals of sorcery.
[280] The names appear to have been Madeleine de Mandol, daughter of the Seigneur de la Palud and Louise Capel.
[281] The actual charges were (a) that Madeleine was seduced by Gaufridi when she was nine years old, (b) that he had taken her to the Sabbath, (c) that he had sent her 666 devils. To Louise he had sent four only.
[282] See L’Histoire Admirable de la Possession et de la Conversion d’une Pénitente séduite par un Magicien, by the Inquisitor Michaëlis, 1612.
[283] He was a priest of Marseilles and curé of Accoules.
[284] The confession included: (1) Visions of Lucifer, (2) compact with him, (3) obtaining the love of women by breathing upon them, (4) visiting the Black Sabbath, (5) celebration of Black Masses, &c.