Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

R. Scot, Descoverie Booke, ii. chaps, v.–viii.

Bodin, Démonomanie, p. 170.

James I., Daemonologie, p. 81.

H. Boguet, chap. xlvi.

[522]. The Cenci.

[523]. Historical Essay, p. 139.

[524]. See J. P. Migne, Encyclopédie théologique, vol. xlix. tome second, p. 72. Paris, 1848.

Charles Mackay has observed: “It was no unusual thing then, nor is it now, that in aged persons there should be some spot on the body totally devoid of feeling,” p. 137. In Scotland there were a number of witch-finders who were known as “common prickers,” p. 146.—Popular Delusions, London, 1869.

[525]. Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice, p. 242. London, 1618.

James I., Daemonologie, p. 80.