[570]. Mackay, Delusions, pp. 184, 187, etc.
[571]. History of Rationalism, p. 4, etc.
[572]. See article on the case by E. F. Benson, Nineteenth Century, vol. xxxvii. June 1895. A somewhat similar case occurred at Tarbes in 1850.—History of Rationalism, p. 4.
[573]. “What sort of distemper ’tis shall stick the body full of pins?”—Quoted by Calef, More Wonders, p. 5.
[574]. Scot quotes a ghastly passage from Grillandus, who writeth “that when witches sleepe and feel no paine upon the torture, Domine labia mea aperies should be said, and so, saith he, both the torment will be felt and the truth will be uttered.—Discoverie of Witchcraft, p. 17. And we find in del Rio: “Narravit mihi ... anno 1599 captam puellulam strigatricem, quae nec pedum ustulationem saevissimam, nec flagra validissima sentiebat; donec Sacerdos cujusdam monitu illi Agni benedicti ceream imaginem in collum injecere, tum enim vi sacra amuleti daemonis praestigiosa ludibria depulsa et illa vim doloris coepit persentiscere.”—Disquisitionum magicarum, p. 184. Venice, 1616. See also E. Gurney, Phantasms of the Living, p. 181, who considers the insensibility to pain may have been due sometimes to auto-hynotism.
[575]. Mentioned, for instance, in Twelfth Night.
[576]. Les sorcières furent les sages-femmes et les sorciers les médecins du moyen âge.—P. Christian, Histoire de la magie, p. 400. Paris, ? 1871.
[577]. E. Gurney, Phantasms of the Living, p. 183.
[578]. Lecky, History of Rationalism, p. 77.
[579]. R. Calef, the opponent of Cotton Mather, quotes an instance of this kind. One Margaret Rule, having been seized with fits, “... some of the neighbours were forward enough to suspect the rise of the mischief in a house hard by, where lived a Miserable Woman who had been formerly imprisoned on the suspicion of witchcraft, who had frequently cured very painful hurts by muttering over them certain charms which I [? C. M.] shall not endanger the Poysoning of my Reader by repeating.”—More Wonders of the Invisible World, p. 3. Boston, 1700.