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

by George Burnham Ives

[600]. Quoted by W. B. Gerish, A Hertfordshire Witch. London, 1906.

[601]. Mackay, Delusions, p. 139.

[602]. H. C. Lea, History of the Inquisition in Spain. New York, 1907.

[603]. W. F. Poole, Salem Witchcraft. Boston, 1869.

[604]. 300,000 women are said to have been slaughtered since Innocent’s Bull of 1484. See an important article in Chamber’s Encyclopædia, x. p. 698, ed. of 1901.

[605]. F. de Raemond, L’Antichrist, p. 102.

One writer estimated the number of sorcerers living in Europe at 1,800,000. See Calmeil, tom. i. p. 217.

[606]. James Howell, Familiar Letters, 1688.

[607]. Scot, Discoverie, p. 16.

[608]. Ency. Brit. ninth ed. vol. xxiv. p. 622.