A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[483] Ibidem, fol. 388.

[484] Arn. Albertini de agnosc. Assertionibus, Q. XXIV.—Alph. de Castro de justa hæreticor. Punitione, Lib. I, cap. xvi.

[485] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 78, fol. 144.

[486] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Sala 40, Lib. 4, fol. 191-5.

[487] Ibidem, Lib. 78, fol. 215-17, 226, 258.

[488] Reprovacion de las Supersticiones, P. I, cap. ii, n. 6; P. II, cap. i, n. 5-7.

[489] De Cath. Institt., Tit. XXXVII, n. 6-12.

On the other hand Azpilcueta adheres to the theory of illusion and asserts it to be a mortal sin to believe that witches are transported to the Sabbat.—Manuale Confessariorum, cap. XI, n. 38.

Cardinal Toletus asserts the bodily transport of witches and all the horrors of the Sabbat, but adds that sometimes it is imaginary. Demons have power to introduce witches into houses through closed doors, where they slay infants.—Summæ Casuum Conscientiæ, Lib. IV, cap. XV.

[490] MSS. of Library of Univ. of Halle, Yc, 20, T. I.—This case is not unexampled. In 1686, Sor Teresa Gabriel de Vargas, a Bernardine Recollect, charged herself with the same crime before the Madrid tribunal, but, as she added the denial of the power of God, she was reconciled for the heresy.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 1024, fol. 31.