[1777] Dissert. Mor. et Jurid. sur la Torture, pp. 36-7.
[1778] Ibid. p. 169.
[1779] Damhoud. Rer. Criminal. Prax. cap. 34, § 7.
[1780] Const. 7 Cod. IX. xviii.
[1781] Concil. Emeritan. ann. 666 can. xv.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, the Emperor Theodore Lascaris invented a novel mode of torture in a case of this kind. When a noble lady of his court was accused of sorcery, he caused her to be inclosed naked in a sack with a number of cats. The suffering, though severe, failed to extort a confession.—Georg. Pachymeri Hist. Mich. Palæol. Lib. I. cap. xii.
[1782] Bodini de Magorum Dæmonoman. Lib. IV. cap. 2.
[1783] Boguet, Discours des Sorciers, chap. lv. (Lyon, 1610).
[1784] Louïse, La Sorcellerie et la Justice Criminelle à Valenciennes (Valenciennes, 1861, pp. 133-64).—For other similar instances see Bodin, op. cit. Lib. IV. cap. 1, 2.
[1785] Bodin. Lib. I. cap. 2.