[622] The Dialogi miraculorum of Caesar of Heisterbach, and the Exempla of Étienne de Bourbon (d. 1262) and Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) present a huge collection of such stories. For the early Middle Ages, the decades just before and after the year one thousand, the mechanically supernatural view of any occurrence is illustrated in the five books of Histories of Radulphus Glaber, an incontinent and wandering, but observing monk, native of Burgundy. Best edition by M. Prou, in Collection des textes, etc. (Paris, Picard, 1886); also in Migne, Pat. Lat. 142. An interesting study of his work by Gebhart, entitled, “Un Moine de l’an 1000,” is to be found in the Revue des deux mondes, for October 1, 1891. Glaber’s fifth book opens with some excellent devil stories. As there was a progressive enlightenment through the mediaeval centuries, such tales gradually became less common and less crude.
[623] Anecdotes historiques d’Étienne de Bourbon, par. 422, ed. by Lecoy de la Marche (vol. 185 of Société de l’Histoire de France), Paris, 1877; cf. ibid. par. 383.
[624] Dialogus miraculorum, iii. 2. Similar stories are told in ibid. iii. 3, 15, 19.
[625] Exempla of Jacques de Vitry, ed. by T. F. Crane, pp. 110-111, vol. 26 (Folk-lore Society, London, 1890).
[626] Dialogus miraculorum, vii. 34. Caesar’s seventh book has many similar tales.
[627] Ed. in eight volumes by Gaston Paris and U. Robert for the Société des Anciens Textes Français.
[628] Étienne de Bourbon tells this same story in his Latin; Anecdotes historiques etc., p. 114.
[629] See Étienne de Bourbon, o.c. pp. 109-110, 120.
[630] Étienne de Bourbon, o.c. p. 119.
[631] Étienne de Bourbon, o.c. p. 83.