FOOTNOTES:

[77] For this and other facts regarding Germany, see Soldan.

[78] A famous Italian physician, who lived through the greater part of the sixteenth century.—Trans.

[79] Cornelius Agrippa, of Cologne, born in 1486, sometime Secretary of the Emperor Maximilian, and author of two works famous in their day, Vanity of the Sciences, and Occult Philosophy.—Trans.

[80] A friend of Sir Philip Sydney, who sent for him when dying.—Trans.

[81] Catholicon, or purgative panacea: i. e. the Inquisition.—Trans.

[82] The wars of the Catholic League against Henry of Navarre began in 1576.—Trans.

[83] The infamous Spanish Inquisitor, who died at the close of the fifteenth century, after sixteen years of untold atrocities against the heretics of Spain.—Trans.

CHAPTER IV.

THE WITCHES OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY: 1609.[84]