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18 For the text of these early confessions see Michelet, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 277 seq.

19 For the confession of Hugues de Pairaud: Lizerand, op. cit., p. 43.

20 Cf. texts in Finke, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 342-64.

21 Texts in Finke, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 309-12.

22 Ibid., pp. 307-9.

23 Cf. Finke, op. cit., vol. I, p. 181 with footnote (1).

24 Text in Rymer, Foedera, edn. of 1745, vol. I, para. 4, pp. 99-100.

25 For the Latin text of the summons: Lizerand, op. cit., pp. 102-6.

26 For the Latin text of the oration: Ibid., pp. 110-24.

27 Cf. the oration in Lizerand, op. cit., pp. 124-36.

28 Cf. Michelet, op. cit., vol. I, p. 36.

29 Text in Lizerand, op. cit., pp. 176-88.

30 Deposition of Aimery de Villiers-le-Duc, in Lizerand, op. cit., pp. 188-92

31 Text in G. Villani, Istorie fiorentine, lib. VIII, cap. 92.

CHAPTER SIX: THE NON-EXISTENT SOCIETY OF WITCHES

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1 K. E. Jarcke, “Ein Hexenprozess”, in Annalen der deutschen und ausländischen Criminal-Rechts-Pflege, vol. I, Berlin, 1828 (esp. p. 450).

2 F. J. Mone, “Ueber das Hexenwesen”, in Anzeiger für Kunde der teutschen Vorzeit, Jahrgang 8, Karlsruhe, 1839 (esp. pp. 271-5, 444-53).

3 Cf. J. M. Roberts, The mythology of the secret societies, London, 1972.

4 J. Michelet, La Sorcière, chap, xi (p. 128 in the edition by P. Viallaneix, Paris, 1966).

5 Ibid., chaps, xi, xii (pp. 127, 138 in Viallaneix).

6 Cf. G. Mongrédien, Madame de Montespan et l’affaire des poisons, Paris, 1953.

7 See below, p. 232.

8 P. Viallaneix, preface to La Sorcière, pp. 17–18.

9 E. Le Roy Ladurie, Les paysans de Languedoc, Paris, 1966, pp. 407-14.

10 Margaret Murray first expounded her views a few years earlier, in two articles in Folk-Lore, vols. XXVIII (1917) and XXXI (1920).

11 E. Rose, A razor for a goat, Toronto, 1962, pp. 14–15.

12 Cf. Florence Hershman, Witchcraft U.S.A., New York, 1971, pp. 149-56.

13 A. Runeberg, Witches, demons and fertility magic, Helsingfors, 1947, pp. 230-1.

14 R. Burns Begg, “Notice of Trials for Witchcraft at Crook of Devon, Kinrossshire, in 1662”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. XXII, Edinburgh, 1888, pp. 212 seq., 223.

15 M. Murray, The Witch-cult in western Europe, Oxford, 1962, pp. 139, 99.

16 T. Potts, Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancashire reprinted from the original edition of 1613, Manchester, 1845.

17 Murray, op. cit., p. 140.

18 J. Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, London, 1689, pp. 353-4.

19 Murray, op. cit., p. 141.

20 Ibid., p. 98.

21 (G. R. Kinloch, ed.), Reliquiae Antiquae Scoticae, illustrative of civil and ecclesiastical affairs, Edinburgh, 1848, pp. 121-3.

22 Murray, op. cit., pp. 141-2.

23 R. Pitcairn, Criminal Trials..., Edinburgh, 1833, vol. III, Appendix, p. 613.

24 Ibid., p. 604; cf pp. 609-11.

25 Ibid., p. 607.

26 Murray, op. cit., pp. 100, 144.

27 A. Horneck (trans.), An Account of what happened in the Kingdom of Sweden in the years 1669, 1670..., London, 1688, p. 584. This translation of a German pamphlet forms an appendix to Glanvill’s Sadducismus Triumphatus.

28 Cf J. B. Russell, Witchcraft in the middle ages, Cornell University Press, 1972, pp. 41-2.

29 A. Runeberg, Witches, demons and fertility magic, p. 230.

30 Ibid., p. 86.

31 E. Rose, A razor for a goat, Toronto, 1962, pp. 141-2.

32 Ibid., p. 143.

33 Ibid., pp. 167-8.

34 Ibid., pp. 197-9.

35 Murray, op. cit., pp. 50-9.

36 W. R. Halliday, in Folk-Lore, vol. XXXIII (1922), p. 228, note.

37 Cf., in Pitcairn, Criminal Trials, vol. I, part 3, Newes from Scotland. Declaring the damnable life of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer... [1591], p. 216, and especially, in the indictment against Agnes Sampson, pp. 235, 239.

38 M. Summers, The history of witchcraft and demonology, London, 1926, p. xi.

39 Ibid., p. 4.

40 Ibid., pp. xi, 5–8.

41 J. B. Russell, Witchcraft in the middle ages, Cornell University Press, 1972, p. 3.

42 Ibid., p. 3, and cf. p. 22.

43 Ibid., p. 26, and cf p. 266.