Europe's inner demons

Basil the Great, St, 233

Beaufort, Payen, notable of Arras, 232

Bègue, Thomas, alleged witch, 227

Beiliss, Mendel, 259 n.

Belial, Beliar, demon, 62,168,173, 185

Benandanti, 223-4

Benedict XI, pope, 181

Benedict XII, pope (Jacques Fournier), 39,194 n., 195,202

Beniols, Hugues de, inquisitor, 127

Berardus of Soriano, monk, 184-5

Bernard, St, 75, 235-6

Bernard of Bergamo, “priest” of Fraticelli, 45,46, 51

Bernardin of Siena, St, 49–50, 51, 53 n.

Bezok, Margaret, witch, 250-1

Biblis, Christian martyr, 4

Biondo, Flavio, Humanist, 52-3 and n.

Blanche of Artois, queen of Navarre, 185,186

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 214 n.

Bodin, Jean, 253

Bogomiles, Dualist sect, accusations against, 18–19 and 57

Boniface VIII, pope (Benedict Caetani), 180-5, 195, 199, 200, 202, 226, 232

Book of Enoch (I Enoch), 62,65

Book of Jubilees, 62

Books of Adam and Eve, 65

Borborians, Gnostic sect, 9-10 n.

Bothwell, Earl of; See Stewart, Francis

Bouges, T., historian of Carcassonne, 127.

Brethren of Free Spirit, heretical mystics, 54-5

Brigue, Jehanne de, sorceress, 197

Brunier, Jeannette, alleged witch, 227

Burchard, bishop of Worms, 151-2, 209-10, 211,213,218

Bureau, Laurent, bishop of Sisteron, 41-2

Burr, George Lincoln, 109,174,176

Caesarius, monk of Heisterbach, on demons, 69–71; on ritual magic, 165; on incubi, 236

Cannibalism, accusations of, against early Christians, 2–3,4; against Cataline conspirators, 6; against Egyptian insurgents, 6; against Apollodorus of Cassandreia, 6–7; against Jews, 7; See also Cannibalistic Infanticide; Flying Witches

Cannibalistic infanticide, accusations of, xi-xii; against early Christians, 1–4, 8–9; against Montanists, 16; against Paulicians, 18,49; against Bogomiles, 18–19; against sect at Orléans, 20; against heretics at Soissons, 49; against Fraticelli, 46-7, 52-3; against witches, 100, 112, 204-5, 219, 226; in Africa, 220-1; against both Waldensians and witches, 228; in great witch-hunt, 252; preserved in literary tradition, 53 and n., 86 n.; not mentioned by inquisitors, 54; in myth and folk-tales, 259-60; psychoanalytic interpretation, 260; and Eucharist, 8–9,16,18,46, 49, 106; See also barilotto; Flying witches

Canon Episcopi, 211, 213,215, 217, 218,238

Carpocratians, Gnostic sect, 9 and 9-10 n., 55

Cassendi, Géraud, notary, 196

Cataline conspiracy, 6

Cathars, Dualist sect, 22, 55, 57-8, 126,128-30,138; doctrine of, 58; alleged link with witches, 116,12830, 138; accusations against, 22, 55, 58; false etymology, 22

Catherine of Palumbaria, member of Fraticelli, 47, 48

Cattaneo, Alberto, inquisitor, 39–42, 229,259

Cecco d’Ascoli, astrologer, 166-73

Celestine V, pope, 183,185

Charlemagne, 149,157,158,208

Charles the Bald, emperor, 159

Chamay, Geoffroi de, Templar, 97

Chilperic, King of Franks, 149

Chlodovic, Frankish prince, 148

Christianity, incompatible with Roman religion and ideals, 12–14; achieves recognition, 14–15; confidence of early, 64-5, 67-8; misgivings of late medieval, 73-4; unconscious resentment against, 97,262 See also Apostasy

Christians, second-century, accusations against, 1–4,9-12; persecuted at Lyons, 3–4,259

Clement of Alexandria, 9

Clement V, pope, and Temple, 82, 84, 89,92-6; and Boniface VIII, 181-5, and Guichard, 187,188 See also Temple, the

Clement VI, pope, 39,195, 202

Colonna family, 180,181-2,183

Colonna, Peter, 182

Colonna, Sciarra, 181

Colonna, Sueva, 45

Conrad of Marburg, inquisitor, 2431,32, 33,36, 54, 56, 74,83,90, 122, 228,259

Constantius of Foligno, chamberlain, 184

Conti, Stefano de, Count, 45

Covens, witches’, See Witches’ covens

Crawford, J. R., 220-2

crimen magiae, 229,252,259

Cyprian, St, 66

Dalok, Elena, witch, 153

Daumer, Georg Friedrich, 14–15 n.

David of Augsburg, preacher, on Waldensians, 33

Deghi, Onofrio (Noffo Dei), intriguer, 186,190,192

Delort, Catherine, fictitious witch, 129-30,132,137-8

Delort, Joseph, 138

Del Rio, Martin, demonologist, 253