Demons, pre-Yahwistic, 61
; in Jewish Apocrypha, 31; in New Testament, 64; pagan gods as, 66,155; as fallen angels, 62, 66-7; in patristic writings, 65-7; in Cacsarius of Heisterbach, 69–71; in Richalmus of Schönthal, 71-3; powers and stratagems of, 61–73; growing obsession with, 74,97-8; and magic, 155-8; in ritual magic, 164-73; Aquinas on, 174-6; and Boniface VIII, 182-5; and Guichard, 186,187,190-1; in Kyteler case, 199,201-2,203-4; in Simmerthal case, 204; and “ladies of the night”, 214,215,217-18; as deceivers, 214,219; in earliest witch-trials, 226,229; change from servants to masters, 229, 232,2323; in human form, 68,70,99-100, 190,199, 226; in animal form, 21, 22, 30,70, 87,101,199, 226,227, 232; in idol, 87-8,184-5,193; as incubi, 174,190,199, 203, 218, 227, 252, 233; psychoanalytical interpretation,73-4, 260;Device family, in witch trial, 111
Devil, the, in Old Testament, 61
; in Jewish Apocrypha, 62-3; acquires servants, 62-3; in New Testament, 63; in Christian Apocrypha, 65; and paganism, 67; growing obsession with, 74,97-8; and individual witch, 99-100; at witches’ sabbat, 101-2, 226; physical appearance of, 69, 99-100, 101,189;Devil-worship, demon-worship, accusations of, xii
, 18; against Paulicians, 18; against Orléans sect, 21; against French heretics, 21; against Cathars, 22; against German Waldensians, 30, 32-7; against Italian Waldensians, 37-8; against Templars, 87-9; against witches, 101; against Boniface VIII, 185; against Simmerthal group, 204; not substantiated, 56-9; not mentioned in inquisitors’ manuals, 59; origins of the fantasy, 74; absent in ritual magic, 169-70,173,193; in early witch-trials, 227, 238; in great witch-hunt, 252; psychoanalytical interpretation, 260;Diana, cult of, 212-19
,223,226“Dianic cult’’, Murray’s, 108-9
;Dichtlin and Anna, accused of
Dio Cassius, Roman historian, 6
Dionysian cult, 7
,104,118Dionysius Exiguus, monk, 156
Diplovataccio, Thomas, editor of Bartolo, 141
Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz, 139
Dorothea, accused of
Dualist religion, 57
,129,138Dubois, Pierre, publicist, 81-2
,94du Boys, Jacques, Dominican, 231-2
Dupuy, Barthelemi, judge, 128
Edward I, king of England, 161
Elders of Zion, the, 124
Eliot, Thomas Steams, 107
Epiphanius, Greek theologian, 5
, 9-10 n., 16Eucharist, in early Church, 8
; interpreted as cannibalism, 9; cannibalistic, ascribed to heretics, 16,18,46,49; parodied, at witches’ sabbat, 102, 105Eusebius, 3
Eutychius, patriarch, 233
Ewen, Cecil l’Estrange, 109
Eymeric, Nicolas, inquisitor, on Waldensians, 37
; silent about Devil-worship, 59; alleged writer on witchcraft, 174; concerned only with ritual magic, 177-8Eyrbyggia, 149
Fay, Jean de, Dominican and magician, 188-9
Festu, Simon, bishop of Meaux, 186
7,190Festus, grammarian, 207
Finke, Heinrich, 86
Floyran, Esquiu de, informer, 83-4
, 187Flying witches, notion of, 101
, 111, 113-15,205,206-10,219-24;as part of stereotype, 101,205; and RomanFrancis, St, 32
,42-3,44Francis of Girondino, Waldensian,
Francis of Maiolati, member of Fraticelli, 46
,48,49, 53Franciscan Order, 42-4
Fraticelli, origins and doctrine of, 42-4
; why called “de opinione”, 43-4; tried at Rome, 44-5; pursued in March of Ancona, 51; accusations against, xii, 46-7, 51-4, 124,259Frazer, Sir James, 107
,109,117Fredegond, Frankish queen, 148-9
, 154Frederick I, emperor, 23
Frederick II, emperor, 23
, 24, 39,165Frederick of Austria, Duke, 34
Frend, William H. C., 4
Fronto, M. Cornelius, senator, 3
Fründ, Hans, chronicler, 226
Galosna, Antonio, Waldensian, 37-8