Europe's inner demons

Georgel, Anne-Marie de, fictitious witch, 129-30,132,137-8

Georgel, Jean-François, abbe, 137

Gerard I, bishop of Cambrai, 22

Gerard II, bishop of Cambrai, 22

Géraud, Hugues, bishop of Cahors, 192

Gerberga, alleged sorceress, 150,154

Germanus, St, 215

Gervase of Tilbury, writer, 210

Ginzburg, Carlo, 123-4,223-4

Gnostics, accusations against, 9

Görres, Johann Joseph von, 139

Goetia (part of Lemegeton), 167,169

Gowdie, Isobel, alleged witch, 113-14

Gratian, 212

Gregory, St, the Great, pope, 68

Gregory VII, pope, 154

Gregory IX, pope, legislator against heresy, 23, 24, 39; and Conrad of Marburg, 28-9, 32, 33, 34, 54, 56; issues Vox in Rama, 29–31

Gregory XI, pope, 196

Gregory of Tours, St, 148, 212

Grimm, Jacob, 103,117

Guichard, bishop of Troyes, 185-92, 193,202, 203,226, 232

Guibert de Nogent, chronicler, on cannibalistic infanticide, 49, 53 n.; on incubi, 235

Guidonis, Bernard, inquisitor, 59,130,131,137; silent on Devil-worship, 59; and on witchcraft, 131

Guidonis, Pierre, inquisitor, 130,137

Guillaume d’Auvergne, bishop of Paris, accuses Cathars, 22; on books of magic, 166; on “ladies of the night”, 213-14, 217; on incubi, 237

Guthrie, Helen, alleged witch,111-12

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 87-8 n.

Hansen, Joseph, 126,127,128-9, 134, 139, 225

Harold, king of Denmark, 154

Henry VII, emperor, 26

Henry III, king of Navarre, 185

Hincmar, archbishop of Rheims, 151, 235

Hengest, bailli of Sens, 188,189 Henry of Sayn, Count, 27, 29

Henry of Schönberg, canon of Prague, 34, 54

Henry of Solms, Count, 29

Heribert, archbishop of Milan, 22

Herodias, wife of Herod the Tetrarch, 212-13,214,218-19, 223,228

Holda, supernatural queen, 213,223

Hopkin, Charles Edward, 174

Horace, 207 n.

“Homed god”; See “Dianic cult”

Hospital of St John, Order of, 75, 76, 79–80, 81, 82,96

Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz, 193

Hugh of St Victor, mystic, 68

Hughes, Pennethome, 108

Imbert, Guillaume, inquisitor, 90

Incest, 12; Michelet on, 106; attractions of, 262 See also Orgies

Incubus, See Demons, as incubi

Innocent III, pope, 23

Inquisition, origins of, 24; not responsible for first witch-hunts, xii, 126-8,225-6; and inquisitorial procedure, 24; subordinate role in prosecuting Templars, 90; minor role against ritual magic, 128,176-7,179,1812; acts against “society of Diana”, 217; not involved in Kyteler or Simmerthal cases, 205; varible role in early witch-trials, 225-7,229-32 See also Conrad of Marburg; Cattaneo, Alberto; John of Capestrano; Eymeric, Nicolas

Inquisitorial procedure, nature and origins, 23; and religious dissent, 23; against clerics, 23; and Inquisition, 24; abused against Templars, 90-3,94,95; used against magicians, 179-80; in Kyteler and Simmerthal cases, 205; in earliest true witch-trials, 225-6, 229,230, 231-2

Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, 67

Isidore of Seville, encyclopaedist, 193.234

Ivo of Chartres, canonist, 193,212

Jacquier, Nicolaus, inquisitor, 238

James of March, St, 51

James II, king of Aragon, 81, 84

Jarcke, Karl Ernst, 103,125,139

Jean, bishop of Beirut, 231

Jean de Calais, embezzler, 186,187

Jean de Meun, 214

Jerome, St, 66

Jesus, sayings ascribed to, 8,9, 32 See also Voluntary poverty

Jews, accusations against, xiii, 5–6, 7–8; expelled from France, 82

Joachim of Fiore, abbot, 43

Joan, queen of France, 185-7,188,189,191

Joannes Scotus Erigena, 68

John XXII, pope, and Austrian Waldensians, 34, 54; and French Waldensians, 39; and poverty of Christ, 43, 44; and magic, 131,174,176,177,192-5

John IV, St, of Ojun, 18 and n.,49, 53 n.,57

John of Capestrano, St, 50-2, 257

John of Salisbury, 218-19

John of Winterthur, chronicler, 34-5, 36

Judith, queen of France, 150

Justin Martyr, 2–3,9,156

Kilian, St, martyr, 212

Kyteler, Lady Alice, of Kilkenny, 198-204, 226, 227, 232

“Ladies of the night”, 210-19 See also Benandanti

La Faille, G., historian of Toulouse, 137

Lamothe-Langon, Baron de (Etienne Léon de Lamothe), 132-8,141,164; invents first witch-hunt, 132-6, 138-41; career of, 136-8; professional fabricator, 138

Lancre, Pierre de, on witches, 137

Langton, Walter de, bishop of Coventry, 180 n.

Larner, Christina, 255 n.

Lateran Council, 1179, 32

Lateran Council, 1215,23, 25

Laxdaela, 149

Ledrede, Richard de, bishop of Ossory, 198, 200-2, 203, 209

Le Franc, Martin, poet, 237

Lemegeton (Lesser Key of Solomon), 166-9,170-1,173

Lerner, Robert E., 36 n.

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 107

Lex Ribuaria, 149