This can hardly be correct. ↩
The contents of this valuable collection are as follows:
Vol. I:
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Nider, O.P., John. Formicarius de maleficiis.
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Sprenger and Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum.
Vol. II:
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Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo. De Natura Daemonum.
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Basin, Bernard. De Artibus magicis.
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Bernard of Como, O.P. De Strigibus. (With the annotations of Francesco Peña.)
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Castro, O.M., Alfonso A. De impia Sortilegarum haeresi.
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De Vignate, Ambrose. Quaestio de Lamiis. (With a commentary by Peña.)
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Gerson, John. De Probatione Spirituum. De erroribus circa artem magicam reprobatis.
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Grilland, Paul. De Sortilegiis.
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Leone, Giovanni Francesco. De Sortilegiis.
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Moliter, Ulrich. De Pythonicis mulieribus.
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Murner, O.M., Thomas. De Pythonico Contractu.
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Simancus, Iago. De Lamiis.
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Spina, O.P., Bartolomeo. De Strigibus. In Ponzinibium de Lamiis Apologia.
Vol. III:
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Gorichen, Heinrich De. De superstitionis quibusdam casibus.
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Mamor, Pietro. Flagellum maleficorum.
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Menghi, Girolamo, Capuchin. Flagellum Daemonum. Fustis Daemonum.
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Stampa, Pietro Antonio. Fuga Satanae.
Vol. IV:
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Ars exorcistica tribus partibus.
This great Saint is much honoured in France. He was Archbishop of Arles, and founder of the monastery of Lérins. Born about 350, he died in January, 429. ↩
John II, Margrave of Baden. ↩
The extremer Picards seem to have been an offshoot of the Behgards and to have professed the Adamite heresy. They called their churches Paradise and whilst engaged in common worship stripped themselves quite nude. Shameful disorders followed. A number of these fanatics took possession of an island in the river Nezarka and lived in open communism. In 1421 Ziska, the Hussite leader, practically exterminated the sect. There have, however, been sporadic outbreaks of these Neo-Adamites. Picards was also a name given to the “Bohemian Brethren,” who may be said to have been organized in 1457 by Gregory, the nephew of Rokyzana. They held very extreme views, denying that the Blessed Sacrament is the Body of Christ, advocating the abolition of all distinctions of rank and fortune and the living in community. In the course of time these views were practically modified, and today they may be said to be represented by the Moravian Body. ↩
Reigned from 11 August, 1492, to 18 August, 1503. ↩
Born at Rouen 19 January, 1639; he entered the Dominican Order in that city, 9 May, 1655. His literary labours were very vast, and in 1677 he published at Paris the first volume of his huge History. Some passages were very sharply criticized, and even censured, but in the preface to the third edition (Paris, 1699, 8 volumes, folio) the author, whilst fully submitting to the Holy See, tactfully defends himself. He died of old age in the convent of S. Jacques at Paris, 21 August, 1724. ↩
Oratorian, born at Treviso, 1595; died at Rome, 22 January, 1671. This eminent historian occupied himself with the continuation of the Annales of the Ven. Cesare Baronio, and his work, which covers the years from 1198 to 1565, was published at Rome, 1646–77. ↩
In his Bibliotheca Ordinis Praedicatorum. ↩
S. Zeno, Martyr, is the Patron of Verona, in which city a basilica, San Zenone, is dedicated in his honour. His feast is kept 12 April, and the Roman Martyrology tells us that he was a Bishop of Verona, put to death under the Emperor Gallienus. ↩
Edinburgh, 1597. ↩
4to, 1682. Produced at the Duke’s Theatre, Dorset Garden, in the autumn (probably September) of 1681. ↩
The word is from fe‑, feu‑, =Grk. φύ‑ω, to produce; whence fetus, fecundus, etc. Cf. Sanskrit bhuas, bhavas, to become. Also fi‑o; fu‑turus. ↩
The word is from διαβάλλο=traducere. So διαβολή, slander, enmity. ὁ διάβολος, the slanderer, the enemy; hence, Satan, the devil. ↩
For an excellent study of this most difficult and most painful subject see a valuable work by George Ives, The History of Penal Methods, 1914. ↩
Jules Baissac, Les grands Jours de la Sorcellerie, 1890, p. 19, says—I do not know on what authority—“La 1re édition du ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ est de 1489, in —4, Cologne, cinq ans après la publication de la Bulle Summis desiderantes.” ↩
Axis-ungo. See Palladius, I, XVII, 3. Also Vegetius, De Arte Ueterinaria, IV, X, 3; also IV, XII, 3. ↩
Albrecht von Bayern, 1478–1506 ↩
This decree, which was often attributed to a General Council of Ancyra, but which is now held to be of a later date, was in any case authoritative, since it passed into the “De ecclesiasticis disciplinis” ascribed to Regino of Prum (906), and thence to the canonists S. Ivo of Chartres and Johannes Gratian. Section 364 of the Benedictine Abbot’s work relates that “certain abandoned women turning aside to follow Satan, being seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and openly profess that in the dead of night they ride upon certain beasts with the pagan goddess Diana and a countless horde of women, and that in these silent hours they fly over vast tracks of country and obey her as their mistress,
