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 yiii CONTENTS. Magic Practices of the Barbarians 400 Leniency of Barbarian Legislation 408 Legislation of Church and State in Carlovingian Period 412 Practical Toleration in Early Mediaeval Period 416 Indifference of Secular Legislation 427 The Inquisition Assumes Jurisdiction 434 All Magic Becomes Heretical 435 Astrology. — Pietro di Abano. — Cecco d'Ascoli 437 Divination by Dreams 446 Comminatory Church Services 447 The Inquisition Stimulates Sorcery by Persecution 448 Unfortunate Influence of John XXII 452 Growth of Sorcery in the Fourteenth Century 454 Increase in the Fifteenth Century 464 Case of the Marechal de Rais 468 Enrique de Villena 489 Chapter VII. — Witchcraft. Its Origin in the Fifteenth Century 492 The Sabbat. — Regarded 1 at first as a Diabolic Illusion 493 Adopted by the Church as a Reality 497 Its Ceremonies 500 Power and Malignity of the Witch 501 TLe Church Helpless to Counteract her Spells 506 Belief Stimulated by Persecution 508 Witches Lose Power when Arrested 509 Secular and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Witchcraft 511 Inquisitorial Process as Applied to Witchcraft 513 Case of the Witches of the Canavese 518 Case of the Vaudois of Arras 519 Slow Development of the Witchcraft Craze 534 Stimulated by the Inquisition and the Church. . 538 Influence of the Malleus Maleficarum 543 Opposition to the Inquisition. — France. — Cornelius Agrippa. . . 544 Opposition of Venice. — The Witches of Brescia ....... 546 Terrible Development in the Sixteenth Century 549 Chapter VIII. — Intellect and Faith. Intellectual Aberrations not Dangerous 550 Theological Tendencies and Development 551