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  36 Sinclar, Satan’s Invisible World Discovered (Reprint 1875), VII.

37 Idem, p. 25.

38 Idem, pp. 175, 178.

39 Illud etiam non omittendum quod quædam sceleratæ mulieres retro post Satanam conuersæ, dæmonum illusoribus et phantasmatibus seductæ credunt se et profitentur nocturnis horis cum Diana paganorum dea et innumera multitudine mulicerum equitare super quasdam bestias et multa terrarum spatia intempestæ noctis silentio pertransire eiusque iussionibus uelut dominæ obedire, et certis noctibus ad eius seruitium euocari. Minge, Patres Latini, CXXXII. 352.

40 See Professor A. J. Clark’s note upon “Flying Ointments.” Witch-Cult in Western Europe, pp. 279–280.

41 Posset dæmon eas transferre sine unguento, et facit aliquando; sed unguento mauult uti uariis de causis. Aliquando quia timidiores sunt sagæ, ut audeant; uel quia teneriores sunt ad horribilem illum Satanæ contactum in corpore assumpto ferendum; horum enim unctione sensum obstupefacit et miseris persuadet uim unguento inesse maximam. Alias autem id facit ut sacrosancta a Deo instituta sacramenta inimice adumbret, et per has quasi cerimonias suis orgiis reuerentiæ et uenerationis aliquid conciliat. Delrio, Disquitiones magicæ, Liber II, qto xvi.

42 In antiquity we have the case of Simon Magus, who was levitated in the presence of Nero and his court.

43 Henri Boguet, the High Justice of the district of Saint-Claude, died in 1616. The first edition (of the last rarity) of his Discours des Sorciers is Lyons, 1602; second edition, Lyons 1608; but there is also a Paris issue, 1603. Pp. 64 and 104.

44 Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584). Book III. p. 42.

45 De Lancre, Tableau, p. 211.

46 Thomas Wright, Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, Camden Society. 1843.

47 Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World, 1693. (Reprint, 1862. P. 158.)

48 Quarterly Journal of Science, January, 1874.

49 J. Godfrey Raupert, Modern Spiritism. 1904. Pp. 34, 35. See also Sir W. Barrett, On the Threshold of the Unseen, p. 70.

50 Arthur Lillie, Modern Mystics and Modern Magic, 1894, pp. 74, 75.

51 David Lewis, Life of S. John of the Cross (1897), pp. 73–4.

52 See the Saint’s own letter (written in 1777) to the Bishop of Foggia. Lettere di S. Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori (Roma, 1887), II. 456 f.

53 Philip Coghlan, Gemma Galgani (1923), p. 62. For fuller details see the larger biography by Padre Germano.

54 Vie du B. Paul de la Croix. (French translation.) I. Book ii. c. 3.

55 La Mystique Divine. Traduit par Sainte-Foi. V. viii. 17. p. 193.

56 Giovanni Francesco Ponzinibio was a lawyer whose De Lamiis was published at Venice, 1523–4. It called forth a reply, Apologiæ tres aduersum Joannem Franciscum Ponzinibium Iurisperitum, Venice, 1525. The edition of De Lamiis I have used is Venice, 1584, in the Thesaurus Magnorum iuris consultorum. This reprint was met by Peña’s answer and two treatises by Bartolomeo Spina,

57 Rome, 1584.

58 De modo quo localiter transferentur [sagæ] de loco ad locum. … Probatur quod possint malefici corporaliter transferri.

59 An isti Sortilegi & Strigimagæ siue Lamiæ uere & corporaliter deferantu a demonæ uel solum in spiritu? De Sortilegiis, VII.

60 Sum modo istius secundæ opinionis quod deferantur in corpore.

61 Doctrina multi eorum qui sequuti sunt Lutherum, & Melanctonem, tenuerent Sagas ad conuentus accedere animi duntaxat cogitatione, & diabolica illusione interesse, allegantes quod eorum corpora inuenta sunt sæpe numero eodem loco iacentia, nec inde more fuisse, ad hoc illud pertinena quod est in uita D. Germani, de mulierculis conuiuantibus, vt uidebantur, & tame dormierant dormientes. Huiusmodi mulierculas sæpe numero decipi