17 Adso of Montier-en-Der, Epistola ad Gerbergam reginarn de ortu et tempore Antichristi, in E. Sackur, Sibyllinische Texte und Forschungen: Pseudomethodius, Adso und die tiburtinische Sibylle, Halle, 1898, pp. 106-7.
18 See above, p. 151.
19 Hincmar, De divortio Lotharii et Theutbergae, Interrogatio XV (Pat. lat. vol. 125, col. 725).
20 Guibert de Nogent, Histoire de sa vie (1053–1124), ed. G. Bourgin, Paris, 1907, lib. I, cap. xiii, pp. 43-4.
21 Amaud (or Ernaud), abbot of Bonneval, Liber Secundus of Sancti Bernardi Vita Prima, cap. vi (Pat. lat. vol. 185, cols. 287-8).
22 Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogus miraculorum, Book III, chapter 8.
23 Ibid., Book III, chapter 9.
24 Ibid., Book III, chapter 10.
25 Guilielmus Alvernus, De universo creaturarum, Part III, cap. xxx, in Opera omnia, Orléans, 1674, vol. I, pp. 1070-3. See above, pp. 213-14.
26 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, quaestio li, art iii (Opera, Venice, 1787, vol. XX, pp. 243-4); Commentum in quatuor libros Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi, lib. II, Distinctio VIII, quaestio i, art. iv, solutio ii (Ibid., 1777, vol. X, p. 105).
27 Text in Hansen, Quellen, pp. 88-9; and see above, pp. 219-20.
28 Ibid., pp. 99-104.
29 Ibid., pp. 118-22.
30 Ibid., pp. 133-45.
31 E. Hoffmann-Krayer, “Luzemer Akten zum Hexen- und Zauberwesen”, in Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, vol. III, Zurich, 1899, pp. 22–40, 82-122, 189–224, 291–325.
32 Ibid., pp. 117-21.
33 Ibid., pp. 33-8.
34 Ibid., pp. 103-17.
35 Ibid., pp. 198–204. For similar cases, see Ibid., pp. 95-7, 193-7, 210-11.
36 G. L. Kittredge, Witchcraft in Old and New England, Cambridge, Mass., 1929, pp. 6-20.
37 Ibid., p. 8. The original depositions are at Harvard.
38 Ibid., p. 10.
39 A. Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England, London, 1970. See also C. L’Estrange Ewen, Witch hunting and witch trials, London and New York, 1929, and Witchcraft and demonianism, London, 1933.
40 Macfarlane, op. cit., p. 174.
41 See above, p. 242.
42 Diebold Schilling, Luzerner Bilderchronik, ed. R. Durrer and P. Hilber, Geneva, 1932, p. 143, with picture at Tafel 280.
43 Cf. E. Delcambre, Le concept de la sorcellerie dans le duché de Lorraine au XVIe et XVIIe siècle, Nancy, 1948, Fascicule 3, pp. 205 seq.; J. Schacher, Das Hexenwesen im Kanton Luzern, Luzern, 1947, pp. 98 seq.
44 Hoffmann-Krayer, op. cit., p. 317.
45 See above, p. 243.
46 Quoted, from a manuscript in the Library of the University of Glasgow, by Dr Christina Larner in her thesis Scottish demonology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its theological background, Appendix II, pp. 272-5. The thesis was submitted at the University of Edinburgh in 1961 under Dr Larner’s maiden name, Christina Ross.
47 Malleus Maleficarum, part I, question vi.
48 A. Macfarlane, op. cit., pp. 161, 205-6; K. V. Thomas, Religion and the decline of magic, London, 1971, pp. 560-7.
49 H. C. E. Midelfort, Witch hunting in Southwestern Germany, Stanford University Press, 1972, pp. 184-5.
50 Malleus Maleficarum, part III, question viii.
51 G. Bader, Die Hexenprozesse in der Schweiz, Affoltern a. A., 1945.
52 Ibid., pp. 219, 217.
53 Midelfort, op. cit.
54 Ibid. p. 32
55 Ibid., p. 89.
56 Ibid., pp. 96-8.
57 Ibid., p. 97.
58 Ibid., p. 137.
59 The point is well documented in E. Delcambre, “Les procès de sorcellerie en Lorraine. Psychologie des juges”, in Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis, vol. XXI, Groningen, Brussels, The Hague, 1953, pp. 389–420; see also the same author’s “La psychologie des inculpés lorrains de sorcellerie”, in Revue historique de droit français et étranger, series 4, vol. XXXII, Paris, 1954, pp. 383–404, 508-26.
60 For a particularly clear example, studied in detail, see P. Villette, “La sorcellerie à Douai”, in Mélanges de Science religieuse, vol. 18, Lille, 1961, pp. 123-73.
1 Apart from my own writings, this approach has found most favour in France; e.g. A. Besançon, Le Tsarévitch immolé, Paris, 1967; L. Poliakov, Le Mythe aryen, Paris, 1971.
2 Cf. J. A. Macculloch, The childhood of fiction: a study of folk tales and primitive thought, London, 1905, pp. 278 seq.
3 In Kinder- und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm (first published 1837) Hansel and Gretel is No. 15, Snow White No. 53.
4 Cf. W. Lederer, “Historical consequences of father-son hostility”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 54, No. 2, New York, 1967, pp. 52–80; W. Lederer, The fear of women, New York and London, 1968, pp. 61-6; G. Devereux, “The cannibalistic impulses of parents”, in The Psychoanalytic Forum, vol. I, No. 1, Beverley Hills, California, 1966, pp. 114-24.
5 Cf. F. Fornari, “Fantasmes d’agression”, in Études polémologiques, No. 10, Paris, October 1973.
INDEX
Abundia (Habonde), supernatural queen, 214,237
Accusatory procedure, 22-3,24,160-3
Adeline, Guillaume, alleged witch, 230,232,238
Adhémar de Chabannes, chronicler, 21
Aelsie, in maleficium case, 153-4
Æthelstan, Anglo-Saxon king, 150