Agobard, bishop of Lyons, 152
Alciati, Andrea, lawyer, 143
Alain de Lille, theologian, 22
Alexander III, pope, 78
Animal-god, worship of, as accusation, xi; against early Christians, 2; against Jews, 5–6 See also Devil-worship; Demons: in animal form
Angelo of Poli, member of Fraticelli, 46-7
Antiochus Epiphanes, Seleucid monarch, 5, 7–8
Antonio of Sacco, member of Fraticelli, 47-8
Apollodorus of Cassandreia, tyrant, 6–7
Apostasy, temptation to, 97, 261-2; witch as symbol of, 102,252; invocation as, in Aquinas, 176; in Kyteler case, 199; in Simmerthal case, 205; in early witch-trials, 226; See also Sacrilege
Arnald of Vilianova, on ritual magic,165
Athenagoras, Christian apologist, 3
Attalus, Christian martyr, 4
Aubryot, Hugues, provost of Paris, 196
Augustine, St, on Montanists, 16; on Manichees, 17; on fallen angels, 66; on magic, 156,159,175,176,193; on incubi and succubi, 175, 234; not concerned with night-witches, 210; or with flying women, 211 n.
Augustus, emperor, 13
Bacchanalia, 11–12
Bacon, Roger, 167
Bader, Guido, 254
Baile, Jean, archbishop of Embrun, 39,42
Bardin, Guillaume, chronicler, 127-8,139,164
barilotto, 46-8, 52-3; defined, 50, 52
Barre, Margot de la, sorceress, 196
Barthe, Angela de la, fictitious witch, 127-8
Bartolo of Sassoferrato, lawyer, 138, 139,140-1,143,144; consilium falsely ascribed to, 139-40; other spurious consilia, 141-3
Basil the Great, St, 233
Beaufort, Payen, notable of Arras, 232
Bègue, Thomas, alleged witch, 227
Beiliss, Mendel, 259 n.
Belial, Beliar, demon, 62,168,173, 185
Benandanti, 223-4
Benedict XI, pope, 181
Benedict XII, pope (Jacques Fournier), 39,194 n., 195,202
Beniols, Hugues de, inquisitor, 127
Berardus of Soriano, monk, 184-5
Bernard of Bergamo, “priest” of Fraticelli, 45,46, 51
Bernardin of Siena, St, 49–50, 51, 53 n.
Bezok, Margaret, witch, 250-1
Biblis, Christian martyr, 4
Biondo, Flavio, Humanist, 52-3 and n.
Blanche of Artois, queen of Navarre, 185,186
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 214 n.
Bodin, Jean, 253
Bogomiles, Dualist sect, accusations against, 18–19 and 57
Boniface VIII, pope (Benedict Caetani), 180-5, 195, 199, 200, 202, 226, 232
Book of Enoch (I Enoch), 62,65
Book of Jubilees, 62
Books of Adam and Eve, 65
Borborians, Gnostic sect, 9-10 n.
Bothwell, Earl of; See Stewart, Francis
Bouges, T., historian of Carcassonne, 127.
Brethren of Free Spirit, heretical mystics, 54-5
Brigue, Jehanne de, sorceress, 197
Brunier, Jeannette, alleged witch, 227
Burchard, bishop of Worms, 151-2, 209-10, 211,213,218
Bureau, Laurent, bishop of Sisteron, 41-2
Burr, George Lincoln, 109,174,176
Caesarius, monk of Heisterbach, on demons, 69–71; on ritual magic, 165; on incubi, 236
Cannibalism, accusations of, against early Christians, 2–3,4; against Cataline conspirators, 6; against Egyptian insurgents, 6; against Apollodorus of Cassandreia, 6–7; against Jews, 7; See also Cannibalistic Infanticide; Flying Witches
Cannibalistic infanticide, accusations of, xi-xii; against early Christians, 1–4, 8–9; against Montanists, 16; against Paulicians, 18,49; against Bogomiles, 18–19; against sect at Orléans, 20; against heretics at Soissons, 49; against Fraticelli, 46-7, 52-3; against witches, 100, 112, 204-5, 219, 226; in Africa, 220-1; against both Waldensians and witches, 228; in great witch-hunt, 252; preserved in literary tradition, 53 and n., 86 n.; not mentioned by inquisitors, 54; in myth and folk-tales, 259-60; psychoanalytic interpretation, 260; and Eucharist, 8–9,16,18,46, 49, 106; See also barilotto; Flying witches