John of Salisbury, 218-19
John of Winterthur, chronicler, 34-5, 36
Judith, queen of France, 150
Kilian, St, martyr, 212
Kyteler, Lady Alice, of Kilkenny, 198-204, 226, 227, 232
“Ladies of the night”, 210-19 See also Benandanti
La Faille, G., historian of Toulouse, 137
Lamothe-Langon, Baron de (Etienne Léon de Lamothe), 132-8,141,164; invents first witch-hunt, 132-6, 138-41; career of, 136-8; professional fabricator, 138
Lancre, Pierre de, on witches, 137
Langton, Walter de, bishop of Coventry, 180 n.
Larner, Christina, 255 n.
Laxdaela, 149
Ledrede, Richard de, bishop of Ossory, 198, 200-2, 203, 209
Le Franc, Martin, poet, 237
Lemegeton (Lesser Key of Solomon), 166-9,170-1,173
Lerner, Robert E., 36 n.
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 107
Lex Ribuaria, 149
Lex Salica; See Pactus legis Salicae
Liber sacer (Sworn book of Honorius), 178
Limborch, Philipp van, historian of Inquisition, 136
Livy,10–11
Llorente, Giovanni Antonio, historian of lnquisition, 134
Lombardi, Guillen, canon lawyer, 195
Lorin, chamberlain of Guichard, 188-9,190
Lothair, king of Lorraine, 150,151
Louis I (the Pious), emperor, 150, 158
Louis XII, king of France, 41
Luciferan doctrine, alleged, 30, 34-5, 36,38,56-7
Lucius III, pope, 23
Lull, Ramon, mystic, 81
Macfarlane, Alan, xiii, 160, 246-7, 248
Magic, condenmed as demonworship, 155-9 See also maleficium; magic, ritual
Magic, ritual or ceremonial, xiii, 164-73; books of, 167-9; aims of, 169, 178-9; techniques of, 169-70; not Satanic, 169-70,178-9; demons in, 164-73 5 Aquinas on, 174-5; John XXII on, 176,192-3; Eymeric on, 177; as heresy, 177; attributed to Boniface VIII, 182-51; attributed to Guichard, 188; clerics involved in, 195; trials for, in France, 195-7; in Kyteler case, 199-204; in Simmerthal case, 204; in early Swiss trials, 226
Maleficium, maleficia, 99-100,101-2, 104,117,145-64.170,173.175, 179,192,195-6,198–200, 204-5, 226,229, 237,238. Before 1300: at court, 147-8,150-1; murderous, 147-8,154,187-8,197,198-9, 205; affecting sex-life, 150-2,196-7; affecting animals and crops, 152-3, 205; penalties and reprisals for, 148-50,154-5,158-60; Church’s attitude to, 155-60; and accusatory procedure, 160-3. After 1300: new notions of, 164,170,173,179, 204-5; attributed to Guichard, 187-8; to enemies of John XXII, 192; in Kyteler case, 198–200; in Simmerthal case, 204; in early Swiss trials, 226; in early French trials, 229; not always a feature, 237,238,252; at village level, 23951; in Canton Lucerne, 239-43; in Devonshire, 243-6; social significance of, 246-8; women as makers of, 248-9; midwives as makers of, 249; folk-medicine and, 249-50; and “white witches”, 250-1
Malleus Maleficarum, 163, 225,251
Manichecs, accusations against, 17
Marcellus, bishop of Apamea, 68
Margueronne de Bellevillette, fortune-teller, 189
Marigny, Enguerrand de, 186,190
Marion la Droituriere, burned in Paris, 196
Martianus Capella, encyclopaedist, 208-9
Martello, Leo, 108
Mathers, S. L. M., 170
Martin V, pope, 50
Martin, Waldensian “barbe”, 40-1