em,
'beand in likenes of ane beist'. Agnes Wobster, also of the same Coven,
acknowledged that 'thaireftir Satan apperit to the in the likenes of a
calff, and spak to the in manner forsaid, and baid the be a gude servand to
him'.[182] In 1608 Gabriel Pelle confessed that he went with a friend to
the Sabbath, where 'le Diable estoit en vache noire, & que cette vache
noire luy fit renoncer Dieu'.[183] De Lancre says that at Tournelle the
Devil appeared 'parfois comme vn grand B[oe]uf d'airain couche a terre,
comme vn B[oe]uf naturel qui se repose'.[184] At Lille in 1661 the witches
'adored a beast with which they committed infamous things'.[185] According
to Isobel Gowdie in 1662, the Devil of Auldearne changed his form, or
disguise, continually, 'somtym he vold be lyk a stirk, a bull, a deir, a
rae, or a dowg'.[186] [In the above, I have taken the word 'beast' in its
usual meaning as an animal of the cattle tribe, but it is quite possible
that the Lille beast, _beste_ in the original, may have been a goat and not
a bull. This seems likely from the fact that the sacrifice was by fire as
in the other places where the Devil used the goat-disguise.]

2. _Cat._--The earliest example of the cat-disguise is in the trial of the
Guernsey witches in 1563, when Martin Tulouff confessed:

'[*q] il y a viron ung quartier d'an passez [*q] il soy trouva
auvec[*q]s la Vieillesse aultrem[~e]t dit Collenette Gascoing, en la
rue de la fosse au Coully, la ou l y avoet chinq ou vi chatz, d'ou il
y en avoet ung qui estoet noir, qui menoit la dance, et danssoient et
luy dyst lad^te Collenette, [*q] il besait led^t Chat et d^t [*q] il
estoet sur ses pieds plat, et que ladite Collenette le besa [*p] de
derriere, et luy [*p] la crysse, et [*q] fracoize Lenouff sa mere y
estoet et Collette Salmon fae de Collas du port, laqlle alloet devat
et s'agenouillerent to^s devat le Chat et l'adorer[~e]t en luy baillat
le^r foy, et luy dist ladite Vieillesse [*q] ledit Chat estoet le
diable.'[187]

Francoise Secretain, in 1598, saw the Devil 'tantost en forme de chat'.
Rolande de Vernois said, 'Le Diable se presenta pour lors au Sabbat en
forme d'vn groz chat noir.'[188] In 1652 another French witch confessed
that 'il entra dans sa chambre en forme d'ung chat et se changea en la
posture d'un home vestu de rouge', who took her to the Sabbath.[189] Both
the Devonshire witches, Mary Trembles and Susanna Edw