TAN MULTIPLIED AND MADE
COMMON 168
Witches and Wizards employed by the Great 172
The Wolf-lady 174
The last Philtre 179

CHAPTER II.--PERSECUTIONS 180
The Hammer for Witches 181
Satan Master of the World 193

CHAPTER III.--CENTURY OF TOLERATION IN FRANCE: REACTION 198
Spain begins when France stops short 199
Reaction: French Lawyers burn as many as the Priests 203

CHAPTER IV.--THE WITCHES OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY 207
They give Instructions to their own Judges 212

CHAPTER V.--SATAN TURNS PRIEST 218
Jokes of the Modern Sabbath 221

CHAPTER VI.--GAUFFRIDI: 1610 228
Wizard Priests prosecuted by Monks 232
Jealousies of the Nuns 234

CHAPTER VII.--THE DEMONIACS OF LOUDUN: URBAN GRANDIER 255
The Vicar a fine Speaker, and a Wizard 263
Sickly Rages of the Nuns 264

CHAPTER VIII.--THE DEMONIACS OF LOUVIERS--MADELINE BAVENT 277
Illuminism: the Devil a Quietist 277
Fight between the Devil and the Doctor 285

CHAPTER IX.--THE DEVIL TRIUMPHS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 294

CHAPTER X.--FATHER GIRARD AND LA CADIERE 303

CHAPTER XI.--CADIERE IN THE CONVENT 339

CHAPTER XII.--TRIAL OF CADIERE 367

EPILOGUE 395
Can Satan and Jesus be reconciled? 396
The Witch is dead, but the Fairy will live again 399
Oncoming of the Religious Revival 399

INTRODUCTION.

It was said by Sprenger, before the year 1500, "_Heresy of witches_,
not of wizards, must we call it, for these latter are of very small
account." And by another, in the time of Louis XIII.: "To one wizard,
ten thousand