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

Agape, early Christian feast, 10,11,17

Agobard, bishop of Lyons, 152

Alciati, Andrea, lawyer, 143

Alain de Lille, theologian, 22

Alexander III, pope, 78

Alexander IV, pope, 176,177

Animal-god, worship of, as accusation, xi; against early Christians, 2; against Jews, 5–6 See also Devil-worship; Demons: in animal form

Antichrist, 19,129, 235

Angelo of Poli, member of Fraticelli, 46-7

Antiochus Epiphanes, Seleucid monarch, 5, 7–8

Antonio of Sacco, member of Fraticelli, 47-8

Apion, Greek writer, 5,7–8

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

Apuleius, 207, 208,220

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, St, 75, 235-6

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

Canon Episcopi, 211, 213,215, 217, 218,238

Carpocratians, Gnostic sect, 9 and 9-10 n., 55

Cassendi, Géraud, notary, 196

Cataline conspiracy, 6

Cathars, Dualist sect, 22, 55, 57-8, 126,128-30,138; doctrine of, 58; alleged link with witches, 116,12830, 138; accusations against, 22, 55, 58; false etymology, 22

Catherine of Palumbaria, member of Fraticelli, 47, 48

Cattaneo, Alberto, inquisitor, 39–42, 229,259

Cecco d’Ascoli, astrologer, 166-73

Celestine V, pope, 183,185

Charlemagne, 149,157,158,208

Charles the Bald, emperor, 159

Chamay, Geoffroi de, Templar, 97

Chilperic, King of Franks, 149

Chlodovic, Frankish prince, 148

Christianity, incompatible with Roman religion and ideals, 12–14; achieves recognition, 14–15; confidence of early, 64-5, 67-8; misgivings of late medieval, 73-4; unconscious resentment against, 97,262 See also Apostasy

Christians, second-century, accusations against, 1–4,9-12; persecuted at Lyons, 3–4,259

Clement of Alexandria, 9

Clement V, pope, and Temple, 82, 84, 89,92-6; and Boniface VIII, 181-5, and Guichard, 187,188 See also Temple, the

Clement VI, pope, 39,195, 202

Colonna family, 180,181-2,183

Colonna, Peter, 182

Colonna, Sciarra, 181

Colonna, Sueva, 45

Conrad of Marburg, inquisitor, 2431,32, 33,36, 54, 56, 74,83,90, 122, 228,259

Constantius of Foligno, chamberlain, 184

Conti, Stefano de, Count, 45

Covens, witches’, See Witches’ covens

Crawford, J. R., 220-2

crimen magiae, 229,252,259

Cyprian, St, 66


Dalok, Elena, witch, 153

Daumer, Georg Friedrich, 14–15 n.

David of Augsburg, preacher, on Waldensians, 33

Deghi, Onofrio (Noffo Dei), intriguer, 186,190,192

Delort, Catherine, fictitious witch, 129-30,132,137-8

Delort, Joseph, 138

Del Rio, Martin, demonologist, 253

Demons, pre-Yahwistic, 61; in Jewish Apocrypha, 31; in New Testament, 64; pagan gods as, 66,155; as fallen angels, 62, 66-7; in patristic writings, 65-7; in Cacsarius of Heisterbach, 69–71; in Richalmus of Schönthal, 71-3; powers and stratagems of, 61–73; growing obsession with, 74,97-8; and magic, 155-8; in ritual magic, 164-73; Aquinas on, 174-6; and Boniface VIII, 182-5; and Guichard, 186,187,190-1; in Kyteler case, 199,201-2,203-4; in Simmerthal case, 204; and “ladies of the night”, 214,215,217-18; as deceivers, 214,219; in earliest witch-trials, 226,229; change from servants to masters, 229, 232,2323; in human form, 68,70,99-100, 190,199, 226; in animal form, 21, 22, 30,70, 87,101,199, 226,227, 232; in idol, 87-8,184-5,193; as incubi, 174,190,199, 203, 218, 227, 252, 233; psychoanalytical interpretation,73-4, 260; See also Devil, the; Pact; witches’ Sabbat

Device family, in witch trial, 111

Devil, the, in Old Testament, 61; in Jewish Apocrypha, 62-3; acquires servants, 62-3; in New Testament, 63; in Christian Apocrypha, 65; and paganism, 67; growing obsession with, 74,97-8; and individual witch, 99-100; at witches’ sabbat, 101-2, 226; physical appearance of, 69, 99-100, 101,189; See also Demons, Devil-worship, Pact, Witches’ sabbat

Devil-worship, demon-worship, accusations of, xii, 18; against Paulicians, 18; against Orléans sect, 21; against French heretics, 21; against Cathars, 22; against German Waldensians, 30, 32-7; against Italian Waldensians, 37-8; against Templars, 87-9; against witches, 101; against Boniface VIII, 185; against Simmerthal group, 204; not substantiated, 56-9; not mentioned in inquisitors’ manuals, 59; origins of the fantasy, 74; absent in ritual magic, 169-70,173,193; in early witch-trials, 227, 238; in great witch-hunt, 252; psychoanalytical interpretation, 260; See also Vox in Rama, Witches’ sabbat

Diana, cult of, 212-19,223,226

“Dianic cult’’, Murray’s, 108-9; See also Diana, cult of

Dichtlin and Anna, accused of maleficia, 239-41

Dio Cassius, Roman historian, 6

Dionysian cult, 7,104,118

Dionysius Exiguus, monk, 156

Diplovataccio, Thomas, editor of Bartolo, 141

Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz, 139

Dorothea, accused of maleficia, 242

Dualist religion, 57,129,138 See also Cathars

Dubois, Pierre, publicist, 81-2,94

du Boys, Jacques, Dominican, 231-2

Dupuy, Barthelemi, judge, 128


Edward I, king of England, 161

Elders of Zion, the, 124

Eliot, Thomas Steams, 107

Epiphanius, Greek theologian, 5, 9-10 n., 16

Errores Gazariorum, 23 8

Eucharist, in early Church, 8; interpreted as cannibalism, 9; cannibalistic, ascribed to heretics, 16,18,46,49; parodied, at witches’ sabbat, 102, 105

Eusebius, 3

Eutychius, patriarch, 233

Ewen, Cecil l’Estrange, 109

Eymeric, Nicolas, inquisitor, on Waldensians, 37; silent about Devil-worship, 59; alleged writer on witchcraft, 174; concerned only with ritual magic, 177-8

Eyrbyggia, 149


Fay, Jean de, Dominican and magician, 188-9

Festu, Simon, bishop of Meaux, 1867,190

Festus, grammarian, 207

Finke, Heinrich, 86

Floyran, Esquiu de, informer, 83-4, 187

Flying witches, notion of, 101, 111, 113-15,205,206-10,219-24;as part of stereotype, 101,205; and Roman striges, 206-8; in Burchard, 209; in German folk-belief, 209; not originally associated with demons, 218; influenced by “ladies of the night”, 218; alleged influence of drugs, 219-20; anthropological findings about, 220-1; based on dream or trance experiences, 209,210,220-1; not peculiar to mountainous regions, 225; in early Swiss trials, 225-6; in early French trials, 227, 229,23 8; effect on witch-hunting, 223,228-9, 237-8; ignored by Murray, 111, 113-15;See also “ladies of the night”

Francis, St, 32,42-3,44

Francis of Girondino, Waldensian, See Martin

Francis of Maiolati, member of Fraticelli, 46,48,49, 53

Franciscan Order, 42-4 See also Fraticelli; Observants

Fraticelli, origins and doctrine of, 42-4; why called “de opinione”, 43-4; tried at Rome, 44-5; pursued in March of Ancona, 51; accusations against, xii, 46-7, 51-4, 124,259

Frazer, Sir James, 107,109,117

Fredegond, Frankish queen, 148-9, 154

Frederick I, emperor, 23

Frederick II, emperor, 23, 24, 39,165

Frederick of Austria, Duke, 34

Frend, William H. C., 4

Fronto, M. Cornelius, senator, 3

Fründ, Hans, chronicler, 226


Galosna, Antonio, Waldensian, 37-8

Georgel, Anne-Marie de, fictitious witch, 129-30,132,137-8

Georgel, Jean-François, abbe, 137

Gerard I, bishop of Cambrai, 22

Gerard II, bishop of Cambrai, 22

Géraud, Hugues, bishop of Cahors, 192

Gerberga, alleged sorceress, 150,154

Germanus, St, 215

Gervase of Tilbury, writer, 210

Ginzburg, Carlo, 123-4,223-4

Gnostics, accusations against, 9

Görres, Johann Joseph von, 139

Goetia (part of Lemegeton), 167,169

Gowdie, Isobel, alleged witch, 113-14

Gratian, 212

Gregory, St, the Great, pope, 68

Gregory VII, pope, 154

Gregory IX, pope, legislator against heresy, 23, 24, 39; and Conrad of Marburg, 28-9, 32, 33, 34, 54, 56; issues Vox in Rama, 29–31

Gregory XI, pope, 196

Gregory of Tours, St, 148, 212

Grimm, Jacob, 103,117

Guichard, bishop of Troyes, 185-92, 193,202, 203,226, 232

Guibert de Nogent, chronicler, on cannibalistic infanticide, 49, 53 n.; on incubi, 235

Guidonis, Bernard, inquisitor, 59,130,131,137; silent on Devil-worship, 59; and on witchcraft, 131

Guidonis, Pierre, inquisitor, 130,137

Guillaume d’Auvergne, bishop of Paris, accuses Cathars, 22; on books of magic, 166; on “ladies of the night”, 213-14, 217; on incubi, 237

Guthrie, Helen, alleged witch,111-12


Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 87-8 n.

Hansen, Joseph, 126,127,128-9, 134, 139, 225

Harold, king of Denmark, 154

Henry VII, emperor, 26

Henry III, king of Navarre, 185

Hincmar, archbishop of Rheims, 151, 235

Hengest, bailli of Sens, 188,189 Henry of Sayn, Count, 27, 29

Henry of Schönberg, canon of Prague, 34, 54

Henry of Solms, Count, 29

Heribert, archbishop of Milan, 22

Herodias, wife of Herod the Tetrarch, 212-13,214,218-19, 223,228

Holda, supernatural queen, 213,223

Hopkin, Charles Edward, 174

Horace, 207 n.

“Homed god”; See “Dianic cult”

Hospital of St John, Order of, 75, 76, 79–80, 81, 82,96

Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz, 193

Hugh of St Victor, mystic, 68

Hughes, Pennethome, 108


Imbert, Guillaume, inquisitor, 90

Incest, 12; Michelet on, 106; attractions of, 262 See also Orgies

Incubus, See Demons, as incubi

Innocent III, pope, 23

Inquisition, origins of, 24; not responsible for first witch-hunts, xii, 126-8,225-6; and inquisitorial procedure, 24; subordinate role in prosecuting Templars, 90; minor role against ritual magic, 128,176-7,179,1812; acts against “society of Diana”, 217; not involved in Kyteler or Simmerthal cases, 205; varible role in early witch-trials, 225-7,229-32 See also Conrad of Marburg; Cattaneo, Alberto; John of Capestrano; Eymeric, Nicolas

Inquisitorial procedure, nature and origins, 23; and religious dissent, 23; against clerics, 23; and Inquisition, 24; abused against Templars, 90-3,94,95; used against magicians, 179-80; in Kyteler and Simmerthal cases, 205; in earliest true witch-trials, 225-6, 229,230, 231-2

Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, 67

Isidore of Seville, encyclopaedist, 193.234

Ivo of Chartres, canonist, 193,212


Jacquier, Nicolaus, inquisitor, 238

James of March, St, 51

James II, king of Aragon, 81, 84

Jarcke, Karl Ernst, 103,125,139

Jean, bishop of Beirut, 231

Jean de Calais, embezzler, 186,187

Jean de Meun, 214

Jerome, St, 66

Jesus, sayings ascribed to, 8,9, 32 See also Voluntary poverty

Jews, accusations against, xiii, 5–6, 7–8; expelled from France, 82

Joachim of Fiore, abbot, 43

Joan, queen of France, 185-7,188,189,191

Joannes Scotus Erigena, 68

John XXII, pope, and Austrian Waldensians, 34, 54; and French Waldensians, 39; and poverty of Christ, 43, 44; and magic, 131,174,176,177,192-5

John IV, St, of Ojun, 18 and n.,49, 53 n.,57

John of Capestrano, St, 50-2, 257

John of Salisbury, 218-19

John of Winterthur, chronicler, 34-5, 36

Judith, queen of France, 150

Justin Martyr, 2–3,9,156


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.

Lateran Council, 1179, 32

Lateran Council, 1215,23, 25

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 I, emperor, 150,154

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

Map, Walter, 21, 30,160,234

Marcellus, bishop of Apamea, 68

Marcus Aurelius, 3,4,14

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

Marx, Karl, on Daumer, 14–15 n.

Merlin, 235

Messalians, sect, 18 n.

Michelet, Jules, 105-7,125

Midelfort, H. C. Erik, 254

Minucius Felix, Christian apologist, 1,2,3,5,6,9,11

Molay, Jacques de, grand master of the Temple, 82, 84,91,92,97

Molinier, Auguste, 127

Mone, Franz Joseph, 104-5,125

Montanism, 16 Muhlava’s confession, 221-2

Mummulus, mayor of palace, 148

Murray, Margaret, 107-15,117,119-20,121,123,125,223,232; influence of, 107-8,120; theory about witchcraft, 108-9; use of sources, 110-15


Naundorff, impostor, 135,138

Nicholas V, pope, 51, 52

Nicholas of Massaro, Fraticelli “bishop”, 46-7,47-8, 53

Nider, Johannes, Dominican, 204 219,220, 237

Night-witches, See Flying witches

Nogaret, Guillaume de, and Templars, 84,92; and Boniface VIII, 180-5; and Guichard, 185, 190

Notker, Labeo, translator, 208-9


Oberhauserin, the, accused of maleficia, 242

Observants, Franciscans, 49–51

Orgies, promiscuous and incestuous, accusations of, xi; against early Christians, 1–4,11; against Gnostics, 10; against Paulicians, 18; against Bogomiles, 18–19; against Orléans sect, 20; against French heretics, 21; against German Waldensians, 30; against Austrian Waldensians, 34; against Waldensians in general, 37; against Italian Waldensians, 37-8; against French Waldensians, 38-9; against Fraticelli, 47, 51-2; against witches, 102; preserved in literary tradition, 55-6; not substantiated, 54-6; accepted by some modern historians, 117-22; and Agape, 10; psychoanalytical interpretation, 262; See also Bacchanalia; Witches’ sabbat

Origen, 65

Orléans, sect at, 19–20, 57,122

Outlaw, Roger, lord chancellor of Ireland, 200,201

Outlaw (Utlagh), William, the elder, 198

Outlaw, William, son of Alice Kyteler, 198,200-1

Ovid, 206,208,210


Pact, with Devil or demon, in witch-stereotype, 99-100; in Aquinas, 176; in early witch-trials, 229-30; in legends, 232-3 See also Temple, the

Pactus legis Salicae, 149, 209-10, 218

Pairaud, Hugues de, treasurer of Paris Temple, 77,91,92

Parrinder, Geoffrey, 108

Passavanti, Jacopo, Dominican, 215, 217

Paul, St, and Eucharist, 8; on demons, 64

Paul II, pope, 44,47

Paul, monk of Chartres, 20-1

Paulicians, accusations against, 18,49; not Dualists, 57

Payens, Hugues de, founder of Templars, 75

Percin J.J., 137

Peter of Greyerz (Gruyères), judge, 204-5,229

Petronilla of Meath, in Kyteler case, 200,203

Petronius, 206-7

Phibionites, Gnostic sect, 9-10 n. Philastrius, bishop ofBrescia, 16

Philip the Fair, king of France, and Templars, xii, 77, 80-3, 89–90, 92-7; and Boniface VIII, 180-5; and Guichard, 185,187,192

Pietro de Jacopo, Waldensian, 41

Piotto, Giovanni Battista (de’ Ploti), 143-5

Pius IX, pope, 139

Pliny the Elder, 206

Pliny the Younger, 2,14

Plotis, Joannes de, fictitious bishop, 140

Plotis, de, family, fictitious members of, 140,141

Plouvier, François, inquisitor, 42

Plutarch,6

Poer, Sir Arnold, seneschal of Kilkenny, 200,201

Poer, Sir John, husband of Alice Kyteler, 198,200

Polyaenus, Greek writer, 6

Poor of Lyons, 32; And see Waldensians

Psellos, Michael Constantine, 18,19, 57

Pseudo-Dionysius, 68


Rabelais, François, 144

Rategno, Bernardo (Bernard of Como), inquisitor, 145

Ratherius, bishop of Verona, 69,212

Raynouard, F. J. M., 86

Recordi, Pierre, accused of magic, 194-5

Regino, abbot of Prüm, 210,211

Reynaud de Langres, informer, 187

Richalmus, abbot of Schönthal, 67, 71-3,169

Richard of St Victor, mystic, 68

Ridgeway, Sir Thomas, justice of the peace, 243,245

Robbins, Russell Hope, 109

Robert le Bougre, inquisitor, 228

Robert of Bristol, in Kyteler case, 198

Roman religion, 12–14

Rose, Elliot, 109,118-19,125

Rothar, king of Lombards, 208

Rudolf Ardent, monk, 58

Runciman, Sir Steven, 108

Runeberg, Arno, 110, 115-17,120, 123,125,152

Russell, Jeffrey, 121-3,125


Sacrilege, accusations of, xii; against Templars, 86,91,92; against witches, 102,227

Saisset, Bernard, bishop of Pamicrs, 180

Sallust, 6

Santi, Louis de, 135

Satan, see Devil, the

Satanism, see Devil-worship

Salve, witch’s, 220,226

Scot, Michael, astrologer, 166,173

Scot, Reginald, writer on magic and witchcraft, 167,169,171

Sepúlveda, Juan Ginez de, biographer, 53 and n.

Sermet, Antoine-Pascal-Hyacinthe (“le Père Sermet”), 135-6

Setto, Antonio di, inquisitor, 37-8

Shepherd of Hermas, The, 67

Siegfried III, archbishop of Mainz, 27-8,29–30,32

Sierra Leone, “leopard men” of, 7

“Signora Oriente”, 217, 228

Simmerthal case, 204-5

Sodomy, Templars accused of, 85, 87, 89

Soldan, Wilhelm Gottlieb, 126,129, 139

Solomon, King, 167,173 See also Lemegeton

Spee, Friedrich von, Jesuit, 253

Spina, Bartolommeo, on witch’s salve, 220

Spirituals, Franciscan, 43

Stalin,Josef Vassarionovich, 86

Stedelen, accused at Simmerthal, 204

Stedinger, peasants, 29 n.

Stewart, Francis, Earl of Bothwell, 119-20,121

strix, striges, See Flying witches

Stürmlin, accused of maleficia, 243

Styles, Elizabeth, alleged witch, 111

Suetonius, 14

Sulpicius Severus, biographer, 67

Summers, Montague, 120-1, 232

“synagogue” (orgiastic assembly), 41, 100,230; See also Witches’ sabbat


Talion, 161-2

Tartarotti-Serbati, Girolamo, folklorist, 103

Tatian, Christian apologist, 2

Temple, the (Order of the Knights Templars), founded, 75-6; role of, in the East, 76; wealth of, 76; as bankers, 76-7; autonomy of, 78; unpopularity of, 79; ejected from Palestine, 80; antagonizes Philip the Fair, 82; attacked by Philip, 83, 84-5; accusations against, xii, 85-6,92, 187,259; innocence of, 86-8; torture used against, 90-1,93,94; confessions obtained from, 91; propaganda against, 91-3,187; attitude of Clement V to, 93-4, 187; papal commissions on, 95-6; innocence of, affirmed by members, 95-6,97; suppression of, 95-6,181

Tertullian, 2, 3, 8–9,14,41,67

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, 62

Theodoret, ecclesiastical historian, 68

Theophilus, legend of, 233

Thomas Aquinas, St, on angels and demons, 68; not concerned with witches, 174; on incubi and succubi, 175, 237; on ritual magic, 175-6,177

Thomas, Keith, xiii, 110, 160

“Thyestean feast”, 3, 8,18

Torso, Conrad, unofficial inquisitor, 25-8,29

Torture, meaning of, 254-5; See also Inquisitorial procedure

Tostato, Alfonso, on witch’s salve, 220

Trachtenberg, Joshua, xiii

Trent, Council of, 8

Trevisard family, accused of maleficia, 243-6, 247

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, xiii, 110

Trithemius (Tritheim), abbot of Spanheim, 167

Trotsky, Lev Davidovich, 124


Vaissete, Joseph, Dom, historian of Languedoc, 127

Valdès, Valdo, founder of Waldensians, 32

Vallin, Pierre, alleged witch, 229-30, 232

Vauderie, 229; of Arras, 230-1, 232

Vaudois, see Waldensians

Vigilantius, monk, 66- 7

Visconti, Matteo, GhibeIIine leader, 192

Voisins, Pierre de, seneschal of Toulouse, 128

Voluntary poverty, cult of, amongst Waldensians, 32-3; amongst Franciscans, 42-3; amongst Fraticelli, 43-4,45

Voragine, Jacobus dc, archbishop of Genoa, 215,217

Vox in Rama, papal bull, 29–30, 34, 57


Waldensians, origins and doctrine of, 32-4; organization and composition of, 32-4, 36; in German lands, 36-7; in Italian Alps, 37-8; in French Alps, 38–41; link with witch-hunt, 226, 228, 229; equated with witches, 229,230; accusations against, xii; in Rhineland and Thuringia, 32; in Austria, 34-5; in Brandenburg, 35-6; in Italian Alps, 37; in French Alps, 39,259

Waldrada, mistress of Lothair ot Lorraine, 151

War of the Sons oj Light and the Sons oj Darkness, The, 63

Weyer (Wier),Johannes, writer on magic and witchcraft, 167,169, 220,253

Witch, demonological stereotype of the, described, 99–102,147, 251-2; earliest formulations of, 226; completion of, 227-8, 232-3; as cither man, woman or child, 227, 228, 229; See also Flying witches; Witches’ sabbat

Witch, popular stereotype of the, 234-8; as maker of maleficia, 235; as generally a woman, 248-9, 250; as generally old or eccentric, 248; often as midwife, etc., 249; is archetypal, 250; See also Maleficium

Witch Hazel, “high priestess”, 108

Witchcraft and sorcery, distinguished, 145

Witch of Orta, fictitious, 138-45

Witches’ covens, notion of, in Margaret Murray, 108; in Rose, 119-20; modem covens, xii, 108; See also Murray, Margaret; Rose, Elliot

Witches’ sabbat, notion of the, xii, 100-2; as interpreted by Michelet, 105-7; by Margaret Murray, 108-15; by Runeberg, 116-17; by Rose, 11820; by Summers, 120; by Russell, 121-3; earliest formulations, 226-7, 228-9; all importance of, 230, 238; origin of term, 101 See also Flying witches; Kyteler, Alice; Simmerthal case

Witch-hunt, the great, xii, 99,130, 138,146,155,160,163,164,173, 179,197, 203-5, 218,219,224, 225-55; fictitious beginning of, 125-46; true beginnings of, 225-55; preconditions for, summarized, 252-3. 257; geography of, 253; scale of, 253-4; motivations of, 254-5; dynamics of, 255; See also Delort, Catherine; Georgel, Anne-Marie; Witch of Orta

Witch-killings, private, 148-9

Witch society, xii, 199; modem belief in, 103; and pagan Germanic religion, 103-4; and social protest, 104-5; and fertility cult, 105-18, 123; and Cathars, 116; and cult of ecstasy, 118-19; and cult of evil, 121; and religious protest, 123; existence of, implausible, 123 See also Witches’ sabbat; Apostasy

Wollar, Ulrich, Waldensian, 34


Ziletti (Zileti), Giovanni Battista, printer, 141,143,144,145

Zoroaster, as magician, 165

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