At the beginning of this work we said that Jeanne Harvillier, a native
of Verbery near Compiegne, confessed among other things that her
mother had been condemned to be burned alive, by decree of
Parlement, in confirmation of the sentence of the judge of Senlis, and
that at twelve years of age her mother presented her to the Devil who
appeared as a tall black man, dressed in black, wearing boots and
spurs, with a sword at his side, and a black horse at the door. Her
mother said to him, “Here is my daughter whom I promised to you."
And to the daughter, “Here is your friend who will make you very
happy.” Afterward she renounced God, and religion, and then he laid
with her carnally, in the same manner and way that men do with
women, except that his semen was cold. After that she continued this
every eight or fifteen days, even while she was in bed near her
husband, without his noticing it. One day the Devil asked her if she
wanted to be pregnant by him, and she said she did not.
απο τη "δαιμονομανία των μαγισσών", του Jean Bodin, ένα καταπληκτικό εγχειρίδιο περί μαγείας και μαγισσών που διαβάζω αυτόν τον καιρό. Ο Bodin είναι πιο γνωστός ως πολιτικός φιλόσοφος, αλλά στην εποχή του ήταν γνωστός κυνηγός μαγισσών
Τέλος πάντων κι εκείνο εγχειρίδιο αντι-μαγείας είναι, πιο γνωστό αλλά και πολύ παλιότερο του Μποντίν. Αυτό με αρέσει περισσότερο
I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
