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THE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT
Chapter XX. The days on which the Sabbat is held.
1. The Sabbat may be held on any day of the week, but particularly on a Friday.
2. It is also held on the greatest festivals of the year.
Chapter XXI. The places where the Sabbat is held.
1. According to many writers the place where the Sabbat is held is distinguished by a clump of trees, or sometimes by a cross. The Author’s opinion on this point.
2. A remarkable account of a place where the Sabbat was held.
3. There must be water near the place where the Sabbat is held. The reason for this.
4. If there is no water in the place, the Sorcerers dig a hole in the ground and urinate in this.
Chapter XXII. The proceedings at the Sabbat.
1. The Sorcerers worship the Devil who appears under the form of a tall black man, or as a goat. They offer him candles & kiss his posterior.
2. They dance. A description of their dances.
3. They give themselves up to every kind of filthy abomination. The Devil transforms himself into an Incubus & into a Succubus.
4. The hideous orgies & foul copulations practised by the Euchites, & Gnostics.
5. The Sorcerers feast at the Sabbat. Their meat & their drink. The way in which they say grace before and after table.
6. However, this food never satisfies their appetites, & they always arise from table as hungry as before.
7. When they have finished their meal, they give the Devil a full account of all their actions.
8. They again renounce God, their baptism, &c. How Satan incites them to do evil.
9. They raise dark storms.
10. They celebrate their mass. Of their vestments, & holy water.
11. Sometimes to conclude the Sabbat Satan seems to be consumed in a flame of fire, & to be completely reduced
