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THE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

81 Feast, 17 February.

82 Formerly kept upon the Sunday.

83 Op. cit., pp. 16, 17.

84 Op. cit., p. 191.

85 For a and detailed statement see Didron’s great work, Iconographie chrétienne, Paris, 1843.

86 Spalding Club Miscellany, I, p. 129. Aberdeen, 1841.

87 At their black mass the witches of the Basses-Pyrénées (1609) when the host was elevated said “Corbeau noir, corbeau noir.” De Lancre, Tableau de l’Inconstance des mauvais Anges, Paris, 1613.

88 Op. cit., p. 255.

89 Op. cit., p. 165. It is not at all evident that “the word diable is clearly Bodin’s own interpellation for the name of the god,” indeed this assumption is purely gratuitous to support the argument, and cannot be admitted.

90 Op. cit., pp. 14, 15. I would not dwell upon the offensiveness of this suggestion, since it is, I am sure, unintentional.

91 Golden Bough, Part I. vol. I. p. xx. Third Edition. 1911.

92 Op. cit., p. 19.

93 The Goddess of Ghosts, pp. 137–158.

94 Cassiodorus, Hist. Eccl., VII, 11. fin. speaks of the fetidissimus fons of heresy.

95 1535–1598. His works were collected in four folio volumes, Paris, 1620, prefaced by Henry Holland’s Uita Thomæ Stapletoni. An original portrait is preserved at Douai Abbey, Woolhampton.