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It estre en certain lieu toutes fois qu'il estoit par ledit ennemy evocque: ouquel lieu ilz avoient accoustume…

Date of account: Published 1921
Source: The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
Reference: The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology · selected passage 82
Rights: public_domain
Language: English with quoted European trial material
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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it estre en certain lieu toutes fois qu'il estoit par ledit ennemy evocque: ouquel lieu ilz avoient accoustume faire leur consistoire, et ne luy falloit que monter sur ung balay, qu'aussi-tost il estoit prestement transporte la ou ledit consistoire se faisoit'.[359] The Guernsey witch, Martin Tulouff (1563), confessed '[*q] il soy est trouve avecq la dite viellesse ou elle chevaucha ung genest et luy ung aultre, et [*q] lad^te viellesse monta a mont la chemynee et [*q] il en perdyt la veue et [*q] elle disoet devat [*q] monter "Va au nom du diable et luciffer dess[~q=] roches et espynes" et [*q] po^r luy il ne pouvoet ainsy faire, et d^t [*q] sa mere a chevauche le genest [*p] IV ou V foys et [*q] il l'a veue monter a mont la cheminee'.[360] Danaeus (1575) sums up the evidence of the witches themselves: 'He promiseth that himself will conuay them thither, that are so weak that they cannot trauaile of themselues: which many tymes he doth by meanes of a staffe or rod, which he deliuereth vnto th[~e], or promiseth to doo it by force of a certen oyntment, which he will geue them: and sometimes he offreth them an horse to ride vpon.'[361] Boguet's experience (1598) is more dramatic than that of Danaeus: 'Les autres y vont, tantost sur

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