On the inconstancy of witches : Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) /
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| Author / Creator: | Lancre, Pierre de |
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| Uniform title: | Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons. English |
| Imprint: | Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Turnhout, Belgium : In collaboration with Brepols, 2006. |
| Description: | l, 586 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 16 Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; v. 307 Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 307. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6110885 |
Table of Contents:
- Pierre de Lancre's : Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons
- Book 1
- Discourse I. On the inconstancy of demons
- Discourse II. How one should not be amazed, since there are such large numbers of evil angels, that there are so many magicians, diviners, and sorcerers, and why those to the Labourd are so strongly inclined and run so hard toward these abominations
- Discourse III. Why there are more female than male witches, and about a certain group of women who are considered marguillieres in the Labourd, who are called benedictes
- Book 2
- Discourse I. When the sabbath takes place and in what form the Devil appears
- Discourse II. How the witches travel to the sabbath
- Discourse III. Whether female witches have to oil themselves with some grease or salve to go to the sabbath, and why God allows them to surprise so many innocent children in this way
- Discourse IV. A description of the sabbath, of the poisons produced there; and some depositions of very experienced witches that clearly prove the reality of witches being transported
- Discourse V. About the rooster and whether it is true what people say : that, as soon as his crow is heard at the sabbath, it causes the assembly to scatter and to disappear
- Book 3
- Discourse I. The explicit or implicit pacts that witches typically make with the Devil
- Discourse II. The witches' mark
- Discourse III. The sabbath feast and the wonderful meats eaten there
- Discourse IV. The witches' dance at the sabbath
- Discourse V. Satan's coupling with the male and female witches and whether or not this can engender fruit
- Book 4
- Discourse I. On the witches' transformation
- Discourse II and III. On lycanthropy and the transformation of man into wolves and other sorts of animals, and especially the werewolf, which the court of the Parlement of Bordeaux tried and judged "in red robe" on 6 September 1603
- Discourse IV. The life led by this werewolf in this monastery : and whether by this lifestyle he proved this accusation to be wrong
- Book 5
- Discourse I. About the hand-washing done by the witches; about the washing of their feet; about the healing through superstitious prayer, characters, prayer books, and other illicit means : whether one can, in good conscience, go back to a witch who has caused an illness and force him to undo it
- Discourse II. How the false apparitions of the souls of the deceased can be recognized and distinguished from those of demons : and whether it is possible to tell good angels from bad angels
- Discourse III. Discourse about the auto-da-fe celebrated in the city of Logrono on 7 and 8 November 1610
- Book 6
- Discourse I. Whether a priest commits an offense or an infraction in being an interpreter or a translator for the witches
- Discourse II. Witch priests, and how exceptional things and favorable circumstances occurred during their proceedings, regarding either witchcraft or the judgment of the crime of witchcraft
- Discourse III. How the Devil, deriding the most precious sacrament of the church, has people celebrate some sort of mass at the sabbath
- Discourse IV. How to know whether witchcraft committed by a priest is a common offense or a privileged one, and whether one can justly deny his return before the ecclesiastical judge
- Discourse V. How we must put witches to death simply for having attended the sabbath and for making a pact with the Devil, even though they have been accused of no acts of witchcraft, provided that there is proof that at the sabbath they performed acts that the other witches customarily performed there.