ABSTRACT

Then the aforesaid inquisitor told me that in the duchy of Lausanne he had seen some witches cooking and eating their own children. The way that they would find out about this practice was, as he said, that the witches would come to a fixed meeting place, and would see the demon in the assumed likeness of a man. Their disciples had to promise to abjure Christianity, never to reverence the Eucharist and to stamp on the cross if they could do so without notice.