Chapter 3
II. Prout autem apud diversos Auctores
legitur, et pluribus experimentis comproba- tur, duplici modo Dcemon hominibus car- naliter copulatur : uno modo quo Maleficis et Sagis jungitur, alto modo quo aliis ho- minibus minime malejicis miscetur.
12. Quantum ad primum modum, non co- pulatur Dcemon Sagis, sett Malejicis , nisi prcemissa solemni professione, qua iniquis- simi homines Dcemoni addiciintur ; quce pro- fession ut ex variis Auctoribus referentibus confessiones Sagarum judiciales in tormen- tis factas, quas collegit Franciscus Maria Guaccius, Comp. Malef , c. 7., lib. i., con- sistit in undecim ceremoniis :
1 3. Primo, ineunt pactum expressum cum Dcemone, autalio Mago sen Malef covicem
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them coition. There are even Demons, whom the Gauls call Duses or Elfs, who very regularly indulge in those unclean practices : the fact is testified by so many and such weighty authorities, that it were impudent to doubt it. » Such are the very words of S. Austin,
11. Now, several authors profess, and it is confirmed by numerous experiments , that the Demon has two ways of copula- ting carnally with men or women: the one which it uses with Witches or Wizards, the other with men or women entirely fo- reign to witchcraft.
12. In the first case, the Demon does not copulate with Witches or Wizards until after a solemn profession, in virtue of which such wretched human beings yield themselves up to him. According to several authors who have related the judicial ad- missions of Witches when on the rack, and whose recitals have been collected by Francis-Marie Guaccius, Compend. Male/.,
