Note 534 — Chapter IX · WITCHCRAFT.
Reading edition
Pierre de Lancre, Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais Anges, pp. 114, 119 (Paris, 1613).
De Lancre was a learned conseiller of the Parlement of Bordeaux and his colleague on the commission was the President d’ Espaignet. It is instructive to observe that while he was drawing up his terrific relation of the manner in which they had intensified the witchcraft craze, until the churches at night would be filled with children brought there by their mothers to prevent their being carried off to the aquellares (p. 193), Inquisitor Salazar, on the other side of the Pyrenees, was extinguishing it by simple rational treatment.