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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III

Note 404 — Chapter VI · SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS.

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Origen. sup. Jesu Nave Homil. XV. 5, 6.—Ivon. Carnotens. Decret. XI. 106.—Pselli de Operat. Dæmon. Dial.—Gregor. PP. I. Dial. I. 4.—Cæsar, Heisterb. Dial. Dist. IV., V., XI. 17, XII. 5.—B. Richalmi Lib. de Insid. Dæmon. (Pez Thesaur. Anecd. I. II. 376).—S. Hildegardæ Epist. 67 (Martene Ampl. Coll. II. 1100).—Mall. Maleficar. P. II. Q. 1. c. 3.

It was not every one who, like St. Francis, when demons were threatening to torment him, could coolly welcome them, saying that his body was his worst enemy, and that they were free to do with it whatever Christ would permit—a view of the case which so abashed them that they incontinently departed.—Amoni, Legenda S. Francisci, Append, c. liii.

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