Note 551 — Chapter VII · WITCHCRAFT.
Reading edition
Mall. Maleficar. P. II. Q. i. c. 2, 4, 11, 15; Q. ii. c. 4.—Prieriat. de Strigimag. Lib. II. c. 7, 9.—Ulric. Molitor. de Python. Mulierib.—Ripoll III. 193.—Pico della Mirandola, La Strega, pp. 84-5.—Bernardi Comens. de Strigiis c. 7.
It is the universal testimony of the demonologists that vastly more women than men were thus involved in the toils of the Devil. To explain this, Sprenger indulges in a most bitter tirade against women, and piously thanks God for preserving the male sex from such wickedness (Mall. Malef. P. I. Q. vii.).