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Medicine in the Middle Ages

Note 68 — THE DEMONOMANIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

Thomas C. (Thomas Chalmers) Minor translation

We find proof of this fact in the works of Gautier Coinsi, who wrote on “magicians” as early as 1219, He gave such sorcerers the name tresgetteres.

“En la ville une gieve avoit Qui tant d’engien et d’art savoit De tresgiet d’informanterie, De barat et d’enchanterie Que devant li apartement Faisoit venir a parlement Les ennemis et les deables.”

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