Note 499 — SCENE II.

Stadlin’s within, &c.] From R. Scot: “It is constantlie affirmed in M. Mal. that Stafus vsed alwaies to hide himselfe in a monshoall [mouse-hole], and had a disciple called Hoppo, who made Stadlin a maister witch, and could all when they list inuisiblie transferre the third part of their neighbours doong, hay, corne, &c. into their owne ground, make haile, tempests, and flouds, with thunder and lightning; and kill children, cattell, &c.: reueale things hidden, and many other tricks, when and where they list.” Discouerie of Witchcraft, b. xii. c. v. p. 222, ed. 1584.—See Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum, Pars Sec. quæst. i. cap. xv. p. 267, ed. 1576, where the name Stadio, not Stadlin, is found; but the latter occurs at p. 210.