Part 76

Witchcraft and witch mania, 189-224; bewitchment of animals, 193, 197, 218, 220; burnings for witchcraft, 190, 194, 196, 197, 200, 202-8, 213, 221; children tortured and burnt, 200, 201, 208; confessions, 195, 197-200, 204, 205, 207, 209-13, 219, 220, 223; ‘delation’, 202; denunciations, 190, 192, 201, 202, 206, 209-13; executions, 190, 194, 195, 206, 208; informers, 202; inquisitions (or witch-trials), 192, 196, 197, 201-13; nature of the witch mania, 190, 191, 199, 205; number of victims, 208; opposition of Dr. John Weyer to persecution for witchcraft, 189, 200, 207, 214-24; popular beliefs concerning witchcraft and demonology, 190-3, 195-7, 199, 217; results of scientific investigations, 223; ‘sabbat’, the, 195-9; sexual orgies, 190, 193, 196, 198, 199, 209, 211, 216; torture of victims, 190, 192, 195, 200, 202-13; water test, 207, 219; witch-dances, 196, 197, 199, 210, 211, 216, 221; witch-hunters, 189, 192, 195-8, 200, 201, 205-8, 214, 219, 220; witch-ointments, 199, 216; witnesses, 202, 205, 209-12.

Withington, E. T.: Dr. John Weyer and the Witch Mania, 189-224.

Wolsey, Cardinal, 174.

Worde, Wynkyn de, printer, 85 fig. 4.

Wrobel, J., cited, 19 n. 2, 37 n. 1, 38 n. 1.

Würzburg, witch-burning in the bishopric of, 194, 195, 204, 208.

Wüstenfeld, H. F., Geschichte d. arabischen Aerzte, 227 and n. 1, 228 nn. 3, 5, 229.

Yorke, Sir Joseph, 230.

Ypres, John de, quotation from the account books of, 170.

Zeitschrift der Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 226 n. 10.

Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben, 5 n. 3.

Zelus Dei, account and illumination of, 54, plate XXIV (b).

Zerbis, de: see Gerbi, Gabriele de.

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FOOTNOTES:

Vita Sanctae Hildegardis auctoribus Godefrido et Theodorico monachis, lib. iii, cap. 1. The work has been frequently reprinted and is in Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 197, col. 91 ff. This volume will be quoted here simply as ‘Migne’.

Migne, col. 119.

The erroneous statement in some of her biographies that she journeyed to Paris is based on a misunderstanding.

Cardinal J. B. Pitra, Analecta sacra, vol. viii, p. 350, Paris, 1882. This volume will here be quoted simply as ‘Pitra’.

Pitra, p. 556.

Wilhelm Grimm, ‘Wiesbader Glossen’, in Moriz Haupt’s Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum, Leipzig, 1848, vol. vi, p. 321. The script is reproduced in the ill-arranged and irritating work of J. P. Schmelzeis, Das Leben und Wirken der heiligen Hildegardis, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1879; and in Pitra, p. 497. The subject has been summarized by F. W. E. Roth in his Lieder und unbekannte Sprache der h. Hildegardis, Wiesbaden, 1880.

A short sketch of her life of yet earlier date has survived. It is from the hand of the monk Guibert and was probably written in 1180: Pitra, p. 407. The best modern account of her is by F. W. E. Roth in the Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben, vol. ix, p. 453, Leipzig, 1888. Less critical but more readable is the essay by Albert Battandier, ‘Sainte Hildegarde, sa vie et ses œuvres’, in the Revue des questions historiques, vol. xxxiii, pp. 395-425, Paris, 1883.

The ‘Acta inquisitionis de virtutibus et miraculis sanctae Hildegardis’ are reprinted in Migne, col. 131.

This volume is supplemented by ‘Annotationes ad Nova S. Hildegardis Opera’ in Analecta Bollandiana, vol. i, p. 597, Brussels, 1882.

This Wiesbaden MS. has been fully described by Antonius van der Linde, Die Handschriften der Königlichen Landesbibliothek in Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 1877.

Louis Baillet, ‘Les Miniatures du Scivias de sainte Hildegarde’, in the Monuments et Mémoires publiés par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, 1912, especially pp. 139 and 145.

We are inclined to place the preparation of this remarkable MS. at a slightly later date than that attributed to it by Baillet. As Wiesbaden is at present inaccessible we have reproduced the facsimiles in Plate II from Baillet’s monograph.

For the history of these MSS. see A. van der Linde, loc. cit., pp. 30-6.