Notes to "The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France."

1. D. P. Walker, Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (London, 1981), 20.

2. Jean Boulaese, L'Abbregee Histoire du Grand Miracle par notre Sauveur & Seigneur Jesus-Christ en la Saincte Hostie de l'Autel (Paris, 1573), fol. A4r.

3. Ibid., fol. A5r.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., fol. A5v.

6. Ibid., fol. A6r.

7. Walker, Unclean Spirits, 21.

8. Ludwig Lavater, Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Night, edited by J. Dover Wilson and May Yardley (Oxford, 1929), fols. Blr&v.

9. May Yardley, "The Catholic Position in the Ghost Controversy of the Sixteenth Century, with special reference to Pierre Le Loyer's llll Livres des Spectres,221; appendix to Lavater, Ghostes and Spirites.

10. Lavater, Ghosts and Spirites, B2r.

11. Quoted in Yardley, "Catholic Position," 225.

12. Geoffrey Parrinder, "Ghosts," The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade (New York, 1987), 5:548.

13. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (New York, 1971),588-89.

14. Walker, Unclean Spirits, 22.

15. Boulaese, Grand Miracle, fol. A7r.

16. Ibid., fol. Av.

17. Ibid., fol. B1v.

18. Ibid., fol. B2r'.

19. Walker, Unclean Spirits, 23.

20. Boulaese, Grand Miracle, fol. Br&v.

21. Ibid., fol. B4v.

22. Claude Prieur, Dialogue de la Lycanthropie ou transformation d'homme en loups, vulgairement dits Loups-garcons et si telle se peut faire (Louvain, 1596), fol. C4r.

23. E. William Monter, Witchcraft in France and Switzerland: The Borderlands during the Reformation (Ithaca, 1976), 145.

24. Prieur, Dialogue, fol. 17v.

25. Jacques Grevin, Cinq Livres de l'Imposture et Tromperie des Diables: Des Enchantements et Sorcelleries: Pris du Latin de Jean Yvier, Medecin du Duc de Cleves, et Faits Francais (Paris, 1569), fol. N5r.

26. Ibid., fol. N5v.

27. Ibid., fol. Q5r.

28. Ibid., fol. R1r.

29. Ibid., fol. R2v.

30. Robert Muchembled, Sorcieres: Justice et Societe aux 16e et 17e Siecles (Paris, 1987), 34-6.

31. Pierre Crespet, Deux Livres de la Hayne de Sathan et Malins Esprist Contre l'Homme (Paris, 1590), fol. Hh7r.

32. Ibid., fol. 1i6r.

33. Robert Muchembled, Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, 1400-1750, translated by Lydia Cochrane (Baton Rouge, 1985), 316.

34. Michel Marescot, Discours Veritable sur le Faict de Marthe Brossier de Romorantin, Pretendue Demoniaque (Paris, 1599), fol. A1r.

35. Ibid., fol. A1v.

36. Ibid., fols. A1v and A2r.

37. Ibid., fol. A2r.

38. Ibid., fols. A3r&v.

39. The Rapports de Quelques Medecins follows Marescot's Discours beginning on folio C1r, fol. C1v.

40. Ibid., fols. C2r&v.

41. Ibid., fol. C3r.

42. Leon d'Alexis, Traicte des Energumenes, Suiuy d'un Discours sur la Possession de Marthe Brossier: Contre les Calomnies d'un Medecin de Paris (Troyes, 1599).

43. Ibid., fol. C4v.

44. Ibid., fol. D1r.

45. Ibid., fol. D3v.

46. Ibid., fol. E3r.

47. Ibid.. fol. F3v.

48. Ibid., fol. E1v.

49. Crespet, Deux Livres, fol. P3r.

50. Henry Boguet, Discours Execrable de Sorciers: Ensemble Leur Procez, Depuis Deux ans en ca, en Diuers Endroicts de la France (Paris, 1603), fol . L3v.

51. Pierre Node, Declamation Contre l'Erreur Execrable des Maleficiers, Sorciers Enchanteurs, Magiciens, Devins, & Semblables Obseruateurs des Superstitions: Lesquels Pullulent Maintenant Couuertement en France (Paris, 1578), fol. D4v.

52. Ibid., fol. D7v.

53. Jonathan L. Pearl, "French Catholic Demonologists and Their Enemies in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries," Church History, 52 (1983) 457.

54. Ibid., 461.

55. Ibid., 459.

56. E. William Monter, Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe (Brighton, 1983), 33.

57. Stuart Clark, "Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft," Past Present, 87 (1980) 127.