Index entries preserve the printed page references of Tome II.
A
Aaron’s rod, 470.
Three abbots killed by a love-philter, 39.
Abortion by maleficia, 103.
Aborted fetuses cut out by magicians, 95.
St. Abraham, 387.
Abraham confuted the genethliacs, 515.
Abraham’s humility, 383.
Abraham’s servant asked for a sign, 420.
Abstracts for concretes, 322.
How Ahaz purified his children by fire, 459.
Drinking of agate, 472.
Achan’s theft, 420.
The premonition of the acredula, 528.
Acupuncture, 88.
Needles coming forth through the skin, etc., 133.
St. Adalbert, 397.
The false anathema of St. Adalbert, which belongs to Adelbert the heretic, 264.
The proofs of Adolf Scribonius rejected, 661 and following.
Superstition of the old advocates, 466.
Aedesius’s dream, 561.
Who the Egyptian days are, taught at length, 235.
Incubation in the temple of Aesculapius, 337.
Aromancy, 451.
How prophets are participants in eternity, 312.
Agamemnon, 560.
Agnus castus, 43.
The Scythian lamb, 487.
The death of the heretic Agrestius, a slanderer, 595.
The allantoid membrane, 446.
The Albigensian vision, 416.
Alcmena’s childbirth, 103.
The Alchindrine book is wicked, 493.
St. Aldegund, 400.
Why dice are forbidden, 576.
Alectryomancy, 488.
Alexander and Hymenaeus, 182.
The dream of Alexander the Great, 565.
The vision of Alexander the Great, 327.
The murderer of Alexander de’ Medici was presignified, 548.
The Alexandrians’ blakennomion, 518.
Alexius Branas, 515.
Allabins, 513.
Blessed Aloysius Bertrand, 404.
Alfonso, king of Aragon, 200, 516.
Alfonso the Wise, king of Castile, deceived through astrology, 517.
Alfonso I, king of Naples, 300.
Alphitomancy, 463.
Alsatian superstition, 464.
Althaea’s fatal brand for Meleager, 109.
Aleuromancy, 463.
Amesia, bewitched, 151.
Amatory maleficium: how harmful it is to mind and body, and why, 38.
The matter and examples of amatory poison, 22 and following.
Whether sacred things are abused only for amatory maleficium; indeed, the sacraments are profaned also in other maleficia, 34.
Description of the amatory poisonings of this age, and various sacrileges, 26.
Ingredients, or matter, of amatory maleficia, 38.
By amatory poisons the will cannot be coerced, but concupiscence can be disturbed and the blood can be inflamed, etc., 29.
Superstitious wearing of amethyst, 469.
Amniomancy, 466; its origin and cause, 51 and following; demon, 145 and following.
Certain demons presiding over love, 145 and following.
Remedies of love, natural, superstitious, and divine, 44-45.
The temple of Amphiaraus as an oracle, 337.
What Ana means among Kabbalists by final Aleph, and what it means by Ain, 253.
What Ananisapta is, and whence it is derived, discussed at length, 253 and following.
Dreams of Anabaptists, 561.
Andronicus the emperor, a sacrilegious man, 593.
Angela Boeme, 366.
Blessed Angela of Foligno, 126, 387.
Guardian angels of peoples, 511.
Angelic art, 219.
Prophecy given to angels, 307.
A perfect eel ejected through the posterior, and afterward all the usual coverings of a fetus, 121 and following.
Whether animals themselves foreknow, and what they signify, 528.
Exorcisms and conjurations of harmful animals: which are lawful, 245 and following.
Presages of animals, 527.
Which years and times they worship, 235, 230.
A certain emperor deceived in play by a ring, 450.
The name of Antichrist, how signified by 666, 492.
All vainly predicted the time of Antichrist, 575.
Anthropomancy, 464.
Antigonus, 500.
The antipathy of a human being with a demon, 41.
Antonius, Cardinal Granvelle, 523.
St. Anthony’s rule for discerning revelations, explained, 401.
The origin and rite of consecrating pigs to St. Anthony, 247.
The error of Antoine du Verdier, 536.
The divination of Antonio Tiberti of Cesena, 535.
Apollo Myricanus, 466.
Apollo Ismenius, 461.
Various oracles of Apollo, 424.
Apollonius of Tyana, 418.
The boasting of Apollonius of Tyana, 439.
Apostasy from the faith, 182.
Appa and Gela, so that they may preserve chastity, 47.
Apparitions of an angel and of the Mother of God, 605.
Whether water hates witches: that it does not, 665 and following.
A bewitched ascent of water, 117.
The very easy rarefaction and condensation of water, 139.
Presages of waters, 526.
Why Aquila Ponticus was expelled from the Church, 505.
Aquila Britannus, 331.
Arabs means robber, 500.
A demon in the form of a spider, 182 and following.
That absolute free judgment does not belong to judges, 700 and following.
Prognostics of trees, herbs, and flowers, 526.
A demon treasurer at Meissen, 427.
The prodigy at Arequipa, 323.
The spring of the Aretines, 444.
Certain Argentines, heretics, 634.
Arioald, duke of the Lombards, 180.
The judgment of Ariopharnes, king of the Thracians, 300.
What ariolation is and whence it is named, 455.
Twofold arithmancy, 492.
Scythian Arluna, 465.
Weapons imbued with maleficium: sword and ring, 103.
Infanticides of the Armorican baron, 164.
Arnulph, duke of Lotharingia, 724.
Arnobius’s dream, 565.
The possessed woman of Arona: how she was vexed by a demon and in part freed, 379.
The snatched, or possessed, 428.
False revelations of the snatched, 352.
Blessed Arsenius, 399.
St. Arsenius’s doctrine on the demons’ struggle and their various snares, 394.
Ascletarion’s prediction and death, 513.
Worship of the ass, 432.
Aspidomancy, 453.
Who the assassins are, 108.
What “to assume” means, 333.
Assyrian sortition in wars, 480.
The aetites stone, 21.
The stars are not certain signs of all events, 509.
Astragalomancy, 479.
Astro-physicians, 519.
Which astrologers are to be excused, 418 and following.
What astrologers cannot predict, 504.
Astrologers often have a pact with a demon, 513.
What the sins of astrologers are, and how great, 503.
The divinations of astrologers are sometimes true, 515.
Less trust should be placed in astrologers who speak truly, 513.
What parts of astrology are discussed, 500 and following.
Astronomy and astrology differ, 499.
Athenaïs raised to empire, 513.
Atheism sprang from Calvinism, 172.
Attilanus, 724.
Attila’s mother, 561.
Maleficium of a woman in Aufidena in Picenum, 127.
What augury is and how many kinds there are, 473.
What offered and sought auguries are, 474.
The names of auguries differ with respect to birds, ibid.
Ringing of the ears, 225.
Cure of jaundice, 59.
Military auspice from points, 478.
Pedestrian auspices, 475.
What auspices are and what kinds there are, 473.
Axinomancy, 452.
B
The custom of Babylonian women prostituting themselves to strangers, and the custom of the cords by which they were stretched and broken, explained, 31-32.
King Bancus, 497.
How the water of baptism is a cause of salvation, 671.
The rites of baptism defended, 252.
Malefactors abuse baptismal oil and water, 27.
Bardas’s dream, 565.
The predictions and death of Bartholomaeus Cocles, 547 and following.
Basina, queen of the Franks, a witch, 350.
What sort of fanatic Basilacius was, 413.
Emperor Basil, 439.
Basil the pseudo-monk, 30.
A Batavian mocking the Mass, 196.
Beelzebub, god of Ekron, 421.
Beghards, 356.
Beguines and Beghards, ibid.
Belomancy, 479.
It is not lawful to bless animals superstitiously, 246.
Harm from omission of the blessing at table, 184 and following.
Berlin malefactors, by what means they procure ice, 88.
St. Bernardino of Siena blocked a divinatory spring, 444.
The very great impiety of Bernacium among malefactors, 88.
Bridget of Sweden and her revelations defended, 367.
The demon of Birgellis, 173.
St. Blaise’s patronage of animals, 247.
The punishment and examples of blasphemers, 182.
The tricks of Bohemian magicians, 126 and following.
A Bohemian specter presaging death, 477.
A Bohemian witch drowned, 713.
Boleslaus devoured by dogs, 180 and following.
The old woman of Bonn burned on the indication of the water proof, 677 (259).
What the good of the accused person is.
What the good of the one judging is, ibid.
Why the good are vexed by a demon, 170.
The devil usually impedes the pursuits of a lesser good for the sake of a greater one, 387.
Malefactors can harm the good, but rarely, 165.
Botanomancy, 405.
The presage of oxen, 527 and following.
Two Brabantine superstitions.
The oracle of the Branchidae, 426.
The dream-selling of the Brazilians, 549.
A brave Spanish soldier, a gambler, lifted high by a demon, 189.
Two miracles of Blessed Brice, 627.
Brigid of Scotland, 366.
A blind woman of Brussels: divination through a dream discussed, 567.
Burchard, bishop of Halberstadt, 602.
C
How corpses are torn apart, whether on gibbets or buried, 48.
The influence of heats can produce species in the imagination, 557.
A certain opinion of Cajetan explained, 213.
Cajetan’s excuse rejected, 228.
A chalice used for a lot, 573.
Caesonia destroyed Caligula, 38.
The temple of Callias on Garganus, 337.
Slanderers of the saints punished, 181.
Calvin’s error about baptism, 668.
The Calvinists, friends of demons, spare their images; various examples, 173 and following.
Calvinists, haters of virginity, 179.
Calvinists, forerunners of Antichrist, 117.
Calvinist revelations, 407.
The banner of the Calvinists, distinguished by the image of a demon, 174.
The image of the Mother of God at Cambron, the duel, and the miraculous victory of the paralytic, 605.
Certain heretics of Cambrai, 633.
Marvelous portents of bells, 522.
Canaanite means merchant, 500.
Species of capnomancy, 460.
St. Carilefus, 204.
Eating of meats, 45.
Emperor Charlemagne, 301.
The illness of Charles, king of the Franks, from maleficium, 99.
The greed of Charles the Bald, 640.
The remarkable illness of Count Charles of Mansfeld from maleficium, 134.
An executioner harmed by a witch in the very execution of justice, 91.
An executioner harmed by the breath of a witch already to be handed over to the pyre, 167.
A Carthaginian woman, through a false revelation, the cause of a schism, 344.
Catherine Walter’s remarkable illness from maleficium, 127.
Catherine of Siena’s revelation about the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary discussed, 370.
Catherine of Bologna deceived, 345.
Contest between Catholic and Arian bishops, 630.
Cato’s sharp saying, 224.
Catoptromancy, 445.
Catoptromancy in a shining point, 481.
The terms katochon and katoche, 334 and following.
Precautions for cold water rejected, 679 (443).
Celts called Germans.
Cephalonomancy, 452.
The oracle of Ceres, 445.
The Ceres-struck and Ceres-possessed, 127.
Ceromancy, 404.
A marvelous contest of two poisoners, 90.
Who are called Chaldeans, 500.
Charibert, 419.
Charichrist of Ireland, 233.
Childeric, king of France, 350.
Divination of the Chinese by two sticks, 480.
How many kinds of chiromancy there are, which is lawful, and which the contrary, 535.
Writers on chiromancy, of prohibited reading, 537.
Chorion, 406.
Chesen, or Essen, 316.
In what sense Christ is a prophet, 310.
The act of Christ the Lord in healing a blind man, 251.
Why infanticide was objected to Christians, 98.
Christian, count of Oldenburg, 621.
The power of chrism, 196.
Cinerary divination, 401.
Fatal statues of the Byzantine circus, 111 and following.
A cistern in the temple of Aphaca, 442.
Citation to appear before God, and various examples of it, 594.
Cleidomancy, 452.
Clement V cited before God, 596.
The bull of Clement VIII, 613.
Kledonistike, 223.
What kledonizesthai is, and what kledon is, 439.
The Cluniac monks draw Alfonso, king of Aragon, out of purgatory, 203.
Whether thoughts are known to a demon, 416.
By what method magi divine thoughts, ibid.
Seed of Coboba, 354.
St. Colette’s prudent humility, 347.
A Cologne virgin, 184.
Colophonian seers, 426.
Significations of comets, 520 and following.
A countess of the Calvinist sect, a poisoner and adulteress, killed by order of her husband, 134.
The immaculate conception of the Virgin Mother of God defended against a pretended revelation, 370.
Presages of the prince of Conde, 562 and following.
The power of confession, 133, 633.
Freezing, 335.
What conjectation is, and how many kinds it has, 498.
How far judicial conjectation from the stars is lawful, 499.
Philters to be avoided by spouses, 41.
Intemperance of spouses, 178.
Conrad Wimpina secretly borrowed many things from Pico, 483.
Conrad of Marburg’s inquisition, 618.
The divinations of Constantine Stethatus the astrologer, 167.
Magical images of the circus at Constantinople, 111 and following.
By what means the Constantinopolitan empire fell by lot to the count of Flanders, 723.
How contagion is drawn in, 52 and following.
Copono the assassin, 548.
Contradictions of the defender of the cold-water proof, 676 and following.
The penalty for contumacy and disobedience, 175.
A Corinthian law, 541.
Presage of the crow, 527.
The body, image of the mind, 533.
How much the body’s disposition is exposed to illusions, 357.
That iron and other metallic things cannot naturally grow in a body in a definite shape made by art, 134 and following.
In a human body, from bad humors, hard things sometimes grow, such as tophi, thorns, shells, and so forth, ibid.
Coscinomancy, 451.
Crassus, 229.
Crates’s impious counsel, 43.
How creatures set before us the praise of God, 671.
Divining by a sieve, 451.
Crystallomancy, 446; its penalty, ibid.
Critomancy, and crithrian women, 464.
An image of the Crucified shedding blood, 107.
What power the sign of the cross has, 251.
The sign of the cross against illusions, 377.
Illusions are discerned by the little sign of the cross, 386.
To oppose the sign of the cross to a vision or revelation, 400.
Harm from omitting the sign of the cross, 186-187.
What it is to contend by the cross, 722.
They once lay down in temples to catch dreams, 336 and following.
Cubomancy, 479.
A swallowed knife excreted, 137.
Curiosity, 205 and following.
The Cyanean rocks at Lycus, 443.
Cyrus, 566.
D
Dabar, 330.
Dactylomancy, 449.
A demon appears in place of the soul of one evoked. The same is accustomed to lie that he is a soul, 430 and many following.
Why a demon is summoned in boyhood for divinations, 358.
A demon cannot do certain things by himself as well as through others, 207-208.
Why a demon harms by maleficium through others rather than by himself, ibid.
A demon has no aerial body, nor any other, 663.
A demon bound to a place by a magician, 142 and following.
A demon supports witches so that they are not drowned, 662.
A demon deceiving by dreams, 143.
The frauds of a demon in giving oracles, 417.
God sometimes permits a demon to harm and to deceive judges, 692 and following.
How dangerous it is to devote oneself to a demon or to invoke him, 184.
The power of handing human beings over to a demon, 139.
The error that demons have an aerial body, 663.
Certain demons are procurers, 29 and following.
What hidden things demons can reveal, 421.
The forerunners of Luther and Zwingli were demons, 117.
Demons’ feasts are calamities for human beings; names from their effect, 232 and following.
That it is not lawful to use the ministry of demons, not even for good, 250.
How demonized persons, obsessed and possessed, differ; how a demon enters, 141; 239 and following.
The daimonontes, 127.
Daniel’s dream-book, 552.
Daphnomancy, 465.
Why God permits maleficia, 169 and following.
Why God permits human beings to be possessed by a demon, 144.
God’s glory resulting from maleficia, 170.
How great and what kind God’s providence is in watching over and directing judges of maleficium, 693.
God’s providence in tolerating the crimes of malefactors, 169.
God’s sweetness, clemency, wisdom, power, and justice, 170 and following.
The dead ask for alms and spiritual remedies, 201 and following.
A brief and ridiculous madness by maleficium, 126-127.
Denial of a deposit, 187.
Idleness, or sluggishness, 44.
Despair, 205.
Superstitious spitting into the bosom, 33.
The penalty for detraction, 175.
The maleficium of devotion, or execration, 139.
How the devil induces gluttony and lust, 364.
The devil as patron and liberator of a soldier in judgment, 188.
The devil deceives each person through the things which each loves, 357.
How the devil is king of the world according to Luther, and how according to Catholic truth, 84.
How the devil is called the god of the age, ibid.
Whence Diadumenus is so called, 466.
Diego Ordonez’s duel with the Zamorans, 608.
Didius Julianus, 445.
The days of Saints Paul, Vincent, Urban, John, and of the Annunciation, 234.
Observation of lucky or unlucky days, ibid.
The trench of Dina, 464.
Diophanes the magician, 451.
A curse, 476.
What experimental discernment is, and what its names are, 342.
What doctrinal discernment of spirits is, ibid.
What the gift of discernment of spirits is, and concerning its twofold mode, ibid. and following.
When divination is a sin and what kind of sin it is, 495.
How manyfold divination is, 422.
What kind of sin divination is, or what sort is heretical and what sort is not, 421.
Whether divination in Sacred Scripture is always taken in a bad sense, 304 and following.
What divination is permitted, 419.
Malefic divination by liquefied lead and water, 117.
The definition of divination explained, and how it differs from vain observance, prophecy, and conjectation; of what things it is; whence it is named; its solemn instruments, 409.
Rules for distinguishing divination from prophecy and conjectation, 418.
A suitable disposition for receiving divination, 306-307.
No Christian can licitly be ignorant that explicit divination is unlawful, 421.
Divinations with an express, or explicit, pact, 422.
Astrological diviners are to be cast out of the commonwealth, 520.
It is not lawful to consult diviners, 421.
A divinatory lot is unlawful, 708.
The species of a divinatory lot, 479.
What doctrine and learned mean in common interpretation, 317.
What sort the Dodonian doves were, 425.
The Donatists were sacrilegious, 196.
The London dragon, 408.
What doubt is, and when the milder opinion is to be followed in doubts, 258.
It is taught that duels are prohibited by every law, 608.
When princes can permit duels, 612.
The cause and rite of duels, 603 and following.
The uncertainty and injustice of duels, 608.
Examples of various duels, 605 and following.
King Duff, 109.
The Dulcinist, 356.
Dunstan seized the nose of a specter with fiery tongs, 381.
How a demon can insert hard and coarse things into a body, truly or falsely, 135.
E
The Church’s prayers, what force they have for repelling evils, 249.
Not to obey the Church is a mortal sin, 588, 703.
To compare ecclesiastical ceremonies with superstitious rites is blasphemous and impious, 252.
Astrological elections, 500 and following.
Alms can be obtained by lot, 570.
Whether alms given to witches are dangerous, 193.
The force of almsgiving, ibid.
Those who deny alms are bewitched, 194.
Alms benefit the dead, 201.
Whether things obtained by alms are more efficacious, 239.
Elijah’s humility, 399.
Why Elisha asked for a harp-player, 306.
Elizabeth Croft, 408.
Elizabeth Barton’s prophecies, 407.
There are only three elements; there is no fire, 520.
Blessed Eleutherius, 174.
St. Elizabeth of Schonau defended, 366.
St. Elphege, 393.
Elymas the magician, 208.
Elzana the sorcerer, 87.
Queen Emma, 618.
Why there were so many energumens at the time of Christ, 172.
Whether a demon can enter the bodies of energumens, and in what manner, 140.
That true energumens are found, and who such persons are, ibid. and following.
Enguerrand Marignani’s wife, a witch, 110.
Heretical enthusiasts, 561.
The punishment of Epachius, 196 and following.
Whence the ephemerides of shepherds, farmers, and sailors arose, 528.
What the Ephesian sign is, 484.
St. Ephrem, 345.
Ephialtes, or the incubus disease, 557.
What the ephod is and how many kinds there are, 315 and following.
Epileptics are apt for maleficium, 115.
Epileptics are exposed to false revelations, 353.
Epiteles the Messenian, 561.
Erichtho’s magic, 434.
The deed of Erkimbald of Bourbon and his miraculous reception of the Eucharist, 591.
The Gospel, 331.
How the Eucharist becomes destruction to the one receiving it, 590.
The Eucharist truly instituted for salvation, 589.
The Eucharist despised and dreaded, 586.
The form of the sacrament of the Eucharist instituted by God, 255 and following.
A miracle of the Eucharist, 27.
Purgation by receiving the Eucharist, defended by examples and reason against Hotman the Calvinist, 589.
The power of the Eucharist, 133, 196.
Vengeance for contempt of the Eucharist, 182.
The penalty of those receiving the Eucharist unworthily, 593.
Malefactors abuse the Eucharist, 22.
Eucharistic sortition, 723.
The formula and cause of Eucharistic purgation, 586 and following.
Eulalius’s little basket unburned, 628.
Eulogius’s dream, 565.
Eustachius the abbot, 595.
Eutelidas, 53.
The excommunication imposed in duels is explained, 613.
Contempt of excommunication, 198.
Examples of execrations or curses against oneself, 184.
The force of exorcism together with the sacrifice of the Mass, 184-185.
Which formulas of exorcisms are lawful, 246.
To spit in the face of a vision, 390.
Ecstasy, or prophetic rapture, 334.
Ecstatics, 429.
Extispicy, 456.
F
The face is the index of the mind, 532.
The Famagustan Turk’s prophecies, 415.
Fanatics, or enthusiasts, 428; examples and names, 424.
The three species of fascination, 49.
What fascination is, broadly and strictly, ibid. and following.
What fascination is according to the common people and the heretics, ibid.
What origin of errors that vulgar fascination has, 82, 85.
Vulgar fascination is a fable and superstition, 51.
The true cause of fascination, false causes having been refuted, ibid.
Certain superstitious remedies for fascination, 81.
Why fools and madmen divine more often, 307.
How Faustina was freed from love, 44.
Felix Malleolus’s book in favor of superstitious formulas of prayers is discussed and refuted, 244 and following.
Women are more easily deceived, 359.
How women’s revelations are to be examined, ibid. and following.
Ferdinand III, king of Castile, 601.
Ferdinand Cortes, 487.
Ferdinand Davalos, born with a caul, 476.
Things taken from wild beasts in magical practices, 95.
A demon deceived the mother of Ferrant, count of Flanders, 418.
Tribades at Fez, 451.
Hydromancy of the Fezzans, 443.
Violation of feast days, 205.
What faith works in healing, 257.
Faith as a remedy against maleficium, 132.
The force of faith against illusion, 380.
Trust and self-watchfulness, 395.
A thread measured to the neck, 472.
What the threads of amatory maleficium are like, 33.
A good end alone does not make an act good or lawful, 689.
Finnish harmful-magical archers, 108.
Miracles of springs, 476 and following.
A Florentine woman, 131.
Floridian divination, 453.
Beauty harms chastity, 46.
The form of the proof by cold water in maleficium cases, 661 and following.
The form for consecrating iron for the judgment, 617.
What form of words is permitted, and what is not, in medicines, 254.
The formula of the proof by boiling water, 639 and following.
Many superstitious formulas of cures, 260 and following.
The court of France, superstitious in the observation of days, 238.
The Franks used the test of glowing iron, 616.
Francis, duke of the Armoricans, 602.
By St. Francis’s example, a virgin rolls herself in snow, 380.
St. Francis’s sortition, 486.
Francis Borgia’s revelation, 404.
Francis de la Cruz’s delusion, heresy, false prophecy, punishment, and history, 351, 361.
Fresaia, or the little Strix bird, 5.
St. Friard’s prudence, 385.
Frederick III, Emperor, 301.
Frederick, duke of Austria, 40.
The superstitious lot of the Frisians, 722.
The diversion of grain by maleficium, 105.
Presages from coots, 527.
How a thief’s eye is to be struck out so that he may be identified, 263.
Detecting theft by dish and thread, 471.
In what way knowledge of future things is reserved to God, 503.