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Gagate stone in divination, 452.
Gaianus the mime, 183.
The caul of those being born, 466.
Galeazzo Visconti is afflicted by maleficium, 151.
The Gallicenae women, 426.
The illusion of the maiden of Ghent because of pride, 383.
The adulterous wife of St. Gangulph detected and punished, 651 and following.
Gastromancy, 445.
Who the Gazarenes are, 455 and following.
Geila’s death, 180 and following.
Gelo, who plotted against Maurice, 6.
Genebald of Laon, fallen and penitent, and how obedient to St. Remigius, 381.
Genoese poisoners, 89.
Geomancy, 483.
The Germans used the proof by water, 640 and following.
A certain custom of the Germans discussed, 459.
Superstition of the Germans, 443, 452, 475, and 479.
Divination of German women, 445.
Gertrude, 366.
Excreting a sword-point three fingers long, 137.
Gnostic magi and infanticides, 5.
The magic, eviscerations, and infanticides of the Gnostics, 98 (173).
Iconoclasm of the Goetes.
Gonin, a Parisian magician, deceived the judge at the very execution, with a mule left on the gallows in his place, 167.
The death of Count Goswin, 193.
Gotfridus Schlussel, 184.
Gotholanus the naval captain, 602.
Who are signified by the name of Greeks in Sacred Scripture, 327.
Hail and ice are of the same species, 525.
Gratian’s error, 637.
The pseudoprophet of Graz, 351.
St. Gregory of Agrigentum, 181.
Pope Gregory VII, 586.
The praise and bull of Gregory XIII, 611.
Walter of Burgundy, 596.
William, duke of Aquitaine, deceived, 383.
Blessed William of Roskilde, 397.
Even slight gluttony punished in a religious woman, 201.
Gunda, a woman, punished for entering monasteries after taking up a man’s clothing, 204.
Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, 599.
The magician smith of Gustrin, 453.
St. Guthlac, 393.
Gyges’s ring, 449.
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A very good bodily condition is dangerous, and a brightness greater than usual is suspect, 83.
Pope Hadrian VI, 513.
Heretics as fabricators of revelations, as were Cerinthus, Marcus Magus, the Montanists, Donatists, Archontics, and Manichaeans, 351.
Heretics cannot expel demons, 172.
The prophets of heretics were seized in mind; this is proved by examples, 334.
Heretics are always wonderfully avenged by fire; this is confirmed by two examples, 421, 634, 635, 642, and following.
Water rejected heretics, 704.
Fire is to heresy what shadow is to the body, 636.
Witches fascinate by breath and blowing, 4.
The Hainaut possessed woman, an example of one pretending herself a priestess and consecrating, 364.
Harald the Irishman, 628.
Haruga, 455.
Where “haruspicy” gets its name, and what it is, ibid.
The Hebrew astrologers as a cause of idolatry and iconoclasm, 515.
Those infested by Hecate or by heroes, 127.
The prayer falsely ascribed to St. Helena, 263.
Heliogabalus, 464.
Elisha’s gestures when raising the boy, 252.
A Helvetian witch, 164.
A Helvetian midwife, killer of children, 5.
Two Helvetian witches infected people with leprosy by breath, 91.
Emperor Henry, 592.
Henry, bishop of Mainz, 601.
Magical herbs and straws by stepping over which someone is fascinated, 3.
St. Herebert, 345.
The death of Ermete Malatesta, 548.
St. Hermann of Steinfeld, 396.
Irish superstition, 233.
St. Jerome used the sign of the cross for healing, 251.
The ring of Hieronymus Cancellarius of Milan, 450.
St. Hilarion expelled from a virgin the demon whom a magician had sent in, 143.
A marvelous omen offered to the boy Hildebrand, 471.
Hippe, 21.
Hippomenes, ibid.
The Catholic Spaniard’s contest against an Arian, 626, 642, and following.
The superstitious prayer of the Spanish soldiers for curing wounds, 241.
Historis, daughter of Tiresias, 103.
The penalty for homicide, 180 and following.
Benefits for the human race born from the crime of harmful-magicians, 171.
Terror and joy from revelation, 401.
Hotman’s rashness is chastised, 588 and following.
Humility is necessary against illusions, 343 and following.
The force of humility against illusions, 383.
The force of humility against demons, 349.
Various species of hydromancy, 441, 462.
Hypatia’s prudent deed, 47.
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Jacob Richius’s little book refuted, from page 662 and following.
The revelations of the Calvinist Jacob Brocard, 407.
Jaddus, his conversation with Alexander, 335, 327.
Jannes and Mambres, 208.
Iannes, or Iamnes, teacher of Theophilus, patriarch and magus, 444.
The Japanese greatly detest theft, 614.
Ichthyomancy, 464.
Iddogonim, 467.
The divination of the Iedvim, and what Iedva is, ibid.
The fast necessary before celebration of Mass, 197.
Violation of the fast punished, ibid. and following.
Jeroboam’s wife, 421.
The power of the name of Jesus frees a boy from the power of demons, 191.
The efficacy of the name of Jesus, 255.
What ignorance excuses in divination, 421.
What ignorance excuses from sin, 698 (356).
The Illuminati heretics, 351.
The excuses of those deluded through revelations are discussed, 348.
A magical image, 120.
Amatory magical images, 35.
Magical images or statues: various examples, 108, 109.
Magical images of wax, earth, and so forth, 35; their baptism and other rites, 25.
Astrological images, 499 and following.
Imaginary magi, 454.
Mercilessness, 193 and following.
What a perpetual impediment is, 152.
Evils and punishments of imprecations, 175.
The incestuous man handed over to Satan, 178.
Fires customary among harmful-magicians, 34, 35.
Indians who adjure storms, 525.
Indications from accomplices, 699.
How witches procure insensibility or endurance of torments, 164.
An infant safe among demons, 190, 191.
Their own infants killed and eaten by witches, 88.
The slaughter of infants, 7.
Why harmful-magicians more often harm infants, especially unbaptized ones, is examined, and why God permits this, 163.
Infanticide, 93.
Various gates of hell, 429.
The harmful magic of insertion, 132 and following.
How injuries are to be forgiven by God’s command, 250 and following.
The fabulous death of Innocent IV, 598, 599.
What intention excuses from sin, 259.
Envy and hatred of neighbor, 178.
Whether envious people harm by sight, 49.
John Morochazarios the harmful-magician, 111.
John de Varenis, 399.
John Flander of Estinnes, defender of the Mother of God, 605.
Gian Galeazzo ordered an astrologer to be strangled, 516.
St. John Gualbert, 631.
The death of John XXI, 517.
John of Rupescissa, 357.
John Sagus and John of Rupescissa, 405.
John Stadius’s vanity, 500.
The death of John Turso, 602.
Giovanni Bentivoglio’s savagery, 548.
The pyre kindled on St. John’s day, and whence the custom comes, 459.
The poisoning of Jeanne d’Albret, 92.
Joanna Potier the witch, cause of the vexation of the entire monastery where she was living, 354.
Joan, the virgin of Lorraine, 404.
John Ball, 352.
John Bale is censured, 367.
Job struck by a demon, 115.
Jonathan’s lot and request for a sign, 420.
Jonah’s storm, ibid.
Blessed Jordan deceived more than once, 388.
Joseph’s lot and rod, 470.
Why the name of St. Joseph was given to a certain man, 396.
The oracles of Jupiter at Dodona, of Ammon, and of Trophonius, 424.
Jovius is censured as a superstitious writer, 467, 549.
The opinion of the Bishop of Ypres defended, 242.
Omens from the rainbow and similar things, 526.
Mockery of holy men, 204.
Emperor Isaac deposed from power, 413.
Isaac Angelus, 441.
Superstition of the worshipers of Isis, 464.
The Italian poisoner of Catherine de’ Medici, 93.
The present-day hydromancy of the Italians, 443.
The Jews’ treachery, duel, and punishment, 605.
The Jews’ cruel contract of usury, 302.
A sharp saying of a Jew about astrology, 507.
Whence the Jews are said to adore the head of an ass, 452.
The Jews’ idolatry in seeking dreams, 337.
A judge cannot depart from the common opinion without a suitable cause, 720.
A wicked judge condemned, 202.
A judge may not inflict whatever penalty he wishes, 687.
It is taught at length that judges using the proof by cold water sin even with good intention, 698, 704.
What judges are bound under mortal sin to do and to know, 699.
Judges, and not even princes, are wholly released from the law, 700; in what way they are bound by laws, ibid.
Why judges do not attain the truth in trials of witches, 703.
Judges cannot investigate matters that are entirely hidden, 709.
Whether judges may use the fullness of discretion, 699.
How those water-testing judges are to be instructed, 703.
The penalty of a judge using this proof by cold water, 720 and following; he can be sued by an action for injuries; his sentence is null; he is a homicide, ibid.
The oath of judges regarding the laws, 700 and following.
Whether harmful-magicians can harm judges and ministers of justice, 165.
Which judges harmful-magicians can harm, 167.
What “judgment” means in Sacred Scripture, 316.
Judgment, what sort of purgation it is, 616.
Why human judgments are uncertain, 588.
Judicial process against harmful worms, 246.
Iuger and Lauffkauffer worms, ibid.
The bull of Julius II, 610.
Julius Sirenius attributes too much to astrologers, 506.
Blessed Julian, from parricide to saint, 171.
Julian the Apostate, 351.
The magic of Julian the Apostate, 465.
Julian’s slander against the vigils of Christians, 337.
Junianus Maius, 549.
Juno’s marsh at Epidamnus, 443.
Purgation by oath defended, 584.
Justus Lipsius’s account and friendship with the author, 566.
St. Justina and Cyprian the magician, 30.
Justice as a goddess in Hotman, 590.
Various names of the iynx, 21.
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The twofold Kabbalah of the Jews, 492.
What kalal is, 481.
Superstitions of the Kalends of January, 233 and following.
The story of the Carinthian harmful-magicians discussed, 453.
Kibel, whence Kabbalah, 428.
The slaughter of St. Kilian and his companions, 181 and following.
Empress Kunigunde, 618.
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A certain man expelled lizards in his urine, 134.
The harmful magic for drying up or stealing milk, and its rites, as well as a witty remedy; examples of each, 103.
Why the Laestrygonians are stryges, 5.
Whence Lamia is so called, 6.
Lampadomancy, 471.
A remarkable and divinatory stone among the Jews, 468.
How a stone may graze and enter beneath the surface of water, 138.
When the shining of the stones of the rational ceased, 326 and following.
Lappish harmful-magician archers, 108.
The death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 515.
Laurels were customarily burned by harmful-magicians, 35; and in divinations they were a divinatory symbol, 455.
Lecanomancy, 444.
The mad lectisternia of the Gentiles for seeking dreams, 560.
Why lemma is hateful to husbands, 147.
Leo the Emperor, the Philosopher, despiser of magi, 439 and following.
Leo Maurus, 515.
Books restored to Leonard Hasselius, 78 (131).
The girl of Leuwensteten.
Libanomancy, 461.
The book called Revelations of the Prophets, 358.
The Hebrew custom of writing and folding books, 510.
Witches offer children to the demon, 163, 164.
The eleven irritants of lust explained from Helinand, 45.
Lust, and the spiritual weapons by which it is to be driven from the mind, 44 and following.
Blessed Lidwina, 399.
Not everything that is useful is lawful, 257.
It is not lawful to use Sacred Scripture in a sense for which it was not uttered, ibid.
Love-bindings and knots, 33.
The harmful magic of binding, how frequent, of how many kinds, and so forth, 145.
The principal cause of binding, ibid.
Modes of binding, 146.
A binding for livestock, 240.
Why men are more often bound, 146.
Lilith, 6.
Lithomancy, 468.
Superstition of the Lithuanians, 459.
The Greek term lemma, 332.
Places where harmful magical objects are usually deposited or hidden, 24.
Speaking unknown languages does not proceed from black bile, 429.
What logion and logia are, 316.
The Lollards, 350.
The Lombards adored a goat’s head, 452.
The sacrilege and punishment of King Lotharius of Francia, 585 and following.
The lottery contract: what it is, how many kinds there are, and what conditions it requires to be lawful, 574 with following.
What persons can profit by a lottery contract, 577.
Luca Gaurico, an unlucky diviner, 548.
Lamp divination, 471.
The madness and death of Lucretius, 39.
The death of Lucullus from a love-philter, ibid.
Louis, king of the Germans, 640.
Ludovico Sforza, 516.
The Leiden iconoclasts, 173.
The Lusatian peoples, 475.
To what species of quality prophetic light belongs, 315.
The certitude of prophetic light, its various names, and whether it is the same as the light of faith, 314.
Those who do not believe prophetic light sin, and are punished, ibid.
Several species of lunatics, 115.
The cake of St. Lupus, 240.
The ancient Lusitanians, 465.
The Lusitanian nun, 405.
Luther too generous to the demon, 84.
Demons attended Luther’s funeral, 173.
Luther’s pseudo-prophecy, 408.
The wholly mad errors of Luther and his followers about the matter of baptism, 667.
A demon drove Luther into foul straits, 173.
Lust punished, 178.
Luxury of clothing punished by a demon, ibid.
The Lycian divining fish, 464.
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Sadness and jesting, 45.
Magdalena de la Cruz, 364.
The kinship of magic, heresy, and lust, 179.
Mulechut and Malki, 331.
The punishment of those who curse a martyr, 193.
Those who curse saints, 180, 181.
Which harmful-magician can harm a harmful-magician, 163.
Why the demon demands the harmful-magicians’ intention, 2.
Which persons harmful-magicians can harm, 162.
Excommunicated harmful-magicians, 107.
A magical cure, 131 and following.
Witches are not possessed by an inhabiting demon, 662 and following.
Whence the floating of witches arises, ibid.
That harmful magic exists, 1.
What harmful magic is, and of how many kinds, 1 and following.
Soporific harmful magic, 97.
Hostile harmful magic, and what its ingredients are, 48.
Harmful magic by inhalation, worst of all, 90.
Harmful magic by food and drink, 89.
Harmful magic by anointing, and its force, ibid.
It is not lawful to repel harmful magic by harmful magic, 248.
The efficient cause of harmful magic, 2.
What the word maleficium signifies, 1.
The cause of inhalatory harmful magic, against Bodin and others, 91.
The matter of intrinsic harmful magic, 92.
Various modes of extrinsic harmful magic, ibid.
The crime of harmful magic, as regards the proof by water, has nothing peculiar, 681.
Species of harmful magic: by internal taking-in or by external application, 89.
Why the demon delights especially in harmful magic, 1.
Harmful magical acts that work from outside, 24.
Harmful magical acts that work inwardly, 21.
Harmful magical acts harm only those whom harmful-magicians wish, 2.
The instruments or matter of harmful magical acts, 3 with following.
It is proved that many are harmed and killed by harmful magical acts, 86.
Clippings or some other thing of the person are sought by witches for working harmful magic, 24.
What a maleficiated person is, 2.
Who are maleficiated and frigid, and that this can happen through harmful-magicians, 145.
The mandrake little man, and on this imposture, 449.
Species of mangany, 428; in which there is an implicit pact, 454 and following.
Manuel Comnenus, deceived by astrologers, 516.
What “The hand of the Lord was upon me” means, 335.
St. Marcellus, 387.
Mark Antony the triumvir, 30.
Marcus the heretic and mage, ibid.
St. Mark healed a cobbler, 251; his prediction, 229.
The superstition of those who baptize the sea, 442.
The revelations of Margaret of Ravenna, 404.
The Blessed Virgin Mary was seen by someone in dreams to be betrothed to him, 396.
The Blessed Virgin Mary avenged herself, 180.
Mary the Mother of God, her favor in preserving chastity, 46.
How useful devotion to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is, 131 and following.
How salutary invocation of the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, is, 206.
Mary Magdalene, 178.
The friend of St. Mary of Oignies was deluded, but preserved by the saint, 392.
The crime and punishment of Empress Maria, 619 and following.
The prophecy of Marion the advocate, 352.
What kind of prophecy massa is, 331.
The mathematici who appear in law and histories, 513, 514.
Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, 532.
The sacrilegious count of Macon, 198.
Whether contracting marriage with solemn rite before dawn, for the sake of avoiding binding, is superstitious, 145.
St. Matrona, 380.
St. Maurus, 345.
The abbey of St. Maurice, 523.
Maurice’s dream, 565.
Astrological physicians, superstitious, 518; the conjectation of those same physicians, how far it is probable, 528.
St. Meinulph, 397.
The Bodkense monastery of Blessed Meinulph, 522.
St. Meinulph’s doctrine for discerning true revelations, 391.
The superstition of the people of Melinde, 429.
Which months they honor, 235.
How a menstruating woman infects a mirror, 64.
Menuercus, bishop of Paderborn, 601.
Stone markers of Mercury, 468.
King Meroveus, 426.
The lot of King Meroveus, 484.
The metamorphosis of witches into cats, mice, and so forth, 97.
Foreknowings from meteorological matters, 520.
Metonymies, 320.
Metoposcopy, 592.
A soldier preferring to be unjustly condemned rather than surrender himself to a demon, 187.
A threat from God is a great gift, 332.
No one can ask to be miraculously excused, 594.
Why miracles are rarer today, 594.
Miracles were performed by a deluded man, 385 and following.
When the Blessed Virgin began to be called Mother of Mercy, 339.
A Misnian youth, 41.
The force of the Mass, 196; against harmful magic, 133.
The miracle of St. Isidore’s Mass, 628.
Harmful-magicians have Masses celebrated over various things, 22.
What the milder opinion is, 258 and following.
A sacrificial meal-cake was burned, and ashes were scattered behind the back, 37.
The death of the bishop of Mainz, 193.
The idol Moloch, 164.
A monk roasted by the devil, 180.
The exculpation of monks from theft, 585.
Purgation by single combat, its origin, cause, and kinds of weapons, 603 and following.
Monsters, 477.
The revelations of the Montanists, 405.
Demons are often efficient causes of diseases, and by what means they do this, against certain physicians, 114.
How the demon inflicts diseases, 128.
It is not lawful to cure diseases with superstition, 244.
The common opinion that those who have seen the dead soon die, 401.
In what way Moses prophesied, 309.
Abba Moses, 206.
Woman and hammer, from softening, 45.
A little woman carried off, whom the demon had vowed to himself, 184.
The vision of God is due to the clean of heart, the vision of a demon to the unclean, 179.
Muenzer, pseudo-prophet, 408.
Presaging mice, 527.
Murmuring before magical words, 435.
A demon in the form of a fly, 184.
The notable deed of the count of Modena, 619 and following.
Mylitta, the Venus of the Assyrians, 32.
The spring of Myra, 464.
Various divinations by tamarisk, 406.
A tamarisk rod, 469.