N
From what root Nabi and Nebua come, 305.
A girl nourished on aconite, 91.
Narees Androgyni, 469.
Nathalocus, 496.
The art of nativities, 500.
Necromancy: what it is and what sort, with its various rites, 428 and following.
Necromancy properly so called, 439.
Two modes of necromancy, the Theban and the Thessalian, 434.
Nectanebus the magus, father of Alexander the Great, 445.
The force of a negative precept, 687, 705.
Pope Nicholas, 585.
Whence Nicopolis is named, 225.
Presages of snow, rains, and frost, 526.
Whether Noah was maleficiated by his son, 145.
The imposition and changing of names, 483, 491.
Two Nuremberg examples of ill-fated divination, 440 and following.
The Notory Art, 215.
Novatus, 196.
Nine-day powders, 93.
Novices are easier to deceive, 357 and following.
Nudity of members and inspection punished, 178.
What force there is in numbers, 491.
The oracle of the Nymphaeum near Apollonia, 461.
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The force of obedience against illusions, 380 and following.
Vain alexicacal and medical observance, 240.
Witch-midwives, 87.
It is not lawful to investigate hidden deeds by astrology, 519.
Idleness, 44.
What it is to divine by a struck-out eye, and by what means it is done, 452 and following; examples of an unfortunate attempt, ibid.
The dream of Odatis and Zariadres, 561.
Harmful magic of hatred, 129, 154.
Oinomancy, 402.
The harmful magic of setting olive pits on fire, 35.
The pot-game, 574.
Various kinds of omen-taking, 223.
The term omen in Sacred Scripture, 227.
Omens, 475.
Omens from names, 225.
Omens from chance words, ibid.
All things encountered on the road, or to enodion, 226.
Domestic omens, ibid.
A table of omens sought from animate and inanimate things, 231.
Nations most observant of omens, 226.
The vanity of omens, 223.
Omphalomancy, 466.
The miracle at Omura concerning a falsely accused Christian, 614.
Authors on oneiropolia, 549.
The foundations of the oneiropolitae, 550 and following.
Onomancy, 491.
Onomarchus, 566.
Burden, 337.
Onychomancy, 450.
Oomancy, 464.
Works involving fault are not to be attributed to God, 683.
An oracle from a chest, 427.
Oracles and vaticinations, and their various kinds, 423.
Whence the cessation of oracles came, 435.
The cause of oracles investigated, ibid.
The force of prayer against illusions, 377-392.
Tepidity and distraction in prayer punished, 207.
A certain dangerous lapse and illusion in the practice of mental prayer, 356.
Ornithomancy, 495.
Orpheus the fanatic, 428.
What olive pits mean in Baruch, and what the Hebrews signify by the name of bone, 36.
St. Oswald, 400.
Oigerius the sacrilegious steward, 199.
Emperor Otto III, 619.
Otho, son of the Emperor, captured by the Venetians, 442.
The superstition of those who preserve eggs from the day of Parasceve, discussed, 238.
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Pagomancy, 442.
The harmful magical image of Paiuoti, 111.
The craters of the Palici in Sicily, 442.
Palomancy, 479.
Palumbus’s harmful magic and repentance, 150.
Pancratius the astrologer, unlucky to himself and others, 515.
The cruelty and punishment of Pandulph Malatesta, 535.
Those who strike parents are punished, 175.
How fearsome parents’ curses are, proved, ibid. and following.
Difficulty in giving birth through harmful magic, 102.
The parricides of witches, 95.
Two species of parthenomancy, 471 and following.
The temple of Pasiphae, 337.
Presaging sparrows, 527.
Divination in a spring among the people of Patrae in Achaia, 445.
Pavire for ferire, 475.
The Poor of Lyons, or of Barulo, 703.
What sin is, 760.
The threefold sin: of weakness, malice, and ignorance, 697.
Sins are causes of harmful magical acts, 174.
One can sin by doing a lawful thing, and not sin by doing an unlawful thing, 259.
One can sin, with a good intention, by doing what it was not lawful for him to do, 699 and following.
The omen of a struck foot, very frequent, 229.
The omen of breaking wind, ibid.
The penetration of solid bodies is impossible for the Devil, 137, 138.
The punishment of Peregrinus the hypocrite, 622.
What sort the virgin parchment of harmful-magicians is, 26.
The superstition of amulets, 215 and following.
The punishment of perjury, 188, 192.
In time of plague, parish priests ought to draw lots as to who is to remain in the city, 572.
Peter of Fraxineto, 131.
Peter of Bern, judge of witches, 185.
Peter Deioca saved because of alms, 201, 202.
Peter of Marseilles, 629.
Peter of Monte Ilicino, 516.
The fraudulent hypocrisy of Peter Sartor, 355.
The error of Peter Primodaeus, 536.
The end of Peter Leoni the astrologer, 515.
The miracle of Peter Igneus, bishop of Albano, 630.
The miracle of Peter of Tarentaise, 132.
What pityra is, 34.
Pharmaceia, 451.
The Theban poisoner, 103.
The feast of St. Philastrius, 205.
Divination of the Philippine people, 480.
Philip the Fair, king of the Franks, 603.
A philter from an infant, 93.
The human and divine punishment of those administering philters, 41.
All philters are harmful; they drive into madness; examples, 38.
Remedies for philters: those among the Gentiles, and those that are approved, 42.
The rings of the Phocian tyrants, 450.
PHUR, 478.
Physiognomic divination: whence it arose, what foundations it has, and what it can predict, 529 and following.
The magi of Poitiers, 195.
Examples of the fisherman of Utrecht, 621 and following.
Pityron, and whether epityrum comes from it, and what kind this is, 35.
Plato’s divination, 492.
The manner of punishment, when it increases with crimes, 689.
Political conjectation, 569.
Pollentianus the magus, 465.
The Roman Pontiff, the visible head of the Church, 706.
It belongs to the Pontiff to declare what is superstitious, ibid.
The Pontiffs declared the proof by cold water illicit, ibid.
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The miracle of Poppo the Dane, 629.
Whether pores can be much dilated, 138.
Porphyria the prostitute, 627.
Posterum in place of adversum, 237.
Praefiscini, 50.
How prediction and foreknowing differ, 298.
A certain energumen at the beginning of the Premonstratensians was prophetic, 377.
The question of a superstitious prince, 268.
The proof by cold water once differed from the present one, 651; its two formulas compared, 654; how often it was prohibited by Pontiffs and Emperors, 653; and whether it is lawful today is fully disputed from there to the end of the book.
The proof by cold water is a tempting of God, 710, and a disobedience similar to forbidden ariolation, 718.
The proof by cold water is in use among a few in Germany alone, exploded elsewhere, 674.
The proof by cold water is not miraculous; rather, it is proved to arise from a demonic pact, 711 and following.
What the proof by cold water once was like, 642.
The proof by cold water is necessarily fallacious if a witch is seized for some other crime, 680 and following.
It is shown that the proof by cold water in the crime of harmful magic is prohibited by the canons and by the common opinion, 684 and following.
The proof by water is not a consultory lot, 694 and following.
It is shown that there is no difference between the proof by cold water and the other vulgar proofs, once the arguments that were brought forward have been refuted, 307 [707].
An angel is not set over the proof by water by God, 683.
It is shown that God is not present at the proof by cold water through good angels, 678.
The vulgar proof by scale and weights, 721.
Probascania, 61.
All vulgar proofs are prohibited by canon law, 709.
Which proofs it is lawful for a judge to use, 684.
Proculus the Arian, 196.
Prodigies, 477.
To what extent prodigies may be observed and proposed, ibid.
How far the general prohibition extends, 685.
The punishment of a violated promise of marriage, 192.
Whence prophet is said, 305.
A true prophet understands and announces from others, 314.
The definition of prophet, 305.
How certain a prophet is about the event and about God’s revelation, 312.
How many things the name prophet signifies, 304; to whom it applies, 305.
Prophets are not out of their minds, as fanatics are, 333.
Prophecy through dreams, and its kinds, 335.
To whom prophecy is accustomed to be given by God, 307.
One prophecy is of sentence, or foreknowledge, and another of threat, or counsel; and their distinction, 312.
Whether prophecy is always for good, 304.
How prophecy is voluntary and involuntary, 308.
Of what present or past things prophecy is, 311.
Whether prophecy is always given to human beings through the mediation of an angel, 309.
Two kinds of prophecy, through priests and through prophets, 315.
In what way the infallible truth of prophecy is so, 313.
The degrees and dignity of prophecy, 339 and following.
What the gift of prophecy is according to St. Paul, 304, 311.
The definition of prophecy handed down and explained, 305.
The efficient cause of prophecy is God alone, various other causes being refuted, 306.
Whether the infusion of prophecy requires any disposition in a human being, and of what kind, ibid.
What things are the matter of prophecy, 310.
By what manner the influx of prophecy happens through the mediation of an angel, 309.
The name prophecy: its multiple meaning; and the definition, with an explanation of the individual particular parts, 309 with following.
The oracle of the prophets, 329.
Species of prophetic inspiration, with dialogue or without it; likewise imaginative and intellectual, and what each is, 308.
In what sense the dead, the insane, or a pagan are said to prophesy, 304.
Prosperity, 45.
The providence of God, 530.
Provocation to divine judgment, when lawful, and how much deference should be given to it, 594 with following.
Blessed Pruminius, 246.
What sort the proof by burning coals is, and various examples of it, 626 and following.
Ptolemy’s dream, 561.
Familiarity with boys is dangerous, 46.
Witches kill boys by various means, 5, 6.
Examination and vanity of bodily beauty, 46.
Harmful magical powders, their color and force, 3.
Punclerus the harmful-magician, 107.
What canonical purgation is, and its various kinds, 584 and following.
What vulgar purgation by the cross is, 721 and following.
What vulgar purgation by water is, 639.
What vulgar purgation by fire is, of how many kinds, and its examples, 614 with following.
Vulgar purgations condemned, 610.
Where vulgar purgations are in use, and examples, 616.
By whom vulgar purgations are prohibited, 637.
The proof by a kindled pyre and examples, 629.
Pyrethia, 471.
Species of pyromancy, 475.
Pythagoras devoted to physiognomy, 533.
The specular magic of Pythagoras, 446.
The divination of the Pythagoreans, 491.
The Delphic Pythia, 420.
Pythons, or Pythonic persons, their various names, ibid.
A French Pythoness, ibid.
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The prophecy of the Quercetensian nuns, 353.
The divinations of Quevedus the Spaniard, and the cure of wounds, 450.
R
Rhabdomancy, 481.
The little frog-amulet, 21.
A presage from frogs, 527.
The depraved remedies of Rhazes and of other physicians, 43.
Argument against all superstitious formulas of prayers, 249 and following.
Reasons for discerning superstitious formulas of prayers, 242.
The breastpiece of judgment, 316.
A certain skill of divining given by God to kings and judges, and various examples of it, 299.
The punishment of those relapsed into heresy, 634 and following.
It is not lawful to use vain and superstitious remedies, 695 and following.
The remora, 21.
The ingestion of large and solid things into the body, proved by examples; and an examination of how they are inserted and expelled, 130 with following.
Whether the retraction and hiding of the genitals is natural and true, 151.
How the truth of a revelation is recognized from the event, 401.
Whether more should be attributed to the revelation of one awake than to that of one sleeping, 374.
What things are necessary in general for someone to judge a revelation, 341.
Revelations must be carefully examined before they are approved, 343.
How much the revelations of holy women should be valued, 366; of certain saints, 330.
Whether it is lawful to seek revelations from God is inquired into, 345.
How others’ revelations are to be examined, 340 and following.
Revelations are confirmed by miracles, 385.
One’s own revelations are not to be divulged, but concealed, 398.
Revelations are confirmed by others, 396.
By what signs it may appear whether revelations are from God or from a demon, 375 and following.
Whose revelations are not to be believed, 353.
Who handed down precepts for discerning revelations, 340.
The end of revelations must be weighed, 308.
Indications of false revelations with respect to the person, 353 and following.
What qualities of revelations must be considered, 375.
The rule for considering conflicting revelations, 397.
What precedes and follows revelations must be weighed, 400.
Formerly heretics, and today others, insinuate themselves under the pretext of revelations, 351.
Which revelations concerning the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary are more certain, 397.
What circumstances of revelations must be weighed, ibid.
Revelations do not always happen in the same way, 375 and following.
Those accustomed to revelations often think their own opinions are revelations, 141.
One can safely reject one’s own revelations; proved by examples, 347.
Revolutions, 500.
What certainty there is in revolutions, 502 and following.
Species of rhabdomancy, 409.
The Rhenanians drown St. Urban, 267.
The Rhine as examiner of children, 443.
A magical rhombus, 33.
Whether rhythms or verses are superstitious, 251.
Rickbergerus’s end, 194.
Empress Richarda, 618.
The history of Richard Dinoth, 561.
Richius’s opinion is proposed and examined, 672 and following.
Risse or rasse, 574.
Absurd rites and gestures are to be condemned, 252.
Robert the abbot, 381.
Robert, bishop of Canterbury, 626.
Rudolph of Habsburg, 513.
Rollo the Norman’s rigor against thieves, 625.
The betrothal of a Roman youth with Venus, 148 and following.
The Rostock smith-magician, 453.
The Rugian matron, 619.
Ruy Paez de Viedma’s duel, 617.
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The Saccidarii, 101.
The Devil slanders priests, 427.
The punishment of impure priests, 101.
What Sacha is, 469.
The punishment of sacrilegious persons, 196 and following.
The mockery and abuse of sacred things and sacraments, ibid.
Why God allows harmful-magicians to abuse sacred things, 168.
Harmful-magicians abuse sacred things for killing, 5.
The Sadducees are atheists, 172.
The necessity of doing harm in witches, 195.
Harmful-magicians who are archers or crossbowmen, 106.
What the Salassian harmful-magical poisoners attempted, and how they were detected, 88.
A willow rod, 469.
Salissatio and salissator, 224.
What sort the spring of Salmacis is, explained, 153.
Wisdom given to Solomon in dreams, 338.
A certain superstition involving salutations, 241.
Sambetha, daughter of Noah, 428.
The punishment of Sancius the Spaniard and other sacrilegious soldiers, 200 and following.
The superstition of cutting statues of saints, 267.
Magical libation of blood, 436.
Poisonous leeches, 246.
What sort of indication the bleeding of a corpse is; it is shown to be unlike the vulgar proof, 692.
Santabarenus, 440.
What Saphat is, 253.
Sarah the bride, 178.
A certain English tailor possessed by a demon, 182.
Savonarola, 313; he refuses the proof by fire, 630.
Savonarola’s revelations and the cause of his condemnation, 405 and following.
Saul as an unwilling prophet, 308; why he was possessed by an evil spirit, 178; consulting the Pythoness, 421.
The sons of Sceva the priest, 172.
Seth’s crime, 30.
Skinks, 38.
The fire of Schiltach, 161.
What sciomancy is, 439.
Scopelismus, 100.
Scotus defended from calumny, 696.
Scotus of Parma, 417.
The divination of the Scythians, 469.
Scythian magi, 467.
Sebastian Sianus, 442.
Secundellus’s illusion, 385.
Human semen and excrement are furnished by harmful-magicians, 24.
The island of Sena, 426.
Old persons and boys are easily deceived, 358.
Witches violate tombs, 95.
Sepulchral old women, 93.
Who Serapis is, 551.
The temple of Serapis, 336.
Serpents were not removed by the Apostles through a set form of words conceived for this purpose, 254.
Sethus the magus, 441.
How much revelations of the female sex should be valued, 359.
Si signifies quia, indeed, 248, 249.
What the Sibyls were like, and whence they are named, 428.
The leaves of the Sibyl, 465.
The Sibyl and Balaam as prophets, 307.
When it is lawful to seek a sign from God, 420.
To ask a sign from God differs from accepting an omen, proved from Sacred Scripture, 227.
A sign of harmful magic happily removed, 102.
Sigria’s fortunate motion, 118.
To seek signs from God by the example of the ancients, in what way it is lawful, 710.
A Silesian nobleman angrily calls demons as dinner-guests, and they truly appear in the guise of horsemen, etc., 190.
Semiotics, 528.
St. Simeon of Trier, 376.
Simon of Augsburg expelled a demon whom Lutheran ministers had been unable to expel, 173.
Simon Magus used to send demons into others, 143.
The powders of Simon Magus, 3.
Against Baronius, that Simon’s wonders were not all prestiges, 143.
The marvelous death of Simon, duke of the Bulgarians, 112.
A simoniac bishop convicted by fire, 631.
The harmful magic of a woman tenant of the village of St. Symphorian, 131.
The force of simplicity against illusions, 379.
Sibicho, bishop of Speyer, 592.
The law of the Slavs on vulgar purgation, 616.
Sobriety, 394.
The deed of the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux, 448.
Socrates the physiognomist, 533.
Socrates’ divination, 489.
Soham and milluim, 318.
Suleiman, emperor of the Turks, 302.
Sleep, 44; in what way someone is put to sleep by harmful magic, 8, 9, 10.
What a dream is, 550.
A dream, the name of a demon, 393.
Certain dreams may lawfully be observed, certain not; likewise certain dreams are true, certain false; certain are from God, certain are not, 552 and following.
The species and division of dreams, 550.
What the causes of dreams are, 554.
The two gates of dreams, ibid.
Divination from dreams, 549 with following.
What the various final causes of divine dreams are, 337 and following.
Examination of divine dreams, 552.
Examination of natural dreams, 555.
Examination of diabolical dreams, 560.
Whence the certainty of dreams comes, 554.
What the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of natural dreams are, 555.
Many examples of prophetic dreams, 338 and following.
Curious observers of dreams were calamitous, 566.
What sleep-producing harmful magic is like, 8; various examples, 9, 10.
The Soractine seers, 426.
The mouse omen, 231.
A fourfold lot, 478.
A lot in place of an oracle, as at Delos, Lycia, and Praeneste, 479.
What sort of sin a consultory lot is today, 495.
A divisory lot: what things must concur so that it may be lawful, 570 and following.
The difference between divinatory and consultory lot, 695.
The contract of lot, 574 and following.
Two kinds of the contract of lot; and that kind is dangerous and perilous in which individual lots are drawn immediately after the money has been contributed, 578.
Which consultory lots in Sacred Scripture are excused, 420.
The Lots of the Apostles, 487.
Whether a fraudulent lot-caster should be admitted again, 480.
What the sortition of the Gentiles was like, and by what civil and canon law it is permitted, 570; the sortition of the ancient Christians is abolished today, and in what way it used to be performed, 572.
The ministers of sortition and its expense: by whom it is to be borne, 480 and following.
The guest of Spannacum visibly carried off by a demon, 188.
Spatulomancy, 225.
A specter of a military army setting out to the place owed, for the sake of penance, 201.
A certain man expelling an ear of grain, 137.
In what way spirits insinuate themselves: the teaching of our Father Ignatius, 401.
A bride carried off by a demon, and her garments restored, 192.
How great the authority of Sprenger and Nider is in these matters, 116.
Stadelein the harmful-magician, 102, 166.
The harmful magic of Count Stampanus, 110.
Whether poison rubbed on a stirrup can penetrate to a human being’s heart, 98.
What it is to stand at the cross, 722.
Stephen, a Neapolitan knight, 40.
Stephen Hagiochristophorites the magus, 441.
The relics of St. Stephen, 176.
The omen of sneezing, 230.
Stiradius’s death, 126.
Stoicheiomancy, 484.
Whether the custom of New Year’s gifts at the beginning of the year is lawful, disputed, 231.
Strigation of boys, 90.
Whether striges kill infants, and in what way, 6, 7.
Stygian water as poison, 98.
Stakes going out through the skin, 132.
Pride exposed to illusion, 385.
Inspection of eyebrows, 224.
Superstition in sacred words or prayers, 213.
The instruments of superstitions are safely destroyed, 448.
Superstitious medicine, 120 and following.
The woolen band of a hanged man, 34.
The remains of hanged persons in magic, 93.
Sycomancy, 465.
A writing of a pact extorted from a demon, 205.
Synesius’s counsel to be guarded against; it is refuted, 554.
The village of Syrrhus, 464.