place there. In this connexion, Groz-Jacques said that it was quite possible to go to the Sabbat in spirit only; but Clauda Coirieres said that, if her spirit had been to the Sabbat, she knew nothing about it. One Holy Thursday night George Gandillon lay in his bed for three hours as if he were dead, and then suddenly came to himself; and he has since had to be burned in this place, together with his father and one of his sisters. Some little time ago there was a man of the village of Unau in the district of Orgelet, who brought his wife to this place and accused her of being a witch, saying among other things that when they were in bed together one Thursday night he noticed that his wife was absolutely still without even breathing; whereupon he began to shake her, but could not waken her, and became so frightened that he tried to get up to call his neighbours; but try as he might, he could not move from his bed, and he seemed to be caught fast by the legs, and was not even able to cry out. This lasted for two or three hours until the cock crew; and then his wife suddenly awoke, and when he asked her what was amiss, she answered that she was so tired from the work she had done the day before that she was weighed down with sleep and had felt nothing of what her husband had done to her. The man then supposed that she had been to the Sabbat, for he had already had some suspicion of her because the cattle of some of their neighbours, whom she had threatened, had been dying.
Indeed it appears very probable that this woman had been in spirit to the Sabbat. For first, the seizure of which we have told came to her on a Thursday night, which is the customary night
