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she was asked if she had been at la Georgiere, she answered that the Sabbat was not held there because there was no water. And I think that the reason for this is that, in order to cause it to hail, witches usually beat water with their wands; and, when there is no water, they make a hole in the ground and piss in it, and beat their piss.
Chapter XXI.
Of what Happens at the Sabbat, and of the Burning of Candles, the Kiss, the Dances, the Copulation of the Devil with Witches, the Feasts, the Accounts Rendered by Them to Him, the Beating of Water to produce Hail, the Mass which is said by Them, and how Satan Consumes Himself in Flames and Burns to Ashes.
The fifth point in Françoise Secretain’s confession is that she had danced at the Sabbat, and had beaten water to produce hail. I have no doubt that she did many other things, but witches never confess more than half of what they have done. But since I have learned from others nearly everything that is done at the Sabbat, I propose to set it down here in writing, since the occasion offers.
Bodin, Demonom. II. 4.The witches, then, being assembled in their Synagogue, first worship Satan, who appears to them now in the shape of a big black man and now as a goat; and to do him the greater homage