Jacques Bocquet, Françoise Secretain, Clauda Jamguillaume, Clauda Jamprost, Thievenne Paget, Antoine Tornier, Pierre Gandillon, George Gandillon, Antoine Gandillon, Christofle of the village of Aranthon, and several others have confessed that they produced hail at the Sabbat for the purpose of ruining the fruits of the earth. To do this they beat water with a wand, as they said, and then threw into the air or into the water a certain powder which Satan had given them, and this caused a cloud to arise which afterwards turned to hail and fell on the land according to the witches’ wish. So we may conclude that such persons do produce hail. This conclusion is substantiated by what we read of a certain Haakon, Prince of Norway, who fought his enemies with hailstones: of the Brachmanes, who could cause the weather to be either fair or rainy: Vair, de Incant. II. 14. Remy, Demonol. III. 12. Bodin, Demonom. II. 8.of one Julian, who caused it to rain and brought relief to Mark Antony’s Roman army suffering from thirst: of certain sorcerers who did the like for the French when they were beseiged by the Spanish in a town in the Kingdom of Naples: of a King Henry of Sweden and Finland who had control of the winds, so that the Finns used to sell them to merchants. Olaus, III. 4.And there was also that pirate of the seas, Oddo, who passed over the water without any ship, and destroyed and sank his enemies’
