deposed that, when he was only eight years old, his father Guillaume Vuillermoz took him to the Sabbat. Claude and Clauda Charloz and Perrenette Molard likewise said that when they were very young they were taken to the Sabbat by Clauda Gindre, their maternal grandmother. It is probable that these children had been dedicated to Satan by Guillaume Vuillermoz and Clauda Gindre; yet it is true that they have not been convicted of any act of witchcraft.
Here I cannot refrain from reprimanding parents who, through waiting for suitable godparents, leave their children so long unbaptised. For it is evident from what I have said in what danger these children are until they have received this Holy Sacrament; seeing that, if through the ministry of a witch they die before baptism, they are eternally deprived of the sight and glory of God, which is the greatest joy with which the souls of the blessed are rewarded.
Finally, witches change themselves into wolves, and in this shape kill and eat both men and beasts. But of this I shall more fittingly speak elsewhere.
Chapter XXXII.
By what Ills Witches Particularly Afflict People.
Let us now examine by what ills witches afflict mankind particularly. I maintain that they afflict people with all kinds of ills of the stomach and the head and the feet, with cholic,
