At other times they deprive the animal of milk; and this they do with the help of Satan by giving it certain noxious herbs to eat, which dry up and keep back its milk. Or else, at the moment when the animal begins to give milk, Satan takes it from its teat. Also they cause the milk of one cow to go into the udder of another, as it is said. Clauda Vernier, known as la Montagne, wife of Pierre Vernier, known as Billet des Granges, who was burned at Dôle about thirty years ago, confessed that she used to cause the milk of her neighbour’s cows to flow in this way into the udders of her own. And this is why Antoine Tornier, when she was threatening Jacquema Paget, said that her cows were yielding twice as much milk as her own. But we can only believe that in this case Satan, in the manner we have said, causes one of the cows to lose its milk, and on the contrary causes that of the other to increase twofold by the means of certain beneficial herbs which he gives it to eat, such as Cytisus and other such. Or else he takes the milk from one cow, and when the other is being milked he comes with his milk, which he pours so skilfully into the pail that it appears to come from the second cow’s teats.
For such is commonly his practice in the matter of wine according to Sprenger, who says that once the bottles of a witch, which were empty, became full of wine in a moment; for it is likely that Satan had taken that wine from some cellar to fill the bottles with it.
Here I must recount a strange and devilish remedy used by Christine, the chambermaid of Theodore Lopers, Vicar of the Hospital of Kreveld, when three of her cows had lost their
