his reputation that the idlest and most preposterous stories concerning him won credence. We find these repeated in such compilations as Alexandre Erdan’s La France Mystique, second edition, Amsterdam, 1858, Vol. I, p. 133, xl, where we are told of Remy; “Ce misérable parla tant et si ardemment du démon, qu’il finit par en perdre la tête; il alla, un beau jour, se dénoncer lui-même comme sorcier, et il fut brûlé publiquement.” These are the lies and malice of the Pharisees of old, and such accusations have received a divine answer: “If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand?”
In the Discours des Sorciers, which has never before been translated from the French into any other tongue, we have a piece of altogether exceptional interest, one of the most valuable documents in the whole library of demonology. There is no doubt from the evidence that Boguet had to deal with a particularly noxious, well-
