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The Various Chapters
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How midwives, if they are witches, kill the children they deliverXXXI

By what ills witches particularly afflict peopleXXXII

How witches afflict the herdsXXXIII

How witches do hurt to the fruits of the earthXXXIV

Whether witches are able to healXXXV

that for the cure of maladies Satan and his demons must on no account be appealed to, but God onlyXXXVI

Whether it is permitted to menace a witch in order to heal or ward off harmXXXVII

That he who is bewitched can avail himself of physiciansXXXVIII

the rosaries used by witches generally lack the Cross, but in any case the Cross is always imperfect in some particularXXXIX

Witches are unable to shed tears in the presence of the judgeXL

The eyes of witches are continually bent upon the ground when in the presence of the judgeXLI

Witches when they renounce the Devil spit three times upon the groundXLII

Witches must be shaved and their clothes changedXLIII

The marks borne by witchesXLIV

Satan often kills witches when they are in prison, or else he inspires them to kill themselves. sometimes he reveals what will happen to them at their deathsXLV