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An Examen of
Witches
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Drawn from various trials of many of this sect in the district of Saint Oyan de Joux commonly known as Saint Claude in the county of Burgundy including the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft
Chapter I
Loyse Maillat, Eight Years Old, is Possessed
of Five Devils and later delivered
of them, and Françoise
Secretain made Prisoner
for Casting the Spell
On Saturday the fifth of June in the year 1598 Loyse, the eight-years-old daughter of Claude Maillat and Humberte of Coyrieres in Perche, was struck helpless in all her limbs so that she
