are compelled to seek shelter and lodging in the bodies of beasts.
The Devil has also sometimes borrowed the body of a man who has been hanged; and this he does chiefly when he wishes to associate with a witch. de subtil. lib. 20.It is for this reason, according to Cardan, that witches are usually ugly and stinking.
Chapter VIII.
The Means Whereby Satan Wins Us to Him.
Satan goes even further: for when he appears to us in the manner we have described, he invites us to give ourselves to him. This is how he acted in the case of Françoise Secretain, according to her own admission; and other witches say the same, and even that the Wicked One is so cunning that he knows how to choose the times and occasion most favourable to his designs. For he takes men when they are alone and in despair or misery because of hunger or some disaster which has befallen them. Genes. 3.Eve was alone when she was seduced. Thievenne Paget was watching her cows in a field and lost one; and as she was sorrowing for this, Satan approached her and won her. It was the same with George Gandillon, who was irritated because he could not drive certain oxen. His father, Pierre Gandillon, was angry because his scythe did not cut so well as those of his companions, and wished himself to the Devil; whereupon Satan immediately ap-
