voice, and therewith express their meaning, and that although they have neither teeth nor tongue nor lungs, which are the instruments by which the voice is formed, they can yet present an artificial appearance of these organs, and by this means and by certain sounds they counterfeit some semblance of a voice which they cause to reach the ears of their hearers. So says Vair.
Chapter XI.
Of the Copulation of the Devil with Male
and Female Witches.
The third point in Françoise Secretain’s confession was that she had had carnal relations with Satan. Clauda Jamprost, Jacquema Paget, Antoine Tornier, Antoine Gandillon, Clauda Janguillaume, Thievenne Paget, Rollande du Vernois, Janne Platet and Clauda Paget confessed the same thing; and it has been revealed in the examinations of witches that they all have this connexion with Satan. The Devil uses them so because he knows that women love carnal pleasures, and he means to bind them to his allegiance by such agreeable provocations. Moreover, there is nothing which makes a woman more subject and loyal to a man than that he should abuse her body.
And since male witches are addicted no less than female to this pleasure, the Devil also appears as a woman to satisfy them. This he does chiefly
