Whether the Copulation of Satan with a Witch can bring to Birth a Living Being.
It is a matter of far greater doubt whether a living being can be born from the coupling of the Devil with a witch. I remember that, when Antoine Tornier and Antoine Gandillon were asked whether they were not afraid of becoming pregnant by the Devil, one answered that she was too old, and the other that God would not permit it. I have read, too, that Satan has sometimes asked a witch whether she wished to become pregnant by him, and that the witch has said that she did not wish it. It seems then that it is possible for issue to come of this coupling; and also there are many examples of such an occurrence, besides the proof which may be drawn from the Book of Genesis, Genes. 6.where it is said that the Sons of God lay with the daughters of men, and that there sprang from them a race of giants, Antiqu. I. 3.a passage which Josephus understands literally. As for examples, we have the English Merlin, who was said to have been born from the union of a demon with a woman: Remy, Demonol., I. 6. Raemond, Antichrist, c. 6. num. 1.the Huns and the men of Cyprus are also said to spring from certain witches who had intercourse with the Devil; it is also said that Luther was born from the coupling of the Devil with his mother Marguerite: passing over what has been written of Plato, Servius Tullius, and of Florine and Ermeline, we
