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Ch. XIV Whether Witches have Power to Make Beasts Talk 53
Ch. XV Whether the Devil can Make Men Insensible to Torture 55
Ch. XVI Whether by Witchcraft and Devil’s Work the Sexes can be Interchanged 57
Ch. XVII Whether the Spirits of the Dead can Appear to Men 59
Ch. XVIII Of Apparitions of Demons, or Spectres 73
Ch. XIX That Cacodemons Exercise their Magic Powers of their Own Will 80

The Second Book

Dealing with the various kinds of witchcraft,
and certain other matters which
should be known

Ch. I Of Soporific Spells 083
Ch. II Witches use Human Corpses for the Murder of Men 088
Ch. III Of Witches’ Poisons 090
Ch. IV Of Tying the Points 091
Ch. V Of Incendiary Witchcraft 095
Ch. VI The Devil Wishes to Perpetuate the Race of Witches 096
Ch. VII Of the Various Ways by which Witches Vent their Spite upon the Human Race 098
Ch. VIII Of the Different Diseases Brought by Demons 105
Ch. IX Why God Permits the Devil so to Busy Himself with Witchcraft 111
Ch. X The Laws Observed by Witches in Causing and in Curing Sickness 121
Ch. XI Witches Use something of Religion in Healing Sickness 123
Ch. XII Threatening or Beating Witches is the Best Method of Removing the Spells cast by Them 124
Ch. XIII After the Many Blasphemies Committed by Witches, the Demon at last Tries to Induce them to Kill Themselves with Their Own Hands 129
Ch. XIV Upon Those who have once Fallen into his Power the Devil keeps a Tenacious Grip, even when They stand Tortured before Their Judges, or in Holy Places, or wherever They may Be 132
Ch. XV A Summary in a Few Words of All the Crimes of Witches 135