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A remarkably fine print on this subject was published at Paris some years ago; if we remember right, it was suppressed.
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Horat. Epodon. xviii. 4.
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"Quædam sceleratæ mulieres dæmonum illusionibus et phantasmatibus seductæ, credunt se et profitentur nocturnis horis cum Dianâ Paganorum deâ et innumerâ multitudine mulierum equitare super quasdam bestias et multa terrarum spalia intempestæ noctis silentio pertransire ejusque jussionibus veluti dominæ obedire." – Baluz. Capitular. fragment. c. 13. Vide et Capitul. Herardi, Episc. Turon.
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Agobard de Grandine.
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Vide Baluzii in Agobard. pp. 68, 69.
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Fleury, Hist. Eccles. tom. xvii. p. 53, ann. 1234.
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Alphons. à Castro ex Petro Grilland. Tract. de Hæresib.
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Bolland, 5 Jul. p. 287.
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Causes Célèbres, tom. vi. p. 192.
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Job i. 12, 13, 22.
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2 Cor. xii. 7, 8.
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John xiii. 2.
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Matt. xxiv. 5.
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Luke xxi.
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The attentive reader of this horrible narrative will hardly fail to conclude that Gaufredi's fault was chiefly his seduction of Mademoiselle de la Palud, and that the rest was the effect of a heated imagination. The absurd proportions of the "Sabbath" bell will be sufficient to show this. If the bell were metallic, it would have weighed many tons, and a wooden bell of such dimensions, even were it capable of sounding, would weigh many hundred weight.
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Matt. iv. 5.
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Dan. xiv. 33, 34. Douay Version.
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Acts viii. 40.
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Joan. Diacon. Vit. Gregor. Mag.
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Lettre de M. G. P. R., 5th October, 1746.
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On the 26th of May, of the Bollandists, c. xx. n. 356, 357.
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Acta S. J. Bolland. 3 Jul. p. 95.
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Ibid. 31 Jul. pp. 432, 663.
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Acta S. J. Bolland, 21 Aug. pp. 469, 481.
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Ibid. 18 Aug. p. 503.