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[Footnote 688: Boguet, p. 68.]

[Footnote 689: Cooper, p. 92.]

[Footnote 690: More, p. 241.]

[Footnote 691: 'The Deuill your maister, beand in liknes of ane beist, haid carnall [deal] with ilk ane of you.'-_Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 149.]

[Footnote 692: Petrie, pp. 7-9; Capart, p. 223.]

[Footnote 693: Plutarch, _De Iside et Osiride_, xviii, 5.]

[Footnote 694: On the other hand, the female generative organs were also adored, and presumably by men. This suggestion is borne out by the figures of women with the pudenda exposed and often exaggerated in size. Such figures are found in Egypt, where they were called Baubo, and a legend was invented to account for the att.i.tude; and similar figures were actually known in ancient Christian churches (Payne Knight, _Discourse on the Wors.h.i.+p of Priapus_).]

[Footnote 695: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 132, 404.]

[Footnote 696: Remigius, pt. i, p. 19.]

[Footnote 697: Boguet, pp. 68-9.]

[Footnote 698: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 68, 224-6.]

[Footnote 699: Id., _L'Incredulite_, p. 808.]

[Footnote 700: Pitcairn, iii, p. 610.]

[Footnote 701: F. Hutchinson, _Historical Essays_, p. 42.]

[Footnote 702: Boguet, p. 69.]

[Footnote 703: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132.]

[Footnote 704: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 219.]

[Footnote 705: Id. ib., p. 404.]

[Footnote 706: Stearne, p. 29.]

[Footnote 707: The following references are in chronological order, and are only a few out of the many trials in which this coldness of the Devil is noted: 1565, Cannaert, p. 54; 1567, De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132; 1578, Bodin, _Fleau_, p. 227; 1590, Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 219; 1598, Boguet, _op. cit._, pp. 8, 412; 1645, Stearne, p. 29; 1649, Pitcairn, iii, p. 599; 1652, Van Elven, _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215; 1661, Kinloch and Baxter, p. 132; 1662, Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 611, 617; 1662, Burns Begg, x, pp.

222, 224, 231-2, 234; 1678, Fountainhall, i, p. 14; 1682, Howell, viii.

1032; 1705, _Trials of Elinor Shaw_, p. 6.]

[Footnote 708: Boguet, p. 92.]

[Footnote 709: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 611, 617.]

[Footnote 710: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 132.]

[Footnote 711: Boguet, p. 78.]

[Footnote 712: Bodin, p. 227.]

[Footnote 713: _A Prodigious and Tragicall Historie_, pp. 4, 5.]

[Footnote 714: Boguet, p. 70.]

[Footnote 715: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 225.]

[Footnote 716: H. G. van Elven, _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215. Place and names not given.]

[Footnote 717: Kinloch, pp. 122, 123.]

[Footnote 718: Pitcairn, iii, p. 601.]

[Footnote 719: Id., iii, pp. 611, 613.]

[Footnote 720: _Scots Magazine_, 1817, p. 201.]

[Footnote 721: Boguet, p. 141.]

[Footnote 722: Id., p. 65.]

[Footnote 723: _Pleasant Treatise of Witches_, p. 6. The remembrance of the numerous male devils at the Sabbath survives in the Samalsain dance in the Ba.s.ses-Pyrenees, where the male attendants on the King and Queen of the dance are still called Satans. Moret, _Mysteres egyptiens_, p. 247.]

[Footnote 724: Baines, i, pp. 607-8, note.]

[Footnote 725: Bourignon, _Parole_, pp. 86, 87; Hale, pp. 26, 27.]

[Footnote 726: Id., _Vie_, p. 211, 214; Hale, pp. 29, 31.]

[Footnote 727: Gaule, p. 63.]

[Footnote 728: Remigius, p. 131.]

[Footnote 729: Record of Trial in the Edinburgh Justiciary Court.]

[Footnote 730: Pitcairn, iii, p. 616.]

[Footnote 731: Howell, iv, 842.]

[Footnote 732: Nicoll's Diary, p. 212. _Bannatyne Club._]

[Footnote 733: Horneck, pt. ii, p. 323.]

[Footnote 734: Davies, p. 183. Cp. also the birth of Merlin. Giraldus Cambrensis, _Itinerary_, Bk. I, xii, 91b.]

VII. THE ORGANIZATION