Basil the Great, St, 233
Beaufort, Payen, notable of Arras, 232
Bègue, Thomas, alleged witch, 227
Beiliss, Mendel, 259 n.
Belial, Beliar, demon, 62,168,173, 185
Benandanti, 223-4
Benedict XI, pope, 181
Benedict XII, pope (Jacques Fournier), 39,194 n., 195,202
Beniols, Hugues de, inquisitor, 127
Berardus of Soriano, monk, 184-5
Bernard of Bergamo, “priest” of Fraticelli, 45,46, 51
Bernardin of Siena, St, 49–50, 51, 53 n.
Bezok, Margaret, witch, 250-1
Biblis, Christian martyr, 4
Biondo, Flavio, Humanist, 52-3 and n.
Blanche of Artois, queen of Navarre, 185,186
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 214 n.
Bodin, Jean, 253
Bogomiles, Dualist sect, accusations against, 18–19 and 57
Boniface VIII, pope (Benedict Caetani), 180-5, 195, 199, 200, 202, 226, 232
Borborians, Gnostic sect, 9-10 n.
Bothwell, Earl of;
Bouges, T., historian of Carcassonne, 127.
Brethren of Free Spirit, heretical mystics, 54-5
Brigue, Jehanne de, sorceress, 197
Brunier, Jeannette, alleged witch, 227
Burchard, bishop of Worms, 151-2, 209-10, 211,213,218
Bureau, Laurent, bishop of Sisteron, 41-2
Burr, George Lincoln, 109,174,176
Caesarius, monk of Heisterbach, on demons, 69–71; on ritual magic, 165; on incubi, 236
Cannibalism, accusations of, against early Christians, 2–3,4; against Cataline conspirators, 6; against Egyptian insurgents, 6; against Apollodorus of Cassandreia, 6–7; against Jews, 7;
Cannibalistic infanticide, accusations of, xi-xii; against early Christians, 1–4, 8–9; against Montanists, 16; against Paulicians, 18,49; against Bogomiles, 18–19; against sect at Orléans, 20; against heretics at Soissons, 49; against Fraticelli, 46-7, 52-3; against witches, 100, 112, 204-5, 219, 226; in Africa, 220-1; against both Waldensians and witches, 228; in great witch-hunt, 252; preserved in literary tradition, 53 and n., 86 n.; not mentioned by inquisitors, 54; in myth and folk-tales, 259-60; psychoanalytic interpretation, 260; and Eucharist, 8–9,16,18,46, 49, 106;
Carpocratians, Gnostic sect, 9 and 9-10 n., 55
Cassendi, Géraud, notary, 196
Cataline conspiracy, 6
Cathars, Dualist sect, 22, 55, 57-8, 126,128-30,138; doctrine of, 58; alleged link with witches, 116,12830, 138; accusations against, 22, 55, 58; false etymology, 22
Catherine of Palumbaria, member of Fraticelli, 47, 48
Cattaneo, Alberto, inquisitor, 39–42, 229,259
Cecco d’Ascoli, astrologer, 166-73
Charles the Bald, emperor, 159
Chamay, Geoffroi de, Templar, 97
Chilperic, King of Franks, 149
Chlodovic, Frankish prince, 148
Christianity, incompatible with Roman religion and ideals, 12–14; achieves recognition, 14–15; confidence of early, 64-5, 67-8; misgivings of late medieval, 73-4; unconscious resentment against, 97,262
Christians, second-century, accusations against, 1–4,9-12; persecuted at Lyons, 3–4,259
Clement of Alexandria, 9
Clement V, pope, and Temple, 82, 84, 89,92-6; and Boniface VIII, 181-5, and Guichard, 187,188
Colonna, Peter, 182
Colonna, Sciarra, 181
Colonna, Sueva, 45
Conrad of Marburg, inquisitor, 2431,32, 33,36, 54, 56, 74,83,90, 122, 228,259
Constantius of Foligno, chamberlain, 184
Conti, Stefano de, Count, 45
Covens, witches’,
Crawford, J. R., 220-2
Cyprian, St, 66
Dalok, Elena, witch, 153
Daumer, Georg Friedrich, 14–15 n.
David of Augsburg, preacher, on Waldensians, 33
Deghi, Onofrio (Noffo Dei), intriguer, 186,190,192
Delort, Catherine, fictitious witch, 129-30,132,137-8
Delort, Joseph, 138
Del Rio, Martin, demonologist, 253