Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 327
D INGES. for the * materialisation of these notions flitting fromthe ancient cemeteries of theology. The gay and gallantAsmodeus had been transformed into a goat under theascetic eye of Europe; his mistress is a naked witch; herfamiliar and slave is a cat. This is the conventionalisedtheologic… … Fig. 21.—A Witch (Lyons Cathedral). seven years, and a young neighbour, a girl of twelve, whohave become infected with Helens hysterics, identify sixpoor women as witches, and Edward Fairfax would havesecured their execution had it not been for the clergymanSmithson. Cats played a large part in…
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