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     The Inquisition Claims her.—Delivered to the Bishop of Beauvais 357      Her Trial 360      Her Condemnation and Execution 372      Her Imitators and her Rehabilitation 376   CHAPTER VI.—Sorcery and Occult Arts. Satan and the Spirit World 379 Incubi and Succubi 383 Human Ministers of Satan.—Sorcerers 385 Penalties under the Roman Law 392 Struggle between Pagan and Christian Theurgy 393 Repression of Sorcery by the Early Church 395 Magic Practices of the Barbarians 400 Leniency of Barbarian Legislation 408 Legislation of Church and State in Carlovingian Period 412 Practical Toleration in Early Mediæval Period 416 Indifference of Secular Legislation 427 The Inquisition Assumes Jurisdiction 434 All Magic Becomes Heretical 435 Astrology.—Pietro di Abano.—Cecco d’Ascoli 437 Divination by Dreams 446 Comminatory Church Services 447 The Inquisition Stimulates Sorcery by Persecution 448 Unfortunate Influence of John XXII 452 Growth of Sorcery in the Fourteenth Century 454 Increase in the Fifteenth Century 464 Case of the Maréchal de Rais 468 Enrique de Villena 489   CHAPTER VII.—Witchcraft. Its Origin in the Fifteenth Century 492 The Sabbat.—Regarded at first as a Diabolic Illusion 493      Adopted by the Church as a Reality