Cadıların Kocalarını Uyutup Şabat Toplantılarına Uçuşu

While I was writing these things, the interrogations of certain accused women from Forbach came into my hands, from which I learned, what I had not known until now, that sorceresses, when they are about to fly from their marriage beds to their meetings, so that the husbands might not feel the absence of their daily and nightly company, are accustomed to induce sleep through incantation, from which the men cannot easily be awakened; or they shade and attach certain figures to those who are already sleeping, whom the men, if they should happen to wake up in the meantime, would believe to be their own wives. Bertranda the Weaver confessed that she often did this; and to lull her husband into such a sleep, she would frequently pinch his ear, having first smeared it with the same ointment with which she was accustomed to anoint herself when she desired the path to such meetings. Eller, the wife of the Dean in Ottingen, placed a child's cushion, and Sichen Maya Speirchen placed a broom, after they had pronounced the name of their demon; and thus they were frequently able to flee from their husbands. Maria, the wife of John Sartor in Metzeresch, placed a bundle of straw stuffed as if with ointment, which would vanish immediately upon her return home. Catharina Ruffa declared that the Demon himself sometimes took on such duties by lying down in her place.