Discours des Sorciers

The French witch-hunter's Bible, published in Lyons in 1608. It was written by Henry Boguet, Supreme Judge of the St. Claude district of Burgundy. Boguet subjected many accused witches to torture by gruesome means such as red-hot pincers, and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. Among other quaint notions, Boguet believed that sorcerers are incapable of shedding more than three tears from the right eye. [Henry Boguet, the Witch-Finder of Burgundy at www.shanmonster.com] A scan of the book in French is available at the Internet Archive. An english translation, titled An Examen of Witches, is available at Wikisource.

The Peabody Heritage narrator found a copy of Discours des Sorciers in the house of his great-grandfather, Asaph Peabody [AWD Peabody].

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