Английская Википедия:Guillaume Edelin

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Guillaume Edelin Шаблон:Post-nominals, was a confessed male witch, convicted in 1453, and the first person to confess to have flown on a broom.[1]

Life

Edelin was the Prior of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, an Augustinian and a Doctor of Divinity. He promulgated the idea that it was impossible for the Devil to make pacts or witches to fly on brooms.[1][2] After being arrested, he confessed that he had signed a compact with the Devil to satisfy his carnal desires, part of this being that he pretend that witchcraft was impossible. The compact was afterwards found upon his person.[3] He also confessed that he had "done homage to the Enemy, under the form of a sheep, by kissing his posteriors," [4] and to having gone to the Sabbath "mounted on a balai", the first reference to the use of a broomstick in connection with witchcraft.[5]

After his capture, he repented and was imprisoned for the rest of his life in the city of Évreux.[6]

References

Шаблон:Reflist

  • Man, Myth and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. 1970, edited by Richard Cavendish.

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