s of a man, but he removed
from you in the likeness of an black dog'.[199] The Highland witches in
the eighteenth century saw the devil as a dog; he was 'a large black ugly
tyke', to whom the witches made obeisance; the dog acknowledged the homage
'by bowing, grinning, and clapping his paws'.[200] In the case of the
dog-disguise, there is again a similarity with Lapp beliefs and customs,
the appearance of the Devil as a dog being not uncommon in Lapland.[201]

4. _Goat._--An interesting point as regards this form of disguise is that
it does not occur in Great Britain, nor have I found it so far in Belgium.
It prevailed chiefly in France, from which all my examples are taken. At
Poictiers in 1574 'trois Sorciers & vne Sorciere declarent qu'ils estoyent
trois fois l'an, a l'assemblee generale, ou plusieurs Sorciers se
trouuoyent pres d'vne croix d'vn carrefour, qui seruoit d'enseigne. Et la
se trouuoit vn grand bouc noir, qui parloit comme vne personne aux
assistans, & dansoyent a l'entour du bouc.'[202] At Avignon in 1581 'when
hee comes to be adored, he appeareth not in a humane forme, but as the
Witches themselues haue deposed, as soone as they are agreed of the time
that he is to mount vpon the altar (which is some rock or great stone in
the fields) there to bee worshipped by them, hee instantly turneth himselfe
into the forme of a great black Goate, although in all other occasions hee
vseth to appeare in the shape of a man.[203] In Lorraine in 1589 the Devil
'sich in einen zottelichten Bock verwandelt hat, und viel staerker reucht
und uebeler stinckt als immer ein Bock im Anfang des Fruehlings thun
mag'.[204] In Puy de Dome in 1594 Jane Bosdeau's lover took her to a
meeting, and 'there appeared a great Black Goat with a Candle between his
Horns'.[205] In 1598 'Satan apres auoir prins la figure d'vn Bouc, se
consume en feu'.[206] In the Basses-Pyrenees in 1609:

'le Diable estoit en forme de bouc, ayant vne queue, & au-dessoubs vn
visage d'homme noir, & n'a parole par ce visage de derriere.--Marie
d'Aguerre dit qu'il y a vne grande cruche au milieu du Sabbat, d'ou
sort le Diable en forme de bouc.--D'autres disent qu'il est comme vn
grand bouc, ayant deux cornes devant & deux en derriere; que celles de
devant se rebrassent en haut comme la perruque d'vne femme. Mais le
commun est qu'il a seulement trois cornes, & qu'il a quelque espece de
lumiere en celle du milieu. On luy voit au