(350) Thesaurus Exorcismorum atque Conjurationum terribilium,
potentissimorum, efficacissimorum, cum PRACTICA probatissima: quibus
spiritus maligni, Daemones Maleficiaque omnia de Corporibus humanis
obsessis, tanquam Flagellis Fustibusque fugantur, expelluntur,...
Cologne, 1626. Many of the books of the exorcists were put upon the
various indexes of the Church, but this, the richest collection of all,
and including nearly all those condemned, was not prohibited until
1709. Scarcely less startling manuals continued even later in use; and
exorcisms adapted to every emergency may of course still be found in all
the Benedictionals of the Church, even the latest. As an example, see
the Manuale Benedictionum, published by the Bishop of Passau in 1849, or
the Exorcismus in Satanam, etc., issued in 1890 by the present Pope, and
now on sale at the shop of the Propoganda in Rome.

Some of those decent enough to be printed in these degenerate days ran
as follows:

"Thou lustful and stupid one,... thou lean sow, famine-stricken and
most impure,... thou wrinkled beast, thou mangy beast, thou beast of all
beasts the most beastly,... thou mad spirit,... thou bestial and foolish
drunkard,... most greedy wolf,... most abominable whisperer,... thou sooty
spirit from Tartarus!... I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the
infernal kitchen!... Loathsome cobbler,... dingy collier,... filthy
sow (scrofa stercorata),... perfidious boar,... envious crocodile,...
malodorous drudge,... wounded basilisk,... rust-coloured asp,...
swollen toad,... entangled spider,... lousy swine-herd (porcarie
pedicose),... lowest of the low,... cudgelled ass," etc.

But, in addition to this attempt to disgust Satan's pride with
blackguardism, there was another to scare him with tremendous words. For
this purpose, thunderous names, from Hebrew and Greek, were imported,
such as Acharon, Eheye, Schemhamphora, Tetragrammaton, Homoousion,
Athanatos, Ischiros, Aecodes, and the like.(351)

(351) See the Conjuratio on p. 300 of the Thesaurus, and the general
directions given on pp. 251, 251.

Efforts were also made to drive him out with filthy and rank-smelling
drugs; and, among those which can be mentioned in a printed article,
we may name asafoetida, sulphur, squills, etc., which were to be burned
under his nose.

Still further to plague him, pictures of the devil were to be spat upon,
trampled under foot by people of low condition, and sp