be the Son of God, and was on that account
burned alive at Paris and his ashes scattered to the winds.(370)

(370) As to the frequency among the insane of this form of belief, see
Calmeil, vol. ii, p. 257; also Maudsley, Pathology of Mind, pp. 201,
202, and 418-424; also Rambaud, Histoire de la Civilisation en France,
vol. ii, p. 110. For the peculiar abberations of the saints above named
and other ecstatics, see Maudsley, as above, pp. 71, 72, and 149, 150.
Maudsley's chapters on this and cognate subjects are certainly among the
most valuable contributions to modern thought. For a discussion of the
most recent case, see Warlomont, Louise Lateau, Paris, 1875.

The profundity of theologians and jurists constantly developed new
theories as to the modes of diabolic entrance into the "possessed."
One such theory was that Satan could be taken into the mouth with one's
food--perhaps in the form of an insect swallowed on a leaf of salad, and
this was sanctioned, as we have seen, by no less infallible an authority
than Gregory the Great, Pope and Saint--Another theory was that Satan
entered the body when the mouth was opened to breathe, and there are
well-authenticated cases of doctors and divines who, when casting out
evil spirits, took especial care lest the imp might jump into their own
mouths from the mouth of the patient. Another theory was that the devil
entered human beings during sleep; and at a comparatively recent period
a King of Spain was wont to sleep between two monks, to keep off the
devil.(371)

(371) As to the devil's entering into the mouth while eating, see
Calmeil, as above, vol. ii, pp. 105, 106. As to the dread of Dr. Borde
lest the evil spirit, when exorcised, might enter his own body, see
Tuke, as above, p. 28. As to the King of Spain, see the noted chapter in
Buckle's History of Civilization in England.

The monasteries were frequent sources of that form of mental disease
which was supposed to be caused by bewitchment. From the earliest period
it is evident that monastic life tended to develop insanity. Such cases
as that of St. Anthony are typical of its effects upon the strongest
minds; but it was especially the convents for women that became the
great breeding-beds of this disease. Among the large numbers of women
and girls thus assembled--many of them forced into monastic seclusion
against their will, for the reason that their families could give them
no dower--subjected to the