prison of the conciergerie at
Marseilles. On the fifth of March he was for the first time
confronted with sister Magdalen, but without producing the
result anticipated by his persecutors. Little information is
given as to the subsequent proceedings against him; but he
appears to have been treated with great severity, and to have
persevered in asserting his innocence. Sister Magdalen, or
rather the demon within her, gave information of certain marks
on his body which had been placed there by the Evil One; and on
search they were found exactly as described. It is not to be
wondered at, if, after the intercourse which had existed
between them, sister Magdalen were able to give such
information. Still Gaufridi continued unshaken, and he made no
confession; until at length, on Easter Eve, the twenty-sixth of
March, 1611, a full avowal of his guilt was drawn from him, we
are not told through what means, by two Capuchins of the
Convent of Aix, to which place he had been transferred for his
trial. At the beginning of April, another witness, the
Demoiselle Victoire de Courbier, came forward to depose that
she had been bewitched by the renegade priest, who had obtained
her love by his charms; and he made no objection to their
adding this new incident to his confession.

"Gaufridi acknowledged the truth of all that had been said by
sister Magdalen or by her demon. He said that an uncle, who had
died many years ago, had left him his books, and that one day,
about five or six years before his arrest on this accusation,
he was looking them over, when he found amongst them a volume
of magic, in which were some writings in French verse,
accompanied with strange characters. His curiosity was excited,
and he began to read it; when, to his great astonishment and
consternation, the demon appeared in a human form, and said to
him, 'What do you desire of me, for it is you who have called
me?' Gaufridi was young, and easily tempted; and when he had
recovered from his surprise and was reassured by the manner and
conversation of his visitor, he replied to his offer, 'If you
have power to give me what I desire, I ask for two things:
first, that I shall prevail with all the women I like;
secondly, that I shall be esteemed and honored above all the
priests of