this country, and enjoy the respect of men of wealth
and honor.' We may see, perhaps, through these wishes, the
reason why Gaufridi was persecuted by the rest of the clergy.
The demon promised to grant him his desires, on condition that
he would give up to him entirely his 'body, soul, and works;'
to which Gaufridi agreed, excepting only from the latter the
administration of the holy sacrament, to which he was bound by
his vocation as a priest of the church.

"From this time Louis Gaufridi felt an extreme pleasure in
reading the magical book, and it always had the effect of
bringing the demon to attend upon him. At the end of two or
three days the agreement was arranged and completed, and, it
having been fairly written on parchment, the priest signed it
with his blood. The tempter then told him, that whenever he
breathed on maid or woman, provided his breath reached their
nostrils, they would immediately become desperately in love
with him. He soon made a trial of the demon's gift, and used it
so copiously that, he became in a short time a general object
of attraction to the women of the district. He said that he
often amused himself with exciting their passions when he had
no intention of requiting them, and he declared that he had
already made more than a thousand victims.

"At length he took an extraordinary fancy to the young Magdalen
de la Palude; but he found her difficult of approach, on
account of the watchfulness of her mother, and he only overcame
the difficulty by breathing on the mother before he seduced the
daughter. He thus gained his purpose; took the girl to the cave
in the manner she had already described, and became so much
attached to her that he often repeated his charm on her, to
make her more devoted in her love. Three days after their first
visit to the cave, he gave her a familiar named Esmodes.
Finding her now perfectly devoted to his will, he determined to
marry her to Beelzebub, the prince of the demons; and she
readily agreed to his proposal. He immediately called the demon
prince, who appeared in the form of a handsome gentleman; and
she then renounced her baptism and Christianity, signed the
agreement with her blood, and received the demon's mark....

"The priest gave an account of the Sabbaths, at which