Rinaldo des Trois-Echelles du Mayne (d. ca. 1571)

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Rinaldo des Trois-Echelles du Mayne (d. ca. 1571)

A much-dreaded French sorcerer of the reign of Charles IX, who, at his execution, boasted before the king that he had in France three hundred thousand confederates, whom they could not burnmeaning, perhaps, the demons of the witches sabbat. Trois-Echelles is cited in Jean Bodin 's De la démonomanie des Sorciers.

Sources:

Bodin, Jean. De la Démonomanie des Sorciers. Paris, 1580.

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