american-holocaust

SEX, RACE AND HOLY WAR 163derived from Judaism, which was itself regarded as a form of devil worship.There are numerous supposed accounts of such gatherings (the socalledGreat European Witch Hunt was building toward its peak by theend of the fifteenth century), but Norman Cohn has put together a representativecollage of what Christians from this time believed took placeduring a typical witches' sabbat:The sabbat was presided over by the Devil, who now took on the shape notof a mere man but of a monstrous being, half man and half goat: a hideousblack man with enormous horns, a goat's beard and goat's legs . . . . Firstthe witches knelt down and prayed to the Devil, calling him Lord and God,and repeating their renunciation of the Christian faith; after which each inturn kissed him, often on his left foot, his genitals or his anus. Next delinquentwitches reported for punishment, which usually consisted of whippings.. . . Then came the parody of divine service. Dressed in black vestments,with mitre and surplice, the Devil would preach a sermon, warninghis followers against reverting to Christianity and promising them a far moreblissful paradise than the Christian heaven. . . . The proceedings ended ina climax of profanity. Once more the witches adored the Devil and kissedhis anus . . . . Finally, an orgiastic dance, to the sound of trumpets, drumsand fifes. The witches would form a circle, facing outwards, and dance arounda witch bent over, her head touching the ground, with a candle stuck in heranus to serve as illumination. The dance would become a frantic and eroticorgy, in which all things, including sodomy and incest, were permitted. Atthe height of the orgy the Devil would copulate with every man, woman andchild present. 45Needless to say, sex with Satan-r even with one or more of the incubior succubae who assisted him-was not something one easily forgot.Nicolas Remy, a sixteenth-century expert on these matters (he had madea fifteen-year study of approximately 900 witchcraft trials) reported to aneager Christian public the experiences, recounted in official testimony, ofsome witches who had endured the ordeal:Hennezel asserts that his Scuatzebourg (those were the names of succubae)gave him the impression of having a frozen hole (instead of a vagina) andthat he had to withdraw before having an orgasm. As to witches, they declarethat the virile organs of demons are so thick and hard that it is impossibleto be penetrated by them without dreadful pain. Alice Drigee comparedher demon's erect penis with a kitchen tool she pointed out to the assemblyand gave the information that the former lacked scrotum and testicles. As toClaudine Fellee, she knew how to avoid the piercing pain of such intercourseby a rotary movement she often performed in order to introduce that erectmass, which no woman, of no matter what capacity, could have contained.