Begone, then: take flight, thou venomous hisser, thou lying worm, thou begetter of vipers!"(353) (353) Ibid., p.

859.
This procedure and its results were recognised as among the glories of the Church.

As typical, we may mention an exorcism directed by a certain Bishop of Beauvais, which was so effective that five devils gave up possession of a sufferer and signed their names, each for himself and his subordinate imps, to an agreement that the possessed should be molested no more.

So, too, the Jesuit fathers at Vienna, in 1583, gloried in the fact that in such a contest they had cast out twelve thousand six hundred and fifty-two living devils.

The ecclesiastical annals of the Middle Ages, and, indeed, of a later period, abound in boasts of such "mighty works."(354) (354) In my previous chapters, especially that on meteorology, I have quoted extensively from the original treatises, of which a very large collection is in my posession; but in this chapter I have mainly availed myself of the copious translations given by M.H.Dziewicki, in his excellent article in The Nineteenth Century for October, 1888, entitled Exorcizo Te.