36; also Kirchhoff, p.340.The forms of insanity especially mentioned are "dementia senilis" and epilepsy.

A striking case of voluntary confession of witchcraft by a woman who lived to recover from the delusion is narrated in great detail by Reginald Scot, in his Discovery of Witchcraft, London, 1584.

It is, alas, only too likely that the "strangeness" caused by slight and unrecognised mania led often to the accusation of witchcraft instead of to the suspicion of possession.
(368) See Kirchhoff, as above.
(369) For the arguments used by creatures of this sort, see Diefenbach, Der Hexenwahn vor und nach der Glaubensspaltung in Deutschland, pp.
342-346.

A long list of their infamous names is given on p.

345.
Against one form of insanity both Catholics and Protestants were especially cruel.