How many others are there, more or less important numerically, more or less secret, which, by common accord, at ten o'clock the morning of the Feast of the Holy Sacrament, celebrate black masses at Paris, Rome, Bruges, Constantinople, Nantes, Lyons, and in Scotland--where sorcerers swarm! "Then, outside of these universal associations and local assemblies, isolated cases abound, on which little light can be shed, and that with great difficulty.

Some years ago there died, in a state of penitence, a certain comte de Lautree, who presented several churches with statues which he had bewitched so as to satanize the faithful.

At Bruges a priest of my acquaintance contaminates the holy ciboria and uses them to prepare spells and conjurements.

Finally one may, among all these, cite a clear case of possession.

It is the case of Cantianille, who in 1865 turned not only the city of Auxerre, but the whole diocese of Sens, upside down.
"This Cantianille, placed in a convent of Mont-Saint-Sulpice, was violated, when she was barely fifteen years old, by a priest who dedicated her to the Devil.