No doubt the benevolent Bodin speaks of driving long needles between the nails and the flesh of the sorcerers' fingers.
'An excellent gehenna,' says he.

He eulogizes equally the torture by fire, which he characterizes as 'an exquisite death.' But he wishes only to turn the magicians away from their detestable practises and save their souls.

Then Del Rio declares that 'the question' must not be applied to demoniacs after they have eaten, for fear they will vomit.

He worried about their stomachs, this worthy man.

Wasn't it also he who decreed that the torture must not be repeated twice in the same day, so as to give fear and pain a chance to calm down?
Admit that the good Jesuit was not devoid of delicacy!" "Docre," Gevingey went on, not paying any attention to the words of Des Hermies, "is the only individual who has rediscovered the ancient secrets and who obtains results in practise.