293.] In the year 1416 there was a certain woman, a native of the Duchy of Bar, Catherine Sauve by name.

She was then a solitary, living at Montpellier, on the road to Lattes.

Having been publicly accused, she was examined by the Inquisitor's Vicar, Maitre Raymond Cabasse, and found to be infected with the heresy of the Cathari.

Among other errors she maintained that all carnal intercourse is sinful, even in wedlock.

Wherefore she was delivered to the secular arm and burned at the stake on the 2nd of November in that year.[781] [Footnote 781: Germain, _Catherine Sauve_, in _Academie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier, Lettres_, vol.i, 1854, in 4to, pp.
539-552.] It was then commonly believed that such maidens as gave themselves to the devil were straightway stripped of their virginity; and that thus he obtained power over these unhappy creatures.[782] Such ways accorded with what was known of his libidinous disposition.