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Item, she is not so guiltie that confesseth a falshood or lie, and denieth a truth; as she that answereth by circumstance.
Item,107 an equivocall or doubtfull answer is taken for a confession against a witch./25.
Item, Bodin 108 reporteth, that one confessed that he went out, or rather up into the aire, and was transported manie miles to the fairies danse, onelie bicause he would spie unto what place his wife went to hagging, and how she behaved hir selfe. Whereupon was much a doo among the inquisitors and lawyers, to discusse whether he should be executed with his wife or no. But it was concluded that he must die, bicause he bewraied not his wife: the which he forbare to doo, Propter reverentiam honoris & familiæ.
Item, if a woman confesse freelie herein, before question be made; and yet afterward denie it: she is neverthelesse to be burned.
Item, they affirme that this extremitie is herein used, bicause not one among a thousand witches is detected. And yet it is affirmed by Sprenger, in M. Mal. that there is not so little a parish, but there are manie witches knowne to be therein.