[244] Sante de Sanctis, I sogni e il sonno nell’isterismo e nella epilessia, Rome, 1896, p. 101.

[245] Pitres, Lecons cliniques sur l’Hysterie, vol. ii, pp. 37 et seq.  The Lorraine inquisitor, Nicolas Remy, very carefully investigated the question of the feelings of witches when having intercourse with the Devil, questioning them minutely, and ascertained that such intercourse was usually extremely painful, filling them with icy horror (See, e.g., Dufour, Histoire de la Prostitution, vol. v, p. 127; the same author presents an interesting summary of the phenomena of the Witches’ Sabbath).  But intercourse with the Devil was by no means always painful.  Isabel Gowdie, a Scotch witch, bore clear testimony to this point:  “The youngest and lustiest women,” she stated, “will have very great pleasure in their carnal copulation with him, yea, much more than with their own husbands....  He is abler for us than any man can be. (Alack! that I should compare him to a man!)” Yet her description scarcely sounds attractive; he was a “large, black, hairy man, very cold, and I found his nature as cold within me as spring well-water.”  His foot was forked and cloven; he was sometimes like a deer, or a roe; and he would hold up his tail while the witches kissed that region (Pitcairn, Criminal Trials in Scotland, vol. iii, Appendix VII; see, also, the illustrations at the end of Dr. A. Marie’s Folie et Mysticisme, 1907).

[246] Gilles de la Tourette, loc. cit., p. 518.  Erotic hallucinations have also been studied by Bellamy, in a Bordeaux thesis, Hallucinations Erotiques, 1900-1901.

[247] On one occasion, when still a girl, whenever an artist whom she admired touched her hand she felt erection and moisture of the sexual parts, but without any sensation of pleasure; a little later, when an uncle’s knee casually came in contact with her thigh, ejaculation of mucus took place, though she disliked the uncle; again, when a nurse, on casually seeing a man’s sexual organs, an electric shock went through her, though the sight was disgusting to her; and when she had once to assist a man to urinate, she became in the highest degree excited, though without pleasure, and lay down on a couch in the next room, while a conclusive ejaculation took place. (Moll, Libido Sexualis, Bd.  I, p. 354.)

[248] Breuer and Freud, Studien ueber Hysterie, 1895, p. 217.

[249] Calmeil (De la Folie, vol. i, p. 252) called attention to the large part played by uterine sensations in the hallucinations of some famous women ascetics, and added:  “It is well recognized that the narrative of such sensations nearly always occupies the first place in the divagations of hysterical virgins.”

[250] H. Leuba, “Les Tendances Religieuses chez les Mystiques Chretiens,” Revue Philosophique, November, 1902, p. 465.  St. Theresa herself states that physical sensations played a considerable part in this experience.