Canidia

Paris has an AEsop – Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand.

Les Miserables 2008

We explain by “levitation” the riding of the witch upon the broom-stick to the Sabbath; we can no longer refuse credence to Canidia and all her spells.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Madame Ran, of the Croix Blanche, was as mean and dirty as the hole in which she lived; and looked as malevolent as Canidia, Erichtho, or any other classical witch; and as to the inhabitants of Orange, though the revolutionary anecdotes which we have heard of them at

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

Accordingly, great was the rivalry, constant the feuds, and unintermitting the respective criminations of the Erictho and Canidia of Pendle, [33] who had opened shops for the vending of similar contraband commodities, and were called upon to decry each other's stock, as well as to magnify their own.

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

Canidia upon it, than to paint Canidia as she was, who, Horace sweareth, was foul and ill-favoured.

English literary criticism Various

The love-charms of Canidia and Medea are chiefly indebted to the _Pharmakeutria_ of Theocritus.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

I. Note in the handwriting of Richard Farmer, in a copy of "Canidia, or the Witches; a Rhapsody in five parts, by R.D." 4to.

Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 Various

Horace tells us that the old witch Canidia used part of the plumage of the owl in her dealings with the devil: --

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various

Horace frequently mentions with respect Canidia, who was a powerful enchantress.

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

Such are Dickens’ Haunted Man, in which the ghost is memory; Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, in which the ghost is cruel conscience; and Balzac’s Quest of the Absolute, in which the old Flemish house of Balthasar Claes, in the Rue de Paris at Douai, is haunted by a dæmon more potent than that of Canidia.

Introduction 1921