Bernard Gui, Manuel de l'inquisiteur, trad. G. Mollat, Paris, Champion, 1927, t. II,
22-25.
Translation (c) Jeay and Garay
Instructions for the cross-examination of witches, seers, and invocators of demons.
Of the witch, seer or invocator of demons, you will ask the nature and number of magic
spells, divinations or invocations he knows, and from whom he learnt them. Details will
be looked for according to the quality and status of the person because
cross-examinations should not be the same for everybody. They should be different for men
and women. The following questions should be asked of the suspect: what does he know and
what has he learned? In which practices did he indulge with children who are victims of
spells or must be freed from enchantment?
[...] The suspect will be questionned about lead figures made by witches, how they have
been manufactured, and their usage. He will be asked who informed him about them and for
how long he engaged in such practices. How many people consulted him, especially during
the current year?
Has he been previously forbidden to indulge in such practices? By whom? Has he promised
to cease these practices? Has he resumed them in spite of his promise and abjuration? Did
he believe that these teachings are true? What benefits, gifts or rewards did he receive
for using them?
Beguins.
Bernard Gui, Manuel de l'inquisiteur, trad. G. Mollat, Paris, Champion, 1927, t. II,
188-91.
Translation (c) Jeay and Garay
Among Beguins, some are mischievous and cunning in order to disguise the truth; they hide
and conceal themselves as well as their accomplices. Fearing the revelation of their
error and falseness, they answer questions in terms so ambiguous, obscure, vague, and
confused that a clear truth cannot be drawn from their answers. If they are asked to
declare if they believe in this or that article, they give this answer every time: "I
believe what is believed in God's Church, my faith is conform to its faith". Asked again,
they don't want to give other answers or explanations.
Jews
Bernard Gui, Manuel de l'inquisiteur, trad. G. Mollat, Paris, Champion, 1927, 6-19.
Translation (c) Jeay and Garay
Treachery of Jews against the Christian faith.
Deceitful Jews are striving as often as they can to secretly corrupt Christians for
converting them to Jewish perfidy. They do this especially with Jews who have converted
to Christian faith and received baptism, especially if they are close friends or kin.
[...]
Rites practiced by Jews for winning over those who have converted to Christianity.
They must be submitted to a rite which is called "tymla" in Hebrew, which means taking a
bath, and washing oneself in water in order to become Jew again. Then the Jew who
presides the ceremony says in Hebrew: "Baaltussuna", which means: "Come back from your
sinful state". After that he is undressed and sometimes bathed in warm water. Then his
whole body is rubbed with sand, especially on his forehead, on his chest and hands, that
is the places where the anointing of baptism was made. And the nails of his hands and
feet are filed until they bleed. His head is shaved and plunged three times into the
water of a stream. After this immersion, the following prayer is recited: "Blessed be
God, king of centuries, who ordered us to purify ourselves in this water, in this bath
called 'tymla' in Hebrew". He comes out of the water, puts on a new shirt and new
breeches, and all the Jews who are present kiss him and give him a name, the very name he
received before his baptism. The convert who is "rejudaized" must respect the law of
Moses, promise to keep and observe it, and live in conformity with it. He must renounce
his baptism and Christian faith and never practice it again. ... He is then given a
letter so that other Jews can trust him and treat him favourably.
[...] When Christians become Jews they are given a certificate of Judaization. They must
always have it with them otherwise Jews will not drink and eat with them. The names of
the masters who have "unbaptized" them must be written on the certificate.
Intolerable blasphemies uttered by Jews against Christ, His faith and the Christian
people.
Curses and maledictions poured out by Jews against the Christian people can be found in a
book called Maazor by the French Jews, which means "collection of prayers", and
Typhilloth by Jews from Provence, that is "book of prayers". The prayer they recite three
times a day has many of curses and maledictions against Christians and the Roman faith
which they call a damned and depraved kingdom. They ask God to destroy it as well as all
the Christians. They don't use the word Christian, but imply it with the word "minim"
which means heretic. During the feast of purifications, in September, they recite a
special prayer called "cematha", that is anathema, separation or malediction, aimed at
all their enemies. They consider Christ as the illegitimate son of a prostitute and the
Virgin Mary as a voluptuous and lustful woman, a hideous thing to say and even to think.
They curse them as well as the Roman faith and all the faithful.
Jews have a high regard for a book attributed to Solomon and entitled Gloss on the text
of the Law. They believe in it and comment all its expressions. [...] Jews profess and
teach these glosses, even if they are condemned, as well as the Talmud. They are aimed at
Christ, arguing that He is not God and cannot be the Messiah promised by the Law. This
book says that all those who follow Jesus Christ's way and faith are heretics and
unfaithful. The prayer mentioned above is directly aimed at the faithful and recited
three times a day by Jews.
Another book, called by its author Explicitation and Restitution of the Law, and by the
Jews Glosses of Moses in Egypt, contains duplicities and deceitfulness borrowed from the
Talmud. It also contains falseties and blasphemies against God's faith. All those who
follow Christ's way and faith are called heretics, "minim" in Hebrew. According to the
same book, Jesus Christ erred and acted against God and His Law. He was more deceitful
than Mohamed in leading the greatest part of the world to falsely adore another God than
the only God , and in abolishing His Law. [...] Another book Jews call Gloss of David The
Spaniard is a comment on the Psalter where many attacks against Christ, Christians and
the faithful can be found.