Caerimonia Sanguilentu (goetia)

<br>trois-echelles, charles ix`s magician, was accused of witchery by inquisitors<br>he confessed to the king that he given himself over to a demon<br>who enable him to perform prodigies<br>he asked to the king: "am I forgaven?"<br>the king forgave him for his misdeeds<br><br>but if he had a relapse<br>the king promised his cure on the gallows<br>he did a relapse and was hanged in due course<br>he swore to the king avenge by the uncontrollable power of black magick<br>a malign disease will abate king charles ix<br><br>the years were going and now the king is on his dying bed praying against death<br>on the twenty eighth day of may fifteen seventy four<br>near the dying hour, the king consults necromancers about his disease<br>he said:"remedy or magic either will be able to cure me!!"<br><br>the necromancers examined charles ix and were troubled with him<br>they think the king was bewitched by a malign work (goetia)<br>only the bloody ceremony can reveal the cause of disease<br>but there`s hardly chance to king can recover<br><br>the necromancers perform a ceremony at midnight in the presence of the king<br>a young jew is brought all dressed of body linen prepared to communion<br>on an altar in which the image of satan treads on a crucifix<br>a necromancer consecrates two black and white hosts<br><br>the white host is given to the jew<br>after he is thrown at stairs from the altar and is decaptated by necromancer<br>now his head is placed upon the black host on the paten<br>the demon is invoked to answer through jew`s head<br><br>the necromancer asks to charles ix to put a question mentally to the head<br>a moment of panic and expectation<br>the dead lips agitate and say:"vim patior"<br>finally the answer is given also mentally to the king who falls to back<br>and shouts:"remove this head from here now!!!"<br><br>on the following day at dying hour, the king repeats those words said<br>by him in the ceremony<br>in the hands of death, he sweats blood and dies<br>trois-+chelles` prediction was accomplished