To add a bit more to what I consider one of the funniest 'fabliau-like'
descriptions in the Malleus Malificarum: Kramer and Sprenger claim
that witches kept enchanted penises as pets, placing them in bird's
nests or boxes, "Where they move themselves like living members, and eat
oats and corn, and has been seen by many." I always wonder about the
the word 'stud' after reading this.
Deborah Dale
University of Washington
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, M.H.Jones wrote:
> There is, of course, the fabliau-like mention in the Malleus
> Malleficarum of the bewitched dismembered members in the bird's
> nest, the
> biggest of which belongs to the parish priest -- I hope it is not
> immodest to point out that I cite this in my essay "Sex & Sexuality
> in Late Medieval & Early Modern Art" in ed. D. Erlach et al.,
> Privatisierung der Triebe? Sexualitat in der Fruhen Neuzeit (Peter
> Lang, Frankfurt etc., 1994), 187-304, 40-odd [some very odd] ills.
>
> Malcolm Jones, CECTAL, Univ. Sheffield
>
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