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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