Under the doctrine of "excepted cases," there was no limit to torture for persons accused of heresy or witchcraft; even the safeguards which the old pagan world had imposed upon torture were thus thrown down, and the prisoner MUST confess.
(251) For still extant lists of such questions, see the Zeitschrift fur deutsche Culturgeschichte for 1858, pp.

522-528, or Diefenbach, Der Hexenwahn in Deutschland, pp.

15-17.

Father Vincent of Berg (in his Enchiridium) gives a similar list for use by priests in the confession of the accused.

Manuscript lists of this sort which have actually done service in the courts of Baden and Bavaria may be seen in the library of Cornell University.
The theological literature of the Middle Ages was thus enriched with numberless statements regarding modes of Satanic influence on the weather.