Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This chant dates back at least to the 13th century, when it was featured in a French miracle play called La Miracle de Theophile. A fictional character patterned off of the historical Saladin delivers these lines in an invocation to the Devil. In 1952, Pennethorne Hughes wrote a treatise on witchcraft which claimed that this text is actually a garbled version of a Basque language chant to summon the witch father. It is certainly used that way by modern Witches.
This chant dates back at least to the 13th century, when it was featured in a French miracle play called La Miracle de Theophile. A fictional character patterned off of the historical Saladin delivers these lines in an invocation to the Devil. In 1952, Pennethorne Hughes wrote a treatise on witchcraft which claimed that this text is actually a garbled version of a Basque language chant to summon the witch father. It is certainly used that way by modern Witches.
