Guido Ceronetti – The Silence of the Body: Maybe Gilles de Rais should have been put in an asylum and asked to make collages at the first sign of the cravings for orgies and massacres seething within him. He would have found and outlet for his madness and been cured. His extraordinary collages would have sparked endless discussions. He would have been reborn as an artist who carried the seed of great crimes. But we would never have known that he carried them, just as we do not know how much crime is contained and submerged in the expiating ergon of certain great artists who never cease to amaze.
A. L. Vincent and Clare Binns – Gilles de Rais - The Original Bluebeard: The recrudescence of Gilles de Rais’ stage mania, which had first shown itself in his boyhood, was, as we have already hinted, closely allied to his sexual abnormality and a component element of the whole morbid diathesis. It was not the result of any genuine histrionic ability or legitimate love of the drama, but a symptom consistent with his diseased egotism and perverted instincts. René de la Suze declared that the theatre was one of the principal causes of his brother’s ruin, a statement that is amply confirmed by the facts. To the playgoing public who are accustomed to the wonderful productions of the modern theatre it will come as a surprise to learn that Gilles de Rais was a forerunner of this movement. Indeed it is debatable whether the stage of today could give us anything approaching in cost or display the “shows” mounted by Gilles in the years 1433-1434.
Fritz Lang quoted in Lotte Eisner’s Fritz Lang: Because of the loathsome nature of the crime M dealt with, there was a problem of how to present such a crime so that it would not sicken the audience, yet would have full emotional impact. That is why I only gave hints – the rolling ball, the balloon caught in the wires, after being released from a little hand. Thus I make the audience an integral part in the creation of this special scene by forcing each individual member of the audience to create the gruesome details of the murder according to his personal imagination.
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Gilles de Rais’ Hearing October 22, 1440, Georges Bataille - The Trials of Gilles de Rais: By which secret confession that in the said Gilles´ presence was read in trial and published, and approved by him, the said Gilles de Rais, the accused, voluntarily and publicly, before everyone, confessed that, because of his passion and sensual delight, he took and had others take so many children that he could not determine with certitude the number whom he’d killed and caused to be killed, with whom he committed the vice and sin of sodomy; and he said and confessed that he had ejaculated spermatic seed in the most culpable fashion on the bellies of the said children, as much after their deaths as during it; on which children sometimes he and sometimes some of his accomplices, notably the aforesaid Gilles’ de Sillé, Milord Roger de Briqueville, knight, Henriet and Poitou, Rossignol and Petit Robin, inflicted various types and manners of torment; sometimes they severed the head from the body with dirks, daggers, and knives, sometimes they struck them violently on the head with a cudgel or other blunt instruments, sometimes they suspended them with cords from a peg or small hook in his room and strangled them; and when they were languishing, he committed the sodomitic vice on them in the aforesaid manner. Which children dead, he embraced them, and he gave way to contemplating those who had had the most beautiful heads and members, and he had their bodies cruelly opened up and delighted at the sight of their internal organs; and very often, when the said children were dying, he sat on their bellies and delighted in watching them die thus, and with aforesaid Corrillaut and Henriet he laughed at them, after which he had the children burned and their cadavers turned to ashes by the said Corrillaut and Henriet.
Report - City of West Memphis Police Department: The victims were removed from the scene at approximately 4:30 p.m. 5/6/93 and taken to the Arkansas state crime laboratory, Little Rock, Arkansas, for analyses. To date analysis has determined that a knife with a serrate edge was used to castrate Moore. A hammer or a round object was used to create trauma to the head of all three victims. Beyers and Branch were alive when placed in the water and as a result of drowning. Branch appears to have marks on his penis which would indicate that oral sex had been performed on him. There is a possibility that Beyers may have been injected by a hypodermic needle. A dark colored hair, host likely Caucasian, was located on the buttock of one victim and the neck area of another. Forensic analysis is still being conducted and any additional information will be forwarded to the behavioural sciences unit. The medical examiner also advised that evidence would tend to indicate that the victims’ had been struck with a belt containing studs or a raised surface.
Lyndy Abraham - A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery: The decapitation or dismemberment of the bird, lion, serpent, dragon, tree, man or king signifies the dissolution, putrefaction and division of the body, the matter in the alembic, at the black nigredo, the first step in the opus. This stage, which is a time of sacrifice and lament, is sometimes referred to as the caput mortuum or caput corvi. The Six Keyes of Eudoxus clearly equated the dissolution of the matter with the beheading and death of the bird: “the wise Artist ought to dissolve the body with the spirit: he must cut off the Raven´s head” (in Regardie, Philosopher’s Stone, 105). The crow or raven’s head is a well known name for the black stage or nigredo. The Hermetis Trismegisti tractatus aureus advised the alchemist to “Take this Volatile Bird” and “cut off its Head with a fiery sword” (Salmon, Medicina Practica, 279). This means that the volatile (flying) matter in the alembic has to be fixed (made non-volatile) and that the heating and digestion of the matter are to be continued until the black colour is transformed into the white of the albedo.
Gilles de Rais’ execution October 26, 1440, Georges Bataille - The Trials of Gilles de Rais: Recommending himself to holy Monsignor Jacques, whom he had always held in singular affection, and also to holy Monsignor Michel, begging them in his hour of great need to be willing to help him, aid him, and pray to God for him, despite the fact that he had not obeyed them as he should have. He further requested that the instant his soul left his body, it might please holy Monsignor Michel to receive it and present it unto God, whom he begged to take it into His grace, without punishing it according to its offenses. And the said Gilles then made beautiful speeches and prayers to God, recommending his soul to Him. And then, so as to set his aforesaid servants a good example, he wished to die first. Just before his death, his said servants told him and implored him to be a strong and valiant knight in the love of God, asking him to remember His suffering, which had been for our Redemption. Which Gilles de Rais died repentant. And before the flames could open his body and entrails, it was drawn away and his body placed in a coffin and carried inside the Carmelite church of Nantes, where it was buried.
Gilles de Rais quoted in A. L. Vincents and Clare Binns Gilles de Rais - The Original Bluebeard: There is not so great a sin that man can commit that God in His paternal goodness and benignity will not pardon, if only the sinner has great repentance and contrition in his heart, and he asks forgiveness with good hope. God is readier to pardon than the sinner is to ask. Thank God for showing us a manifest sign of his mercy in allowing us to die in our force and good memory, instead of punishing us suddenly for our evil deeds. Have such a regret for your crimes that you do not fear death, which is such a little thing, and without which we can not see God and His glory. How much ought we to wish to be out of this world where there is only misery… Together we have sinned, and immediately our souls are separated from our bodies we shall meet with God in Paradise.
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