The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and DemonologyAn historical and human compendium, from original sources in the world's greatest libraries, describing the witches' sabbat and pact, incubi and succubi, eyewitness reports of trials, werewolves, and vampires, sexual relations with the devil, demoniacal possession and exorcism, poltergeists, barbarous tortures, and the theological and legal theories of inquisition, witchcraft and demonology. |
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... Christian exorcist is to witchcraft . In Catholic demonology , possession by any evil spirit became limited to possession by a Christian devil . As a Christian devil , he admitted the superior power of the Chris- tian God and therefore ...
... Christian exorcist is to witchcraft . In Catholic demonology , possession by any evil spirit became limited to possession by a Christian devil . As a Christian devil , he admitted the superior power of the Chris- tian God and therefore ...
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... Christian . Christian Thom- asius ( 1655-1728 ) first attracted notoriety by his advocacy of mixed marriages . The son of a professor at Leipzig , he studied law ; he delivered his first lectures at Leip- zig in German rather than in ...
... Christian . Christian Thom- asius ( 1655-1728 ) first attracted notoriety by his advocacy of mixed marriages . The son of a professor at Leipzig , he studied law ; he delivered his first lectures at Leip- zig in German rather than in ...
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... Christian God and must consequently be stopped by the Christian Church before he spread these wrong ideas further . As early as A.D. 382 , the Christian Church decreed that anyone convicted of opposition , i.e. , heresy , was to be ...
... Christian God and must consequently be stopped by the Christian Church before he spread these wrong ideas further . As early as A.D. 382 , the Christian Church decreed that anyone convicted of opposition , i.e. , heresy , was to be ...
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