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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... Canon Episcopi , which said in effect that be- lief in witchcraft was superstitious and heretical , the inquisitors cavilled by arguing that the witchcraft of the Canon Episcopi and the witchcraft of the Inquisition were different . The ...
... Canon Episcopi , which said in effect that be- lief in witchcraft was superstitious and heretical , the inquisitors cavilled by arguing that the witchcraft of the Canon Episcopi and the witchcraft of the Inquisition were different . The ...
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... Canon Episcopi had classified belief in night flight as heresy . By Bonaventura von Genelli , Das Leben einer Hexe ( 1847 ) . Since it flatly contradicted ... Canon Episcopi in- sisted that transvection was a superstitious. 75 Canon Episcopi.
... Canon Episcopi had classified belief in night flight as heresy . By Bonaventura von Genelli , Das Leben einer Hexe ( 1847 ) . Since it flatly contradicted ... Canon Episcopi in- sisted that transvection was a superstitious. 75 Canon Episcopi.
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... Canon ; ( 2 ) the Canon Episcopi was not approved by a General Church Council and therefore not binding ; and ( 3 ) supporting the Canon . interfered with getting rid of the witches . ( as Jacquier honestly put it ) . Later , Spina , in ...
... Canon ; ( 2 ) the Canon Episcopi was not approved by a General Church Council and therefore not binding ; and ( 3 ) supporting the Canon . interfered with getting rid of the witches . ( as Jacquier honestly put it ) . Later , Spina , in ...
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